2025 · Mare Crisium
Blue Ghost's unexplained lighting
WhenMarch 16, 2025
WhereMare Crisium
Backing1 independent
Evidenceofficial records
Max shows 'Venetian blind' light patterns and boulders that cast no shadow toward the camera in front of the glow. Redwire's camera team's best explanation was floodlights; NASA's lead instrument scientist Maria Banks confirmed none were used that day. Firefly says no raw images of the glow were downlinked.
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 2025Maria Banks (NASA lead instrument scientist)officialconfirmed no floodlights were used on 16 March 2025 Maria Banks
How plausible · Moderate
NASA's instrument scientist ruled out the floodlights the camera team suspected; the confirmation reaches us through Max's correspondence.
- ●●No gain sought Nothing sold.
- ●●Character record NASA's lead instrument scientist.
- ●○Access Mission imagery.
- ●○Restraint Raised as a question.
- ●○Checkable details check out Released frames are public; raw glow frames weren't downlinked.
- ●○Physical traces or official reaction The images.
Against
- −Lone source, no corroboration Banks's confirmation is only via Max.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
Claims
No floodlights were on during Blue Ghost's glow images. Per Max's correspondence: the Redwire camera team's best explanation for the lighting was floodlights; NASA's Maria Banks confirmed none were used on 16 March 2025.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedMaria Banks
Where
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17.0°N 59.0°E on the Moon
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