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 highlights three specific instances. The first report, sourced from the Athenian newspaper Kathimerini on July 19, 1953, details sightings in Spain, where witnesses described a luminous, circular object emitting a red reflection and flying like a jet plane without noise. Inhabitants of San Martin Valdeiglesias specifically reported a spherical object that disappeared toward the west. The second incident, reported from Drama, Greece, on August 13, 1953, describes a luminous, rocket-shaped object observed at 2225 hours on August 11, 1953. This object was seen at a low altitude in the southeastern sky, remaining stationary for three to four minutes before disappearing. The final report, from the Athenian newspaper Eleftheria on September 5, 1953, concerns an event near Oued Zem, French Morocco. Residents reported a thunderous noise on the night of September 2, 1953, and two shepherds subsequently claimed to have seen a flying object that was multi-colored and traveling at high speed. The document is marked as un-evaluated information.