Case file · Sighting
Safi luminous 'cigar'
Around 8:30 pm, probably on 29 September 1954, witnesses at Safi on Morocco's Atlantic coast saw a fast cigar-shaped object wrapped in bluish light and leaving a luminous trail.
1954 CE · 32.30, -9.24 · status: account
The account
The French press reported it from a wire dated 30 September 1954, at the height of the great French wave, together with a circular machine 'spitting blue-green flames' seen near Khouribga.
The sceptical view
Witnesses said it wasn't a jet, but a bolide crossing the sky fits the description.