Maybe it was night in some other solar system where the sun blinked out into a dwarf or neutron star etc-wonder how many people in ages past went blind looking at the sun except to tell time-which isnt hard-can guess the time within 10 minutes regularly -

would have to obliterate a speed record to get very far-25000 mph-speed of the moon visitations-is nothing compared to the speed of light and very little compared to stellar distances-see astrophysicist Hugh Ross book "little green men''--for everybody who was descended from ET's, my apologies, but hold the hate mail