That's what its computer-graphics manipulator presented it as.

>> True Believer < < Been called “skeptibunker” by cranks too!

He clings to his “facts” in the face of obvious inconsistencies and logical breakdowns…the sign of a True Believer™.

It’s a television satellite in a highly elliptical geosynchronous orbit near the ecliptic. Such an orbit describes an analemma in the sky. In this case, one lobe of the stretched figure-eight is seen in front of the Moon.

It’s round because it’s out of focus. And any typical video of a satellite passing in front of the Moon will appear about the size seen in this video.

The author of the video was told all this by an astronomer but chose to ignore that rather obvious and conclusive determination–opting for the indeterminant “UFO” instead. A balloon, near or far in random air, would not have remained in front of the Moon’s small 30 arc/sec but a moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

Yeah, unbreak’s right! [Oh, sorry, add a few more exclamation points]!!eleven! How could the balloon that was found near Roswell possibly have reinflated and gotten to Italy?/^?

Unless… there’s been a security breach at Hangar 51 (that’s in Area 17) and the cloned alienses escaped [seven in binary]. Any second now, you’re going to see the video removed from teh worldwidewobbly as Echelon comes back online to enforce the conspiracyžÔ&

rofl noobs pwned brb ad hoc

So, either it’s a several km-wide flying sphere, a several km-wide flying disc constantly reorienting itself towards the Earth (for whatever alien reason), or it’s got more terrestrial origins…

Just in case, I for one welcome our reorienting-disc and sphere craft overlords!

BTW, the time on the video appears to be 10:52 PM.

Im sure it is not a balloon… who knows what it is?

The turm U.F.O is correctly used for this until someone says for sure what it is with proof, not speculation…

Balloon>… lol

The evening of 29 April I was proceeding to focus a video camera attached to a telescope. The focusing procedure was complicated by the high enlargement and the elevated atmospheric turbulence, The image of the moon appeared trembling, but I immediately perceived the presence of a small black dot on the side of the moon. At the moment, I thought that it was some dirt, particles of dust on the sensor of the video camera. But after a closer observation I realized that the dot was slowly moving and showed the typical distortions caused by a bad seein (atmospheric turbulence). At that point I started rather frantically to start the filming, hoping to obtain the most clear and stable footage.
At first I though that it was a geostationary satellite at the liberation (launch?) stage, or the transit of a weather balloon collecting meteorological data, but mostly I was focusing on framing the object in the best possible way, recording the spacial and temporal data.

The first hypothesis, a geostationary satellite, was dismissed after a preliminary analysis of the data, also if the observed area matched the trajectory of a GeoSync satellite. But the dimensions did not match, as the size object would have been of about one kilometer and that ruled out the theory of a satellite. The second hypothesis, a weather balloon, seemed more plausible at first. But also in this case, on the basis of trigonometric calculations, the perspective dimensions and the sighting time, too far from the launch time from the air bases, did not match.

After years of observations, of nights passed observing and photographing the skies, I reached the opinion that the universe could contain millions or billions of life forms, from the most elementary ones to the so called “intelligent” ones. The structure of the universe is essentially uniform, and as far as we know, all the stars obey to the same physical laws and they all have the same chemical composition. However, supporting the theory of a universe rich with life, does not mean that one should accept the fact that alien life forms roam our skies undisturbed, with the purpose of studying us, analyzing us, making fun of us by creating strange patterns in crops, or making rare appearances that few chosen people have witness.
I am strongly convinced that what I filmed has nothing to do with little green mans looking for some press coverage.
Often, when we find ourselves facing some mysterious events, their real nature is revealed by the simplest explanation, and a less fascinating but more human theory haas prevailed.
Supported by the Astrofili Sheratan group that has enthusiastically asked for opinions all over the world, the satellite, weather balloon, and strange flying objects theories have been dismissed, and an hypothesis less exiting and more human prevailed.
At the end of this long story, in the squares of Northern Italy could resound with the desperate cry of a child that saw his balloon escape from his hand. But there are no certainties….

But seriously. It’s a balloon. Too bad they didn’t call someone with better equipment to record the transit. I wonder what Kayuga and Chang’e recorded?

Grab your towels!

Not likely. Although the turbulence likely gets worse the further you go up, I would be surprised if it were very uniform–there are probably some layers of air at different altitudes that are very turbulent, and others that are not.

Plus, it would be hard to measure the “degree of turbulence” to any accuracy.

Or through a bunch of turbulent atmosphere.

Hmm.

Could a comparison be done on the magnitude of the distortion of the Moon’s features versus the distortion of the objects outline? Might give a rough distance estimate for a close object.

I think we can say for sure it is a U.

I suppose the balloon hypothesis it is, then.

The United States Air Force wants its boilerplate coverup story back. Send the letter to Groom Lake, c/o of Project Blue Book, and make sure to send it in your time machine back to some time around 1963.