Earlier this month, when a few high-traffic news websites reported a strange object
on Google Moon, I was skeptical. Surprised, too, because when I opened the application, there it was, a distinct V-shape of bright lights inside a tiny crater on the moon’s far side. It did not look natural. I marked its location at 142 degrees and 34 minutes east and 22 degrees 42 minutes north, at the edge of Mare Moscoviense.
Websites run by the Houston Chronicle
, the Mail Online
, and the New York Daily
News all sourced their reports to the Youtube
video by Wowforreel
, whose channel offers generous helpings of UFO-related fare. The video of the V-shaped anomaly has drawn more than 1.4 million viewers and national advertising. Surely this was an alien chaser’s dream come true.
But this is no home-grown digital spoof. The anomaly is there, in a ...
