The article below was published in the daily newspaper Var-Matin - République, France, March 26-27, 1950.
"Strange objects" seen in the sky of Morocco. An Italian engineer tried to scientifically dispel the mystery
Rabat, March 25. -- In various parts of Morocco, residents have reported the passage of "strange objects" in the sky for the past 48 hours. 40 km from Rabat, in particular, around 10 people saw the day before yesterday, around 6 p.m., an object that was moving at high speed, from east to west, leaving a reddish luminous trail that persisted for a few seconds.
The color of the objects was, according to witnesses, exactly that of dried cement, with vague metallic reflections.
Yesterday evening, in Tangier, various people observed "a luminous object of large diameter" that was heading very quickly towards the west, also leaving behind it a "phosphorescent" trail.
In the sky of Bogota
Two flying saucers were reportedly seen last night above Bogota, by several people. They gave off green and red flames.
A technical study on "flying saucers"
The "Giornale d'Italia" published an article signed by the engineer Giuseppe Belluzzo, and hypothesized that it was a metal disk measuring up to ten meters in diameter.
The center of the disk would support a gasoline tank to supply two pipes arranged symmetrically with respect to the axis. Accumulators would cause the explosion of the gas mixture thus obtained.
The launch of the device on the ground would be carried out by the ignition and rapid combustion of a cartridge similar to that used on the launch of marine torpedoes. The explosion would give the disk a rotational movement triggering the reactor system, the injection of the gasoline sprayed into the two pipes and the explosion of the detonating mixture compressed by the influx of air into the pipes.
The speed of penetration of the air into these pipes quickly reaches 400 m/sec. The pressure increases to reach 2.4 kg per cm2 pressure.
The flying saucers must carry, in addition to the two air pipes causing their rotational movement, the fuel, the accumulators determining the explosion of the gaseous mixture and finally the atomic bomb which must explode when the flying saucer, having exhausted its fuel reserve, turns vertiginously on the ground under the effect of gravity.
