Looks like the moon.
I think that's just a longish exposure used to capture some detail of the soldier in available light.

The cars have their headlights on. The shot is clearly time exposed at night. If it were daylight, the soldier would not be silouhetted.

It's swamp gas.

Long exposure time most likely, it is night (lights on). It is also consistent with a good digital camera too.

Yeah, I am betting it's a long term exposure, tho how they got the soldier to hold still for that long is a good question.

Another possibility is that it's just got the aperture wide open for a fast shot... that's actually more likely, now that I think about it.

It's a UFO ... better call Kucinich!

Also, he'd still need the NV if he was looking into shadow, moonlight provides more contrast between lit areas and shadowed areas in my experience. Anything in shadow in that sort of situation would be next to impossible to see unassisted.

Note also that the illumination of the soldier's face is coming from the side away from the moon, indicating either another ambient light source or some clever use of fill-flash. (Clever because his face is well-illuminated while the rest of his body remains in shadow.) But would a soldier consent to the use of flash which would ruin his vision for many minutes?

Good point, PST.

Okay, so it's not a long exposure. Most likely, then, it's the second option I named, the camera aperture is wide open and therefore gathered in all the moonlight it could.

Foxfire!!!

As someone who tried lunar photography in time for the total eclipse a few weeks ago, I can say that photographing the moon isn't as easy as people tend to think. The moon is almost as bright as the sun, as far as the camera is concerned. If you want to catch any aspect of the lunar surface, you pretty much have to use fast shutter speeds. To get details like the soldier's face, etc, then you'll end up with the moon overexposed. Otherwise, everything else will be too dark.

Not to be hyper-critical

That ship has sailed, my friend.