UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED OVER SPAIN, GREECE, NORTH AFRICA

This Central Intelligence Agency report, dated January 11, 1954, compiles information from daily newspapers in Athens, Salonica, and Constantine regarding unidentified aircraft sightings in Spain, Greece, and North Africa during 1953. The document details three distinct reports. The first, originating from Madrid and reported in the newspaper I Kathimerini on July 19, 1953, describes a luminous, circular object with a red reflection seen flying noiselessly in a northwest direction over San Martin Valdeiglesias, Spain. The second report, from Salonica, Macedonia, dated August 13, 1953, concerns a luminous, rocket-shaped object observed over Drama, Greece, on August 11, 1953, at 2225 hours. This object reportedly flew at a low altitude and remained stationary for three to four minutes before disappearing. The final report, published in the Athens newspaper Eleftheria on September 5, 1953, describes an incident near Oued Zem, French Morocco. In this instance, inhabitants reported hearing a thunderous noise on the night of September 2, 1953, and two shepherds subsequently claimed to have seen a multi-colored flying object traveling at great speed. The document is marked as unevaluated information.