A preprint carrying the name of a national observatory claims more than 20 enormous objects were filmed moving on and around the Moon - discs up to 40 kilometers wide (24.8 miles) and a ring-shaped structure 36 kilometers across travelling at 11 kilometers per second.
The footage was recorded on a 6-inch backyard telescope that can resolve, at absolute best, one point 7 kilometers at lunar distance.
Four separate arithmetic checks break the claim before anyone else has to weigh in.
But the decisive fact in this story is not the math.
It is a document the observatory itself issued 4 years ago, about this exact method - and almost nobody covering the claim has mentioned it.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:35 The paper going viral right now
3:28 The telescope that shot the footage
5:22 Why an object that size cannot hide
7:19 The speed that breaks the conclusion
9:24 Two papers, six times the difference
11:41 The assumption behind every number
13:36 The observatory's own written verdict
16:30 How lunar anomalies are really hunted
18:00 The standard this footage never met
20:02 The Moon nobody can fully explain
21:46 The isotope problem still unsolved
23:46 What would settle this for good
SOURCES
A Distance Measurement is Worth a Thousand Words Regarding the Nature of UAP (Avi Loeb) — A Distance Measurement is Worth a Thousand Words Regarding the Nature of UAP
UFOs over Kyiv — Skeptical Inquirer — UFOs over Kyiv | Skeptical Inquirer
Physicist Avi Loeb: UFOs over Ukraine are not as otherworldly as they seem — Salon — Physicist Avi Loeb: UFOs over Ukraine are not as weird as they seem
Boris Zhilyaev — research profile, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine — Boris Ephimovich Zhilyaev
Unidentified aerial phenomena II. Evaluation of UAP properties — arXiv — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.17085
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Characterization of Dark UAPs — arXiv — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05627
NELIOTA Lunar Impact Flash Detection and Event Validation — arXiv — NELIOTA Lunar Impact Flash Detection and Event Validation
NELIOTA: the wide-field, high-cadence lunar monitoring system at Kryoneri — Astronomy & Astrophysics — NELIOTA: The wide-field, high-cadence, lunar monitoring system at the prime focus of the Kryoneri telescope | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
Learning from lunar lights — European Space Agency — Learning from lunar lights
Seismic Detection of the Layers of the Lunar Core (Weber et al.) — NASA NTRS —
Seismic Detection of the Layers of the Lunar Core - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Identification of the giant impactor Theia in lunar rocks (Herwartz et al.) — PubMed —
NCBI - WWW Error Blocked Diagnostic
Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon — PNAS — Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles | PNAS
Firefly's Blue Ghost Captures the First-Ever HD Video of a Lunar Sunset — Firefly’s Blue Ghost Captures the First-Ever HD Video of a Stunning Lunar Sunset
Total Solar Eclipse on August 12, 2026 — NASA Science — Total Solar Eclipse on August 12, 2026 - NASA Science
August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland — Phys.org — August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland
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