Morocco · 18 September 1976

Agadir, 1976

Documented

King Hassan II personally asked Henry Kissinger what had flown down his country's coastline, and the exchange survives as declassified State Department traffic.

Where
Agadir, Casablanca, Rabat, Kenitra, Meknes, Fez coastal corridor
When
18 September 1976
Who reported it
Mass and geographically dispersed; includes a named Royal Gendarmerie major as an official observer
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED
Evidence class
GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

IT HAS BEEN SOLVED. A satellite analyst matched the 18/19 Sept 1976 track to the re-entry of a Soviet rocket booster launched in July 1976, recorded in US Space Track data; State's own 5 Oct 1976 reply already suggested a meteor or decaying satellite. Use for what the paper trail proves about official behaviour, not as an unexplained event.

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