Case file · Sighting
The disc over Yaoundé hospital
On the evening of 10 October 1954, the chief doctor of Yaoundé hospital, a colonel and three other couples saw a large, brightly lit, mushroom-shaped disc hover over the hospital for about 15 seconds.
1954 CE · 3.87, 11.52 · status: account
The account
The group was about to leave for the cinema when the house dog began growling. They described a glowing cylinder swaying under the disc, at an estimated 600 m. It moved east, seemed to shrink, paused and rose quickly out of sight. The French paper L'Alsace carried the report.
The sceptical view
Estimates of height and size by night have no fixed reference; a 15-second sighting by one group, with no other reports, cannot be checked.