Have you ever noticed something weird?

And despite thinking you were the only one, the more you tell other people about it the more people you find who have seen something similar?

Long Moon Observer got its start late one night, with two friends driving through the desert to camp. We had a late start and it was winter so the bulk of the driving was through dark desert roads. As we came over a low hill, road dimly visible ahead, the moon began to rise over the mountains in the distance.

It was like any other moonrise until the moon hit its full diameter on the edge of the mountains. As it continued to rise it stayed the same width, as if it were an extrusion being fed up from between the mountains and the sky. Or a glitch in a video game, pixels tearing and running back from the moon to the ground. We stared at it, transfixed, until the road turned slightly and we hit the rumble strip.

Distracted by nearly losing the road we looked away and when we looked back the moon had returned to normal. We assumed it was just a weird reflection or something we both imagined.

After our trip we were joking around about the “long moon” and found that we weren’t the only people who’d seen something like this, and that it wasn’t limited to just deserts, or late nights, though those seem to help. Since then we’ve kept an eye out for the long moon, and ear out for more stories of it. Have one to share?