Plothole

Go down a few posts in this thread:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/thread/241128750

Hmm. There was another thread with more on the subject, that I guess has been deleted. Main points I remember:
- An airplane at altitude doesn't look like anything from the ground, at least if you (a) are unaware of airplanes and (b) have seen contrails and little glittery things in the sky your whole life. Nobody freaked out about clouds before anyone understood what they are.
- Their woods were sufficiently isolated and - in particular - remote from airports, that there were no low-altitude planes visible.
- Maybe there was some kind of air traffic restriction. That's possible, though not enormously likely, in reality, but apparently doable in the fictional world of the movie. I don't make that a plothole so much as a modest stretch of believability.

This was explaimed in the movie when modern day kid was stealing the medicine. His boss mentioned how Walker paid off a lot of money to the government to keep the preserve a no fly zone. So planes werent even allowed to fly over that area; which would explain why they wouldnt see any

Read somewhere it was a no fly zone

- Just tell them it's a monster? -

Isn't it exactly what religions have been doing for thousands of years?

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I never bought the movie's explanation and always thought it was just a writer's convenient trick. Who exactly do you "pay off" to prevent planes from flying over? The FAA? Congress? The EPA? this would only draw attention and suspicion to the place. Saying it would disturb the wildlife in the preserve wouldn't work because all kinds of nature preserves have planes flying overhead with no bad effects. So I accept it as a plot convenience that at least shows the writer thought of the problem, but I don't think it could have actually been done.

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