News Item - 'Flying Saucers' Over Baluchistan

This document, an Air Intelligence Information Report (IR-183-52) dated 19 November 1952, details a sighting of unidentified aerial phenomena in the Baluchistan region of India. The primary source of the information is a news item published in 'The Times of India' on 19 November 1952. According to the report, tribesmen in the Sibi district, specifically near Lera Bugti, observed objects described as 'flying saucers' trailing 'bluish flames' across the evening sky on two consecutive days during the week prior to the report. The witnesses claimed the objects were capable of brilliantly illuminating an area spanning a 30 to 40-mile radius with a 'dazzling beam' and produced a roaring sound. The report further notes that several months prior, two pilots from the Pakistan Air Force had reported observing similar objects at high altitude near Karachi. The document includes a Project 10073 record card, which categorizes the event as 'insufficient data for evaluation' and suggests the possibility that the objects were meteors. The report was prepared by Major Robert G. Crowder, Assistant Air Attache, and approved by Colonel M. F. Davis, Air Attache.