Claimed sighting
Schafarik's white object on the moon
On 24 April 1874 Schafarik of Prague watched a brilliant white object move slowly across the face of the moon and then away from it.
On 24 April 1874 Schafarik of Prague saw a bright white object move slowly over the moon's disc, as he reported in the Astronomical Register. He had not seen the object coming toward the moon, but he kept it in sight after it moved off. He wrote that he did not know what to make of it. Charles Fort cites the report in New Lands.
"Perhaps a similar thing that visited the moon, and was then seen sailing away—in the _Astronomical Register_, 23-205, Prof. Schafarik, of Prague, writes that upon April 24, 1874, he saw “an object of so peculiar a nature that I do not know what to make of it.” He saw a dazzling white object slowly traversing the disc of the moon. He had not seen it approaching the moon. He watched it after it left the moon. Sept. 27, 1881—South Africa—an object that was seen near the moon, by Col. Markwick—like a comet but moving rapidly (_Jour. Liverpool Astro. Soc._, 7-117)."