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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-23759), distributed 27 August 1952, collects unevaluated translations of Spanish and French newspaper items published in Tangier and Algiers between 22 May and 16 June 1952. It describes a rocket-shaped, smoke-trailing object over Barcelona, a green-lit object over Sousse, Tunisia, and sightings over Meknes, Taourirt and Casablanca in French Morocco. At Meknes, a witness said the object was much faster than nearby T-33 planes. The report draws no conclusions.
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DATE PUBLISHED 22 May - 16 Jun 1952 LANGUAGE Spanish; French THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION # FLYING SAUCERS IN SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA SMOKE-TRAILING OBJECT OVER BARCELONA -- Tangler, Espana, 22 May 52 Barcelona, 21 May -- As I crossed Jose Antonio Avenue on my way to the newspaper office, I saw a strange object flying at high speed from the direction of Prat Airport, about 2,000 meters above ground, and leaving a wide smoke trail. It did not look like an aircraft (neither Prat nor Sabadell airport admitted any knowledge of the object), and unlike the so-called flying saucers, it was proceeding in a straight line, without emitting flashes of light or revolving on an axis. The object seemed to me to be rocket-shaped, and the smoke came out of two points close together, merging into a single streak. My colleagues at the office saw the smoke but not the object. Over Bada lona, about 10 kilometers away, the object stopped trailing smoke, disappeared for a few seconds, and reappeared, again emitting smoke, several kilometers farther away. The newspaper office was soon flooded with telephone calls from people who had seen the object. A friend of ours took the picture of the smoke trail. -- Valentin Garcia The picture shows a diagonal stripe of diminishing width and lighter in shade than the sky over the dark bulk of a building cornice. It is attributed to Francisco Andreu. The caption says that the picture was taken "on 17 May," although the report is dated 21 May. UNUSUAL OBJECT OVER TUNISIA -- Algiers, Echo d'Alger, 4 Jun 52 On 3 June, at about 2000 hours, many inhabitants of Sousse saw a flying object traveling at dizzy speed from west to east and emitting a pale green light.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.