French Morocco, May 1952May 1952

Insufficient Data

Summary

On May 27, 1952, at 1:15 p.m., an Arab boy fishing at Temara Beach in French Morocco called attention to an unidentified floating object estimated 1000 to 2000 yards offshore. The witness said it resembled a buoy marker or sunken ship and stated he had never seen anything like it before. An observer with over 900 hours of flying time over water noted the object was under observation for 20 to 30 minutes. The sea was calm with no white caps. The observer made a line of sight on the object with reference to three other objects and noted it did not move during the observation period. The observer could not locate the object at 1800 hours but was still unable to locate it on the morning of May 28 at 0700 hours despite nearly the same sea conditions and visibility. The object resembled a submarine periscope. The Air Force evaluation is unknown.

Reported location

French Morocco, May 1952

Date of incident

May 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 10

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 27 May 1952

2. LOCATION: French Morocco

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local ?, 0 hrs 1315 Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual, Surface Visual

5. PHOTOS: Yes, No

6. SOURCE: W/Sgt USAF

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 20-30 Minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1, COURSE: ?

9. CONCLUSIONS:
- UFO
- Probably Balloon
- Possibly Balloon
- Was Aircraft
- Probably Aircraft
- Possibly Aircraft
- Was Astronomical
- Probably Astronomical
- Possibly Astronomical
- Other, Sub periscope?
- Insufficient Data for Evaluation
- Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: [blank]

11. COMMENTS:
Resembled sub periscope
? Description not complete

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28942338