Illusions can be game changing, it makes a simple image go viral. One of the illusion was seen recently on Facebook. The user named Colin McCallum shared the image captured at Banff, Aberdeenshire. The viral picture tricked everyone.
The caption along the picture said, “Saw a real life optical illusion in Banff today.” The picture exhibits a ship but the puzzling part is, it appeared to be floating in the sky.
McCallum stated while an interview with DailyMail, “When I first saw the boat, I had to do a double-take because I genuinely thought it was floating. Upon further inspection, however, I noticed that it was in fact just a remarkable optical illusion.”
The viral picture tricked everyone and gained over 1,000 reactions and comments. Many users responded, saying “That’s brilliant!”. To which McCallum replied, “Had to do a double take to be sure”. “Wasn’t an illusion, Agent Smith forgot to upgrade our version so the Matrix is getting glitchy.”
Twitter Reactions:
After concerns seawater is contaminated with Covid-19, ships begin socially distancing from the oceans. [Optical illusion caused by meteorological phenomenon of temperature inversion, in which a band of warm air sitting on a band of colder air distorts visual perception.] pic.twitter.com/MyRmYvePu9
— TomHewston (@TomHewston) March 5, 2021
'Levitating ship' — an impressive optical illusion created by a mirage — might be a better headline, as a floating ship is not that unusual https://t.co/YjanXhEXzI
— David Hambling (@David_Hambling) March 5, 2021
This is so cool . Its called optical illusion known as blooming superior mirage .It caused by temperature inversion where warm and cold air meet in the middle . It gives it an illusion that the ship is flooding in the air. pic.twitter.com/lgSkX3uHVR
— ⭐️✨Hope(Nada)✨⭐️ (@HopeNada2) March 6, 2021
Optical illusion they say… I say we see a glitch in the matrixhttps://t.co/iMwHNkIlc5
— Christian Angermayer (@C_Angermayer) March 5, 2021
Apparently off the coast of Cornwall, this mysterious floating ship was captured on camera (re-edited with a Eva-02 because it's funny), apparently due to an "optical illusion" however anyone with common sense simply recognises this as magic pic.twitter.com/ro5Rfx9Ode
— Ch1lled0ut 🇬🇧 (@Ch1ll3dout) March 5, 2021
This is an amazing optical illusion — caused by atmospheric conditions over the water bending light rays to make it look like the ship is above it. This video has a nice explanation (especially the bit starting around 1:20) https://t.co/JcLLWApF9f. #FataMorgana https://t.co/sxwO9LXaVf
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) March 5, 2021
'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker. 🤔 Optical illusion? Bending light? Curiouser and curiouser. pic.twitter.com/FGHL78Xrwj
— maria (@mymaria777) March 5, 2021
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