DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE8771743
DATE OF SIGHTINGAugust 1952
REPORTED LOCATIONMarrakech French Morocco
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In compliance with last paragraph of our message DOI 223, dated
8 June 1954, Subject, “Unidentified Object Sighting Report" inclosed
herewith letter and diagram furnished by Mr Herding Franco-Soto.

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FOR THE COMMANDER:

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1 Letter Ist Lt. USAF
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1 copy ea Chief of Staff, Heacquarters USAF
‘Washington 25, D. C.

copy ea Commander Air Defense Command
Fnt AF Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado

copy ea Commander Air Technical Intelligence Center
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Offutt AF Pase, Nebraska

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i} 75 Huicy St, ,Condado,
San Juan, Puexto Rico
June Lthe plF She

Cole Radford P, Schuman,
Hage 72nd. Strategic Reconnaisance Wing,
Ramay Air Forde Base, Aguadilla,P.Re

The following is ny story on what I sav on June 2nd, :

eee I started on a trip with sy family from Sin Juan to
na Grande via Ponce and Cuayanilla,

we were getting close to the bone of Guayanilla when I detectc
something in the sky which reserble cd the moon. I glanced again

for I had the impression it was movirg. To mate sure I sthpped

the car I Was driving and so I confirmed the "moon was moving".
Tacrefore it was no moon am really a flying apparatus, I pointed
thetthins" to my mother who was by my side and also to ny father

and my sister who were riding in the back seate They also acknowledged
the phenomenon, They saw as I sav the flying object coming from inland,
from a northeasterly direction towards a southwesterly direction,

The "moon" was coming down like a glider swinging from sids to side

at law speed. It was 8:12Fil Wednesday June 2m and we were close to
Kilometer 141 gusss, close to the gasoline piers, the sea on the leit
sida ea the mountains at the right: the "moon" coming from the side
of the mountains.

3 sceon a3 I relized the "mon"was moving I continued our trip but
Warays watching the "moon" trhu the trectops. The"saucer" was illwuinated
n the cront and in the half-front sides of the arch. It was dark and
the certer part thouch somewhat but real sli htlay illuminated was rather
dark and so the rear of the moving object. The color of the lights was
reddish or orasyre firelike, Therewas no souml and I guess the hieht was
/, or 5,000 may be rore than thht in ft.

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. warp turn of about 90 degreos and instead of flying sidevise it

OX a airoct course towards the horizon, The lights increased in reset

vith the distance. The farther it got the red burr of tho lights becca

ve noticiable and large stains of orange and red were seen in the Mebahcd.
the distance I could seo 1% was increasing in altitude and speed,

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lL ony tha "saucer" for at least 2 or there minutes bofore it got to the beach

then it took around one mimite to dissappenmr in the long horizons I calculate

the thing is arourid 100 feot in diametre or less or Nox ee

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My father is a formor Postmaster of the town of Snbana Grande and he is now
Ji, a healthy and stron; man montally speaking and alert. He has a fine
beckrow:l aml he knows how to differentiate and apmeciate things very vell.
Hin nuso is Miguel A. Franco-Soto, Adress: c/o Postmaster Sabam G ande »P.R.
Vy mother is the Assistant of the Pesctmaster of Sabnna Grande rho is ay
brotjhex Junot, She is 61 and as bright and alert as my dal. She can not be
fSoled casy either. Her name is Carmon Soto, sam address,

ly sister is a graduate of Siena Heights College of Adrhan, Michigan, She is
now a Pan American Airways employee arnl she is bright and clever. As the others
she knows to differentiate things, Her nwae is Leslic Franco-Soto ani lives at
(505 Miramuw Avee Cadiz Building Apt./2 Santurce, Puerto Rico,She is 26,

as for mI have two years coli 6150 iyo-lesal course and I work as a Customs
Inspector far Uncle Sam, That L291 was sick having stomach trouble but this
did act interfere with my senses at all, I know pretty wedl what was going one
Wnile I stepped m car I tried to stop a car with nomresidernt plates to make
them aware’of the saucer, Thay did not stop but I shouted "flyin: saucer" and
painted to the cky. The car continucd its mrch,

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Ina enclecin? a sketch comparing it with the cther saucer I saw on August 25,
1952 at which time I reported it next day to Col. Sanders of CIC in San Jucn
by telerhono. ( that occassion the sauccr was silvery colored and it shined
all over, Had the same direction from northeast to southwest, This onel saw
nt 2AM over the tein of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico in the southwset tip of the
jmland of Puerto Rico, I was also with ny family, The distance from earth was
mrenter I might say 40,000 ft away and it still looked like a nickel, Tnis on
mast have been at least 200 ft or more in diameter, The edges were brighter thao
the belly or the upper part, The movement was laoiays the sane sidewise but
at great speed, It turn on and turned off the lights ab intervals,There was
no reflection from the noonlight when it turned off its lights,

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it starts from Moscow in Russia and on the point of Destination we have Colonbia,
Venezuela, the Galapagos Islang, the Panzsma Canal and the Pacific Ocean,

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i recommend a 24 hour watch over the island of Puarto Rico for out of tivo trips
at niyht I nave detected two flying saucers, That puts m: in 1000 pcints, Tnat is

| 1. projected the lines of the path of these saucers and ors: the point of origin
| , in case none of ow aircraft have been over our area in these positions andtirm,

eh, 1G Respectfully yours,

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| Harding Franco-Soto

U.S. Customs Inspector #7033
Box 1603, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tel, 3-14,50 San Juan Air Terminal,

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SUBJECT: Sichting o: Unidentified Alrcrart over Marrake-h,

Morocco on 24 August 1052

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Raport oi Suoject iyi states that an sr titled tar
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Zz It was determined that a USN AJ-1 aircrait was over

Marvakech at the spe Uted time,

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2. ‘dbhe sketches prepared by the cree p personnel who observed
the alrcrait throngh the telescope exhibit very good a. resent and
together are remarkably similar to the sont sl verte n of tae AJ-l.

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4. Observation Is therefore evaluatea as an AjJ-1 witha mal-
function in the racar plotter resulting in an error In the speed and
aitituda determination on the order of three. Dividing the spesa
nad aporoxlmase altitude by three gives a corrected soeed cf about
oo miles per hour ana an altitude of appmximately 20, 000 feet,

both reasonaule flgures for the Af-l.

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le i?Tepare a Memorandum for the Secretary of the Air Yoree.

2. ina cover sheet comment from ATOTI-3 this office was saked
to prepare an evaluation of a report from the Directorate cof
Intelligence Sth Air Diviston regarding the radar/vieual sirhting of
an unidentified aircraft on 26 Auguat 1952 over l’arrakech, “rench
lioroceco,

%- The report stated that at 1050 Gil, above date anil place,
an unidentified target was picked uo on an AN/MPO=2 raday cot anda
track recorded on plotting paper, Recorded speed at one point was
1157 miles per honr and altitude above 60,00 teat, maximum cava
dillty of the radar set. In addition, three radar personnel ob-
served the alreraft throush the telescoma attached to the radar
antenna,

4 ‘The originator of the report determined that a UUN AJ.
aircraft was over Marrakech at the svecified tine.

5. ‘The attached memoranidun statas the evaluation by this office,
viz., that the aircraft was the AJ-1 1n aueation and the speed and
altitude recorded probably rosnlted from a malfmnction in the radar
plotting ocaulpment.

6. + photograch of the AJ-l is attached to the mesorandun
along with the report cf the Sth Air Division.

7. This item is not consitered suitable for incluston in the
Daily Staf? Digest.

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8. It is recommended that the attached Memorandum for the
secretary of the Air Sores be aprroved ani forwarded for Ceneral
Sanfora's sicnature,.

COORDITATIOS

APOIN-242, Cdr R.T.Boxd Fxt. 75990
AYOINe2A, Col Adama, Txt. 74072
APOTN@2, Col Morrow, Nxt. 71110
ALOlue, Naj Gen Samford, Txt. 55615

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