Kislovodsk, Russia: Crescent-shaped object crosses sky over mountain astronomical station

At 8:40 p.m. an object shaped like a sharply outlined asymmetrical crescent flew over the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical Station near Kislovodsk in the North Caucasus. It was slightly smaller than the moon, reddish to some observers and yellow to others, and flew from west to east about 20° above the horizon, moving from the Big Dipper to Cassiopeia in about 30 seconds at uniform speed. The witnesses were ionosphere specialist Anatoli Sazanov, V. A. Tsion of the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute and seven members of a biological expedition. Felix Ziegel described the case in Soviet Life in 1968, and James E. McDonald cited it in his statement to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.