For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon

According to Boing Boing, astronomers have cataloged reports of strange lights, colors, and hazes flickering across the lunar surface for at least a thousand years. The phenomenon, formally called transient lunar phenomena, was named by British astronomer Patrick Moore in nineteen sixty-eight, when NASA compiled a catalog of these sightings. Yet despite centuries of observation, scientists still cannot fully explain what causes these brief, elusive flashes on the Moon.

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