h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In response to the subject regarding central Scotland (East Lothian) being a hot spot for 'Ufos.' My brother and I witnessed a very strange object around 1962/63. We lived about a mile outside the village of Longniddry in East Lothian and were on our way home one evening in late summer/autumn. As I looked towards the eastern sky
a large object came up from the horizon moving quite slowly. The object looked like the moon and appeared to be covered in craters. It was obviously out in space and as it came up from the horizon we stood in disbelief. It was as large as the full moon and I said to my brother 'Look the moon is moving'. It continued on an arc till it got to a position of about two o'clock and appeared to shrink into a dot like an old fashioned tv being switched off. We were probably about fourteen/fifteen years old at the time and when we got home we were very excited about what we had just seen. Unfortunately, our parents didn't share our excitement but we insisted that there would be something on the evening news but the subject wasn't mentioned. The following day we asked our friends at school if they had also witnessed the object but no-one else seemed to have seen it. That evening we scanned the local paper for the story but it was not mentioned there either. As the years went by it was sometimes brought up in conversations but no one has ever proferred an explanation as to what this object could have been. I now know as an adult that had the object been a planet it would have exerted a tremendous force on the earth causing tidal wave etc. The object however did appear to be solid and very large indeed. Does anyone have an explanation??? From TheWobbler