You know, what bugs me is, people talk and talk about this, write articles and posts, but nobody GOES OUTSIDE AND LOOKS! You think writing an article about it would be worth investing in an afternoon driving out of town to where it gets dark, tilting your head up at the sky, and squinting. But no, decades go by with no new info on the topic, people just repeating what amount to urban legends.
We used a telescope to spot, then when the moon was at its furthest distance, with the naked eye, could see a separate blip.
Lived on a farm in Iowa, nobody for miles, no lights to mess things up.