The Belgian UFO Wave
In Belgium, from 1989 to 1991, there was a massive escalation in reported UFO sightings. With thousands of witnesses, and the Belgian government left scratching their heads, this time period is referred to as the Belgian UFO Wave.
On November 29, 1989, just after 5:30 P.M., a police officer spots an unknown object flying overhead. The police officer reported switchboard operator Albert Creutz, describing something "so bright it was lighting lighting up the field like a football stadium!" This UFO sighting was the first of thousands to report seeing unidentified flying crafts in the sky in the following years. What followed was 140 reports of UFO sightings over the next 8 hours, kicking off the Belgian UFO Wave.
Over 2,000 incident reports over the course of about 3 years were recorded with 650 of the reports being subject to investigation by either the local police or Belgian government, and more than 500 cases still considered to be unexplained. The most interesting detail about all of these reports is that they were all very greatly detailed. The witnesses had descriptions of the craft, their location, and other pertinent details. Many hoaxed UFO sightings are usually lacking in story detail, or have some sort of missing information. However, most of the Belgian UFO Wave witnesses had solid alibi, and similar craft descriptions to other witnesses.
These crafts were described as having a triangular shape, with orange/red lights around the bottom and outer rim. They were said to be about the same size as an F-16 fighter jet, and traveled significantly faster than any other air craft we know of even as of today. The Belgian government even took action to send F-16′s to investigate, and attempt to chase down these mysterious crafts, but the maneuvers that the UFO’s would preform were beyond the capabilities of current technology.
Although there was supposedly thousands of witnesses and reports, the main reason why some believe this whole event was a hoax is because there was close to zero pictures of the flying crafts that were being reported. Some say that because it was the early 1990′s, people didn’t carry around cameras like they do today, so nobody was prepared. But with the amount of people that saw it, some even from their homes, it seems unlikely that there wouldn’t be dozens, if not hundreds of pictures.
Unfortunately, it was announced to be a fake by the man who took the picture. The photographer is only known as Patrick M., and he said in an interview with a Belgian TV station how he managed to pull off the hoax. “We made the model with polystyrene, we painted it and then we started sticking things to it, then we suspended it in the air ... then we took the picture,” says Patrick M.
There was only one picture that puzzled the public and government for many years, and was relatively the only the picture taken during the UFO wave right at the end of the wave of sightings, right around April of 1991. This picture is referred to as the Petit-Rechain photograph. This picture showed the common description witnesses gave of the UFO’s in their police reports with the triangle-shaped craft with the orange lights on the underside and perimeter.
The Belgian UFO Wave is one of the largest cluster of reported UFO sightings over a very brief period of time, and yet is almost never discussed, and still with no answers from the Belgian government. I personally did’t know about this incident until I started doing some research on sightings in history. Our only hope is that the Belgian government will come clean about the incident to the public. Because they probably know more than they are willing to admit.
For more information, check out the link provided below. Don’t rely on me for all your information. Research for yourselves!
https://www.ufoinsight.com/the-belgian-ufo-wave-a-truly-unique-display-of-the-unknown/