FLYING SAUCERS IN SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA

This Central Intelligence Agency report, dated August 27, 1952, compiles various press reports regarding sightings of unconventional aircraft in Spain, Tunisia, and French Morocco during May and June 1952. The document details several distinct incidents. On May 21, 1952, a witness in Barcelona observed a rocket-shaped object flying at high speed approximately 2,000 meters above the ground, leaving a smoke trail. The object was described as revolving on an axis and moving in a straight line. A photograph of the smoke trail was reportedly taken by a friend of the witness. On June 3, 1952, residents in Sousse, Tunisia, reported a flying object emitting a pale green light traveling at high speed. In Morocco, two witnesses reported a flying saucer over Meknes on June 7, 1952, which moved at 'lightning speed,' emitted a white trail, and made no sound before disappearing toward Ifrane. On June 15, 1952, a disc-shaped object surrounded by white flames and trailing smoke was observed over Taourirt, Morocco, for 30 seconds. Finally, on the same day, a former pilot named Andre Assoris observed a flying saucer over Casablanca, though the Meteorological Bureau claimed no knowledge of the apparition.