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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsUnusual Maine moon sparks alien conspiracy theories
https://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/13/news/state/unusual-maine-moon-sparks-alien-conspiracy-theories/A photo of the moonrise over Casco Bay captured Sunday isnt stirring up talk of Maines natural beauty. For some, its proof that aliens do exist.
The photo, snapped by John Stetson during an outing with the Southern Maine Community College at Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth shows a bizarre, rectangular moon.
The rising moon looked like an iceberg, faint and shaped like a giant block of ice, Stetson told SpaceWeather.com.
In reality, the effect was the result of warm and cold air meeting off of Maines coast.
John says the Moon looked like an iceberg. Thats appropriate because this mirage is a result of cold water, Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley told SpaceWeather.com. The cold sea offshore of Maine cooled the air above it. Above that was warmer air a temperature inversion and the stuff of mock-mirages. The Moons rays passing through it bend and twist into several moon images, some upright some inverted. They combine together into the rectangular iceberg.'
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Unusual Maine moon sparks alien conspiracy theories (Original Post)
jpak
Jul 2017
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TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)1. That's pretty cool!
But I must be reading too much today, because I initially read your headline as "Unusual Maine Coon" and was hoping for a picture of a weird cat.
Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)4. Me too
Of course we thought that. Cats are supposed to rule the internet.
area51
(11,940 posts)5. Me too,
I have a cat that's part Maine Coon. And then there's this mystery series about a librarian with a Maine Coon.
Rhiannon12866
(206,721 posts)6. Oh! I didn't know about this one!
I used to read all "The Cat Who..." books by Lilian Jackson Braun and the Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)2. So what's the conspiract theory?
Aliens stole our moon and replaced it with the giant iceberg from Antarctica?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)3. Not just in Maine
I saw that over our Costco the other day.
Rhiannon12866
(206,721 posts)7. The ocean is subject to all manner of visual tricks
I've seen countless documentaries on the Titanic...