No idea of the source of that specific image, it looks too poor quality to be anything in the last 15-20 years - but modern Geostationary weather sats see the moon, and with IR it looks a hell of a lot like that, as this example demonstrates:
http://www.keesfloor.nl/artikelen/meteorol/maan/maan.htm
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/414 is also interesting.
Given the nature of the cameras (or radiometers) onboard such spacecraft (spinning platforms that build images line by line, a little like a FAX machine) - a fast moving object such as an NEO would be massively elongated or distorted. Only a near static object from the perspective of the spacecraft would build an image like that. The one on the two Meteosat MSG's are called SEVIRI - this page - http://www.esa.int/msg/pag4.html (particularly the 'SEVIRI imager' link) explains how it works.
You will never convince a conspiratorial, foil hat wearing nut job that it's anything other than the loading bay of the aliens that put chips in his brain and investigated his fleshy passageways. I'm hoping that a little bit of reading and research on your part will show that it's almost certainly the moon and not an NEO.
Doug
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The moon as seen via Meteosat or GEOS in IR
