So I now understand how Venus is sometimes misidentified.

Just an hour ago, I went out onto my deck to have a smoke and it was a pretty dark and seemingly clear morning. I looked up, toward where Venus normally is and I saw some strange things.

It was “pulsating” in brightness and size. Sometimes a blurred dot, sometimes 3 times the normal size. The shape even would sometimes look like a line rather than a dot, like it was morphing. It was changing color, from pink to green to orange.

I stood there for 10 minutes looking at it, wondering wtf. I knew it was Venus, due to it’s placement, but even still I started to wonder.

I went onto my local city subreddit to see if anybody else had noticed. Nope, but I did find out that there was some sort of chemical fire burning all night in the industrial area. I couldn’t see the smoke in the dark, but part of the plume would have been in between me and Venus.

I don’t know the exact science of it, but; reflection, refraction, smoke composition between me and the source altering the colors of the light I was seeing? Something like that?

I suspect that if it were not for the fire, Venus would have looked the same as always. However under these conditions, had I not known what I was looking at, I would have said it was anomalous.

I don’t mean to make this post as a for or against UAP or any specific case. Look at my username and you’ll know my position. I’m just saying, I always thought it was absurd people may mistake fucking Venus, a bright pale dot, in the same place regularly, as a UAP. Sounded like a swamp gas, or thermal inversion BS excuse.

Now, yeah I can believe it could be easily mistaken, under unusual circumstances, it almost tricked me despite being 98% sure of what I was looking at.

I don’t know this post has some great wisdom to it or anything. I saw Venus, but it did not look like a planet, it was acting “odd”. That’s the sum and substance of it. It’s just an anecdote I thought was appropriate to share here.