Military Documents Reveal 1952 UFO Wave Across French Africa By David Freeman - November 25, 2024 The night watchmen at Had Kourt peered upward into the dark Moroccan sky. Above them, two elongated objects cut through the blackness, leaving trails of brilliant white light in their wake. The date was July 12, 1952, and these police officers had no idea they were witnessing just one part of an extraordinary wave of UFO activity that would sweep across North and West Africa over the next seven days.

Declassified documents reveal an astonishing pattern of sightings stretching from the coast of Senegal to the heart of Morocco. What began with a single observation in Dakar would escalate into a series of encounters involving over 100 witnesses across multiple cities and culminate in one of the largest mass sightings of the era.

The story begins in the pre-dawn hours of July 3rd, 1952. At precisely 0608 hours, observers in Dakar tracked an unconventional craft moving southward at 1,500 meters altitude. The object displayed a distinctive tapered form, emitting alternating patterns of blue and red flames. Local weather reports noted something equally strange – despite the early morning hour, the stars had vanished from view during the sighting window.

Nine days of silence followed before the wave truly began. The Had Kourt police officers’ sighting marked the beginning of an unprecedented series of encounters. Their detailed report described two distinctly elongated objects following a precise north-to-south trajectory, each trailing a brilliant white illumination unlike any aircraft lights of the period.