Ukrainian astronomers dropped a preprint claiming they caught UFOs using the Moon as a base. Not speculation—actual high-speed telescope data from Sept 2025.
Setup: Intes-Alter M603 telescope + ASI 294 Pro camera running at 20 Hz (0.05s cadence). Full calibration pipeline in MATLAB with phase discrimination Fourier filtering to strip out atmospheric noise and tracking jitter. Detection threshold as low as 3-5% contrast.
Two object classes:
"Atmospheric" objects: Locked to lunar surface position within ~0.75 arcsec over 100 frames. Flash duration 100-500ms, ~1 magnitude amplitude. Fourier spectra show fundamental + harmonics at few-Hz range—pulsed, not sinusoidal. Size estimates: 200m (albedo=1) to 1.8km (lunar albedo=0.064). Multiple objects separated by hundreds of km show correlated brightness changes at 95% confidence.
"Continental" discs & toroids: 25-40 km diameter discs with 1% brightness fluctuations at 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 Hz. One toroid clocked at 11 km/s translational speed. Rotation period ~180s → centrifugal acceleration 2200 cm/s² (2× Earth gravity). Albedo ~0.061, nearly lunar. RGB residuals flat across channels = absorption dominant, not emission.
The kicker: synchronous brightness modulation across spatially separated objects. If real, that's coordinated behavior.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13866.79042. Data is observational + photometric. No theory, just "here's what the sensors saw."
Either this is the most elaborate atmospheric artifact ever documented or someone needs to explain why multi-kilometer objects are doing formation flying around the Moon with artificial gravity spin rates.
Setup: Intes-Alter M603 telescope + ASI 294 Pro camera running at 20 Hz (0.05s cadence). Full calibration pipeline in MATLAB with phase discrimination Fourier filtering to strip out atmospheric noise and tracking jitter. Detection threshold as low as 3-5% contrast.
Two object classes:
"Atmospheric" objects: Locked to lunar surface position within ~0.75 arcsec over 100 frames. Flash duration 100-500ms, ~1 magnitude amplitude. Fourier spectra show fundamental + harmonics at few-Hz range—pulsed, not sinusoidal. Size estimates: 200m (albedo=1) to 1.8km (lunar albedo=0.064). Multiple objects separated by hundreds of km show correlated brightness changes at 95% confidence.
"Continental" discs & toroids: 25-40 km diameter discs with 1% brightness fluctuations at 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 Hz. One toroid clocked at 11 km/s translational speed. Rotation period ~180s → centrifugal acceleration 2200 cm/s² (2× Earth gravity). Albedo ~0.061, nearly lunar. RGB residuals flat across channels = absorption dominant, not emission.
The kicker: synchronous brightness modulation across spatially separated objects. If real, that's coordinated behavior.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13866.79042. Data is observational + photometric. No theory, just "here's what the sensors saw."
Either this is the most elaborate atmospheric artifact ever documented or someone needs to explain why multi-kilometer objects are doing formation flying around the Moon with artificial gravity spin rates.