Okay, seriously, there are too many jokes to go with this story. It’s a bird; it’s a plane; no wait! It’s actually both a rocket and a frog flying in the air. NASA’s unmanned Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) rocket launched from the Wallops Facility in Virginia on Monday, carrying with it a very unexpected and probably surprised passenger.

In probably one of the best photobombs in history, one of the three ground cameras caught an image of a frog high in the air as it jumped ship. The frog can be seen spread eagle in the air, amidst smoke from the rocket and debris from the wetland.

“We got back to the office after the launch at 12:30 a.m. and we’re all pretty amused and amazed,” Chris Perry told ABCNews.com. “It was also sad to see a frog go like that. As much fire as that rocket is putting out, I have to imagine it got injured.”

Perry had set up three cameras to cover the launch 150 feet from the site. When the rocket launched, the power of the engine knocked his tripod over. The camera that captured the photo shoots approximately six frames per second, and the frog only showed up in one of the photos. “There’s debris in the other photos, but no frogs. He was probably moving pretty quickly,” said Perry.

While no one at the space center had ever seen anything like this occurrence, the set up was made for the photographic moment. The Wallops Flight Facility essentially sits on top of a wetlands wildlife refuge. In fact, the launch pad has a pool of water for the high-volume deluge system, which protects the pad from damage and suppresses noise. Apparently, the pool seemed like a good frog hangout, too.

NASA launched the LADEE spacecraft on a 100-day mission to investigate the mysterious lunar dust surrounding the moon as well as its ultra-thin atmosphere. Scientists hope the information gathered from this mission will be able to offer insight regarding astronaut health in such environments as well as in situ resource utilization needed for lunar habitat development.

NASA has since put the photograph on their new Instagram account. The frog so far has still not been found. “The photo team confirms the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch,” NASA explains in the accompanying caption. “The condition of the frog, however, is uncertain.”