UK X-Files: The Belgium Scramble
August 27, 2009 / 3317
Between November 1989 and April 1990 the Belgian Air Force scrambled fighter jets to investigate potential UFOs in its airspace.
Despite reports from police, radar contact and other eyewitness accounts, the authorities never established what was repeatedly hovering unannounced in their skies.
The first wave of observations began on November 29 and three days later on the evening of December 2, two F-16s were sent to the Liege area to investigate a sighting.
They found nothing.
Something in the skies: A mocked-up picture of a UFO flying down a U.S. highway
But according to an air force ground controller, the ‘echo’ on the radar vanished when the planes arrived but returned when the F-16s left. Read more …
