I believe they understood it as a type of telepathy- because no words were spoken. A lot of it has to do with understanding consciousness. What does a 3Dimensional being look like from a 2dimensional perspective? I understand this is the case with many ships. The triangle UFO's in particular, are only an impression of the ship- not the entirety of the ship, which has more to do with our limited view and understanding of consciousness. Fortunately we know telepathy is possible, and knowing you've read AoY- Yogananda expands on this briefly when communicating with his Master continents apart- and again, "bodies apart." By bodies I am referring to the departed Master as an astral body interacting with the students physical one.
Swami Vidyadhishananda has also said many ET's are "inter-dimensional" beings. As in they travel between dimensions. The same has been theorized by Steven Greer in his film close encounters of the fifth kind: contact has begun
I've posted the film in its entirety for free- found here:
http://spiritualportal.net/index.php/topic,6253.0.htmlTrue there are ships with physical components- but even after reverse engineering some of this technology there would still be a missing element. Not true for many projects, because there are reports of success and we have lesser variants of alien technology at our disposal today. But we learn in Steven Greer's documentary that something more has a lot to do with expanding our awareness and understanding... That contact is possible and you can even project yourself onto a ship. His method, if I remember right, involves a type of reverse engineering with the remote viewing process(a serious phenomenon studied by our military).
Aside from my dreams, one of an alien abduction- I've also witnessed two ET's in my backyard... And I have also witnessed something else in the middle of the night gliding across my hallway. I can't say with certainty what it was- but that it had a misshaped head- gold and black light enshrouded it- and when it saw me looking at it an extremely loud metal noise was grinding in my head. Although I couldn't see it/his eyes, I could feel him looking at me and I knew he was projecting the noise into my head which caused me to pass out.
It takes a sincere effort and these beings are mostly loving, if they have technology to disarm nukes remotely- they could end us if they really wanted to. Re-watching close encounters of the fifth might answer some of your questions. As for the documentary I shared here, it is out and I believe it cost something like $20. I haven't bought it yet, although I should. I enjoy owning interesting and entertaining films... And I am told by many reviews its one of the best "alien" documentaries people have seen- it takes out a lot of the fanaticism and puts it in a way that makes the reality undeniable.
Hmm-
Going back to my original question- what would a 3D being look like from a 2D perspective?