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Morocco sightings reported in U.S. embassy cable

Name: Morocco sightings reported in U.S. embassy cable
Start: 1976-09-19
Location: Morocco

When: 19 Sep 1976
Where: Morocco
Sources: 2 public sources

King Hassan II of Morocco, who asked the U.S. embassy for information on the 1976 sightings Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A U.S. Embassy Rabat cable relayed Royal Gendarmerie reports of a silent, luminous disc or tube seen from Agadir to Fez early on Sept. 19, 1976, and King Hassan II's request for information. A satellite watcher later matched it to a reentering Soviet rocket stage.

Sources

OfficialRequest for information on unidentified flying objects (cable 1976RABAT05209) (opens in a new tab)U.S. Embassy Rabat / Department of State (copy hosted by WikiLeaks PlusD) / 1976-09-25
PressWikiLeaked: The Soviet space junk that became a Moroccan UFO (opens in a new tab)Foreign Policy / 2013-04-11

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