Venus, The Moon & Star Cluster Alignment: 12/9/2012

On Wednesday morning, the moon and Venus, the two brightest objects of the nighttime sky, were separated by about 4 degrees forming an alignment.
Numerous readers have sent in photos dramatic event and for the sake of false alarms I want to remind everyone that these lights were not UFOs. Venus is commonly mistaken for a UFO due to its brightness in the night sky, so combined with the the timing