THIS is the incredible moment a UFO was captured shooting across the moon's surface - baffling an astronomer.
Dr. Sebastian Voltmer was recording the night sky through a telescope when an object blasted through the image.
Despite carrying out checks and not being a UFO fanatic he still cannot explain the footage.
Voltmer said: “While I was filming the moon, I suddenly saw a fast, bright something darting through the image."
At first he thought it must have been a satellite or space station it was at a different point in Earth's orbit at the time and satellites don't normally shoot past the moon at such high speeds.
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It is believed to have not been a meteor due to its distinctive tail being missing and its slower speed.
And the International Meteor Organisation did not have any records of one of the shooting stars at the time Voltmer was filming, reports grewi.de.
Voltmer also rules out flies or dust near the lens and thinks that the object must have been more than 500 meters away based on the plane of focus.
He told BILD: “I actually assume that it was at an altitude of 100 to 200 kilometers, i.e. in the transition to the so-called Low Earth Orbit."
The exact shape of the object cannot be seen from the still image as it has been blurred by the speed it was travelling at.
Another possible explanation would be space debris or a military object but the astrologer said he would have expected more reports.
Planetary scientist lliot Sefton-Nash told BILD: “The object looks like a series of low-Earth orbit satellites with orbits close together.”
Sefton-Nash thinks they could be Starlink satellites. “As far as we know, Starlink orbits are often phased, so groups of them pass in quick succession.”
