Why do the formation accounts differ so much?
Most likely: lights in formation against a dark sky are perceived as one object, and memory consolidates the perception…Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Three answers have been proposed. Lights in formation against a dark sky are perceived as one object, and memory consolidates the perception… leads, with evidence 1 for, 1 against: partly supported by its tests. Two are still possible.
Answers 3
History
- Wilson: the 1998 accounts already include single-craft descriptions from a pilot and a physician.Against: Lights in formation against a dark sky are perceived as one object, and memory consolidates the perception…
- Associated Press: symington's account, the most detailed single-craft description, was first recorded ten years after the event.For: Lights in formation against a dark sky are perceived as one object, and memory consolidates the perception…
- Prothero & Callahan puts forward: lights in formation against a dark sky are perceived as one object, and memory consolidates the perception…
- Wikipedia contributors: the reported times and track are consistent with a single passage from Prescott to Tucson.Against: Witnesses saw two different things on the northern track, aircraft and something else.
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