A man once said if you want a good story just ask any random person if there was ever an event in their life they can not explain. Someone almost always has one weird thing that has happened to them. So reddit, regardless of whatever you believe about the world, what’s your story?

I was sitting with a friend at a river bank at night, when we saw something that appeared like an overly large bloodmoon at first in the distance. I was the first noticing that something was off. It was way too red, bright, large and low. It appeared to be right above the city center, but it was hard to tell how far away it was. So we were sitting there, extremely confused, watching the thing slowly moving towards our cathedral, that was about one to two miles from our postition away. (This one: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speyerer_Dom)

After about a minute, we noticed that it was slowly starting to loose its perfectly round shape - it was getting kinda oval. After another few minutes it reached the catedral and disappeared behind it. And never came out at the other side. This was about 5 years ago and we still oftenly talk about it.

Is it possible, that - under extremely specific and rare conditions - a kind of fata morgana of the sun can be projected around like half the globe? I'd really like to know what we have seen at this night.

Sorry for my english.

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