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Fata Morgana and the sky that folds

Spall 003: Mirages, UAP, and the architecture of illusion

Fata Morgana mirage.
A superior mirage over open water distorts a cargo vessel into the sky—proof that even steel and mass are subject to the whims of light and air. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

It happens in spring.

The lake contracts, reshapes itself. Shoreline sixty kilometres distant, hidden below any natural eyeline, rises up to flank the horizon. Looking south from Toronto, the distortion poses first as clarity—as if the day were simply sharp enough to reveal the edge of upstate

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