Tuesday 21 April 2020

UFO News Article:
“Belgian military investigates UFO reports”


9 December 1989
(The Item, Sumter, South Carolina)

Source: Google News

The whole article:
“The [Air Force] and police are investigating numerous UFO sightings near the border with the Netherlands and West Germany, officials said Friday.

Since Nov. 29, dozens of people and police officials in the northeastern Liege province said they’ve seen luminous objects in the sky, with some of them describing a flying platform scanning the surface with three huge searchlights, while others talk of dancing lights.

During the same period, air traffic controllers ‘found radar blips on the screens that could not be immediately explained,’ said Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Michel Mandel.

At the time of the sightings there were no authorized low-level flights in the region.

‘We are looking for a rational explanation,’ he said.

Although Mandel cast doubts on several witness accounts, the Belgian Society for the Study of Space Phenomena said Friday it would send members to the German-speaking region in Liege and across the border in the Netherlands and West Germany this weekend.

The society said it had 150 witness accounts, in addition to photo and videotaped material.”

My comment:
The Item reports on the first UFO sightings that were made during the 1989-1990 Belgian UFO wave.

I also reported about this Associated Press article on 26 May 2012.


Wikipedia article: “Belgian Air Component”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Belgian Air Component (Dutch: Luchtcomponent, French: Composante air) is the air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces,[2][3] and until January 2002 it was officially known as the Belgian Air Force (Dutch: Belgische Luchtmacht; French: Force aérienne belge). The Belgian military aviation was founded in 1909 and is one of the world's oldest air services.”







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The emblem of the Belgian Air Component
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Map of Belgium (vidiani.com)
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