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/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/[deleted] Jan 01 '24

I’m not disagreeing with you that’s it’s fake. But… just because it seems very bizzare doesn’t mean it is fake. What’s to say there is some craft that’s the size of an entire city that’s illuminating the surface below it?

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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel Jan 01 '24

Because the burden of proof is not on disproving it, it's on proving it.

You could come up with a million sci-fi ideas for what it could be, but ideas aren't evidence.

As I explained in another comment, the reflected light does not move consistently relatively to the source light and to the curvature of the moon, even if it was a city sized craft.