crescent UFO

Crescent-shaped UFO the size of the moon observed from steamship on Vyatka River near Sosnovka Russia, July 1923

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Russian Sightings

1923: The Vyatka River Crescent UFO – Sosnovka Russia

Published: August 17, 2026 | Updated: August 17, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1923: The Vyatka River Crescent UFO – Sosnovka Russia At seven in the morning on July 15, 1923, aboard...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1923 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left Soviet river workers and a named witness on a Vyatka River steamship watching a crescent-shaped object the size of the full moon in clear morning sky near Sosnovka Russia sourced to Felix Zigel's unpublished Moscow Aviation Institute manuscript, upper center-left an Italian farmer observing a fish-shaped craft with clear dome two portholes and rotating propeller above a Pieve di Teco Liguria hillside, center a colonial Quetta Pakistan street with a mid-air explosion raining flaming debris on buildings with melted slag and thin wire residue on the ground and an unsourced case status of insufficient data, upper center-right the Barcelona Spain CE-III witness Bley frozen at his doorway facing an indistinct craft with visible occupants on a wet gas-lit cobblestone street, and right two DePauw University college professors on a Greencastle Indiana lawn tracking a revolving red object transiting overhead from northeast to southwest

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1923: UFO & Entity Sightings

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1923: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1923 spans ten entries across seven countries and produces the decade’s best-documented Soviet-era craft observation: July...

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1923: The Vyatka River Crescent UFO – Sosnovka Russia

1923: UFO & Entity Sightings

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