High Strangeness

Amateur astronomer films 3 mystery objects dancing past moon

RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:26 UTC

A space enthusiast who was recently filming the moon was left baffled when three mystery objects floated past it. He posted the video on YouTube, asking viewers a simple question - "WTF?"

The video begins with the camera focused on the moon and its signature craters. However, at the 1:18 mark, three strange objects can be seen dancing past the moon.

It happens quickly, and they rapidly disappear out of frame. But their appearance was enough to leave the man intrigued and confused. So confused that he titled his video 'WTF did I capture passing the moon?'

He believes it was most likely helium balloons that someone released, but admits the theory cannot be confirmed. Others commented that they agreed with the balloon logic, while some suggested they could have been meteorites. One person nonchalantly responded with "Oh you know, just aliens probably."

The video was filmed during the half moon on April 22, and was posted by YouTube user Don't Stop Motion.

Reader Comments

Heosphorus · 2018-04-28T22:58:04Z

How creepy cool!! Persistence pays off!!

Saiko · 2018-04-29T14:23:09Z

Helium balloons in Moon's atmosphere, yeah... These object are shadows on the Moon's surface. Maybe their origin is asteroids, maybe satellites, maybe alien spacecrafts, maybe droppods for Moon colony, but these are only shadows.

prehistoric · 2018-04-29T22:48:52Z

" helium balloons"

Thats some pretty big balloons, flying in formation, at speed.

blackwolfpaul · 2018-04-30T10:18:27Z

considering the distance from the moon these shadows appeared, maybe it was the alien motherships, yes, all 3 of them have come back to spawn from the earth!!

and they were above the guy videoing this, cos, well, they would have to be behind the guy right? seriously massive..

binra · 2018-05-01T06:57:56Z

Movie frames can be edited.

Considering the angle of the light from the Sun - what shape and orientation of objects would cast such shadows?

lilies · 2018-05-01T19:23:50Z

Appears to be one chaucer with two shadows: One from the Sun the other from the Earth reflecting sunlight. Dunno, if possible, but it just looks that way.

NativeSon · 2018-05-01T19:32:29Z

Sorry lilies but I don't see a shadow. I do see a faint line connecting the two lead blobs which momentarily looks like a shadow but nothing is cast upon the moon surface.

For my money this is airborne pollen/dirt