Cosmic Conversations: "Cockpit Visions" Saturday 8th August - 2.00 - 3.00pm. £10.00

A cognitive neuroscientist and aviation historian discuss pilot UFO reports, followed by Q&A.

How Do Pilots See?

Dr Bill Garrett is a former pilot with a Phd in cognitive neuroscience specialising in visual processing and cockpit design. He’ll explain the basics of how the brain interprets visual information, and the technologies contemporary pilots use to help them identify what is in the sky around them.   

“Strange lights in the skies”

Graeme Rendall is an aviation historian and author of 20 books.  Graeme will be looking at UFO reports from WW11, even before the term was invented, demonstrating how aircrew reported such encounters and what analysis was carried out by air intelligence experts. These reports include one from Northumberland in 1944.