Nouasseur French Morocco, March 1954March 1954

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Nouasseur French Morocco, March 1954 in March 1954. The full case file (2 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 20.

Reported location

Nouasseur French Morocco, March 1954

Date of incident

March 1954

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 20

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
5 March 1954

2. LOCATION
Rousseur French Morocco

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local ___
GMT 0000Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual     Ground-Radar
Air Visual        Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS
Yes
No

6. SOURCE
Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS  9. COURSE
1                    Ground Reflection

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Object described as lights. Pilots of KC-97, C-47 and C-54 reported ufo making passes at them at various times. One radar site displayed stationary target on scope.

RADAR SIGHT CONTINUES IN AIR UP STIMULANT TARGET ON [illegible]

11. COMMENTS
Probably ground reflection due to inversion. (A.F. Rhode)

INSUFF DATA. JUST AIR VISION
UNIDENTIFIED 1948,1956,1449

ATIC #183974 (AB)
Filed in ATIC Repository.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28957771

Connected across the archive

Organizations

ATIC Military

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Craft and vessels

C-47 C-54 KC-97

Places

Rousseur French Morocco