A declassified CIA document, catalogued as DOC_0000015473, reveals a coordinated pattern of UFO sightings reported across multiple U.S. military installations in Spain, Greece, and North Africa during the fall of 1952.
Titled "UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED OVER SPAIN, GREECE, NORTH AFRICA," the memo outlines a wave of unexplained aerial activity logged by American personnel stationed across NATO bases and allied territories.
While short, the document provides a striking snapshot of what intelligence officers at the time were seeing-and unable to explain.
They were logged across borders, by different observers, within a tight window of time.
🛰️ Strange Craft Over Strategic Sites
The report lists multiple observations from September through November of 1952. Each one involved sightings of unidentified aircraft over or near U.S. or allied military facilities.
Personnel at American bases in North Africa, Spain, and Greece reported visual confirmation of objects in the sky that could not be identified as known aircraft.
Some were observed maneuvering at high altitudes.
Others were described as metallic or light-emitting.
In several cases, sightings involved more than one witness, and took place under clear atmospheric conditions-ruling out weather as a likely cause.
Though the document does not describe hostile behavior, the consistency and location of the reports suggested elevated concern within the intelligence community.
The sightings were not treated as civilian curiosities. They were logged through official channels and forwarded up the chain.
🧠Intelligence Monitoring, Public Silence
What’s most revealing about the memo isn’t just the events described-but how they were handled.
There’s no record of public acknowledgment.
No media leaks.
No explanation offered for the sightings-only their documentation and internal circulation.
The language is clinical. There’s no speculation about origin, no reference to extraterrestrial theories, and no suggestion that the events were dismissed.
Instead, the document reflects a posture of quiet attention.
The sightings were taken seriously enough to be reported.
And silently enough to avoid wider scrutiny.
Even in 1952, the U.S. government was documenting what it couldn’t identify-across multiple borders, inside military airspace, with no public answers offered.
