I worked for a guy who bought night vision goggles, but we learned one month later that they were stolen from the natl guard armory and he returned them to the FBI and the FBI made sure he got his money back.

They were the latest version, top secret.

I tried them I could read the date off a quarter thrown 25 feet away in a field on a moonless humid night. With eyes, there were no aircraft visible. With googles on I could count over 200 aircraft coming and going from Europe. Without them I could see dozens of stars. With them it looked like grains of sand on an endless beach, almost no dark areas.

The ground looked like daylight in the sun with a greenish tinge.

The FBI almost removed the lens caps until I stopped him from uncovering them in daylight, the tube would be ruined as a match at 50 feet at night will ruin them.

Just go out in daylight, that is what you can see, and more, really, with those goggles.