"lucky" as in you have to have clear undisturbed air between you and the object at exactly the correct time there is enough light reflecting off it. also someone on dark HALF of the planet since they were only in close proximity of the moon for a few hours. afaict you couldve pulled this off if you had a nice 12" telescope and good camera in a place FAR away from any light pollution AND clear skies somewhere in Europe or Africa on the night of April 6th. but it's not going to be easy and its not suspicious that you can't easily find one.

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anyway its going to be a flash of light caught by an amateur or it's going to be a institution that has a big fucking telescope and you're not going to believe either way so....
forgot that this took place when the sun was on the opposite side of the earth from the moon (ie, full moon) which means you're trying to photograph an extremely small dim object (spacecraft) next to an extremely large bright one (full moon) dunno what kind of equipment would be required for this but it's about the most difficult kind of shot to take and seems unlikely anyone with just regular optics could do it. so in my inexpert opinion, an independent ground based video does not "surely exist."