That was exciting. Specially the ending, real dramatic. Alien? I don't know. Just another blurry, bright light in the sky.

Originally posted by Fergu
That was exciting. Specially the ending, real dramatic. Alien? I don't know. Just another blurry, bright light in the sky.

Yep, it would be great if someone has some more info on this one as the more you watch and listen to it ,the more real it seems.If its a fake then they all deserve oscars ,lol.

Originally posted by jimmyx
never seen the moon like that, took my own camera outside and that clip is completely different from what came up in my camera. and there are no context shots...people, trees, hills, other lights. this does not pass the smell test.

grab a video camera, go out side and zoom into the moon and see how hard it is to keep still in the middle of the viewfinder. this guy seems to have had a cool head and stayed zoomed back in order to keep it as clear as possible

i have 2 issues -

1 is that really the moon , if so can people provide independant confirmation that the moon did indeed appear orange , when viewed from southern florida on the date in question

2 narration - listen to the penultimate thing he says

its gone away again , one last time

" one last time ? " ??????????????????????????

as the narration is suppsedly real time - how did he know it was not going to re appear ?????????????????

Another ambiguous YouTube video. Now that's something new!

If this was a genuine encounter, it would get more coverage than being secreted on a pop culture website not exactly renowned for integrity in it's content. Remember, everyones a star on YouTube!

High probability suggests that this is just one more of the millions of pranks that populate that site.


IRM

I just want to ask if it could be the ISS or one of those iridium satellite thingies reflecting the moon?

I'm not an expert in Acdsee.....i just use the program for personal stuff!
The ScreenShot NR.1 is from the YouTube Video..

Hmm... I was able to view the video in better quality, it seems that it really may be the moon.
I saw something similar when I was a kid, except there was a ufo on either side of the moon, but the moon was'nt orange, the moon may be setting in the clip though, that may be why it's orange.

-Jimmy

I agree that the similar orange hue is from dust/smoke in the atmosphere, and spectroscopic would then verify that it is outside of the atmosphere.

We just had a VERY dark orange moon on the 18th, in the midwest. This video was POSTED on the 19th, doesn't he mention the date of the recording in the video? I'll check again.

I can see that it's the moon, by it's dark areas. I've filmed the moon before, at it appears exactly like that, at about 3x zoom. And in one of the ACDSee zooms and enhancements you can see the 3 distinct dark areas of the Moon.

Furthermore, in one of the enhancements, you can see that, not only, is it the same general orange hue, but is also a brighter light than the moon, and the Moon is the brightest object in the night sky; brighter than any satellites, planes, ISS, etc.

I've seen the ISS and satellites, this is neither.

No FAA lights. (UFO)

Without witnessing it with BOTH eyes to get a 3D perspective, it's hard to judge it's distance and size.

It cannot be a super-nova, or other celestial event because those don't move, unless they're asteroids or comets. But, I'm pretty sure (by the changing directions) that that was NOT an asteroid. Comets move more slowly and have tails.

The only other likely possibility would be a moon-mission, but the object was moving much faster than anything I know about, and it would have to be reflecting a LOT of light the whole time, which means one face of it would have to be at JUST the right angle to reflect the Sunlight. ALSO, it would not be changing direction, probably.

Since, these overwhelming observations, along with the complete "honest" reaction of the large crowd, increases the likelihood, significantly, that we're looking at a true spacecraft unknown to the public in general. A UFO in my personal classification. I am SO watching the sky (moon) tonight.

(I have 10+x digital zoom on my Cannon diggy)

[edit on 20-8-2008 by dnbaudio]

Notice how much lower than the moon the light gets in the video? The moon could not be that yellow while being that high up unless there were some kind of heavy particulate in the area like smoke. In either case it couldn't be low on the horizon, therefore we can not assume that the light is "outside the atmosphere" just based on the color. As I mentioned before, it's probably that color due to poor white balance in the camera.

First we need the exact time, day hour this was taken?..why..because right now all august Jupiter passes very close to our moon each and every night, its the most bright object (after the moon) in the nightsky and right now its passing very close (i said all august) to the moon!..so we need the exact time, day hour and location so i can plot it on my astronomy software (stellarium, you can downloaded free at www.stellarium.org) so we can discard its not Jupiter indeed!

I am an amateur astronomer.

[edit on 20-8-2008 by AlexDJ]