Steve's Projected moon myth

 Steve's Projected moon myth

Fiction

Steve once told a story of the time he saw a UFO as an entry in a  paranormal stories outlet that included both fiction, and stories that most people claim really happened to them, but most casual observers would think were fiction were they not regular fans of the outlet and so called true believers.  

But Steve did not tell the full truth, he changed some of the details of the story to have more accuracy and precision then they really did and added some parts that did not happen to him and omitted others that did.  Steve knew he was not intellectually capable of telling the full truth of what he saw with perfect memory and perfect measurements of space, light and time so he embraced his weaknesses and created a myth.  

He took his real life sighting but made many changes so that those who contemplated his story could better comprehend his main points.  In the past, he tried to tell the full truth to people but by including too many petty details he only confused them more. He found that by trying to tell the full truth the audience could understand a smaller percentage of the truth then if he told them lies and half truths to make the story simpler to understand.

Was Steve a liar?  In a sense, maybe, were he to tell his story, as a eye witness in a court setting but instead Steve put it in a science fiction contest so people would know that what he said was not true but fiction.  Of course calling it fiction was the lie because it really was true except for all the details that he changed.  Oh what a paradox this was.

This was Steven's story.

There was a ramp on a hill that alternated between going north and south as it went east and downward toward the lakefront.  There were also stairs that went straight east and downward. At the bottom of the hill and the stairs was a long wooden platform that ran north and south and east of that platform was the sandy lakefront.  About eight miles south of the lakefront was a major airport.

Steve was walking down the ramp toward the lakefront and then going back up the stairs going west away from the lakefront for exercise very late in the day but close enough that he should be able to complete his exercise repetitions before park closing hours.  Steve saw many planes passing south to the airport at a high angle of altitude.  At least one of them shined a search light whose beam appeared to brighten the ground immediately in front of  Steve's feet for a moment.  One of the times when Steve went up towards the top of the stairs he felt unusually dizzy, like he had vertigo or maybe low blood pressure and felt faint to a much greater degree than normal when doing this exercise.  He went back down the hill after this and walked to the south side of the wooden platform on the button of the hill.  He was going to decide if he should continue the exercise for many more repetitions or just go up the stairs one last time then quit.  Steve stared out toward the lake East of him.  

Suddenly Steve saw something unusual.  He saw what looked kind of like Amber, Dark Orange or Brown airplane lights but at an incredibly low angle of altitude.  They were East of him and were moving west towards him alternating between moving northwest and southwest while maintaining a low angle of altitude.  He could tell they were moving west toward him because they were getting bigger.  Underneath the lights the water seemed to move as if it were pushed by a downward wind seeming to come from the light source itself, that also appeared to push the water as though the wind was radiating horizontally away from the light source.  This was in addition to the regular water waves you would normally expect at that lake which he could see.  He could see the water waves and water surface more clearly close to him or close to the light source then far away from him and far away from the light source.

These did not look like normal airplane lights to Steve but Steve did not know much about Airplanes he had a PhD in biophysics but airplanes are not alive so although he was very knowledgeable in physics he hardly studied them at all anymore than any normal person outside the field of aviation.  The reason they looked different than normal to Steve was their configuration.  There were two rows of lights and many columns of lights.  The lights were arranged vertically in pairs with one light above and one below but horizontally there were many pairs of lights.  One could draw a vertical line of symmetry and also a horizontal line of symmetry for which the light pattern would be symmetric.  

After about five minutes the light pattern was replaced with another light pattern.  It changed shapes like a split cookie being pulled apart and then merged back together again.  Although often each half of the "cookie" looked more like a half of a yin yang symbol than like a half a circle with a straight line divide.  Yin Yang of course was not the only shape but it is a good example of the types of shapes formed because they were split but did not have jagged edges.  Some of the combinations where the object was in two halves could be divided symmetrically with a vertical and or horizontal line unlike a Yin Yang symbol but like a Ying Yang symbol still lacked jagged edges unlike a broken cookie.  Of course it is difficult to distinguish between two seperate objects or one object because the separate objects were often merging together to form a single object and the single object was often separating into two different objects as a continuous process rather than in separate and distinct stages.

The whole object or two split halves of the object depending on if it was merged or seperated was a mixture of red, orange and yellow and was completely filled in with red, orange and yellow colors with no gap in the object in which one of these colors was absent except the gap between the two pieces if it was split instead of completely merged.  This was unlike the previous object or the previous version of the same object that had a gap between every airplane like light. 

The object had multiple red, orange and yellow colors at the same time and the colors of the object were not in a symmetrical pattern only the object itself was symmetrical when it was symmetrical.

Sometimes one part was on top of the other and the other below and sometimes one part was to the left and the other to the right and sometimes it was only one object instead of being split into two parts.

When the two pieces were apart and horizontally separated the air in between the pieces was the same color as the rest of the sky was to the left and right or north and south of the object at the same angle of altitude.  When the two pieces were vertically separated the air in between the pieces was the same color as the rest of the air at the same angle of altitude.

This shape changing and color scheme continued for about five more minutes then this object was replaced by what looked like a full moon or perhaps the object was replaced by a full moon.  Once the object could be recognized as a moon and was stable no longer changing shape the color scheme changed.

The full moon had more of a off white or pale colors traditional moon color scheme and a dimmer light intensity.  Whereas the previous object had a much brighter light intensity and a stronger, deeper, more intense color scheme that was similar to sunset and sunrise red, orange and yellow.

This full moon was at a very low angle of altitude and was in the southwest portion of the sky to Steve's right as he looked eastward.  Since nothing further interesting occured and it was just an unchanging moon Andrew walked up the stairs and down the hill for 15 more minutes then decided to leave having achieved the number of times going up the stairs he desired which was one more than his previous number.  

Before Andrew left he looked at the moon and it was at a very high altitude and in the Northwest part of the sky to his left when he faced East.  This made no sense, the moon could not have traveled as far a horizontal angle from the Southwest to the Northwest in as little time as 15 minutes.  The moon also could not have traveled that far a vertical angle with such a great change in angle of altitude in so little time as 15 minutes.  

If the angle of altitude consistently changed at that rate as a normal event there would be multiple moon rises and moon sets every day, so clearly this was not a normal event but something very strange had happened.  

If the horizontal angle regarding north, east, south and west directions consistently changed at that rate as a normal event one could stand in the same place and see the moon horizontally go by you multiple times a day which also indicated that this was not a normal event but something very strange had happened.

After his last view of this odd moon position he decided to leave and walk home.  On Steve's way walking home he also saw many airplanes go by but one was extremely unusual.  Although this plane was very high in the sky in the sense that it was too high to have to worry about it crashing into buildings it might have been lower than usual because he could see the bottom of the plane in more detail then he was used to.  It looked like a normal passenger plane that would fly civilians from one airport to another for travel and not a military plane except for one peculiar detail.  On the bottom of the plane was an object which reflected dark orange, brown or amber light off its surface that stuck down below the main body of the plane and attached to that object was what looked like a light projector.

Steve thought the merging and unmerging broken cookie or yin yang symbol was probably projected by this plane as an artificial light show or illusion.  But then what of the moon, was the moon itself a projected illusion created by humans flying aircraft with projectors attached to them?  It seemed to Steve that this certainly would be the case but the moon was supposedly seen before the first human ever invented an airplane or hot air balloon.  Was the history of the moon and or the date humans invented aircraft then a lie in and of itself?  Or was this a really clever prank to project an illusion right around the time the moon comes up and show people the projector to make people doubt the existence of the moon so that observant people who are paying attention to their surroundings seem crazy for noticing these things and the moon was indeed a real object?

Or Steve wondered was this all in his misunderstandings having studied the physics of living things too often but having failed to observe the skies regularly being a Biophysicist not a Astronomer or Meteorologist.  Given that the object was very low in altitude and the moon would rise from a low altitude did Steve just happen to see some sort of normal human aircraft on a cloudy day only for the aircraft to disappear because a rising moon is a brighter object than that aircraft.  And the rising moon appeared to change shape because of moving clouds.  Were the moon colors red shifted due to the low altitude of the moon similar to how the sky turns red shifted near sunset and sunrise but is blue shifted near noon due to the different angle of altitude of the sun as a light source.  

Steve did not think so but was open to the possibility.  Steve looked up the time for the moon rise that day and found it was close to the time he was walking up and down the stairs.  But then how did the moon rise so fast?  Will that still did not make any sense but Steve decided to temporarily ignore that and play devil's advocate.  He looked up many moonrise videos on the internet including those where clouds block part of the moon.  

Although the sunset and sunrise-like red, orange and yellow color scheme seemed similar to the moonrise videos, that was the only thing they could explain.  Steve was convinced that a moon rise with clouds when compared to the many videos he watched could not explain the shape changing he saw nor the large change in angle of elevation in such a short time.  In fact, knowing the moonrise time further created a problem with the moon being so high in the sky so close to the time when it should still be rising and much lower in angle of altitude.

Steve tried to explain to people what he saw after this but he only confused them with too many petty details by trying to tell the whole truth.  He thought this was important but he did not know what to do until there was the story contest.  At last, I do not have to confuse them with the truthful petty details, because I could say I was not telling the truth, but a fiction story, Steve thought to himself.