originally posted by: StarnatalSandia
Was taking some evening shots of the moon with the Nikon P900 when this large red object flew in front of it.
I can see why you might call it
a red object, but I wouldn't call it that. It looks like an object with a light on it.
The light seems to vary in color. There could be several reasons for this. Probably the least likely is the light changing color at the source. More
likely are atmospheric variations or camera adjustments for color compensation.
Even with the human eye, if you recall the Rendlesham forest UFO case, the light from the lighthouse was white, but people also described it as
yellow, orange, and one person even called it red. So while I do see a red light in many frames of the video, that's not the only color I see and I'm
not entirely convinced the light is actually red. For example, take this screenshot from 10 seconds in your video, it doesn't look red here, does it?
Why not? If it was really a red light, shouldn't it look red here too?
Then when the object transits the moon, you can see the light is connected to a larger object, which can be seen in this screenshot at 31 seconds in
your video. I tracked the position of the light relative to the object and drew an arrow to the position of the light, which doesn't show up too well
here:
You mentioned helicopters. In my area we have planes and helicopters flying around all the time. generally the sound from the helicopters is a
pulsating whap-whap-whap type sound, but the sound I hear in your video is smoother than that, and sounds more like an airplane. There also seems to
be some correlation with the intensity of the sound diminishing as the UFO passes the moon and keeps going.
Some people suggested a satellite, but do satellites have lights on them? I don't really know but in general I would think not, why would they? They
don't really need lights for anti-collision or other purposes like aircraft do, so I'm wondering if it might be an aircraft. The blob above is
obviously too fuzzy to have any chance of identifying the aircraft, if that's what it is.
originally posted by: reject
a reply to: vlawde
I don't think that's a shadow on the moon surface.
I think it's part of whatever it was.
Agreed.
edit on 20201227 by Arbitrageur because: clarification