Since ancient times, astronomers have observed strange phenomena on Earth’s satellite through telescopes. In 1968, NASA published a catalog of lunar anomalies, mentioning about 600 of the most mysterious observations of our natural satellite, made over four centuries and still unexplained to this day.
It has long been noticed that something strange sometimes happens on the Moon. There are numerous documented accounts of observing strange light phenomena on its surface. One of the earliest is considered the report of Jacques-Étienne de L’huillier, an adjunct of the French Academy of Sciences, described in the institution’s documents.
On May 3, 1716, during a lunar eclipse around 9:30 Greenwich Mean Time, he noticed “flashes or instant tremors of light rays at the western edge of the Moon, as if someone were igniting powder trails used to detonate mines in slow motion. These light flashes were very brief and appeared on the Moon sometimes in one place, sometimes in another, but always from the side of the shadow (Earth).”
At the same time as L’huillier, Edmund Halley observed lunar flashes in Britain.
In the early 19th century, William Herschel, the English astronomer of German descent known for discovering Uranus, saw during a total eclipse 150 very bright points scattered over the surface of the Moon. Dozens of other observers then reported flickering blue fires on the lunar disk. These were predominantly “clusters of light specks”, but sometimes they looked like “gathered glowing needle-like tips.”
There are also reports of observing “arc-shaped clusters of white lights” in the Sea of Crises. In February 1821, a light of remarkable brightness shone in the Aristarchus crater. In May, it flared up there twice more.
Virtual ufologists regularly find numerous anomalies on the Moon. For example, this one resembles a humanoid walking on the moon. And here is something resembling a white twisted tower, next to another (straight) tower.
In 1824, the German astronomer and professor at the University of Munich, Franz von Gruithuisen, observed light on the Moon burning in one spot continuously for half an hour. In the Sea of Crises, minute flashes of light have been observed for over 120 years. In the early 20th century, scientific journals even wrote about signal-like fires seen on the Moon.
The location of these lights was clearly artificial: two lines of lights ran parallel to each other, with a dark strip between them covered with glowing dots. The same arrangement of lights was observed by Gruithuisen in the Messier crater. In 1847, Hudson testified to intermittent bright light. It was very much like someone signaling to us from the Moon.
In 1864-1865, in the same mysterious Sea of Crises, the astronomer Ingall observed a small point of light, “shining like a star.” This “little star” was seen for quite a long time by other astronomers, and then it disappeared, leaving behind a cloud, which is quite strange for the Moon, which, as is known, has no atmosphere.
Birt and Elger saw such an unusual arrangement of lights in the Plato crater that they joined other lunar researchers to map and study the phenomenon. The lights were fixed in place but changed in intensity. In April 1871 alone, selenographers recorded 1600 (!) instances of observing clusters of lights in the Plato crater.
In 1887, a “luminous triangle” was observed in the same place. That same year, a number of astronomers reported “flakes of light” moving towards the Plato crater from other lunar craters. In that year, this crater, usually appearing as a dark plain near the northern edge of the Moon, was completely lit up with lights.
Observations of mysterious light phenomena on the Moon have repeatedly occurred in the 20th century as well. In modern times, according to NASA information, various optical light phenomena have been recorded approximately 112 times in the Aristarchus crater. Similar phenomena were also observed 29 times in the Plato crater, 15 times in the Schroeter crater, and 16 times in the Sea of Crises. Such activity, according to many researchers, cannot be merely coincidental.
“The turned on and turned off” light on the Moon, recorded on November 26, 2015. UFO enthusiasts considered this moment as the launch of a UFO from the Aristarchus crater.
Even to this day, we are often assured of the Moon’s complete lifelessness, but accumulated data by astronomers suggest otherwise. Decades before the space age, they mapped hundreds of strange “domes,” observed “growing cities,” and shadows of geometrically regular shapes.
The aforementioned William Herschel, in the 18th century, drew the attention of the scientific community not only to the lights on the Moon but also to the lines and geometric figures observed on its surface.
The same professor von Gruithuisen saw intersecting lines and squares in the northern part of the Schroeter Valley, strongly resembling city streets and blocks (the so-called “Gruithuisen’s city”).
The professors were quickly declared insane, but similar formations were observed through telescopes at the Mount Wilson Observatory in the USA in the 1930s. When the 100-inch telescope was aimed at the Gassendi crater, photographs showed a “pipeline system.”
Modern optics allow the observation of UFO flights on the Moon. For example, amateur astronomer Dave Darling claimed that they are literally active there. On April 16, 1979, at one in the morning, Darling saw through a 12.5-inch telescope a “cigar” measuring 16 kilometers in length and about 2.5 kilometers in diameter. It had a silvery-metallic color and cast a clear shadow on the lunar surface. The “cigar” was located near the Isidor crater, near the Sea of Nectar.
On August 12 of the same year, Dave again saw a “cigar” near the edge of the Romer crater. Its length reached 20 kilometers, its color was silvery-metallic, its shape elongated, with two “wings.” Later, the object disappeared. Darling also saw a large platform 8.6 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers high to the south of the Archimedes crater.
For over 10 years, Japanese observer Yasuo Mitsushima systematically conducted lunar observations using an 800x telescope. He repeatedly captured on video camera the passage of dark objects over various parts of the Moon. The materials he obtained are impressive: the diameter of these objects averaged about 20 kilometers, and the speed of movement was about 200 kilometers per second.
To conclude, let’s recall the words of George Leonard, the author of the NASA-based book “Somebody Else Is On The Moon,” about the mysterious lights on our natural satellite.
Namely: “The lights on the Moon cannot be related to volcanic activity. And meteorite impacts cannot be responsible for flashes of light lasting minutes or hours. And the Sun, illuminating the peaks of lunar mountains, cannot be responsible for light in places where it does not shine for whole days. And there are no spontaneous combustions of escaping gas.
When we see lights on the Moon, igniting in the same places, or flashes lasting minutes and hours, – we observe the lights of lunar inhabitants. There is clearly someone there, and about these unknown beings, we still have no slightest idea.”
