Case file · Sighting
Had Kourt police sighting
In mid-July 1952 police officers at Had Kourt in northern Morocco reported two elongated 'flying saucers' passing overhead.
1952 CE · 34.60, -5.73 · status: account
The account
The report was one of several from French Morocco that month, and the CIA collected it in a 2 September 1952 summary of sightings over Morocco and French West Africa. Morocco, then under French and Spanish rule, shared in the 1952 wave seen in the United States and Europe.
The sceptical view
The CIA file only summarises press and consular reports. Nothing was investigated on the spot, and meteors or aircraft can't be ruled out.