 Sepharial claimed that Lilith was a 'dark' moon invisible for most of the time, but he claimed to be the first person in history to view it as it crossed the Sun.In 1926 the science journal "Die Sterne" published the findings of amateur German astronomer W. Spill, who claimed to have successfully viewed a second moon orbiting Earth.In the late 1960s John Bargby claimed to have observed over ten small natural satellites of Earth, but this was not confirmed.