Belgium UFO Incident

 Belgium UFO Incident

Belgium sequence of UFO Sightings also referred to as “the Belgian Wave” started off on November 29th, 1989 and peaked with the reports in the night from 30th to 31st March, 1990. Majority of sightings occurred in the Walloon region and at some point thousands of people reported a sighting of an unusual triangular shaped craft that hovered over the Belgian skies, exhibiting unexplainable flight characteristics. The event is clearly considered as one of the best in the history and this is due to the following number of reasons:
-  An Official report was released to the wider public by the Belgian Air Force detailing the events on 30th to 31st of March, 1990.




- The Object was noted and even tracked by several radars at the Belgian Air Force bases in Eupen, Semmerkaze, Glors and Bierset, on several occasions simultaneously.
- AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft was dispatched from Gelsenkirchen and two F-16 aircrafts were sent to hunt down the UFO from Bevokom, which shortly after detected an oval-shaped object on their radars at 3,000 meters.
- A number of visual evidences were provided and can be easily marked as some of the best UFO photos ever caught on tape.
- Not even to mention the number of people that witnessed and reported the sightings. All together there were around 13,500 different witnesses, while around 2,600 individuals submitted official written statements with detailed event descriptions. Further, there were countless reports filled by both, Police and Gendarmerie (a military Belgian force involved in police duties living among civilian populations)
- There was a number of consistent and coinciding reports comming from different locations; Belgium (Eupen, Liege, Plombieres, Kittenis, Baelin, Verviers, Jalhan, St. Vith, Andrimont, Lontzen, Voeren, Herbesthal, eastern Belgium), and some regions of Luxembourg, Holland, and Germany.
- Other unique characteristics that embrace the line of UFO sightings and the object itself, such as the object’s unconventional flight characteristics and uncommon triangular shape with 4 light sources, 3 at the end of each arm (vertices of an equilateral triangle) and 1 right in the middle of the latter. The lights were changing colors between red, green and yellow.

 

The Sightings
In the following couple of paragraphs I will shortly summarize the two most significant lines of sightings as everything else is more appealing to be seen in the videos below. Since the wave of UFO Sightings starts on the 29th November, 1989, and the peak of UFO Sightings was reached in the night from 30th to 31st March, 1990, you might have guessed which two lines of sighings am I referring to.
The initial night of sightings was just the start of perhaps the best written about and witnessed UFO waves in the history. The occurrences on November 29th, 1989 were documented by at least 30 distinct groups of people, as well as several different groups of law enforcement officials. Each of the accounts defined a sizable object flying noisless across the Belgium landscape at low altitude with a flat, triangular shape and 4 different light sources underneath. This primary sighting would later evolve into a line of even more significant ones within the subsequent months. On a couple of occasions, a set of two F-16 fighters chased the bizarre object, but with no success of making even a visual contact.


The most significant night of sightings started off at around 23:00 on 30 March, 1990 when the CRC (Control Reporting Center) supervisor at Glons received a number of reports indicating that 3 mysterious lights were observed shifting in direction of Thorembais-Gembloux, which is situated to the South-East of Belgium’s capital. Wavre’s (a town and municipality located in the Belgianprovince of Walloon Brabant) gendarmerie dispatch a patrol to identify the strange object. Several minutes later another set of lights was seen moving towards the first triangle and after a while this set of lights formed itself into a shape of a triangle too. As both objects were picked up by two different radars, in Glons and Semmerzake, and as one of the light sources was witnessed by gendarmerie,
Glons CRC shortly before midnight ordered to get two F-16 fighters to intercept the objects. In the course of the latter both sensations were still plainly visible from the ground maintaining their relative positions although slowly moving over the night sky. We cannot forget that this event solely was witnessed by more than 13,000 people and more than 2,500 filled written statements describing in detail their sightings. Within the next 60 minutes both F-16s attempted 9 distinct interceptions of the targets and 3 times the jets succeeded to find a radar lock for only a few moments but everytime the objects altered their position and speed up to such an extent that the lock was broken instantly. During the initial radar lock, The UFO accelerated from 240 km/h to more than 1,770 km/h whilst changing the altitude from 2,700 m to 1,500 m, then up to 3,350 meters just before climbing down to just about the surface Similar movements were detected throughout both subsequent radar locks and were also described in some other postings (the Tehran UFO incident and the Peruvian dogfight). I think that it is needless to reveal that such manoeuvres would be fatal for a human pilot, which is also outlined by Robert Stack, the narrator, in the Unsolved Mysteries video below. Remarkably, despite the speed involved there was no indication of a sonic boom (Occuring at speed of Mach 1 – approximately 1,225 km/h), which should occur on several occassion due to the drastic direction shiftings. Even though the F-16 aviators did not make a visual contact with targets, the ground witnesses broadly reinforced the data gathered by radars. Subsequent to several additional unconfirmed on-board radar readings the jets eventually returned to base soon after 1 am.