When I was little, I use to think that the airliners really high in the sky were spaceships. I always wondered why the spaceships left trails of smoke behind them, especially because I was told smoke couldn't exist in space. Then one day my dad let me use his binoculars. I wanted to see what these spaceships looked like, but when I focused in on one, I was shocked to see that it was a regular old plane.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- I used to believe that at dance clubs, the "smoke" that they'd spray was laden with drugs and I'd get high.— Lynn
- I used to think that the trails that Airplanes left in the sky, that's how clouds were made.Anon
- I used to believe that clouds came from the smoke that came from the factories. — Anela
- I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.— Robert
- I used to believe that if you smoked too much,when you got mad your ears would smoke.Anon