Walking along the beach this morning my wife and I saw a flock of Pelicans flying in formation.
Their odd individual silhouettes (bills not in evidence at times) and the shape as a group made my wife comment on the peculiarity of the look of them all.
I then related the story of how Flying Saucers got named in popular usage and the pelican explanation, (Australian Pelicans are very similar in look to American White Pelicans).
Her response, looking back at the flock, which by now each individual were merely shallow, upside-down “U”s that tapered at each end, “Hmm. I can see that.”.