UFO. Russia

M. Volosnikov, Kirov, Aviation 26/5:

It was July 1923. We sailed on a steamer on the Vyatka River near the village of Sosnovka. The warm night was running out. Although there was no moon, but in the morning dawn well visible distance.

As I was up from the engine room to my cabin, I suddenly saw a "flying moon" through the window, as it seemed to me. I snuverized to the window and for 2 to 3 minutes with superstitious fear watched her slow, parallel to our course, flight.

This flying object really resembling the moon, both in size and brightness, only its frontal part was somewhat lighter, but the tail, up to 2-3 of its diameters, was not fan-shaped, and narrowed towards the end. I didn't see the beginning of this flight. But, apparently, it passed either on a large radius, or, deviating from the straight, the object turned to the right of our course and hid behind the forest.

I would be very happy if my observation would be something useful and it has something to do with UFOs. But in 1923, all of us who saw this phenomenon came to the unanimous opinion that it was flying "unclean spirit!"