Comment by ben_w

An eternal story; I heard the same thing at university 22 years ago, except then it was NATO taking nice crisp in-focus photos of their own tanks from close up, while the images of Soviet tanks were all blurry and grainy because they came from high-altitude spy planes.

(This kind of human model hallucination is how and why I think Genesis got written and taken seriously).

https://gwern.net/tank