Staff Member Profile:
“Korpsoverste” “Chef de Corps” (“Corps Commander”)
(Belgian Air Component, Evere (Brussels), Belgium)

The Belgian Air Component gives an overview of the career of Lieutenant Colonel Johan Van Durme:

http://www.mil.be/aircomp/units/index.asp?LAN=nl&FILE=&ID=191&MENU=317&PAGE=1 (Dutch)

http://www.mil.be/aircomp/units/index.asp?LAN=fr&FILE=&ID=191&MENU=317&PAGE=1 (French)

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mil.be%2Faircomp%2Funits%2Findex.asp%3FLAN%3Dnl%26FILE%3D%26ID%3D191%26MENU%3D317%26PAGE%3D1

Quote from the article:
“One of the highlights was an A-scramble on Saturday night with the QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) of 1 Fighter Wing Beauvechain on UFO hunting.”












Ensign of the Belgian Air Component
(wikimedia.org image)

UFO Paper:
“Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique –
Un dossier exceptionnel – Ed. SOBEPS”
(“UFO wave over Belgium –
An outstanding file – Ed. SOBEPS”)
by Major General Wilfried De Brouwer,
Belgian Air Component, 1991
(home.nordnet.fr/~phuleux/)

The UFO paper was solicited by the civilian Belgian UFO research group, SOBEPS:

http://home.nordnet.fr/~phuleux/gnral.htm

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.nordnet.fr%2F%7Ephuleux%2Fgnral.htm

Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer, Belgian Air Component was the Chief of Operations for the Air Staff during the 1989-1990 Belgian UFO wave. De Brouwer was promoted to Major General in 1991.

Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer, Belgian Air Force, presents anomalous radar readings at a 1990 press conference

(De Brouwer (retired in 1995) later became a Major General)

(youtube.com image)

UFO TV Talk Show:
Debat OVNI (UFO Debate),
25 March 1990 (RTBF, Brussels, Belgium)

Host Baudouin Cartuyvels interviews Leon Brenig (physicist), Michel Bougard (President of SOBEPS), André Lausbergh (astrophysicist) and Wilfried De Brouwer (Colonel, Belgian Air Component) regarding the 1989-1990 Belgian UFO wave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOlC662KP0 (Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGrncKnHyLA (Part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqcPoXOo0Nk (Part 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NDBWO0gymk (Part 4)

The TV programme contains UFO videos.

Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer, Belgian Air Component (Air Force) was the Chief of Operations for the Air Staff during the 1989-1990 Belgian UFO wave. De Brouwer was promoted to Major General in 1991.

SOBEPS (now replaced by COBEPS) was a civilian UFO research group.