The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, on July 16, 1952.
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Rabat, July 15. -- The appearance of flying saucers in four different places was reported last night.
A group of young sportsmen were resting Sunday evening, around 10 p.m., at Oukaimeden, a winter sports resort located in the High Atlas, 35 kilometers as the crow flies south of Marrakech, in front of the Youth and Sports service chalet, whose terrace overlooks the Oukaimeden plateau, when they suddenly saw an object in the shape of a white ball the size of the full moon, flying horizontally from northeast to southwest, which soon split into three sections, resembling three luminous wagons attached to the same train. The craft disappeared behind one of the peaks of the station.
Meanwhile, 25 kilometers as the crow flies to the west of this station, on the Marrakech-Taroudan road by the [?] east, at the "Sanglier qui fume" inn, not far from the small village of Asni, about forty people from Marrakech, including the regional chief and the Portuguese consul, saw, around 10 p.m., a craft whose description they gave corresponds to that of the young people from Oukameden.
The same day, in Casablanca and in the Rabat region, two groups of three and two people saw a craft that in no way resembled an airplane.
The first, three aviators from the Casablanca aero-club, saw, at 9:25 a.m., at the Skirat inn, a small beach near Rabat, a rocket with a greenish mass an extension that looked like a jet engine nozzle [probably a meteor]. From time to time, flashes of light like sparks would shoot out of it.
At about the same time, in Casablanca, near the central police station, a couple saw a silent luminous machine in the shape of a cigar.