FLYING SAUCERS IN SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516147
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: August 27, 1952

000015465
COUNTRY Spain; Tunisia; French Morocco
SUBJECT Military - Unconventional aircraft
HOW
PUBLISHED 'Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Tangier; Algiers
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 Nay - 16 Jun 1952
LANGUAGE Spanish; French
CENTRAL REPORT NO. 00-V-23759
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. --
SOURCE Newspapers. as indicated.
! !. G SAUCERS III SPAIN AND NORTB AFBTCA
.'fr SMDNE-'iSAILiN OBJECT OUR BSA -- Tangier, Espana, R2 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 direc-
tion 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 ad-
' itted any knowledge of the object), and unlike the so-called flying saucers,
.1t was proceeding in a straight line, without emitting flashes of light or re-
volving 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.
J r colleagues at the office saw the smoLs but not the object. Over Beda-
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 vas 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 shove a diagonal stripe of diaiaishing 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 My
UNISUAL OBJECT OVER TUEIBIA -- Algiers, Echo d'Alger, 4 Jun 52
On 3 June, at about 2000 hours, aazq inhabitants of Sousse saw a flying ob-
ject traveling at dizzy speed from west to east and emitting a pale green light.
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
DATE DIST. ,? Aug 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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FLIIAG SAUCER OYES mAQ'S, M(=OCCO -- Alaiers,_Echo. d'A1ger, U. Jun 52
Two witnesses reportid a flying .saucer sppearla~ shove Meknes &$'23W hours
an 7 yune 1952.' One of them said'tbat hi saw -it bright spot io:the sy k saving?at
lightning speed.. I..var able to compare its spied with thit of soma T-33 plamss
flying near the 1(ehaes base, for they seemed very slur by ecapirison. The un- .
known apparatus emitted a white'trail'Of smoke and suds ho sound. it drew war,.
described's parabola in the &T, stopped, and than diappesred tbvard Ifrane in
the south.
FLAMI* DISC ABOVE TAOUII, N OCCO - Algiers, Echo d'A1 es, 16 Jun 52
On the morning of 15 Jame 3952, a. strsanpphenomenon appeared above Taour-
iit,, french'M(orocco. For 30 seconds, took workers am a disc of white flames
iurrm-wded'by two circular strands, with make trailing behind it. The fiery
object, which seemed to mows earthward, vanished rapidly.
BAum ovm.CASABLAJCA -- Algiers, Journal dAlger, 16 Jun 52
After Meknes and Marrakech,.Casablanca had its fl V saucer on 15 June
1952. It was observed by Andre Assorin, a former pilot. The lieteo"logical
Bureau claims that is has not seen this unusual. apprxI ion above Casablanca.