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June. Nineteen sixty-nine, not one airliner but two, plus the pilot of an Air National Guard fighter plane, report being harassed by a team of UFOs. One man estimates the glowing ships have come within a few hundred feet. The pilot of the fighter plane even declares a near-collision.
“1969年6月”、“兩架飛機”、“外加一駕駛戰斗機的空軍國民警衛隊飛行員”——一群不明飛行物讓人們覺得很困擾！有人估測那些發光的飛船已經來到了距離他們數百英尺以內。戰斗機的飛行員甚至還宣稱跟它有近距離碰觸。
What were these UFOs really? It turned out they were fragments of a meteor coming apart in the upper atmosphere. Now here's the most interesting part: the meteor fragments were at least one hundred and twenty five miles from the planes. How could you possibly think something over a hundred miles away was about to hit you?
這些不明飛行物真正是什么呢？事實證明，它們是流星在高層大氣瓦解后的碎片。最不可思議的是：流星的碎片距離飛機至少有125公里，那么人怎么可能會覺得在100多公里以外的東西會碰撞他呢？
Objects in the sky confuse our perceptual abilities. With no visual cues to help calculate distance, our brains rely on size and speed instead. How?
天空中的物體會混淆我們的感知能力。沒有視覺提示的幫助，我們的大腦就會依賴于（該物體的）大小的速度來計算距離。怎么來計算呢？
譯文來自可可英語
