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
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
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.”
The emblem of the Belgian Air Component
(wikimedia.org image)
(vidiani.com image)