SC Photographer Captures Mysterious Moon-Like Object

I think those dots are just pixels in your camera CCD that are over exposed. They are too orderly to be sun spots. Nothing to get excited about.

This explanation is unsatisfactory on multiple levels. Davenport says:

That doesn’t make sense to me because the object was behind clouds in some pictures and behind tree branches in others and out in the open in others. I have no idea what it could be or if it really is the moon.

Indeed, the most upper right photo shows a branch covering one of the lights. Why would “the pixels” be perfectly stationary on the object in every picture. Sun spots? On what object – this is not the moon…

What no one, including Mr. NASA, is pointing out, is that on Sunday, February 15th, the moon was in the Waning Crescent phase – barely a sliver.

There doesn’t seem to be any weather or astronomical precedence to explain the object. And if so, why only in this particular area on this particular night?

It might interest you to know that on the Facebook post, other people offered their pictures, for which you can draw your own conclusions:

Perhaps you have seen them yourself.

At the very least, whatever it is, it’s important to document these events to show that they happen, to allow others to show their documentation and to never let such events lapse into an apathetic attention deficit. Strange occurrences have a way of becoming a news blip one day, and disappearing down the memory hole the next.

Such was the case when documenting the 2012-2013 mysterious, loud booming and light phenomena that frightened unwitting residents in….South Carolina. (And New Jersey.)