时差N小时 不明飞行物的攻击(上)

June. Nineteen sixty-nine, not one airliner¹ but two, plus the pilot of an Air National Guard fighter plane, report being harassed² by a team of UFOs.

“1969年6月”、“两架飞机”、“外加一驾驶战斗机的空军国民警卫队飞行员”——一群不明飞行物让人们觉得很困扰！

One man estimates the glowing ships have come within a few hundred feet. The pilot of the fighter plane even declares a near-collision.

有人估测那些发光的飞船已经来到了距离他们数百英尺以内。战斗机的飞行员甚至还宣称跟它有近距离碰触。

What were these UFOs really? It turned out they were fragments of a meteor coming apart in the upper atmosphere.

这些不明飞行物真正是什么呢？事实证明，它们是流星在高层大气瓦解后的碎片。

Now here's the most interesting part: the meteor fragments were at least one hundred and twenty five miles from the planes.

最不可思议的是：流星的碎片距离飞机至少有125公里。

How could you possibly think something over a hundred miles away was about to hit you?

那么人怎么可能会觉得在100多公里以外的东西会碰撞他呢？

Objects in the sky confuse our perceptual abilities. With no visual cues to help calculate distance, our brains rely on size and speed instead. How?

天空中的物体会混淆我们的感知能力。没有视觉提示的帮助，我们的大脑就会依赖于（该物体的）大小的速度来计算距离。怎么来计算呢？

1 airliner   

n.客机，班机

参考例句：

• The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
• The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。

2 harassed   

adj. 疲倦的，厌烦的 动词harass的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He has complained of being harassed by the police. 他投诉受到警方侵扰。
• harassed mothers with their children 带着孩子的疲惫不堪的母亲们