Red Moon

RCMerchant · September 02, 2011, 09:49:06 PM

I was passed out drunk. My freind Eathan walked from his house-to wake me up-to see a blood red cresent moon. AND no one will believe me. IT HAPPENED. Charles Fort moment.. It took the moon _I timed it-Im a geek.-22 minutes for it to leave its orbit out of site,Not only was it red..it Traveled. ((IT TRAVELED Im not makin this up.
Not possibe.
Still blood red.
Help me,guys.

RCMerchant · September 02, 2011, 09:55:25 PM

It was the Moon. It was in creseent stage. It was red. Im sure sombody else seen this. They HAD to!

bob · September 02, 2011, 09:58:36 PM

you have a picture of this?

RCMerchant · September 02, 2011, 10:05:23 PM

No...Its late...I swear to any God on Earth...somebody elese must have seen this! My God!

RCMerchant · September 02, 2011, 10:14:10 PM

Im a sky freak. I watch it. I have NEVER seen anything like this. I wasnt even looking for it! My neighbor WOKE ME UP-because he thought it was weird. AND it set fast. Like in the soace of half an hour. It was NOT a ufo. It was the f**king moon. It was the moon. Somebody else had to see this. It was world wide.
Its amazing. Dammit! I KNOW its true! I sat out in the yard with 12 other folks and looked at it!

RCMerchant · September 02, 2011, 10:21:32 PM

Dammit-it HAPPENED! it was about n 10 oclock. I swear to any God there may be. There were about 6 other people standing outside looking at it with me. It was NOT a Ufo. The Moon went red.For hours.

Ask Carl Sagan! It was amazing.

Criswell · September 02, 2011, 11:06:30 PM

Red moon's are a natural thing, Has something to do with particles in the atmosphere I believe.

Nonetheless it seems like a cool thing to witness!

JaseSF · September 03, 2011, 01:04:38 AM

I've seen it before and also rings around the moon. I've heard both said to be omens of impending bad weather.

Jack · September 03, 2011, 06:32:03 AM

I've seen a lunar eclipse and the moon was blood red. Don't know what might have caused it last night though. Maybe some oddball atmospheric conditions?

I'm pretty sure it always orbits the earth at about the same rate though

dean · September 03, 2011, 07:35:58 AM

We had one a couple of months ago, a red moon is freaky and pretty cool. Unfortunately I'm on the other side of the planet so we didn't have a red moon, as it was sunny.

RCMerchant · September 03, 2011, 07:48:39 AM

What f**ked me up..more so thanits color. I Traveled. It f**kin moved.

You can sit and look a the f**king moon all night (and believe me-I have-dont ask why)
This sonofab***h red cresent moon went beleow the horizon within 20 minues.
WHY. I know what I saw. It doesnt make sense.

AndyC · September 03, 2011, 11:23:36 AM

I saw it too. Just after sunset, close to the horizon. A red crescent moon. I was on my way to the store, but I went back in to tell my wife about it.

Olivia Bauer · September 03, 2011, 09:09:27 PM

I also missed this when I was at Japanese camp. This can only mean ONE THING!

Dracula has risen from the grave and the Devil's castle now spreads it's evil through Transylvania.

Now Simon Belmont must destroy Dracula and crumble the Devil's castle, and restore peace to Transylvania, once again.

...Damn... I'm a nerd.

...Ah what the hell? PLAY THE SONG!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3oetrprx5M

Allhallowsday · September 03, 2011, 09:19:50 PM

I've seen lots of freaky sh!t that I guess were optical illusions, atmospheric effects, etc. I can remember seeing the moon hugely magnified where it filled the sky about three blocks from the ocean, but as you walked to the shore, the effect receded to normalcy!!! The moon tonight is First Quarter I guess, and it was bright orange, but it MOVED the hour or so I sat outside tonight... it's shift was quite obvious (like every 5 minutes I'd notice it had moved).

Mofo Rising · September 04, 2011, 02:21:40 AM

This is off the top of my head, so forgive me if I get the science wrong.

Most likely it was a function of the particulates in the air, or other atmospheric conditions. The reflected light coming from the moon must pass through the air surrounding the Earth before it meets your eye. If there's a lot of particles in the air, it may change or block certain wavelengths of light, so the only color that reaches you is red or some such color.

This is even more likely if the moon is about to fall beneath the horizon, which would be the case if you saw it set very quickly. It's very analogous to a sunset. When the sun is right above your head it has a thin layer of atmosphere to get through. When it is approaching the horizon, it has a lot more of the Earth's atmosphere to get through, due to the angle. Picture the rich colors of a sunset in smog filled cities like L.A. or Phoenix. Rich reds and oranges because there's so much crap in the air. If you saw the moon right before it fell beneath the horizon it could very easily appear red.

Beautiful thing to see if you pay attention to it.

Then again, I'm not ruling out the resurrection of Vlad Tepes. Just saying.