Winnacott said he never felt apprehensive about telling his story. Commercial airline pilots have taken their planes off course to avoid hitting things that later turned out to be the planet Venus or stars, experts said. UFO researchers said they don't count on witnesses to describe sightings accurately. I've seen people look at Venus and say they could see portholes on a spaceship. Observers struggle, unknowingly, with distance, time and size, he said.
People reporting UFOs have neither point of reference.
People can see things for 20 seconds, but think 10 minutes have passed. In a study of about 1,000 UFO sightings in the 1970s, the Center for UFO Studies concluded that about 90 percent of the reports were actually stars, planets, planes, meteors or the moon. Lebanon, this a call from Highland PD in reference to a truck driver who just stopped in. He said there was a flying object in the area of Lebanon. It was like a two-story house.