A thing apparently enjoyed by the UFO fraternity is looking at perfectly normal things and 'finding' a mystery that in reality is nothing of the kind.

The top picture is a Hubble Space Telescope view of the the Copernicus region of the Moon - this picture is freely downloadable from the HST web site.

Below  is a section of the same picture that appeared in the September 2002 issue of UFO Magazine. 

The Magazine authors are drawn to the strange light object that they box in red - "Is it a UFO or an optical illusion?" they ask. They even 'blow-up' the picture (below).

Sorry chaps, but it is neither. The strange object is a known and identifiable object.

It is an image of a bright ray crater called Bessarion, which I show in an image captured by one of the pre-Apollo lunar mapping probes (bottom picture).

It certainly is not a UFO nor is it an optical illusion. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Why try and find a mystery where none exists??

What is disturbing is the fact that if UFO Magazine could not identify such a simple object like a lunar crater, how can they be trusted to 'interpret' a picture purporting to show a UFO under other circumstances?

Original picture as it appears on HST website.

Section of same map as it appears in UFO Magazine

Detail from red box in above picture - the so called UFO captured on film

The craters Bessarion A and B  as they really look