Observing

…this type of abstraction is a cognitive performance of high complexity. It requires a mind that, in perceiving a thing, is not limited to the view it receives at a given moment but is able to see the momentary as an integral part of a larger whole, which unfolds in a sequence. William Hogarth has observed that “in the common way of taking the view of an opaque object, that part of its surface which fronts the eye is apt to occupy the mind alone, and the opposite, nay even every other part of it whatever, is left unthought of at a time: and the least motion we make to reconnoiter any other side of the object, confounds our first idea, for want of the connection of the two ideas, which the complete knowledge of the whole would naturally have given us, if we had considered it in the other way before.” Actually, this handicap is found not so much in the “common way” but in painters mistrained to restrict their attention to what their eyes see from one particular point of view. But although the feat of realizing that a thing has many sides to it and of perceiving each partial aspect as an appearance of the whole is quite common, one must not fail to notice how much true intelligence it involves—an intelligence often left unequaled at higher levels of mental functioning.
Visual Thinking

Contrary to the inherent hubris and narcissistic feelings of elite-ness in such persons, perhaps what the so-called “trained observer” sees as Alien and Unidentified, is in truth a common and perfectly sensible phenomena to the vast majority.

That, to most, there is truly “nothing to see here” but natural and typical phenomena of both nature and Man, you hear? …while to a rare few, these sightings stand out as absurd only because these uniformly “trained” observers lack in their apprehension of a greater and more dynamically whole picture of the environment thus reality.

That, whether through training or by natural deficiency in visual perception, those who see things unidentifiable are expressing their truth plainly for all who stop to listen: that they indeed have an inability or difficulty in identifying what the majority of humanity see clearly and thus make no fuss about.

I hope I have succeeded in showing that to distinguish an object from the afflictions of its appearances is an awe-inspiring cognitive accomplishment.
Visual Thinking

That, a trained-observer may be handicapped by his training and thus in his ability to perceive, in that his training narrows his focus in contrast to those without training who perceive naturally with eyes and mind wide to a greater sense of reality and environment.

An adult who is dependent upon the paycheck he receives as a professional “dog catcher”, sees a ferocious Pit-Bull foaming at the mouth as a threat and thus must catch this ferocious beast and justify his income and expensive tools of his trade.

An innocent, wide-eyed and minded toddler sees the very same animal from the window of his suburban home and desires naught but to water the apparently thirsty beast and stroke its beautiful coat, as he does each of the canines he sees wander past his window with regularity, it being a natural phenomena to him requiring zero fanfare.

To see the object means to tell its own properties from those imposed upon it by its setting and by the observer.
Visual Thinking

You see Alien, Demon, or Fairy…and yet,
I see naught but…Man.

Not a victim
But a witness to all this
Blue Sky