Belgian triangle wave

From 29 November 1989 in Eupen, gendarmes and hundreds of residents reported large, slow, silent triangles with lights at the corners, many reports made days later after media coverage. On 30-31 March 1990 ground radar tracked an object and two F-16s were scrambled; they obtained several brief radar locks but no visual contact, and a later analysis attributed the contacts, other than those on each other, to atmospheric interference (Bragg scattering). The best-known photograph, taken at Petit-Rechain in April 1990, was admitted in 2011 to be a painted polystyrene model with lights. The Air Force, gendarmerie and the civilian group SOBEPS cooperated openly, and some ground reports remain unidentified.

Social contagion around aircraft, helicopters and stars; radar artifacts; the iconic photograph a hoax

• Document255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_ForRelease 1

  UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? (the COMETA report), with April 2001 Carol Rosin cover letter and handwritten notes

  This is not a NASA-authored document: it is a 2001 cover letter and handwritten notes from Carol Rosin (self-described former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun) forwarding the 1999 French COMETA report 'UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?' to a NASA official, apparently seeking a meeting. COMETA was an independent association of former auditors of the French defense-studies institute IHEDN, not a French government body. The report reviews French pilot testimonies, five foreign radar/visual aeronautical cases (Lakenheath-Bentwaters, RB-47, Tehran 1976, a Russian missile-base case, Belgium), several French ground cases investigated by GEPAN/SEPRA (Trans-en-Provence, the 'Amaranth' case, a 1979 close encounter with reported humanoid figures), and recommends French and EU government action, stating the extraterrestrial hypothesis 'cannot be ruled out.'

  Open the original on war.gov

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  The Reality of UFOs UAP with Leslie KeanWatch from 1:32:05 on YouTube

• Unverified1:32:05Leslie KeanOfficial document

  During the 1989-90 Belgian UFO wave, the Belgian Air Force, Gendarmerie, and scientific community openly and jointly investigated for roughly six months, including sending F-16 jets to intercept the objects and collecting extensive witness and data documentation, but never identified the objects.

  The Air Force was actually sending up jets to try to get close to the objects and see what they were... they never figured it out.

  Said in The Reality of UFOs UAP with Leslie Kean

• Wikipedia: Belgian UFO waveen.wikipedia.org