On the evening of June 18, 1178, at Canterbury, a small town in England, a crescent moon appeared in the star-studded western sky, and many people went out to admire it. At this moment they noticed a crack on the upper edge and from it a dazzling flare shot up. Then it split into flames and sent out sparks in all directions, as if a wounded snake writhing. The strange event lasted for a month and disappeared gradually.

In the end the surface of the moon returned to normal.

On May 3, 1751, at 21:30 Greenwich time, French astronomer Rouviere saw a series of flashes at the western edge of the moon looking as if someone lit a blasting fuse. This snake-like flashes appeared here and there and then disappeared. They always came out of the dark side. An English astronomer noticed this strange scene, too.

On the evening of April 18, 1787, Gescher, a distinguished astronomer discovered some strange light-red spots near the Aristotle Crater when he was watching the moon. He also recorded 112 strange lights of all sorts in this region. Similar cases occurred in the Platon Crater and Shreiter areas.

In 1870, the British moon specialist Ezer observed and recorded with the astronomical telescope a spot moving at the bottom of the Platon Crater on the moon.

In 1871, the British astronomer Bitt observed some regular geometric objects moving while sending out light signals in the crater. A similar series of strange phenomena were observed on the moon for many times: craters, wall-like buildings, the huge arched objects. On the moon trenches of different colors sometimes appeared on the moon extending at a speed of 6 kilometers per hour.

In April 1874, Shavary, an astronomer from Prague, saw an extremely dazzling body flying away from the moon at a surprising speed and was out of sight in a second.

In June and July, 1896, a huge mysterious object was observed flying past the moon.

In the past 500 years, a number of more than 400 strange phenomena were observed. However, it was not until the 1920s when astronomers began to study them. They discovered that some dark spots moving periodically in the Erastophone Crater.

However, this was not their inherent regular movement, for they sometimes moved in the opposite direction at a speed of 2 kilometers a day. An American astronomer explained the periodic movement of these spots to be the large-scale migration of photophilous animals, but most astronomers thought it was the optical effect on the moon and its land features.

One morning in May 1943, a group of the former Soviet Union soldiers were on the march when one of them shouted, "Look! There is a light spot in the dark zone of the moon." Everybody saw it: a peculiar bright star was beside the dark zone motionless. In an instant it moved and gradually flew away from the moon.

In mid-August 1955, when an astrophile was watching through the astronomical telescope made by himself, he saw a luminous flying object about 374.6 kilometers above the moon. Its brightness was equal to a third-class star. When it flew to one-third position of the moon circle in four or five seconds, it suddenly turned and landed on the moon.

On November 26, 1956, many astronomers observed a strange phenomenon on the moon. A huge shining cross, called "Maltese Cross", suddenly appeared. However, it was hard to understand that exactly two years later on November 26, 1958, astronomers from different countries coincidently discovered in the perigee orbit another mysterious flying object called "Dark Ghost".

In 1963, astronomers in the Fragers Observatory in Arizona, USA discovered 31 huge luminous bodies when they were observing the moon. They were 5000 by 300 meters and could fly in formations. Meanwhile, they discovered other smaller flying objects 150 meters in length coming and going among them.

On the evening of October 29, 1963, the American Rowell Observatory observed a dazzling flame north of the Grod Crater on the moon and then disappeared. A short while later, it was found near the Aristotle Crater again.

On May 18, 1964, an American astronomer, Harris, observed on the moon a light spot moving at the speed of 32 kilometers per hour for an hour 14 minutes. Another 13 minutes later, yellow flashes were observed lasting only several seconds near the Sabin Crater not far away.

On June 21, 1964, three astronomers, Harris, Cross and Highland, discovered a D-shaped dark spot at the south of the Roth Crater moving at the speed of 32 to 80 kilometers per hour.

In 1966, when an English astronomer Pamur observed with a high-power astronomical telescope the crater bottoms on the moon. He observed strange ribbons changing from dark to light brown in color and then radiated in all directions from the bottom, changing and expanding constantly. When the noon was approaching, they grew to the maximum. When dusk came, they shrank, grew pale and disappeared in the end.

On September 11, 1967, a group of Canadian astronomers observed an oblong dark spot moving from west to east for eight to nine seconds in the euxinic area of the moon and suddenly stopped at the edge of the moon's circle. Thirteen minutes later, yellow light flashed for several seconds near the Sabin Crater where the spot was found. Twenty days later, another dazzling spot was found moving at the speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

In 1968, American specialists discovered three red light spots in Aristotle Crater becoming one in the end. Japanese astronomers observed rose spots scattering in the south of the crater. Soon after, there were three colorful ribbons 50,000 meters by 8,000: two were red and one was blue. It was attractive that they could be observed most clearly when the sunlight was shining onto the full moon's surface.

On July 30, 1968, at 22:10, the Romanian astronomer Muzaresh discovered a luminous body similar to a star in size at the east edge of the new moon. It quickly changed its shape into a square quite fit in the moon circle and then began to move toward the moon and disappeared in an instant.

At the end of 1968, American Aerospace Bureau compiled and published a special work, Detailed Catalogue of the Mysterious Phenomena on the Moon, which recorded the observations of the moon in the past 400 years. 5 to 19 of them remain unexplained, e. g. moving bodies of light, geometric shapes, mysteriously disappeared craters, color trenches extending at the speed of 6 km an hour, appearance and disappearance of "city walls" and huge domes changing their colors.

On March 7, 1971, there was a sudden gush of water from the edge of the Storm Ocean on the moon. Is the water on the moon drifting?

On September 27, 1981, a Russian astronomer discovered that a comet-like flying object skimmed over the surface of the moon.

In November, 1991, the Outer Space & UFO International Academic Symposium was held in Japan. Some Japanese experts showed a 10-minute document of events happened in the past few years and recorded with the aid of a powerful astronomical telescope. It contained many real flying objects over the moon similar to light balls throwing their shadows on the moon. They flew in various orbits, e. g. the moon's equator and the meridian line. After treatment of these pictures by computer, it can be concluded with the aid of photographic measurement that the diameter of the largest light balls was 20 kilometers and its flying speed was 200 kilometers per second. All the experts present agreed that no natural light objects could fly so fast in orbit.

On March 15, 1992, at 16:45, a Russian astronomer discovered a dark square flying object 5 kilometers long flying in a curve for 2.5 seconds. It flew eastward at first and then to westward, and finally disappeared in the Alphonse Crater on the moon. Its flying orbit was 500 kilometers and its speed 200 kilometers per second.

A Japanese astrophile once observed the moon for ten years with an astronomical telescope equipped with a camera. In this period, he took pictures of many UFOs flying over the moon with their shadow cast on the moon. They were over 20 kilometers in diameter with a speed of 600,000 kilometers per hour.

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