Not to beat a dead horse to death, but: I was watching the object while standing below some telephone lines running overhead. I watched it approach in a very steady fashion, same course, same speed. When it stoppped, it was positioned between two phone lines running overhead. It did not appear to move relative to these fixed reference points, ie. the phone lines. It stayed in that location for at least a minute, before again moving along its prior course. It was not near the horizon, it was passing overhead. To me, this rules out the possibility that the object merely appeared to be stationary. -----Original Message----- From: Allen Thomson [mailto:thomsona@flash.net] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:51 PM To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org; Frits Westra Subject: Re: new subscriber with a question > Could anybody point me to sources where this kind of perceptional > phenomena are explained? > > Thank you for the info. This comes up here now and then. The terms to search for (www.google.com is a good place to do so) are "autokinetic" and then "saccades." The basic idea, as said in earlier messages, is that in a sparse visual field things that are really stationary can seem to be moving, vice versa, and variations. Not all that uncommon; I've seen it myself several times. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ****************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it from the ElPaso Corporation are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. ******************************************************************
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