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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1249 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Triangle UFO over Shanghai June 22 2021

Couple things:

1) The moon is an area source of light, not a point source, and as such casts umbra/penumbra shadows. If this were a dark object backlit by the moon, the shadow on the clouds would not be crisp like it is.

2) I have never been to Shanghai but it looks like it tends towards a low marine layer. Uplighting from below is going to be brighter just because of the distance fall-off. If this were Denver? Yeah I could see the argument but I mean