Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Military Whistleblower: US has Captured UFOs!!!!: BUSTED!" video.

  1. How about all those early astronomers who looked through their telescopes and saw "canals" on Mars??? In a documentary (back in the 80s or 90s) I remember seeing a psychologist do an experiment on it once they took groups of high school arts class students and asked them to draw an object they had put at a distance beyond what most people could clearly distinguish details. The object was simply a circle on a flat surface with some random blobs inside the circle. No matter how many times they did it the majority of people would include lines connecting the blobs. There is something weird about the human visual cortex that when it can't distinguish details on a distant object it will add details in an effort to recognise what it might be. Psychologists have known about this stuff for decades.
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  2. Another Australian here and I am old enough to remember all the UFO sightings that we supposedly had in the 1970s following the Apollo Moon Landings. In most cases they were all debunked as aircraft or meteors. There was a famous one of what clearly looked like a classic saucer shaped object flying near the hills outside Las Angeles. Because there were Hills in the background people knew the distances. So they knew how large it was and how fast it was travelling and people went "Ah Ha" The someone did the basic image analysis. Because it was filmed on the old classic super-8 what they basically had was several 100 still images and they overlapped them. It became really obvious it was just a Cessna but it was flying at an angle to the camera where the light just came of it in a way that at the distance it was it looked like a classic 1950s flying saucer. How about all those early astronomers who looked through their telescopes and saw "canals" on Mars??? In a documentary (back in the 80s or 90s) I remember seeing a psychologist do an experiment on it once they took groups of high school arts class students and asked them to draw an object they had put at a distance beyond what most people could clearly distinguish details. The object was simply a circle on a flat surface with some random blobs inside the circle. No matter how many times they did it the majority of people would include lines connecting the blobs. There is something weird about the human visual cortex that when it can't distinguish details on a distant object it will add details in an effort to recognise what it might be. Psychologists have known about this stuff for decades.
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