re: #31 Hawaii69
I once looked at the sun through a welders helmet, and saw something very similar to the photo below. The sun was a perfectly round orange coin, and there was a black dot in front if it. I always wondered if I was seeing the silhouette of a planet.
Image: File:20040608_Venus_Transit.JPG
I don’t see any planet it could have been during the timeframe, so maybe a huge sunspot.
I once spent an hour looking up at the sky using night vision goggles. It was awesome.