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There was a 2024 study that seemed to show that the moon is struck by a meteorite in a pretty uniform fashion. A pair of studies in 2008 and 2009 have shown that some lunar surface flashes are the product of a ring on gas released from the moon's interior. When enough of this low ground gas accumulates and gets released by possible moonquakes, when the gas emerges, it's a case that generates light seen from Earth. Other flashes may be the result of solar wind ionizing lunar dust particles into huge clouds about 62 miles, 100 kilometers above the lunar surface. The clouds could reflect light from stars and other nearby objects like even planets. Lighting the surface briefly, these are TLP, transient lunar rough phenomena.