Weird Orange Crescent

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]

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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

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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.

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


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:


ufologie.net...

And in according to this report,

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




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It looks fake. Looks like a reflection on a window or a artifact. The clouds don't even look right.

Its not a UFO.

I'm not going to immediately debunk this, but there seems to be lots of enhancements on the picture (exposure, contrast, ect.).

The object also sticks out a little too much from the scenery...

Hi, NephraTari
It's a reconstruction made by Varrin7 with PS, it's not a photo, he stated it in the OP

Ya know, I was just commenting to a friend last night about how the moon was crescent, I think? Banana-shape?

It was orange, and beautiful. But it kept getting covered by clouds. Looked weird to me for some reason. But, musta been normal, I don't usually look but the placement was hard to miss.

people. please READ THE OP BEFORE YOU COMMENT. I stated like five times that I made a represntation of what I saw using Photoshop. It will look fake, because it is! The object disappeared when I came back outside with my camera.

lol...Looks like a couple people didn't read the entire OP and just clicked on the link. I can't believe anyone would think that picture was real. I hope there is no one out there who would actually think so.

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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.

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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.

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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]

This is getting to be the usual modus operandi around here.
People post without reading anything but the header and make themselves
look like absolute fools.

Or they post an opinion without reading and it has already been discussed to death.



on topic....beats me what you saw.

Due to this being a recreation of the event, I would speculate that it could possibly be a meteor. There is the meteor shower going on this week, and some the size of basketballs entering the atmosphere...when they burn up they can look very wierd.

But I do not doubt the fact it could have been something else...just trying to use logic to aproach the situation first before assuming otherwise.

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Hey
I seen something like that two nights ago. But it was behind clouds. I watched for about 5 mins.
So weird. Where abouts are you? I am in Alberta

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?
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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


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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]

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.