driving home, i saw a massive plane just hovering close to the ground. it was dead still once i saw it, and it stayed there for at least 10 seconds. it wasn’t until i turned my head away and back and saw the end of it turning away at a stop light.
from a perspective, my speed was around 40 mph.
super freaky, i thought it was a new piece of architect or a balloon, but it was not.
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Large commercial planes have a minimum airspeed well in excess of what can be considered normal wind speed, meaning it couldn’t have been still and in the air and is instead likely an optical illusion.
Were you driving parallel to the direction of the plane but in the opposite direction? This situation is known to cause this illusion as it is difficult to estimate the speed of something without a fixed reference (not available when the backdrop is just the sky) or at least a good idea of how far away it is (breaks down past 20ish meters due to how close our eyes are to one another). All you can really assume when both of these are missing is that the plane is moving *past* ***you*** *at* ***some*** *speed*, whether that is at 0mph, 500, or anywhere in between.
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