Mankind has always been known as creative and clever, but rarely do we ever stray from truth when in recording events as we see them.

Sure, we do personalize and rationalize within what means of knowledge we have available at the time. Over time, retellings of these recordings become distorted, and stray further and further away from the actual initial observation; how the direct observation and telling is never a lie.

For why would a species that relies on verbal communication of shared threats and defining of unknown elements use falsehoods to report upon an event, if it were not in the best interest of the person viewing to do so?

This leaves us with two options with some of the stranger things we have witnessed as a species.

1. We truly saw some weird shit, but were not able to properly understand exactly what we were seeing, so we defined it by our own terms.

2. Everything that we saw that was weird was a mass mirage brought up by mass hysteria, hypnosis, psychotropics, and other mind/perspective altering substances.

The latter is less logical for instances where multiple humans have noticed the same weird or anomalous event, however not impossible. The former alludes that there is a possibility of things we do not yet understand, and likewise, logical, but not an answer we can truly ever admit to, for it is to admit that we are not fully in control, and that the sum of our knowledge and teachings are basic translations of events we cannot understand.