Weird Orange Crescent, page 1

Two nights ago, at about 10pm, I was letting my dog out when I saw what looked like a crescent moon in the sky. It was orange, but the moon is sometimes orange because of lunar eclipses I think, so I didn't pay any attention to it until i saw the moon above and to the left of it.
The object was moon sized, glowed orange, and it had solar-flare-like ejections coming off of it. It did not move at all while i saw it.

I didnt find my camera to take a pic of it, so I made this photoshop representation. (warning: i suck at photoshop and so it turned a little "cartoony", but i think it gets the point across. Also, I took the picture during the day, and used photoshop to make it look like night.) The moon is above it and to the left, and the red dot on the left is a radio tower light that I added (it is in the place of the real tower light), what I thougt one of the possible explainations might have been.


i512.photobucket.com...


If anyone knows what this might have been, please share. Also, if anyone has pictures of similar objects, I'd be happy to look at them.

[edit on 8/8/2008 by Varrin7]

[edit on 8/8/2008 by Varrin7]

reply to post by Varrin7

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HI Varrin7 you link doesn't work for me
Could you please upload it to imageshack.us... or something like that?
Thanks

reply to post by internos

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yeah, i tested it, found out. just uploaded it to my photobucket.

i edited the post so just click the new link in it.

reply to post by Varrin7

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Thank you
weird, and besides it match (except the color) a sighting that took place in New York on 1959:

• USA, New York July 25, 1959; Irondequoit, New York. 1 p.m. Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin, crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds.

www.nicap.org...
www.bibleufo.com...

I don't recall to have ever seen anything like that.
I'll try to find some similar cases, but the match with the New York case is amazing to say the least

Edit to add: found another interesting sighting:

IN THE AUDE, IT WAS YESTERDAY IN THE SKY OF ESPERAZA
Carcassonne. -- A new U.F.O. was observed on a hill close to Espéranza (the Aude), by three residents of the area Monday evening at approximately 09:30 p.m., whereas they came out of a nearby house where they were watching television. Mr. and Mrs. Toscano and their 15 year old son, saw on the hill, 100 meters in front of them, an orange gleam in the shape of a crescent. One moment they believed to see the moon then went for the obviousness. This source of light could by no means be explained.

This appearance is not without recalling that observed the day before in the evening by several residents of Montreal, and even from a gendarme called for help (see "Midi Libre" for this Tuesday February 26), Mr. Calmet in particular, had perfectly distinguished the phosphorescent crescent but in his case this form surmounted a luminous ball.

The observation of Montreal was of a rare duration, nearly 2 hours. That of Espéraza, less than 10 minutes. It is not excluded that the two luminous phenomena observed 30 km away and a day of interval have the same origin.
As in Montreal, search and the analyses of ground remained vain in Espéraza.
The ufologists of the Aude - increasingly numerous - now have something to work on.

ufologie.net...

And in according to this report,

25 March 1974 20:20
Esperaza, France
Several cars pursue crescent moon-shaped object that flies to the west. Photos taken.
An object was observed and photographed. It moved with a falling-leaf motion. One orange crescent-shaped object was observed by several male witnesses on a highway for 120 minutes (Audouy, R).

www.ufodna.com...

someone took some photo.

I will bring this one to some of our french speaking fella members who applied to "The UFO-Alien Applied Linguistics Registry": there are some chances to find the relevent photo/s, especially now that GEIPAN released its files




[edit on 8/8/2008 by internos]

reply to post by Varrin7

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Sorry.

In that case, it looks like it reprents that religious symbol; now what religion was it?

Anyway, it looks like Mars and the moon.

reply to post by internos

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Ya I just read it again.. I thought he said he had taken a photo of it.

I don't know it still does not look like anything I have ever heard of.

Its very strange for a UFO. Not that they should be Normal.. there is no normal I suppose.. just does not seem like anything you would consider a craft.

reply to post by ParaFreaky

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It is correct: definately a great similarity with the star and crescent:

Simbols of Islam

Well, it recalls me also the Turkey's flag:

but it seems to have derived from the ancient Ottoman Flag

We have commodore64 who should be able to tell us the real story about the flag, i know that there's a very interesting legend about something that we would call, today, UFO sighting: it's also a matter of respect for another religion : i don't know very well Islam, and i don't want to spread BS about a religion that i don't know because i respect it
Nice find, i would have never thought about it, but the resembleance can't be denied....


[edit on 8/8/2008 by internos]

Varrin7 and Foremanator:
please take a look at this photo (cropped):

it was taken yesterday by crawgator406, here you can find the relevant post:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

what's your take on it ?

i can't find the original image, to know the exposue time of this photo would be very important, ill ask for the original to crawgator406.

taledus: I don't think it was a meteor, as it didn't move through the sky in a straight line. Actually, it didn't move at all.

formanator: I am in northern Ohio. Oberlin, OH to be precise. I don't think we saw the same object, as it was in the southern sky, and very close to the horizon. There's still the possiblity though. I can't say for sure, as obviously I wasn't with you when you saw what you saw. (or was I?
)

Also, i found a list of lunar eclipse dates. (during a lunar eclipse, the moon may sometimes turn a bright orange color as a result from reflection of the Sun) There is no date on the night I saw this, August 6. So it wasn't the moon.

List of Eclipses


[edit on 8/9/2008 by Varrin7]

reply to post by internos

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it looks similar to what I saw, though it was thicker than the one in the picture, and also brighter. Then again, maybe the object in the photo is thicker than it seems in the picture, as some camera functions, such as auto-focus, could have possibly disstorted the image.

[edit on 8/9/2008 by Varrin7]

Originally posted by Varrin7
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it looks similar to what I saw, though it was thicker than the on in the picture, and also brighter. Then again, maybe the object in the photo is thicker than it seems in the picture, as some camera functions, such as auto-focus, could have possibly disstorted the image.

Exactly: this is why im going to ask for the original image: once extracted exif data we will be able to have a better idea about the appearance of the object: expecially exposure time will say much about what we see.
this is the other shot taken by the same fellow member:


P.S.:
sn00daard will look for the photo of the sighting that took place in France.

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