UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED OVER SPAIN, GREECE, NORTH AFRICA

This Central Intelligence Agency report, dated January 11, 1954, serves as a compilation of press reports concerning unidentified aircraft sightings across Spain, Greece, French Morocco, and Algeria during the latter half of 1953. The document explicitly notes that the information provided is unevaluated. The report details three specific incidents. The first, reported in the Athens newspaper Kathimerini on July 19, 1953, describes 'flying saucers' seen in Spain. Witnesses in the village of San Martin Valdeiglesias reported a luminous, spherical object that moved toward the west after being observed for a considerable time. A second incident, reported in Salonica on August 13, 1953, involved a luminous, rocket-shaped object observed over Drama, Greece, at 2225 hours on August 11, 1953. This object was described as flying at a low altitude and remaining stationary in the air for three to four minutes before disappearing. The final incident, reported in the Athens newspaper Eleftheria on September 5, 1953, concerns an event near Oued Zem, French Morocco. Inhabitants reported a thunderous noise on the night of September 2, 1953, and two shepherds subsequently claimed to have seen a flying object that was lit in many colors and traveling at great speed.