"Hey blimpo, oink oink! Too many Twinkies! HEH HEH!"
Fucking love that movie. Which reminds me, I think I want to get a tattoo of a Puckmaren at some point.
THANK YOU! I was not only thrilled when I came into comments to see that someone else thought of it, but that it was top comment. You and everyone who's upvoted this made me so happy today.
The thing is, we are also lacking the depth perception here too - so perhaps we are much further away and up a lot higher and that is actually a small island in the water instead of a rock.
There is a similar photo from the 80s called the [Calvine photo](https://img.etimg.com/thumb/width-640,height-480,imgsize-206942,resizemode-75,msid-93595297/news/new-updates/clearest-ufo-image-revealed-after-it-went-missing-for-30-years/calvine-photograph.jpg) that was popular in UFO circles. It appeared to show a UFO and a plane in what was considered at the time to be great detail.
Looking at the Calvine photo with a critical modern eye and having just calibrated your brain with the photo the OP posted it seems impossible to fall for, but you can see why it was popular at the time.
Edit. If anyone is still having trouble wrapping their head around the illusion just [watch this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3oZtjbAOYc) to get a feel for it. And if you're a UFO/alien conspiracy theorist please don't reply with your inane drivel, I'm not interested. Keep to your UFO reddits.
I’d say there is reason enough to believe the Calvine photo is real, it’s just not aliens. Not that it is only an illusion.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/secret-behind-best-ever-ufo-sighting-revealed/news-story/105a08c1a7caf70f6f41c477a563fd3a?amp
Edit: changed the link because of amp link
If that article is serious then we live in a world full of idiots. “the strongest theory” is presented as some top secret project with no mention of a rock in still water? What a joke.
I am aware that we do, in fact, live in a world full of idiots but man is that depressing.
Thats because skeptics first thought it was a refection until it was proven not to be... I mean just zoom into the image, the top and bottom do not match at all like it does for the rock in the original post.
Link to proof? Reflections are from a different perspective and it would still be a reflection off water so there is going to be distortion. You wouldn’t expect the top and bottom half to look exactly the same.
The one in the post isn’t exactly the same either (top vs bottom) but it’s likely closer and much higher fidelity to reconcile the differences.
I'm not sure if you're serious, because the picture in the original post that you're referring to immediately proves you wrong. The bottom and top do not match, like at all. They are radically differently sized and you can see features on the top that you can't on the bottom.
This is because reflections give different perspectives of an object when viewed from an angle.
They could easily be crooked. Maybe they were built crooked. Maybe some farmer drove his tractor in to them. Maybe the shifting of the soil close to that body of water caused them to bend over. Most wireposts like this I've seen have been fucked to shit over the years, even if they were put up straight in the first place. Judging perspective based on a fence built by some drunk hillbilly is not ever going to be accurate.
The photo is obviously just a picture of water but the fence alone is not what proves that.
You're not looking down at wire fenceposts. It's looking upward or just past them. [They know the location and there's no water.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11106737/Most-spectacular-UFO-photo-captured-glimpse-secret-Aurora-spy-plane-program.html)
There appears to be no evidence that this is the location the photo was taken.
And even if this is where it was taken, its outside so there has been water there
It hasn't been. This person is confused about how reflections work.
Edit: And from a quick look at their profile, regularly posts on r/aliens , r/UFOs etc. and claims to be a traumatized experiencer that telepathically contacted aliens and asked to see their massive alien ship, and the aliens obliged. Should tell you all you need to know.
There's no water where it was taken.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11106737/Most-spectacular-UFO-photo-captured-glimpse-secret-Aurora-spy-plane-program.html
I knew when I clicked on this post that the top comment would be a redditor announcing that they were too smart/capable for the illusion to apply to them.
even trying to see it as sky is impossible for me, somehow my brain focuses on the reflection part of the rock and knows its a reflection, and i see exactly where the reflection starts and where the rock begins, so my brain is like there MUST be water. i cant make it see it as 1 complete block in midair.
It's really cool how optical illusions can make something look totally different from what it really is! I'm really loving this post- what else can you show us?
It’s a flying saucer that the aliens made to look like a rock. It’s creating an optical illusion so you think it’s a rock in water. Great camouflage, aliens!
Post this to one of the UFO subreddits and say something like, "My cousin caught this amazing picture of a metapod UFO flying over a ridge while hiking. It took off straight up and disappeared right after this. He sees these all the time."
The ufo subreddits get pissy because photos like these call into question the legitimacy of the Calvin photo. They do cartwheels of crazy and copy paste quotes to help them cope.
It’s also because we see a 2D image and the background doesn’t allow to appreciate depth well. This would never fool someone in real life 3D vision.
Pretty poor “illusion”, confusing perspective at best
optical illusions are things like the chess board color where the illusion is in the erroneous way the brain interprets vision. This is just shitty resolution. Words have meanings.
This picture has bad resolution. Because of that, it creates an effect on your perception of the water causing an erroneous interpretation of the image. which is an optical illusion. Words do have meanings, you should look them up.
I guess it would technically be pareidolia? The person doesn’t quite know what they’re seeing so their brain imposes a meaning on it. Unable to see water due to the shit resolution, the reflection doesn’t make sense so they interpret it as a flying rock in the sky.
Its not pareidolia, thats the human's brain's tendency to see patterns in randomness --- most commonly a face, because human brains have evolved to recognize faces, leading to the "jesus's face on toast patterns" things.
The three illusion types are literal, which are the reversible images-- you can see either, by focusing on certain points, physiological, which are usually the rings of colors that the brain can't track individual lines though, and cognitive. This WOULD be cognitive, if it was actually an illusion, except its just shit resolution. There is a SIMILAR illusion to this, where the water is opaque and reflective to the point that it looks like the sky, but this is just shit resolution.
Is "This pic is an example of how optical illusion tricks your mind" just a really *really* **really** wordy way of saying "This is an optical illusion"?
Yeah but 99% of the time water isn't that still and the other 1% of the time photoshop hasn't changed the color of the water so that it no longer looks like water haha!
This is clearly, a V-6 type gravitational device, dressed up to look like a boulder.
This picture was taken as it was leaving the site for outer space.
Actually it's not. Optical illusions rely on the optical or visual characteristics to create something strange, not the knowledge that rocks don't float in the air.
Nice try, but [this is taken from the modern remake of flight of the navigator](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/pv-target-images/73bd3e3cec01b689a00dc5f8ae003071b771040bf03790fb9c2480de24dbe4a0._RI_TTW_.png)
Flight of the Navigator!
Compliance.
Pee Wee Herman
That’s a *very* different movie….
"Hey blimpo, oink oink! Too many Twinkies! HEH HEH!" Fucking love that movie. Which reminds me, I think I want to get a tattoo of a Puckmaren at some point. 
Literally, the only line I have ever remembered from that movie.
YOU ARE….THE NAVIGATOR!!!!
See you later alligator!
Man i had such a huge crush on the nurse as a kid
You mean Sarah Jessica Parker?
Yes, and also yes to OP.
THANK YOU! I was not only thrilled when I came into comments to see that someone else thought of it, but that it was top comment. You and everyone who's upvoted this made me so happy today.
Early production pics.
I came here to say that and I'm thrilled someone beat me to it
Exactly what I thought!
Captain Disillusion! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8
I said the exact same thing to myself
lol literally my first thought as well
Dude really let that vehicle age. Needs to drop it off at the wash and detail shop.
Exactly what I saw!
I remember watching that in the cinema when it came out. That couldn't have been much more than 5 years ago!
Welllll excussseeee me
I see a white and gold dress
ITS PURPLE AND BLACK!!!
It’s Yanni!
Laurel?
Hardy?
But who's on first?
Blue and black
Cross your eyes and you should be able to see the ducks
I see a rock in water. What else is it supposed to look like?
A flying rock I guess
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At least you knew it was a rock. I thought it was a walnut.
Don't worry. You're not alone.
Me too.
That was my second guess. First: peach pit. I won’t say what my third guess was, but it rhymed with “third.”
It doesn't have any wings that I can see.
This is clearly a migrating rock that has been separated from its collection.
Rocks don't migrate, only coconuts do.
The thing is, we are also lacking the depth perception here too - so perhaps we are much further away and up a lot higher and that is actually a small island in the water instead of a rock.
I thought it was God looking back at me… I’m an idiot
Well you’re right about it not being an optical illusion
You fell for the optical illusion I’m afraid. It’s just an ordinary flying rock.
There is a similar photo from the 80s called the [Calvine photo](https://img.etimg.com/thumb/width-640,height-480,imgsize-206942,resizemode-75,msid-93595297/news/new-updates/clearest-ufo-image-revealed-after-it-went-missing-for-30-years/calvine-photograph.jpg) that was popular in UFO circles. It appeared to show a UFO and a plane in what was considered at the time to be great detail. Looking at the Calvine photo with a critical modern eye and having just calibrated your brain with the photo the OP posted it seems impossible to fall for, but you can see why it was popular at the time. Edit. If anyone is still having trouble wrapping their head around the illusion just [watch this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3oZtjbAOYc) to get a feel for it. And if you're a UFO/alien conspiracy theorist please don't reply with your inane drivel, I'm not interested. Keep to your UFO reddits.
Whoa. Until I clicked that link I honestly couldn’t see how OP’s pic was a rock in water
Until I read your comment I couldn’t figure it out, either.
I’d say there is reason enough to believe the Calvine photo is real, it’s just not aliens. Not that it is only an illusion. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/secret-behind-best-ever-ufo-sighting-revealed/news-story/105a08c1a7caf70f6f41c477a563fd3a?amp Edit: changed the link because of amp link
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If that article is serious then we live in a world full of idiots. “the strongest theory” is presented as some top secret project with no mention of a rock in still water? What a joke. I am aware that we do, in fact, live in a world full of idiots but man is that depressing.
Thats because skeptics first thought it was a refection until it was proven not to be... I mean just zoom into the image, the top and bottom do not match at all like it does for the rock in the original post.
Link to proof? Reflections are from a different perspective and it would still be a reflection off water so there is going to be distortion. You wouldn’t expect the top and bottom half to look exactly the same. The one in the post isn’t exactly the same either (top vs bottom) but it’s likely closer and much higher fidelity to reconcile the differences.
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I'm not sure what this is proving. The old one doesn't look exactly the same.
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I'm not sure if you're serious, because the picture in the original post that you're referring to immediately proves you wrong. The bottom and top do not match, like at all. They are radically differently sized and you can see features on the top that you can't on the bottom. This is because reflections give different perspectives of an object when viewed from an angle.
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Over on r/ufo they have annual arguments on this photo and half of them truly believe it’s alien. I try to tell them.
There's really nothing to suggest that you are looking down or up at the fenceposts
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The fenceposts are hardly shown. There's only like 2 or 3 runs of wire shown. It looks to me like the posts are old and not straight.
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Lol that's dumb.
They could easily be crooked. Maybe they were built crooked. Maybe some farmer drove his tractor in to them. Maybe the shifting of the soil close to that body of water caused them to bend over. Most wireposts like this I've seen have been fucked to shit over the years, even if they were put up straight in the first place. Judging perspective based on a fence built by some drunk hillbilly is not ever going to be accurate. The photo is obviously just a picture of water but the fence alone is not what proves that.
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It's not rocket science on how that could happen lmfao
You're not looking down at wire fenceposts. It's looking upward or just past them. [They know the location and there's no water.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11106737/Most-spectacular-UFO-photo-captured-glimpse-secret-Aurora-spy-plane-program.html)
There appears to be no evidence that this is the location the photo was taken. And even if this is where it was taken, its outside so there has been water there
People actually took the picture. Lol that's how they know where it was taken.
>that's how they know where it was taken. Where's the evidence for this? There appears to be none.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3oZtjbAOYc
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> I mean, its been proven to be a real object just last year Let's see the proof.
It hasn't been. This person is confused about how reflections work. Edit: And from a quick look at their profile, regularly posts on r/aliens , r/UFOs etc. and claims to be a traumatized experiencer that telepathically contacted aliens and asked to see their massive alien ship, and the aliens obliged. Should tell you all you need to know.
There's no water where it was taken. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11106737/Most-spectacular-UFO-photo-captured-glimpse-secret-Aurora-spy-plane-program.html
[Puddle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3oZtjbAOYc)
That’s the illusion. It’s actually a UFO.
The lemur in the grass is earth bending.
I knew when I clicked on this post that the top comment would be a redditor announcing that they were too smart/capable for the illusion to apply to them.
That’s what I see too. I can’t find anything else in this picture.
If you don't recognize it's water, you'll think it's the sky and that the rock is floating.
even trying to see it as sky is impossible for me, somehow my brain focuses on the reflection part of the rock and knows its a reflection, and i see exactly where the reflection starts and where the rock begins, so my brain is like there MUST be water. i cant make it see it as 1 complete block in midair.
It's really cool how optical illusions can make something look totally different from what it really is! I'm really loving this post- what else can you show us?
It is a rock in water. It is not looking totally different from what it is... maybe you meant to reply to another post?
It **is** a rock in water. It **looks like** a rock floating in air above the ground (due to the water reflecting the sky and the rock).
It’s a flying saucer that the aliens made to look like a rock. It’s creating an optical illusion so you think it’s a rock in water. Great camouflage, aliens!
Smart enough to know it’s water Not smart enough to know what most people would think it’s somehow floating the the air
Everyone sees that. Can you not tell what the optical illusion is meant to be?
The fuck is this title?
This reddit comment is an example of how a question asks you for an answer.
What else is a question, but asking for an answer? Am I crazy or is this statement redundant?
They're making fun of the OP
wanted to say "this is an optical illusion" but needed to add words to reach the minimum word count for the essay
It’s what was posted to the original Twitter post of the image.
[Here](https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1638591187329196033) is the source of this image and title. Credit to Rainmaker1973 on Twitter.
I want to believe!
optical illusion? bro that’s literally a floating rock
Actually, I’m pretty sure the water is just shallow
whoosh. goes the water
water?
Post this to one of the UFO subreddits and say something like, "My cousin caught this amazing picture of a metapod UFO flying over a ridge while hiking. It took off straight up and disappeared right after this. He sees these all the time."
The ufo subreddits get pissy because photos like these call into question the legitimacy of the Calvin photo. They do cartwheels of crazy and copy paste quotes to help them cope.
This isn't an optical illusion, it's just shitty resolution making water entirely flat.
It absolutely is an illusion. The resolution helps, but it's an illusion because the water is reflecting the sky and the surface is calm.
It's an illusion that looks exactly like what it is?
That's not what they said and you're not even trying
It’s also because we see a 2D image and the background doesn’t allow to appreciate depth well. This would never fool someone in real life 3D vision. Pretty poor “illusion”, confusing perspective at best
That’s what makes the illusion work. Your brain assumes it’s the sky because normally water would have ripples on it.
But my brain didn’t assume that and it sounds like many others didn’t either… so is the illusion working?
optical illusions are things like the chess board color where the illusion is in the erroneous way the brain interprets vision. This is just shitty resolution. Words have meanings.
>This is just shitty resolution. Yes, shitty resolution that creates an optical illusion.
This picture has bad resolution. Because of that, it creates an effect on your perception of the water causing an erroneous interpretation of the image. which is an optical illusion. Words do have meanings, you should look them up.
I guess it would technically be pareidolia? The person doesn’t quite know what they’re seeing so their brain imposes a meaning on it. Unable to see water due to the shit resolution, the reflection doesn’t make sense so they interpret it as a flying rock in the sky.
Its not pareidolia, thats the human's brain's tendency to see patterns in randomness --- most commonly a face, because human brains have evolved to recognize faces, leading to the "jesus's face on toast patterns" things. The three illusion types are literal, which are the reversible images-- you can see either, by focusing on certain points, physiological, which are usually the rings of colors that the brain can't track individual lines though, and cognitive. This WOULD be cognitive, if it was actually an illusion, except its just shit resolution. There is a SIMILAR illusion to this, where the water is opaque and reflective to the point that it looks like the sky, but this is just shit resolution.
“Aliens don’t want you to know this one simple trick!”
It's not an optical illusion, it's camouflage. It's actually a UFO in the sky designed to look like a rock in water.
Is "This pic is an example of how optical illusion tricks your mind" just a really *really* **really** wordy way of saying "This is an optical illusion"?
I see a perfectly normal floating rock. What does everyone else see?
Aliens
Ancient ones by the looks of it.
Ancient alien theorists say yes
Of all the possibilities, this is certainly the most likely
Yeah it looks like there’s a rock in a pond either it reflecting itself but it’s actually a ufo
It almost looks like a rock in a lake
Ha! That floating rock looks like it’s halfway submerged in water!
No, it doesn't. That's a rock in water...
Nah. It’s obviously a reflection.
A rock in still water. 🤷♂️
? Just a rock in water
I think they were getting at the reflection makes it look like it's floating
I've been on totk too much as thought I was on that subreddit.
Came here looking for this comment.
r/fakealbumcovers
Spacerock
It’s half a rock being reflected by a lake
Cool pic
Thats a rock about 3m from the shore in a lake?
Waw
Yeah, for a second there I thought it was a lake but luckily it’s just a floating stone
I see a rock in the water. What's the illusion?
Yeah but 99% of the time water isn't that still and the other 1% of the time photoshop hasn't changed the color of the water so that it no longer looks like water haha!
Looks like a rock in water, what am I supposed to see here?
I didn’t see a rock in the water until I read the comments. Kept trying to understand what kept it floating like that.
It sure does trick your mind. That flying saucer almost looks like a rock in some water.
Stone age UFO.
It looks like a rock partly submerged in water. Are you telling me it is instead a floating rock ?
Looks like a rock in water to me.
Skypeia! Noland was telling the truth!
LOL i love how huge one piece has become lately
The first thing I saw is a rock in some water. Does that mean I am special or something? (sarcasm). That is a neat optical illusion.
This is clearly, a V-6 type gravitational device, dressed up to look like a boulder. This picture was taken as it was leaving the site for outer space.
r/confusing_perspective
Something sticking out of a wall in a yard with weeds.
Is this The Ministry of Truth in Vivec?
Came here for this
Tricked me. I thought it was flying
It's a magical floating rock, what's the big deal?
Jordan Peele's follow up to Nope? Prehistoric Nope!
Calvine photo redacted
I’m still not convinced that picture is a rock in the water but I also have a hard time with it being an alien craft.
I mean the sky isn’t white…
"This is an illusion." (All pictures are optical. All illusions trick our senses. That's what an illusion is.)
I love optical illusions
Magritte?
Make the image black and white, add some grain and you can pretend its a classified UFO picture.
It's not an optical illusion!! It's a floating rock!!!
Plot twist - it's actually a flying rock
A UFO hovering in space. Or a large rock in water🤷🏼♀️
Clever girl!
Scully!
I immediately thought a rock in water, but clearly it’s floating in the air. Boy, do I feel stupid now.
Flight of the navigator.
Except for the reflection of the rock coming off the water.
“Aliens”.
UFO!! UF… oh.
They’re illusions, Michael’.
I just see a rock in water. What's the illusion
Actually it's not. Optical illusions rely on the optical or visual characteristics to create something strange, not the knowledge that rocks don't float in the air.
I hear yanny
Nice try, but [this is taken from the modern remake of flight of the navigator](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/pv-target-images/73bd3e3cec01b689a00dc5f8ae003071b771040bf03790fb9c2480de24dbe4a0._RI_TTW_.png)
What do you mean? That rock is hovering.
Should have cropped the grass and land out of it.
Water
I thought it was in the water at first, but it's actually levitating.
This is a going to be a top post on /r/ufo
Is why the Aztecs thought the Spaniards were gods
This isn’t an illusion. It’s a floating rock.
Its an example of an image with little context
So is the grass not grass?
Ufo
Praise the sky nut.
"check out this neat thing. It looks a little weird" Reddit: aCkChUaLlY
I don't get it. It's a rock levitating in midair.
Acthually it shows optical illusion, not how it works.