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Re: About german identification of claimed fighter planes
Adding to what Graham said: a recollection is not a recording. I'm no psychologist but I think humans try, after something is over, to make sense of what we saw. It's like we're programmed to try and fit a lot of different fragments of memory together — even when the bits don't all fit and many of them are missing. That is, we can't help trying to interpret what we see.
That car that overtoook you from out of nowhere and disappeared around a bend in the road — it was over in a second. How many details did you see? Colour, make, reigstration number, description of driver, what he/she was wearing?
Air combat at 500 km/h in three dimensions poses all those problems but multiplied. And people really are trying to kill you …
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