Weird Happenings During the Eclipse

So remember that lunar eclipse I was talking about?  I went out in my backyard and saw it and it was totally cool.  But as I was looking up, as one is wont to do during an eclipse, some strange object I can only describe as sort of a white squiggly line went flying slowly overhead.  At first I tried to come up with a mundane explanation.  My initial thought was it was a piece of litter that had gotten blown way up in the air somehow.  There wasn't any breeze at all down on the ground but I understand it can be different up in the sky.  But it would have to have been a really big piece of litter.  The next thought was maybe it was some kind of solitary extremely skinny and wispy cloud.  But there weren't any other clouds in the sky and it moved in a strange way almost like it was alive.  Then I was thinking some sort of bird or bat or something, but it would have been a freaking gigantic specimen.  Maybe some sort of weird creature that only emerges during the "Blood Moon"?  I pointed it out to my girlfriend and she saw it too.  She described it as sort of a ripple in space.  Was it a traveling portal to another dimension?  Hell, was it aliens?  A top secret government experimental aircraft?  All I know is it was flying, I couldn't identify what it was, and it was some sort of an object.  So technically I can say I saw a U.F.O. during the eclipse.

Eclipses and Overused Time Travel Plots

So there's supposed to be total lunar eclipse tonight, which is pretty cool.  I'm looking forward to checking that shit out.  It's kind of crazy how they know in advance when eclipses are going to happen.  That got me thinking about how there's all kinds of stories where people travel back in time and then they amaze the natives by pretending to black out the sun or moon because they know there's going to be an eclipse.  That was a pretty cool idea the first time someone thought of it because such a display surely would convince a bunch of primitive folk that you're some sort of god.  But it's been done so many times it's starting to stretch credibility.  Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to fully accept the time travel component of the story, but the fact that so many time travelers happen to travel back to dates that had eclipses, let alone the fact that they knew there would be an eclipse on that date in the distant past.  I mean I sure don't keep track of when eclipses are.  The only reason I know there's one tonight is because the internet told me.  I've seen a few other eclipses in the past, but I couldn't tell you now what dates they were.

I guess it's possible the time traveler could have researched dates of eclipses and intentionally chosen to travel to one of them, but then there's the part where they have to time it so precisely that they can "make" the eclipse happen right when they're being threatened by the natives.  What happens if there aren't any natives around when the eclipse happens?  Maybe you don't encounter any until the eclipse is already over.  Or maybe the natives already killed you because the eclipse is still an hour away.

All I'm saying is nobody needs to use this plot in a story anymore.  Besides they'll probably think you have magic powers anyway if you just bring a BIC lighter with you.