Plaskett U towers

Plaskett U is a small crater a few hundred kilometres from the Moon's north pole, a satellite of the larger far-side crater Plaskett. According to the account the archive holds, an anonymous viewer flagged a structure there that appears blurred in NASA's public QuickMap tool. Looking for sharper Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery, the analyst found what he describes as a pair of tower-like forms about ninety-five feet tall, with vehicle-like tracks leading away from them and a bright reflective object in a nearby crater. Two detection algorithms flagged the lot as anomalous.

What is on the record

One video from one channel. The archive resolves two claimants: Max Dereckshani, a transcription of the theoretical physicist Maaneli "Max" Derakhshani, and a viewer whose identity the archive does not hold. No document and no frame identifier are attached.

The public record adds a little. NewsNation carried the claim in 2026, an amateur astronomy forum picked it over, and the height was worked out from shadow length against the known angle of the Sun. That method is also where the doubt starts. At eighty-two degrees north the Sun sits a few degrees above the horizon, so a boulder the size of a house throws a shadow many times its own height and reads as a tower from directly above. Boulders that roll downslope leave trails behind them, a well-documented lunar feature and the natural candidate for the tracks. The blur in QuickMap is what a lower-resolution base map looks like beside a narrow-angle frame. None of that has been tested against the frame in question, because the file does not say which frame it is.

Why it sits where it does

Two claimants, one of them nameless, both delivered by a single video: the L3 is a headcount and should be read as one. What the imagery holds is a pair of long shadows on the rim of a small polar crater. What casts them is not resolved here, and a low Sun is the candidate the record favours.