direct attention is not the same as clear evidence.
felt
The lasers made the figure visible only by scattering through dense fog and refractive heat—the same conditions that displaced, obscured, and changed it. More light eventually dissolved the silhouette instead of verifying it.
found
The mirage was not a false picture hiding one final object. It was a real optical relationship among light, medium, geometry, viewpoint, and expectation; the projection gradually became part of the environment that produced it.
carry
Something can begin as performance or projection and still create real consequences. Repeatedly inhabiting an image can change the person, system, or relationship that first produced it.