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This Central Intelligence Agency compilation, dated 24 November 1952, gathers translated press reports of unidentified flying objects seen over Spain and Africa from July to October 1952. Sources include Moroccan, Algerian, Spanish and Ivory Coast newspapers. It covers disks over Marrakech, a theodolite sighting by two meteorologists in Durban, and a widely observed object on 21 September 1952 over Casablanca, Tangier, Fes and Rabat, including a close view by a pilot. One Rabat paper suggested that object was a meteor.
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At 2115 hours on 14 August 1952, two persons in the city of Constantine saw a luminous object flying at high speed toward Guelma. According to the witnesses, the apparatus, which had no resemblance to a flying saucer, emitted a very bright light. At the time this happened, the local weather bureau had not launched any weather balloons. The same day, at 1920 hours, many people at the docks of Philippeville saw in the sky an enormous red disk going from north to west, leaving behind a greenish trail. ## SAUCER-LIKE CRAFT SEEN IN SPAIN -- Tangier, Espana, 12 Aug 52 According to the Cifra news agency, on the evening of 10 August 1952, a resident of Cuenca, Spain, while walking along the Cuenca-Madrid road, saw an object similar to the so-called flying saucers. It crossed the sky at high speed in a matter of seconds. The object was round and gave off two luminous trails. ## OBSERVE TWO STRANGE FLYING OBJECTS IN SPAIN --- Tangier, Espana, 22 Aug 52 Several inhabitants of Puerto Real, 6 kilometers from San Fernando, recently saw two elongated oval objects in the sky approaching each other from opposite directions. When it seemed that they were about to collide, each object made a right turn, picked up speed, and then disappeared. The objects flew at a great height, seemed lead-gray in color, and appeared to be piloted. ## LUMINOUS OBJECT SEEN OVER MALLORCA -- Tangier, Espana, 4 Sep 52 On 3 September 1952, late at night, four professors of the Seraphic Seminary in Palma, Mallorca Island, noticed a luminous disk in the sky, traveling from west to east. They said that it could not have been a shooting star and that they were giving the report as objectively as possible in its barest details to provide another item for the study of the flying saucer phenomenon. TWO METEOROLOGISTS SEE SAUCERS IN UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA -- Oran, L'Echo d'Oran, 8 Sep 52 On the morning of 6 September 1952, a meteorologist was taking weather observations in Durban, Union of South Africa, when he saw a white object moving smoothly across his field of vision. After two more had appeared and passed in the same manner, he called a coworker, with whom he observed three more saucers. He was able to follow one of them with a theodolite, which indicated that the object was at a high altitude. It had about the same shape as a weather balloon which was then at an altitude of only 3,500 meters. The spherical objects appeared to be at an altitude above 6,500 meters. Both men have been meteorologists for some time (the second man is the director of the weather bureau at Natal). Their information was written into the records of the local meteorological office. THOUSANDS WITNESS BAUCER OVER MOROCCO AND TANGIER -- Casablanca, Maroc-Presse, 22 Sep 52 On 21 September 1952, at about 1820 hours, an unusual object, possibly a saucer, flew at great speed over Casablanca. Shortly afterwards, about 15 telephone calls were received from local residents, and our Tangier correspondent ARCHIVAL RECORD PLEASE RETURN TO AGENCY ARCHIVES
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.