No, Derrida, I didn't. I ironically, was writing about the paranormal.
My room mate affirms every aspect of the official story, even as he thinks he saw an airshow while outside. He's seen such before, and he had heard an air show was in town.
If so, trot out the pilots and have them affirm it (unless it is part of a conspiracy to make people think about ufoes instead of war and taxes)
So, unless I hear that is done, my minimum hypothesis is a disinformation campaign.
At the maximum, my friend identified a flying object as something he was familiar with. As RAWilson pointed it, when you see a damned thing, your first instinct is to find a label for it. He admitted his initial confusion as to what he was seeing. I contend that, once he made the id. his mind would interpret what it saw in those terms.