Transient lunar phenomena (TLP): lights, luminous clouds, and other changes reported on the Moon.
I’ll add intrigue to mystery. The is a report called, NASA Technical Report R-277, Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events, July 1968, written by Barbara M. Middlehurst, University of Arizona, Jaylee M. Burley, Goddard Space Flight Center, Patrick Moore, Armagb Planetarium and Barbara L. Weltber, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory http://www.mufor.org/tlp/lunar.html
The report charts what you describe as Transient lunar phenomena for the years 1540 to 1969. What I found interesting was in the years 1920-1929 there were only 4 reports compared to 1950-1959 the reports were so numerous it is broken into two separate web pages. I would be interested in seeing a report covering 1970-present for curiosity.
Next, there is the Clementine craft: http://www.mufor.org/clement.htm
In 1992, an official U.S. unmanned Defense Department (DOD) mission to the Moon was announced by the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The first return to the Moon by the United States in 23 years, the mission was officially termed "the Deep Space Program Science Experiment" but has become better known by its public nickname "Clementine". Within a record two years of its origination, the completed BMDO Clementine spacecraft was dispatched to lunar orbit, commencing January 25, 1994.
I have been aware that NASA is run by the Department of Defense but why in this instance is there the involvement of Ballistic Missile Defense. Missiles would definitely show a cloud, haze, and light flash etc. on the moons surface if someone were interested in creating their own crater and possibly record radiation, heat readings in a different atmosphere than earth. Granted, this missile defense program is first dated in 1992 with commencement in 1994 while TLP’s have been recorded as far back as 1540.
Any other ideas?
I’ll add intrigue to mystery. The is a report called, NASA Technical Report R-277, Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events, July 1968, written by Barbara M. Middlehurst, University of Arizona, Jaylee M. Burley, Goddard Space Flight Center, Patrick Moore, Armagb Planetarium and Barbara L. Weltber, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory http://www.mufor.org/tlp/lunar.html
The report charts what you describe as Transient lunar phenomena for the years 1540 to 1969. What I found interesting was in the years 1920-1929 there were only 4 reports compared to 1950-1959 the reports were so numerous it is broken into two separate web pages. I would be interested in seeing a report covering 1970-present for curiosity.
Next, there is the Clementine craft: http://www.mufor.org/clement.htm
In 1992, an official U.S. unmanned Defense Department (DOD) mission to the Moon was announced by the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The first return to the Moon by the United States in 23 years, the mission was officially termed "the Deep Space Program Science Experiment" but has become better known by its public nickname "Clementine". Within a record two years of its origination, the completed BMDO Clementine spacecraft was dispatched to lunar orbit, commencing January 25, 1994.
I have been aware that NASA is run by the Department of Defense but why in this instance is there the involvement of Ballistic Missile Defense. Missiles would definitely show a cloud, haze, and light flash etc. on the moons surface if someone were interested in creating their own crater and possibly record radiation, heat readings in a different atmosphere than earth. Granted, this missile defense program is first dated in 1992 with commencement in 1994 while TLP’s have been recorded as far back as 1540.
Any other ideas?
