The images I've seen of this thing are its quite pale in color. Very easy to blend in to the sky and avoid casual notice, even if its fairly sizable.
And people in general aren't observant about things around them.
I remember a couple years ago a TV show on Nat Geo did a few episodes demonstrating just how little people actually see.
In once instance they showed a video with about a dozen people dancing. In the background they had a guy in a dinosaur costume prance through. Most people they showed the video to never saw the dinosaur, even people that were told to look out for the unusual would miss it.
Another instance they had an actor work a customer service counter (wearing a red shirt). The actor would bend down below the counter to 'get something' and an entirely different actor (wearing a blue shirt) would stand up and continue the customer service interaction. Very few people ever recognized that not only did the shirt color change, but the person itself changed.
Re: that customer service counter experiment. How easy it can be to take advantage of someone by first confusing them, doing something totally nonsensical! I'll bet half the people didn't notice the change of person, but the other half did, and didn't say anything because it was just... so weird. Like, um, what just happened? I'm not sure, so I think while I'm trying to find my bearings, I'll pretend it didn't. Even though I know it did.
The images I've seen of this thing are its quite pale in color. Very easy to blend in to the sky and avoid casual notice, even if its fairly sizable.
And people in general aren't observant about things around them.
I remember a couple years ago a TV show on Nat Geo did a few episodes demonstrating just how little people actually see.
In once instance they showed a video with about a dozen people dancing. In the background they had a guy in a dinosaur costume prance through. Most people they showed the video to never saw the dinosaur, even people that were told to look out for the unusual would miss it.
Another instance they had an actor work a customer service counter (wearing a red shirt). The actor would bend down below the counter to 'get something' and an entirely different actor (wearing a blue shirt) would stand up and continue the customer service interaction. Very few people ever recognized that not only did the shirt color change, but the person itself changed.
Re: that customer service counter experiment. How easy it can be to take advantage of someone by first confusing them, doing something totally nonsensical! I'll bet half the people didn't notice the change of person, but the other half did, and didn't say anything because it was just... so weird. Like, um, what just happened? I'm not sure, so I think while I'm trying to find my bearings, I'll pretend it didn't. Even though I know it did.
.... hmmm sounds like 2020.