Source?
Do you have a link or other information source on this?
I know people have mistaken Venus for a UFO, but the Moon seems
like a real stretch for all but the most clueless or mentally unstable.
It is also interesting the paradigms people work under depending upon
the era they live in. During the late 1800s, Venus was once mistaken
by people living in New York City for a balloon with electric lights, which
they thought was made by that inventor guy Thomas A. Edison. You
can read about this in the classic Astronomy With an Opera Glass.