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FLYING SAUCERS IN SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA

📅 21 May 1952; 3 June 1952 📍 Barcelona, Spain; Sousse, Tunisia 🏛 CIA 📄 intelligence report
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TL;DR

This CIA intelligence report details two 1952 sightings of unconventional aerial objects in Spain and Tunisia. The sightings describe high-speed, smoke-trailing, and light-emitting objects that did not match known aircraft.

This Central Intelligence Agency report, dated August 27, 1952, compiles information from foreign newspapers regarding sightings of unconventional aircraft in Spain and North Africa. The first incident occurred in Barcelona, Spain, on May 21, 1952. A witness, Valentin Garcia, reported observing a strange object flying at high speed from the direction of Prat Airport at an altitude of approximately 2,000 meters. The object was described as rocket-shaped, leaving a wide smoke trail that merged into a single streak, and it did not exhibit the characteristics of conventional aircraft or known flying saucers. The object reportedly stopped trailing smoke, disappeared for a few seconds, and then reappeared while emitting smoke further away. A photograph of the smoke trail was taken by Francisco Andreu. A second incident is reported from Sousse, Tunisia, on June 3, 1952. At approximately 2000 hours, numerous inhabitants observed a flying object traveling at a 'dizzy speed' from west to east, emitting a pale green light. The document is marked as unevaluated information.

It did not look like an aircraft (neither Prat nor Sabadell airport admitted any knowledge of the object), and unlike the so-called flying saucers, it was proceeding in a straight line, without emitting flashes of light or revolving on an axis.

Official Assessment

The document reports two separate sightings of unconventional aerial objects in Spain and Tunisia during 1952, noting that the objects did not resemble conventional aircraft.

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