[Update Feb 8 - This was a large projection, to celebrate the UAE's mission to Mars]
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There are several photos and a video of a "double moon" from the UAE, which show variations of these shapes:
There are multiple shots of people filming the shapes, which would support the notion that it was really there. But it's all a little odd, with lots of these type of shots, but no actual high-resolution shots of the object itself, despite it seeming to be several times larger than the moon.
In addition, it's hard to track down the primary source here, just a bunch of tabloid style sites so far. One of which had these two photos:
Two objects in the two photos have curious similarities, in particular there is surface detail that at first just looks like noise, but actually shows up in both images.
Almost looks like writing, with the lower part resembling two question marks, like ?? of maybe PP
While this might be an object with writing on it, I think image compositing seems more likely.
There's really two possibilities here:
1 - A hoax
2 - Something local, in the sky
An actual double moon is obviously ludicrous as it would be constantly and obviously visible to everyone on Earth.
Given the rather dubious sources, and the visible surface detail, I think some kind of hoax is most likely.
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