Feng and his team were conducting the performance training over the Bohai Sea. At 9 a.m., the flight team reached an altitude of 21,000 feet. Suddenly a large unidentified formation of planes appeared just about 30 miles left to them flying from southeast to northwest. Feng reported this observation immediately to the air traffic control center and requested them to conduct a search. Air traffic control replied that no other airplanes were flying in the area at that time.
Feng reasoned that perhaps he had imagined it all. But, all his teammates have also seen the same aircraft formations. Perhaps even more surprising to Feng was the fact, that the airplanes both he and his team have seen, all represented different countries from different periods of history. Propeller types as well as jets had been included in the formations.
(Via The Anomalist.)
The anachronistic aircraft are very much in keeping with Fortean phenomena. When "Men in Black" make appearances, for example, they tend to ride out-of-date cars (that, strangely enough, look brand-new). "Aliens" themselves have been reported wearing old-fashioned clothing.
In "Visitors from Time," a fascinating book by Marc Davenport, the author suggests we're dealing with a civilization of time-travelers that make occasional logistical mistakes. Maybe our visitors simply don't "get" the concept of time. Or just don't care; after all, the notion of a tidy, sequential reality may strike them as insufferably trite if they hail from some Escher-esque higher dimension.
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1 comment:
Or; quite possibly the witnesses themselves saw a subjective image of “aircraft.” The aircraft appearing in various forms dependent on the witness’s’ interpretation of the vision. People process visually imagery very slowly, much slower than even a poor digital camera for example. What we see is mostly fill in of what we expect to see (I forget the exact numbers but I think it’s over 50%.)
The piece is a little vague on details, is it a multiple sighting or did “his teammates” see these formation on different occasions? What kind of aircraft did Feng see? Were the various types of aircraft all the same during each sighting or was there a formation of B17 bombers one day and f-16 Fighters the next?
Otherwise, it’s suggestive that some external process is affecting the pilots, reoccurring too!
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