Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report (No. OO-W-24108), distributed 27 September 1952, summarizes Spanish and French newspaper accounts published between April and August 1952. It covers four glowing spheres over Almansa and a red object over Andujar in Spain. It describes a cargo ship master's sighting of an orange light off Port Gentil, Gabon, where no planes were aloft, and a string of saucer reports across Oran Department, Algeria. The material is marked as unevaluated.
“Masters”4 pages
policemen, and a cadi observed a luminous flying object for about 30 seconds. The daily police reports will henceforth include all such observations by the police.
In the morning of 30 July, a resident of Algiers saw, for several seconds, a shining black disk on the norizon. It made a rapid vertical descent, then suddenly moved in a horizontal direction.
Two observations were made in Lodi. On 25 July, at about 2130 hours, a yellowish object flew at a dizzy speed in the sky, and on 28 July, at 2150 hours, a much larger object appeared for several seconds; it had the shape of an inverted cone.
OBSERVE UNUSUAL FLYING OBJECT FOR OVER A MINUTE -- Oran, L'Echo d'Oran, 1 Aug 52
At 1130 hours on 31 July 1952, an Oran resident and his wife, while driving on the road between Saint Denis Du Sig and Le Tlelat, saw something flying in the sky about 1,000 meters up. They stopped the car and watched its course for about $ \frac{1}{2} $ minutes. It was spindle shaped and tapered at both ends. It differed from ordinary aircraft in that it showed no exhaust smoke, made no noise, and had a great speed. Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.