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This GIF-Movie, obtained by way of sequencing three frames taken from the NASA - Apollo 10 Spacecraft (to be precise, we are talking about frames AS10-28-3988; 3989 and 3990), shows one of the most controversial features ever caught in the Space surrounding our Moon (also known as "Circum-Lunar Space").

We have heard and read a lot of theories concerning this bizarre-looking object going adrift at a very short distance from the Apollo 10 Spacecraft but, honestly, none of them seemed good enough to fully explain what we are seeing here (including the NASA favourite theory stating that this object was "...a mylar covering that got loose...". In addition to that, and just to be perfectly honest and transparent, we have to say that even on our side, as IPF, a satisfying answer to what this object might be, has not yet been achieved (actually, the only thing we can say is that objects like this one are usually called "Extra Lunar Objects", such as either stationary or moving objects which are relatively close to the Moon and whose origin is unclear).

After a lot of efforts, in late November 2007, we received an answer from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (or LPI, for short) which, in September of the same year, had been contacted via e-mail by Dr Paolo C. Fienga.

We believe that the best way to "explain" this sequence to our Friends and Colleagues is by making you read what the Lunar and Planetary Institute (that we publically wish to thank again for all the help and material that they have always supplied us with) wrote. The exact text of the e-mail message that we received says as follows:"...we do not know what this object may represent, nor we have sources to contact in this regard. There really isn't anyone you can talk to about what an image shows. The people who analyzed the images originally have long since moved on to other jobs, retired, or died. All we have are the documents they left behind - some of which are online (...) However, as you correctly assumed, the artifact is not part of the US Spacecraft, but it was something caught in Lunar Orbit at the time the picture was taken. Its origin is, and, most likely shall remain, unknown".