Object Seen Passing in Front of Moon: Series of Photos

I took these photographs awhile ago, and as I recall I was going to post them immediately, but the uploader wasn't operational at the time. At any rate, these were taken on 9/15/11. The times of each photo are as follows:
9:00:10 PM
9:00:37 PM
9:00:53 PM
9:01:00 PM
9:01:09 PM
9:01:19 PM
9:01:27 PM
9:01:31 PM
I had gone out to my deck to snap some pics of the moon, because it had a cool hazy halo around it. It was low in the eastern sky, and as listed above, it was around 9:00pm. Unfortunately I don't have any snazzy zoom lens or such, and I was experimenting with the settings to try to make the best of my shots. After the first photo, I checked it in the viewfinder and noticed a black mark on it. I thought it was a blemish, but as I looked up at the moon, I saw a perfectly dark, black line moving "over and across" the moon. Apologies for the inconsistent tone and quality, but I was altering the settings to try to capture the best image, while taking them as fast as possible. Scroll to the right a bit. The first photo has a blue/gray cloud in front of the moon, which is not the line I speak of. Also, apologies for the power lines, but no way to avoid them.

ETA: Although the line is complete and unbroken, this is not visible in the pics. But this line passed very darkly and consistently across the entire thing, not just at either end as it appears in the pics. I first caught it as it was just starting to cross into the moon's light.










Most likely this is a contrail, but I have never seen a "black" one before... always white or light-colored. And it was so saturated, as if someone was drawing with a sharpie. Anyway, I thought this was pretty cool, if only for the reason that I just happened to be taking pictures right at that moment, and it's the only time in my lifetime that I've actually seen something pass in front of the moon like that (I'm using "pass in front" lightly as I know it's a matter of perspective).

So, nothing earth shattering, but I thought I'd share!

reply to post by HolographicPrincipal

Hey, great pics! I note you're not presenting this as a UFO or alien invasion or the like, just curious what it is...I hope no one assumes more. lol

What great timing to be set up and able to capture that sequence though. Hopefully I can have mine at the right time for something equally interesting for my personal stock

Chemtrails.

You can call them strange contrails if you like.
I call them milky vitamin love goodness streaks.

Interesting pix.

S&F

Is it possible that the contrail from the port engine is casting a shadow on to the starboard engines contrail?

Otherwise I would be inclined to think that the aircraft engines are getting old and the oil seals are 'on their way out'. This will produce a bluey/black exhaust, but it is very unlikely on any plane flown in a western country.

reply to post by Wrabbit2000


Oh, did I fail to mention the large blob-like beings that fell from the sky afterward?

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

If you want to see real strange objects near the moon you should watch this.

These were filmed from a telescope i think.

www.youtube.com...

Sorry i dont know what the embed code is

reply to post by HolographicPrincipal

Okay, now it's a proper space thread!

Guess this proves the Lasers on Lasco on a daily basis.

Great photos.

Like them to explain the laser through the moon photo.

Ought be interesting.



We all know some will say it's debris going faster then superman.

Contrails at night. The blue cloud captured in the first frame is a older contrail. It's the same thing that happens during the day but at night it looks weird until you see it again and again.

Telegraph wires - I have similar pics when I was nearly fooled by them. Light is a funny thing!

interesting, such a uniformly distal (extended) trail/path/line of some sort.

would be much better in video analysis.

reply to post by quedup

Apparently not. Look at the first three images.

They look like contrails to me. They are seperating into two. So its an airplane and you could have been so honest and write airplane instead of object. You never claimed it to be something special but I´m certain you knew what it was from the start

Great pictures OP. So since no one has mentioned it yet, how come the moon is in front of the contrail? Obviously the plane is here on Earth and the Moon is in space. But shouldn't the contrail be in front of the moon? I also noticed that the first pictures are clearer and after the contrail the moon is more blurry. Did you notice this OP or is it just how it appears?

reply to post by HolographicPrincipal


That's the moon? Looks more like a flashlight beam on a wall. I have never noticed the moon to be NOT perfectly round.

Just to clarify:
1. As I said in initial post.... Apologies for the differences in picture quality. I was shooting them with different auto settings to try to get the best image.

2. Yes, the moon is usually round. The odd shape it is taking on in the photos is partly distortion, (most likely because my lens is crap and camera wasn't on tripod) and partly because if I recall the moon was not full.

3. Yes, there are indeed telegraph wires in the pics, as I prefaced in my post. The line I am pointing out is not a telegraph wire.

4. The splitting of the line is distortion/overexposure from the camera. As I have already mentioned, the line passed unbroken in front of the moon, but because of the brightness of the moon/ bad exposure, it does not show up. Unfortunate, but nothing I can do about it after the fact.

5. Yes, I could have stated that it is an airplane contrail in the heading if I knew what it was, but since I have no way of confirming that as fact, I will stand by my use of "object". I have never seen this phenomena before.

6. Like I said. My camera is not professional and I wish I had been able to take crystal clear, evenly exposed images. Please remember that this was an unexpected even and I just happened to be taking pics at the time this occurred. Yes, movie would have been better, but if you will note the times I listed, this happened pretty quickly. By the time I set up the video I would have missed it altogether.

7. I'm pretty sure that when this occurred, as the line was "fading" it expanded outward a bit but was not split into two lines as shown. I think that is a product of the exposure/stability of the camera.

Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by HolographicPrincipal

 

That's the moon? Looks more like a flashlight beam on a wall. I have never noticed the moon to be NOT perfectly round.

Ummmm. Most days out of a month? NOT perfectly round
(but I get what you are saying)

Originally posted by staple
Contrails at night. The blue cloud captured in the first frame is a older contrail. It's the same thing that happens during the day but at night it looks weird until you see it again and again.

edit on 5/2/2012 by staple because: (no reason given)

With contrails in your eyes, as the moon she arise,
it's a chemtrail.

with the moon all a blur, you just have to concur,
it's a chemtrail.

Post will ring 'ding-a-ling-a-ling-ding-a-ling-a-ling'
it's a chemtrail.

And if people should say, a chemtrail? No way!
they're a gov. shill...


When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie,
that's obviously a chemtrail.

apologies to dean.

i seen somthin simular, im not sure what i was lookin at.. i recorded video on my cellphone.., www.facebook.com...

I agree that it looks like contrails. Here's a good example of a contrail in front of the Moon.

www.flickr.com...

some more here:


martin-wagner.org...

a reply to: HolographicPrincipal

I saw something like this tonight, which is how/why I found this post. Except like I said, it was only LIKE this. I saw a faded black, thick line. It wasn't whispy at all, and I did not see it with binoculars, rather with my own eyes. It did not break when it passed vertically over the moon, and it traveled north. I wish I could have gotten a picture of it. But it definitely was NOT a jet stream and definitely not like a chemtrail. Nothing like these. I can't explain it, and I can't find any pictures on the internet anything like the line I saw.

Chemtrail Example 1.

contrailscience.com...!-20101107-094638.jpg

Chemtrail Example 2.

www.rense.com...