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For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 07, 2026
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transient lunar phenomena — Via Wikipedia article “Transient lunar phenomenon” / Public domain

According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully explain them. The British astronomer Patrick Moore coined the term for a…

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