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| Tr arse a on - - . ° . . REPORT NO. OO-W-24639 F | CENTRAL . INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. -- COUNTRY Spain; French Morocco; Algeria; Tangier = _ DATE OF French West Africa; Union of South Africa j : INFORMATION 1952 , SUBJECT Military - Unconventional aircraft HOW oo : DATE DIST. 2p Bov 1952... PUBLISHED Daily, semiveekly newspapers. —_ cc WHERE . capter: . PUBLISHED French Woot acsdeerer ies Tangiers NO. OF PAGES 4 DATE - | PUBLISHED 17 Jul - 8 Oct 1952 a ee _ : * SUPPLEMENT TO LANGUAGE French; Spanish REPORT NO. — THIS 15 UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. id "SOURCE…

WHERE : . . PUBLISHED Preach Wergoasegareiersa, Tangier; NO. OF PAGES 4 DATE PUBLISHED 17 Jul - 8 Oct 1952 = : | = SUPPLEMENT TO LANGUAGE = French; Spanish REPORT NO. THIS 1S UNEVALUATED INFORMATION . “ . 7 SOURCE Newspapers as indicated. SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS OVER SPAIN AND AFRICA, JULY = OCTOBER 1952 DISKS APPEAR OVER MARRAKECH -- Rabat, L'Echo du Maroc, 17 Jul $2 Sassy rss res Saas a Marrakech (special correspondent) -- At 2100 hours {presumably on 16 July 19527, many people sew a large, luminous disk flying horizontally, with a leap- ing and bounding motion. Then, there …

eeeteninene eres stimpatetertgcetmenntamn se tiinie et atm amit WS HE ok tm 00-W-24639 At 2115 hours on 14 August 1952, two persons in the city of Constantine gaw a luminous object flying at high speed tovard Guelma, According to the ---  — --. witnesses, the apparatus, which had no resemblance to 4 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 eky an enormous red disk going from north to west, leaving vehind - = …

The same Gay, at i¥¢u nours, May peuple ay wus uveas we susssppr reson sav 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 $2 According to the Cifra news agency, onthe evening of 10 August 1952, « resident of Cuenca, Spain, while walking along the Cuénca-Madrid road, saw an - object similar to the so-called flying’ saucers. It crossed the sky at high . speed ine matter of seconds. The object was round and gave off two luminous trails. ae . 2 OBSERVE TWO STRANGE FLYING OBJECTS_ IN-SPAIN -- Tang…

called to say that he hed seen the object going from east to west at 1815 hours (adout 2-5 minutes defore it flew over Casablanca!). Also, two observers in ~~~ °-— the Nefifik River valley were able to time the passage of the object with a chronometer; it was then 1817 hours, and the object was coming from the direc- -tion of Rabat, traveling from east to west. Some of the reports gave the following detaile about the object: luminows, ..— ----- —- cigar-shaped, and giving off a silvery smoke trail; a luminous, whitish-grees globe ending in a long cone and flying about 700 feet up, the same as …

C1Igsr-snaAped, S02 Giving Oil & BALVELY SUAS WIGit, & AUULVUD, WULLIDUBCCCU globe ending in a long cone and flying about 700 feet up, the same as a plane which flew by at the same time (outside of Casablanca); and a flaming, globde- shaped mass trailing white smoke in puffs, as though puff followed an explo- ~~ sion -- the odject stopped short a moment and revolved on itself, emitting & shower of sparks sdout its cone. oe About 6, 000 spectators at a boxing match in Casablanca saw the odject - pass over the arena. In Louis Gentil, mumerous persons saw it at 1818 hours, flying from east to wes…

00-¥-24639 BELIEVE OBJECT OVER MOROCCO ONLY A METEOR -~- Rabat, L'Echo du Maroc, 22 Sep 52 On 21 September 1952, at 1818 hours, the mysterious flying object seen in. — —-- all Moroceo and beyond was-observed over Rabat. It seems more likely, howeven, = = that this time, it vas a meteor, because the trajectory of the object was , given as rectilinear, it did not maneuver in the way saucers are said to do, et and its entire body was incandescent, which is not true of flying machines, == The object was variously described as an orange-colored ball of fire, an a arrow, or @ cone-shaped object trai…

aleeneennnetnied - - oe ee MAG ON Swe ee meer eee re wo mw me The object was variously described as an orenge-colored ball of fire, an arrow, or a cone-shaped object trailing a bright green-blue cloud of smoke, heading fram east to west and parallel to the coast, and moving at the speed of a conventional plane at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. The object was visible for only « few seconds. After it passed a thin, white trail of smoke - remained visible for sbout 5 minutes. eR, GIVE DETAILS ON MYSTERIOUS OBJECT FLYING OVER IVORY COAST -- Abidjan, La Cote d'Ivoire, 8 Oct 52 a. Taree memders …