Unidentified Flying Objects Reports

AGADIR: 13 January (Maghreb Arab Press): There were a few clouds in the sky on last Wednesday and by mere luck, men, women and children had been watching for thirty minutes the coming out of the moon in order to know whether Ramadan was over and to celebrate Aid El Fitr. Suddenly, at 1743 hours, a round luminous object with a fantastic speed and an exceptional brightness like the beams of a powerful searchlight appeared in the space above Agadir.

First, people thought it was a meteorite, and then a Telstar-like satellite. Many thought it was a common shooting star but they had to change their mind as the sight was turning into real science fiction.

Mr. Juan Dias, a Spaniard and chief of the "Radio maritime of the port of Agadir" department asserts that "it cannot be a shooting star or a satellite which had left its orbit. The object had an impressive volume, four times bigger than that of a star. It was seen two or three seconds before the cannon shots which announced the end of Ramadan. Its course was absolutely fantastic. It lasted three or four seconds. Meanwhile, the luminosity of the mysterious object lighted the whole town in an extraordinary way and then suddenly and probably when it came in touch with the atmosphere it disintegrated more mysteriously. The luminosity which had turned blue became red and finally yellow."

Mr. Dias said that being an extremely interested witness he can assert the disintegration was not followed by any sound.

"The pieces, if there were any pieces, he added, have completely melted in the atmosphere even before reaching the sea."