this happened in Flagstaff Az. i thought i was looking at the moon naturaly,but it was so bright and close and it had a sphere shape offset right behind it. was the gov. tring to hide some goings on? i watch this until it went down behind the mountian,only to notice to the left ; theonly way i can describe this thing is the symbol from the led zeppilen four album. the one with three circles. same thing in the sky but it looked as if it were spinning into itself with colors like blue purple very intense.

[edit on 28-2-2008 by hosta420]

Ehh...can you draw the symbol? Last time I looked the moon whas just the same as always. But I'm curious.

Personally, I believe the Moon is made up of "materials" that could be of interest to the scientific community. Each planet or moon has different types of 'elements'. Just because there is gasoline on Earth. Doesn't mean its going to be on another planet or moon. Each standard sized planet has many different traits, and many undiscovered elements and different types of fossil fuels. Perhaps the future looks bright.

You also have to deal the human perception of objects, the moon closer to the horizon has more visual ques (such as houses and trees) and so appears larger than when it is at its zenith and no visual ques appear.

Maybe what you have seen is a local event and there is an object covering your moon (which depending on its distance from you does not need to be vast (you can cover the moon with your thumb)

As for something covering the moon from all of mankind at the same time, im sure many thousands of amature astronomers (myself included) would have noticed any subtle changes let alone those of the magnitude you speak of.

Also why not take a photo of it and post it here for us to see and compare to moon shots across the globe?