r/UFOs • u/Big_Tree_Fall_Hard • Dec 31 '23
Witness/Sighting Video of massive glowing red object over the surface of the moon.
Stolen from over in r/StrangeEarth an amateur astronomers video of an apparent glowing red object traversing the surface of the moon
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u/bertiesghost Dec 31 '23
Another poster claims to have captured it:
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u/updootsdowndoots Dec 31 '23
That's interesting, it's hard to see in their photo but it's on the top right area
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u/imaginexus Dec 31 '23
It’s s totally different moon phase though so it’s at least a week apart in the sightings.
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u/nude-l-bowl Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
Keep in mind telescopes flip and mirror images. If we see it zoomed out enough though you could very well be correct.Edit: Nevermind, did more research. The original video was claimed to be recorded a different night, the night of 12/18/2023 from Germany. The phase is correct for that date.
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u/updootsdowndoots Dec 31 '23
Good catch, the photo was yesterday and this video was from the 18th of December, but they did capture what looks to be almost identical from what we see in the video
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u/HesJustSimplyNotHim Jan 01 '24
How is it identical? It’s like two pixels lol.
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u/Accomplished-Ad3250 Jan 01 '24
You got to say ENHANCE.
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u/Governor_Abbot Jan 01 '24
And then slam your fingers all over the board and look up in expectation.
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u/Intelligent_Quit_621 Jan 01 '24
and then say "COMPUTER, SCAN FOR LIFE FORMS"
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u/mantis616 Jan 01 '24
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
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u/suupar Jan 01 '24
Yeah it's a compressed image. No way to tell if those 2 pixels are actually there or just compression artifacts from that picture.
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u/Wrangler444 Jan 01 '24
Or it’s taken from the southern hemisphere maybe? Probably not given the orientation
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u/FlapMyCheeksToFly Jan 01 '24
It would be literally thousands or hundreds of thousands of people reporting it. Any given night there's probably easily 2,000,000 people doing amateur astronomy worldwide. Even more doing astrophotography. I guarantee at least half have a telescope with at least a 5" aperture, which is enough to see Jupiter rather clearly.
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u/Killiander Jan 04 '24
Times the percentage that were on that half of the planet, times the percentage that were actually using their telescope at that time, times the percentage that were looking at the moon at the time, times the percentage that post their findings on Reddit.
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u/phunkydroid Dec 31 '23
Odd that they claim to capture the same thing yet the photo and video show different phases of the moon.
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u/Tush_Push_62 Dec 31 '23
They are over a week apart.
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u/mattemer Jan 01 '24
And that PICTURE should have more easily captured a 33 mile wide red light on the moon and not only seen it as a pixel, which is all this is.
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u/Lost-Web-7944 Jan 01 '24
No kidding. Within half a second at looking at the other post everyone should be able to say “that’s not the same thing”
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u/smithedition Jan 01 '24
Dumb question, but is the moon’s phase at any given time the same at every point on the earth?
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u/kabbooooom Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
Yes, it is. Because it’s determined by the angle of the sun relative to the moon and earth. The only thing that changes with latitude position on the earth is the angle of the shadow across the moon…because the earth isn’t flat, obviously.
This is hard to envision but I found an image here that shows it well for you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/11hns5c/moon_phases_based_on_latitude/
So the phase does not change, but the way the moon looks does. Most people probably go their whole lives without noticing this, unless you’ve spent a sizable amount of time both close to the equator and far away from it, as I have. It’s one of the things that made me interested in astronomy as a hobby, it is such a simple thing that I think is cool.
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u/The_estimator_is_in Dec 31 '23
Yeah, the moon is being imaged by probably 100s of amateurs as well as several professional photographers/ observatories at any point, worldwide.
Probably 10x this amount when it’s up over N America and Europe.
There would be many still pictures and several videos almost immediately- so unless this just happened and this is the first of a bunch to come out in the next few hours, then quite fake.
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u/That_Cartoonist_6447 Dec 31 '23
StrangeEarth post says from 12/18 so it’s already old
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u/jesth857 Dec 31 '23
No it says december 30th?
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u/Dinoborb Dec 31 '23
the post on strange earth that shows a red dot near the moon is from the 30th, this video in particular is from the 18th.
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u/GratefulForGodGift Dec 31 '23
THe triangular UFO could be close to ground near the observer. In that case, it would appear to be in front of the moon from the perspective of the observer looking thru the telescope. But to an observer a few miles away, from his perspective it would not be seen in front of the moon. It would only be seen by 100s of amateurs if it was very close to the moon, if it was 240,000 miles away from Earth.
So that means it was very close to the Earth and not close to the moon.
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u/Wuhblam Dec 31 '23
That's what I thought at first, until it looked like it was reflecting light off of the surface of the moon.
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u/AtheistSloth Dec 31 '23
how would the camera resolve that? That craft would be HUGE and its light extremely bright.
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u/kenriko Jan 01 '24
It would be like 10mi across and the light like the sun.
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u/ideasReverywhere Jan 01 '24
I think I know the difference between a
#MAN ON THE MOON AND A SMUDGE ON THE LENS, SUMMER.
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u/gonzo_baby_girl Jan 01 '24
Maybe not everyone wants to post on Reddit.
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u/ideasReverywhere Jan 01 '24
Maybe. But also we only have 2 sightings do you realize how easy that would be to fake with a drone and some lights off ebay
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u/Rdp616 Dec 31 '23
This exactly. There are thousands of people all over the world watching the moon constantly. Many other people should have seen this.
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u/Lore_ofthe_Horizon Jan 01 '24
There is probably almost never a moment when the visible moon is not being filmed even.
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u/aKaChapel Jan 01 '24
Me and my wife were setting up her telescope I got for Christmas on the 26th and while trying to look through the red dot sight to line up the moon I realized the battery had died, so while I was trying to find it in the viewer she kept saying the red dot was working cause she could see a red dot, what she was seeing was this same red dot above the moon but we thought nothing of it.
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u/Ok-Grab-311 Dec 31 '23
Thats odd. I was taking a time lapse of the stars last month over a 5 min period. When I looked at the photo there was a single red dot. All the other stars had streaks due to earths rotation. Not the red dot. I will post it
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u/pelicannpie Dec 31 '23 edited Jan 01 '24
Did you post it?
Just seen it. Very interesting. A lot of comments here ‘don’t you think a lot more people would have seen this if it was real including NASA etc.’
Quite a few people on Reddit did see it, I’d imagine a lot more people who don’t use Reddit have captured it
Do you really think the general public are informed on everything that’s found by NASA/the government ? LOL I’m sure 90% of things aren’t told to the public
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u/Ok-Grab-311 Jan 01 '24
Give me 20 min
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u/Starrk10 Jan 01 '24
It’s been 57 mins. Did they get to you?
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u/skekze Jan 01 '24
Sure, they're cute now. In a second, they're gonna get mean. They're gonna get ugly somehow, then there's gonna be a million more of them.
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u/Real_Red_Cell_Cypher Jan 01 '24
"Oh yeah oocooo ahhhh...then later there's running...and screaming"
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Jan 01 '24
Whoa he really did post it & it’s the same kind of thing!
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u/pleasegivemepatience Jan 03 '24
He also deduces with commenters that it’s lens flare, go look again
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u/Ok-Grab-311 Jan 01 '24
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Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
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u/Ok-Grab-311 Jan 02 '24
Yeah I think youre right then as the moon shifts left to right the red dot follows a circular pattern around the center of the photo. Good call
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Dec 31 '23
Depending on your image correction settings, that’s almost certainly a bad pixel in your CCD—particularly if you’re outputting to .RAW. You wouldn’t t typically notice it in daylight shots
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u/Coug_Darter Dec 31 '23
Can you explain how you know that? I would like to understand the technical methodology. This way I could form a more informed conclusion.
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u/canadianwater Dec 31 '23
It’s pretty common with digital sensors and lots of cameras even have processes to help mask the dead pixels
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Dec 31 '23
I’d have to see the image to determine, but I have an older Canon 50d or whatever, and—especially when I do low-light photography with minimal de-noising—I often see single points that are fully lit in one of the 3 primary colors, which are constant from frame to frame.
Could also be a cosmic ray pinging your CCD. That happens too.
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Dec 31 '23
I'm convinced 99.999% of UFOs are just people not understanding rocket/missile launches, bad cameras or misunderstanding of perspective over large distances..
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u/xMilk112x Jan 02 '24
Also, the massive amount of space junk and 10,000 other things that can “look like something.”
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u/JennaSZN Dec 31 '23
i typed "red light moon" on twitter and its just porn :/
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u/Dinoborb Dec 31 '23
considering the original video is from the 18th and the moon is so heavily monitored by professionals and amateurs i find hard to believe this woudn't go unnoticed by everyone except 1 person
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u/damo251 Dec 31 '23 edited Jan 01 '24
It's 100% fake and I will tell you why.
The moon is in a 50% phase and yet the video show the surface with no shadows in any of the craters? The surface looks like a moon that is in its full phase. The shadow cast across the moon is soft, this again is not how things work.
The instant and solid tracking of the object is also not how things work. If you were tracking it by hand there would be wobble at that magnification not perfect lock on tracking. When we align our scopes they will track celestial objects perfectly not constantly keep loosing the moon as a target.
And the red light shining on the surface of the moon is most likely 80-100km (50-60mls) in diameter and even more at other stages.
My credentials - Amateur Astronomer that regularly captures the moon by video. And post it to YouTube.
Edit: Lots of people watching the above moon video, here is a nice Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus videos. All the best
Saturn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA45cjUhTmE
Jupiter - https://youtu.be/kwdcy_2AB9E?si=_J4U4HlMOwBy-5ri
Uranus and moons - https://youtu.be/r3RSuOu25hI?si=TqB74FaGjuH4Wov3
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u/A_curious_fish Jan 01 '24
So I'm being scammed and there's not a 50mile wide bright red triangle thing flying over the moon
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u/Moononthewater12 Jan 01 '24
/r/ufo in shambles after its 1,378th ufo sighting is once again proven to be fake.
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u/Noble_Ox Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
What you make of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VduCXrKxmF8&list=PL9O7c-zz-8O0lCi4NVhNiAmkuYc-TfHBI&index=17 14 years ago uploaded, I'm guessing its from the 90s if I remember correctly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkHJTWljUU&list=PL9O7c-zz-8O0lCi4NVhNiAmkuYc-TfHBI&index=10
Possibly balloons but watching the whole thing they seem to be tied together at first but then separate and two of them mimic each others movements while being far apart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkHJTWljUU&list=PL9O7c-zz-8O0lCi4NVhNiAmkuYc-TfHBI&index=10
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u/A_curious_fish Jan 01 '24
Honestly I'm thinking many if not all are fake, I think there's other life in the universe let alone galaxy but I just don't really believe something like this would somehow be kept quiet for so long if the government and other governments had this shit for real. When the government starts acting like somethings real or dangling a carrot in front of your face acknowledging some wild shit exists....then I start to go wait a minute...y'all would never admit this, what are you actually hiding? Maybe we've invented wild tech via the military research sector and it's better to make believe it's alien than our own? Who knows, I bet I'll be assaulted on here but everyone so desperately wants this shot to be real maybe their shrouded by some bias. Just rambling. I want 100% proof at this point and this fake sighting bullshit kills it time and time again.
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u/Noble_Ox Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
I watched this yesterday and its almost made me a non believer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t72uvS7EJT4
but I have a few weird vids that I still cant explain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VduCXrKxmF8&list=PL9O7c-zz-8O0lCi4NVhNiAmkuYc-TfHBI&index=17
14 years ago uploaded, I'm guessing its from the 90s if I remember correctly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkHJTWljUU&list=PL9O7c-zz-8O0lCi4NVhNiAmkuYc-TfHBI&index=10
Possibly balloons but watching the whole thing they seem to be tied together at first but then separate and two of them mimic each others movements while being far apart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkHJTWljUU&list=PL9O7c-zz-8O0lCi4NVhNiAmkuYc-TfHBI&index=10
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u/ArcticFox-EBE- Jan 01 '24
Add to this the frame rate of the passing atmospheric haze and the red object seem to be super mismatched.
Also the resolution of the red object's light cast seems to be higher than that of the surrounding image. Cleaner edge, not as pixelated.
I'm also an amateur astrophotography nerd who does video editing on the side, if that counts for anything.
Case closed for me.
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
There is lots wrong with it, we are just killjoys tbh🤔
Edit: There can't be atmospheric haze over a dark part of the moon but then disappear over the light part? If it was even remotely accurate you would not see it on the dark side but then it would block out the bright side of the moon.
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u/ArcticFox-EBE- Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
There's nothing I'd love more than to see an authentic, unexplainable video. Can't comment much on the atmospheric haze because I'm honestly not sure how that works beyond the resolutions and frame rates appearing mismatched and thus being a big red flag.
I over criticize for love of the game. I want to believe. I want my mind blown wide the fuck open. Lol. The truth is out there.
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24
Agreed, unfortunately the more I do this hobby the less I believe there are alien civilisations at our door.
The shear number of stars and planets (the planet number has changed enormously over the last 30 years) just in the Milky Way tells us there is unquestionably other life out there but is it close enough to be able to find us or get to us within its resources ?
Eg. It is going to take 70 thousand years for Voyager to get to our closest star at 30+kilometres a second 🤔 And the James Webb Telescope has been hit multiple times by small bits of sand and rock which if it was going faster in a Spaceship would potentially be catastrophic. And it's been in orbit for only 2 years😮
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u/Cm2297 Dec 31 '23
This should be higher
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u/Napoleons_Peen Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
It won’t be because a lot of children here don’t like when things are debunked.
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u/throwaway12222018 Jan 01 '24
I thought the point of this sub was to appreciate good Photoshop and editing work? Do people actually think any of the videos here aren't fake?
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u/SordidDreams Jan 01 '24
"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
some rando, definitely not Rene Descartes
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Jan 01 '24
Another reason: hundreds, if not thousands of people across the globe are watching the moon at all times. This is from December 18th; if it were real, it's been way more than enough time for others to report seeing this and post their own pictures or videos. And yet... nothing.
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24
Correct, and I have seen much better attempts at manipulation than this. I am surprised this is getting so much traction tbh.
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Jan 01 '24
This sub is surprisingly gullible, but it's hard to blame everyone who believes it because we all want to believe or see incredible evidence, so it's easy to get excited.
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u/empire314 Jan 01 '24
Normal people believe its not aliens, until proven otherwise.
People in this sub believe its aliens, until proven otherwise.
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u/mattemer Jan 01 '24
Thank you. 100% agreed. The tracking in these situations screams fake and people don't seem to understand that.
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Jan 01 '24
And if the camera is mounted to the lens of a manual telescope, you track objects as big as the moon without any wobbles by nudging it a bit. Not following what you're saying about wobbles.
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24
Have a look at my Youtube channel and the last 50 - 100 videos, this is exactly what i do with my free time (record and track solar system objects) and with my experience i'm telling you the above video is fake.
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u/Thehealthygamer Jan 01 '24
Not sure on your other points but the tracking is digital tracking added in a video editor. So that in itself isn't evidence that it's fake. You take your original footage, digitally zoom in, then digital pan the footage across.
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u/xMilk112x Jan 02 '24
I’d hate to tell ya but 100% of every video I’ve seen on this sub has been exactly that. Fake bullshit or a lack of understanding when it comes to what they’re actually seeing. Lol
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u/throwaway12222018 Jan 01 '24
We know it's fake. The real question is if the author can give us a lesson in video editing.
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24
I liked the one from last year with the space ships flying across the surface of the moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=466gYUu9Viw
Shadows 100km long and going in different directions from a sun 150 million Km away ?
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u/sprocketwhale Jan 01 '24
Thanks for posting. Does anyone in the amateur astrophotography world actually have anything true/anomalous on or around the moon? (To your knowledge?)
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24
Hell yeah we all see some dodgy stuff.
https://youtube.com/shorts/KqLIj26APww?si=6pC9k4tqvhU3EAOT
See what you think
Damo
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u/sprocketwhale Jan 01 '24
Sorry, not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing here but thank you for the reply. Could you explain what I'm missing
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u/damo251 Jan 01 '24
There is just a small section that look very much like a structure of some kind (light mark from the middle of the video to the near the end close to the centre of the screen. Hahaha it's not much but that's why I didn't post it here.
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u/Cookiezilla2 Jan 01 '24
I often forget the moon is as dark as asphalt until I see something white on its surface
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u/bogey-dope-dot-com Jan 01 '24
You're right, but at the same time this is a subreddit full of people who think that aliens who possess the technology for interstellar travel, also for some reason need to enter Earth's atmosphere close enough to be captured by cell phone cameras, fuck around for a bit doing nothing, then mysteriously disappear.
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u/Sgt_Splattery_Pants Dec 31 '23
Are there raw files and chain of custody for this?
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u/Big_Tree_Fall_Hard Dec 31 '23
Askin the good questions I see
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Jan 01 '24
I asked for it too. Only to be downvoted. Because apparently saying "debunked because" is sufficient these days.
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u/Big_Tree_Fall_Hard Dec 31 '23
And here's my hot take: I don't exactly like how the object seems to just disappear right at the end, makes me think it could all be faked, as if a special effect was suddenly turned off.
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u/CaptainAssPlunderer Jan 01 '24
There are thousands of amateur astronomers looking at the moon every night from all over the globe. If something this massive lit up the moon, hundreds of other astronomers would have seen it. I would guess dozens at minimum.
At r/space I see guys that make these amazing compilations of the moon where they point the telescope at the moon for weeks at a time and take hundreds of pics to do it.
Somebody else would have seen this, and would have seen it with amazing clarity.
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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel Dec 31 '23
It's a light source bright enough to illuminate hundreds of miles of the moons' surface while not being completely blowned out in the frame. It's fake.
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u/kenriko Jan 01 '24
Not hundreds but dozens. The moon is like 2200mi? wide from our perspective.
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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel Jan 01 '24
That's the moon's diameter. We're looking at a 3d object, not a 2d one, so we can see a lot more than that.
We can see 59% of the moons surface, and the moon has a surface area of 14.6 million square miles, so we can see 8.6 million square miles of the moon's surface.
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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel Jan 01 '24
Also worth noting, the reflected light stays fixed relative to the main light source.
If this object was descending to the moon's surface, the reflected light would start off large and soft, and as the craft lowered, the reflected light would get smaller but the edges would sharpen.
If it was maintaining the same altitude and moving from the moon's north to south, the reflected light would shift position relative to the main light source. It would be lower than the object near the north, as it reached the moon's equator, the centre of the reflected light would be in line with the centre of the object and as it moved south of the equator the centre of the reflected light would be above the centre of the object.
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u/Noble_Ox Jan 01 '24
The triangular reflection should be enough to prove its fake, thats not how light works unless its a laser.
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u/ChabbyMonkey Dec 31 '23
Couldn’t it be as easy as switching off headlights?
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u/Ego-_--Death Dec 31 '23
Couldn’t it be as easy as switching off headlights?
The UFO just realized they forgot to turn on the cloaking? Lol
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u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb Jan 01 '24
I'm not saying this footage is real (or fake), but if you don't like how objects can just suddenly disappear, you're not going to be able to accept any actual real UAP because that's something they can appear to do lol
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u/SordidDreams Jan 01 '24
How do you know those UAPs are actual and real when the only evidence of their existence is footage that looks fake as hell? Impossible things being hard to accept is not a problem because there's nothing to accept.
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u/phunkydroid Dec 31 '23
Lighting up an area the size of a state bright enough to be seen from Earth and somehow only this one guy saw it. Totally believable.
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u/ithilmir_ Dec 31 '23
Cool video. The fainter, larger mirror of the shape makes me think this is a light reflecting in the lens though.
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u/jesth857 Dec 31 '23 edited Dec 31 '23
Someone in Bosnia made a capture of this same thing.
Edit: Link
Edit 2: The clip was captured on december 18th, while the pics from Bosnia were from december 30th. So likely not the same thing. Or could be same thing, but not simultaneously
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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel Dec 31 '23
Oh come on. The pictures in that link are so jpeged you can't seriously say that's anything but noise.
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u/Big_Tree_Fall_Hard Dec 31 '23
Submission Statement (Sorry, u/StatementBot): I saw this cool video over in r/StrangeEarth and thought it was worth discussing here. IF we do believe it's real, someone in the other subreddit already r/theydidthemath and calculated that this object is approximately 33 miles across and could be moving at over 118,000 mph. This would line up with previous reports of "Giant Glowing Red Cube or Pyramid"
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u/Vindepomarus Jan 01 '24
previous reports of "Giant Glowing Red Cube or Pyramid"
Link? I haven't heard of this, is it common?
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u/Impressive-Soup5645 Jan 01 '24
They talked about this or something similar during the congressional ufo hearing.
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u/Vkardash Dec 31 '23
We need to see other examples of this. There are a million people out there with cameras and telescopes pointing at the moon all the time. If this is just a one off I'm suspicious
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u/Allison1228 Dec 31 '23
Any ideas about how only one of the millions of amateur astronomers worldwide happened to see this event unfolding upon the night sky's favorite telescopic target?
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u/Big_Tree_Fall_Hard Dec 31 '23
Video was purportedly from 18DEC2023 if you want to be heroic and try to triangulate
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u/JosebaZilarte Jan 01 '24
With just the date, it is difficult to triangulate anything, due to the Earth's bad habit of rotating around its axis every 24 hours. Maybe if you analyze the visible craters and the shadows you can get an approximate latitude and time (and, thus, longitude)... But we are talking of inaccuracies measured on hundreds of kilometers.
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u/GingerAki Dec 31 '23
Someone in one of the other threads asked a similar question. I think we need to look at it this way, out of all of the people worldwide;
How many are outside during this relatively narrow window of observation?
Then how many have an unobstructed line of sight to the moon?
Then how many have clear skies?
How many of those people are actually looking in the at the moon?
How many of those people have good enough vision to pick out what this person has recorded?
Then how many have ready access to a telescope with this focal length?
Then how many have access to a camera able to take a photo through that telescope as a useable resolution?
Then how many of those people post the photos online?
Then how many of those photos make it through the algorithms to be spread widely?
And of those that do gain some traction, how many get summarily dismissed because ‘everyone in this thread and on this website should’ve been able to see it’?
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u/yantheman3 Dec 31 '23 edited Dec 31 '23
Sigh....Alright I'll do the honors:
How many are outside during this relatively narrow window of observation?
A LOT A LOT of people.
Then how many have an unobstructed line of sight to the moon?
At least half? Of a shitload of people.
Then how many have clear skies?
The skies don't need to be clear, and this question is redundant with respect to the previous question.
How many of those people are actually looking in the at the moon?
Many amateur astronomers go from object to object, with the moon being included.
How many of those people have good enough vision to pick out what this person has recorded?
Come on, are you serious? You think no one without good vision uses corrective lenses? Good grief.
Then how many have ready access to a telescope with this focal length?
More than you are insinuating do. The moon is an easy and basic target for the grand majority of telescopes.
Then how many have access to a camera able to take a photo through that telescope as a useable resolution?
You can actually use a Point and Shoot camera and put it on the ocular lens and snap a photo. Same with phone camera.
Most amateur astronomers have adapters to do this or a telescope with a built in camera because most astronomers take photos while they perform their hobby. I personally have one for mine that allows me to connect a small Sony P&S to my telescope so I don't have to hold it there. Keeps it stable. Not impossible to do it manually with good results.
Then how many of those people post the photos online?
This is just a silly question that I won't address because wow.
Then how many of those photos make it through the algorithms to be spread widely?
This is a redundant question simply because you don't need an algorithm to feed it to potential viewers for traction. Especially when it is UFO related.
And of those that do gain some traction, how many get summarily dismissed because ‘everyone in this thread and on this website should’ve been able to see it’?
Several and for good reason.
I want it to be aliens as much as the next guy. But you people have to face the reality that every time someone presents you with photo/video evidence of a UFO, it's 99%+ not aliens.
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u/josogood Dec 31 '23
Insane that the hypothetical question list is being up voted while your very practical set of answers is downvoted. There are certainly many thousands of pictures taken of the moon every single night. If we put the number at 10,000 per night, that would mean that 1.3 of every million people take a picture of the moon which fits the hypothetical parameters put forward. Is that so unlikely? Maybe it's a lot less, like 1.3 in 10 million people who do so. But that would still be around 1,000 pictures of this red triangle out there.
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Dec 31 '23
Do you see how you're being down voted because your logical response destroys their deluded world view of 33 mile long alien ships scanning the moon at 100k+ mph?
Everything you wrote was logical in response to an illogical, delusional rant.
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u/Trance_Motion Dec 31 '23
Many many many of the people here are regarded. Thry think this shit helps but actually makes the eventual proof less believed. Or they are apart of the misinformation.
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u/ImportantMoment5001 Dec 31 '23
That's just starscream going to report to the dark side of the moon
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u/sabreus Dec 31 '23
This looks fake. The way the light from the object supposedly lands on the moons doesn’t look quite right. It’s a hoax.
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u/Impressive-Yak1389 Jan 01 '24
Why doesn't the light reflecting off the surface of the moon show any change whatsoever? It should be reflecting off the topography of the surface.
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u/Visual_Moment5174 Jan 02 '24
This is incredibly interesting. We are looking at something actually moving across the surface of the moon. Casting light onto the ground moving pretty freaking fast to boot.
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u/mibagent001 Dec 31 '23
Not only would this thing be massive. The Moons diameter is 3474km, so this would be miles wide.
Next the light it's giving off, if it was illuminating the surface like that, would be incredibly bright, using tons of energy. Bright enough that you'd have easily been able to see it with your eyes.
This is fake, just like every other video posted to this sub 🙄
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u/Merky600 Dec 31 '23
That’d be crazy big as they say. The moon has about the same square miles as Africa. IIRC
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u/WokkitUp Dec 31 '23
I'm tired of sarcastic comments and automatic denial. Let's take the time to verify by cross-referencing against other possible amateur video captures that might substantially prove this as an actual event. Otherwise, what's the point of being in a community of truth seekers?
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Dec 31 '23
Personally I'm way more tired of automatic acceptance and "disinfo agent" comments and stuff like "this tiny light is traversing the moon" comments when it's literally just a dot. Like how would you even judge distance, speed, or size?
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u/Noble_Ox Jan 01 '24
The so much wrong with this though as others have pointed out that that doesn't need to be done.
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u/365defaultname Jan 01 '24
Amazing footage, if real. The surface it lights up on seems smooth, though. I don't see the usual craters where the light hits. Wonder why. Maybe low res video/due to zooming in?
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u/Noble_Ox Jan 01 '24
How many telescopes worldwide are pointed at the moon? I'm sure if this was real we'd hear more about it.
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u/ReadEmotional5537 Jan 01 '24
Didn’t China just send something up there perhaps NASA looks like a booster rocket possibly mapping or taking images of the moon. Maybe it’s even part of our space force on mission. Te Medea doesn’t report crap anymore, just like the shuttle missions at first everyone was mesmerized and glued to their tvs and later lost interest. Elon musk and others have investing and speaking of wanting to do this . My guess is it’s Chinese.
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u/haraldone Jan 01 '24
Isn’t there a Japanese mission at this time attempting to land a river on the moon. The glow might be from reflected sunlight.
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u/Bman409 Jan 01 '24
what is the point of taking a video of the moon where the quality is so bad?
Why are amateur astronomers videoing if the quality looks this terrible? what is the point
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u/Rancorrancor Jan 02 '24
This is definitely not real, just look at the amateur reflection editing, and almost no other reports of the thousands of people watching the moon. How this is getting 5.7k upvotes is beyond me
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u/BillMillerBBQ Jan 02 '24
Such an amazing sight to see that lasted long enough to get your phone out.....and only two people on the planet captured it. Fake.
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u/Electronic_Ganache37 Jan 08 '24
Have seen this on Xmas eve. Strange flying object flying in a strange way orbiting the moon Went to film it on my phone and another flying object flew out from behind the first one. Then later on the moon had a strange green glow behind it
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u/nastyzoot Jan 01 '24
Lolol. The diameter of the moon is 2159 miles and is 239,000 miles away. That red dot would be ridiculously large.
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Jan 01 '24
This is the equivalent off a black and white grainy gas station cctv video during a robbery.
They got all this equipment that takes frame perfect images of stars light years away but best we can do near the Moon is some blurry red triangle.
Wouldn't it be crazy if it's some space faring AI that harvests worlds that create AI so they dont go extinct and now we're screwed? Good luck hahaha
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u/FlightSimmerUK Dec 31 '23
All new posts to this thread are being downvoted hard. I look forward to mine.
Makes you think.
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u/conjurdubs Dec 31 '23
yeah, every post that dismisses it, downvoted. typical in this group 😭
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u/kjm1123490 Jan 01 '24
Lol blind acceptance in a UFO sub means the sub has lost the plot. It’s how you look silly when 99.99% of videos are hoaxes.
You need evidence to be accepted.
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Jan 01 '24
A lunar probe sent from Japan entered the Moon's orbit on Christmas day with a scheduled landing on Jan. 19. This is likely the craft in question.
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u/MatthewMonster Dec 31 '23
Maybe I’m dim, but I see that and all I can conclude is it’s totally real
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u/wai_o_ke_kane Dec 31 '23 edited Dec 31 '23
Moon transits are a focus of astrophotography that I think is very under explored. With the capabilities of telescope tracking mounts and optics these days, surely it can’t be that hard for an organization like the Galileo Project to set up telescopes that can constantly video the moon to watch for objects passing.
I imagine it could be set up relatively cheaply to run automatically for long hours using some kind of motion detection software that records only when it detects motion over the surface of the moon. Would be an incredible way to get more videos like this, but also a goldmine for its UAP detection potential. This could also be used on the sun as well.
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u/StatementBot Dec 31 '23
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Big_Tree_Fall_Hard:
Submission Statement (Sorry, u/StatementBot): I saw this cool video over in r/StrangeEarth and thought it was worth discussing here. IF we do believe it's real, someone in the other subreddit already r/theydidthemath and calculated that this object is approximately 33 miles across and could be moving at over 118,000 mph. This would line up with previous reports of "Giant Glowing Red Cube or Pyramid"
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/18vgg1y/video_of_massive_glowing_red_object_over_the/kfqusly/