UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS OVER MOROCCO AND FRENCH WEST AFRICA

This intelligence report, issued by the Central Intelligence Agency on September 2, 1952, summarizes several eyewitness accounts of unidentified aerial phenomena reported in French Morocco and French West Africa during July 1952. The document draws its information from local newspapers, specifically France-Afrique and La Vigie Marocaine. The first incident occurred on July 3, 1952, near Dakar, where an eyewitness reported a flat, tapered object emitting bluish and reddish flames moving southward at an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters. The report notes that no aircraft were officially in flight over Dakar at that time. Subsequent reports from Morocco describe further sightings. On July 12, 1952, two policemen near Mechra bel Ksiri observed two elongated objects traveling from north to south with a trail of white light. On July 13, 1952, two inhabitants of Pedala reported a blue-green, ball-shaped object that moved at a high rate of speed before disappearing after three or four seconds, described as if it had 'literally melted in the sky.' Finally, on July 14, 1952, a couple observed a mysterious object traveling from Ifrane toward Meknes for approximately 30 seconds. The document is marked as unevaluated information.