UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS OVER MOROCCO AND FRENCH WEST AFRICA

This intelligence report, issued by the Central Intelligence Agency on September 2, 1952, compiles a series of newspaper accounts regarding unidentified aerial phenomena observed in French West Africa and Morocco during July 1952. The document details several distinct sightings. On July 3, 1952, an eyewitness in Dakar reported a flat, tapered object emitting bluish and reddish flames at an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters, moving at a high rate of speed. In Morocco, reports from Casablanca and surrounding regions describe various phenomena. On July 12, two policemen in Mechra bel Ksiri observed two flying saucers traveling from north to south with a trail of white light. On July 13, inhabitants of Pedala reported a blue-green, ball-shaped object followed by a short trail of light, which disappeared after three or four seconds. Another report from July 14 describes a man and his wife observing a mysterious object for 30 seconds traveling toward Meknes. Additional reports from the Casablanca area include sightings of 'white fires' in the sky, a small yellow disk 30 centimeters in diameter, and a 'luminous flying object.' Finally, inhabitants of the Daiet Aoua region reported a 20-meter-long 'blue, phosphorescent, ovoid object' that rose rapidly from the ground, leaving a bluish trail. The document explicitly notes that this is unevaluated information.