Red Dragon

An infrared telescopic image of the Red Dragon taken by NASA.

The Red Dragon is a space anomaly first detected by NASA telescopes back in 1983, but it gained popularity back in 2017 because of a corresponding star pattern in the sky. The image actually doesn't look like a dragon at all, but instead it appears as a sinister smile from beyond our planet. The face is made up of two bright eyes and a ghastly smile. The smile is believed to be either some sort of interference pattern with the telescope or a cloud of debris, however scientists were unable to identify the two objects that comprise the eyes.

## Significance

There are many theories as to the significance of this astral anomaly. One of the biggest concerns that people had were that is fulfilled an important role in prophecy, representing the Red Dragon that waits at the feet of the woman giving birth in Revelation. In 2017, Jupiter remained in retrograde orbit inside the legs of the Virgo constellation for 9 months, with the sun at her head and the moon at her feet. This is how the anomaly got its name, and it gained a lot of popularity on online conspiracy boards.

Others believed that this represnted Planet X, or Nibiru, which is a secret planet in our solar system believed to be on a collision course back in 2012. Others believe that the two eyes represent Wormwood and the unnamed asteroid/comet that crash into the Earth during the Tribulation, poisoning fresh and saltwater respectively.

## Censorship

The biggest controversy over this anomaly is the fact that Google Skies worked to censor it from the sky, placing a black box over it. This resulted in a lot more speculation, because typically Google doesn't do this to other anomalies in the sky. The most worrying part is that with the next batch of data from this region of space, the face actually appeared to have moved, now appearing to menacingly peer from behind a cosmic curtain.

The box was eventually moved recover the face, however in 2022 the face moved again, once again taking a peek out from behind the censorship bar. Perhaps Google had placed the block there not to prevent us from seeing, but to trick the dragon into thinking we know less. The issue is that he's peeking.

After moving again, this time Google completely erased the Red Dragon from Google Sky, filling in the space with blackness that is no longer obviously a big black censorship bar. Switching to an IR view still revealed the face, however this was patched as well. The face is still visible on telescope archives and hobby websites that catalog telescope images, and he is still smiling at us.

## Explanation

Space eggheads want you to believe that this is only an image of Saturn, with an IR interference pattern below it. They claim the position of the left eye of the face matches the position of Saturn that year, and all of the following images are just edits of that original one. They claim it accidentally was superimposed over another image of Saturn from a few weeks earlier due to a telescopic timelapse shot, and that somehow it ended up on the same image.

What this fails to explain is why the face continues to appear in the sky, and why it is moving as a complete object. While the eye does match the position of Saturn, remember that NASA scientists in 1983 claimed to not know what these celestial objects were, despite being aware of Saturn and its position. This also fails to address the blatant censorship of the image, as Google clearly tried to cover it up, which is not their typical course of action. Google Sky has many interference patterns that are not censored, however the Red Dragon was. Furthermore, it continued to move from behind their censor bar, resulting in its complete removal from Google Sky in 2022.