I used to think that the moving lights in the night sky were the stars being moved around to keep the sky more interesting.
I didn't know they were airplanes.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa