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SUBJECT: OMNI ARTICLE ON THE BELGIUM UFOs FILE: UFO1556
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(4890) Fri 27 Sep 91 7:24p
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By: Dale Anderson
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To: Everyone
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Re: Belgium UFO Update
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St:
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@EID:1013 013444e5
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@MSGID: 1:19/19.22 28e3ce73
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@PID: XRS!% 4.51+
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"OMNI" published by:
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OMNI Publications International Ltd.
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1965 Broadway
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New York, NY 10023-5965
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Subscription info:
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OMNI
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P.O. Box 3026
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Harlan, Iowa 51593-2087
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$23.95 / 12 issues
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The following article appears in the July 1991 issue of 'OMNI' magazine. Page
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75, 'Antimatter' section. Subject matter, the Belgium UFO sightings.
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*Begin Article*
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UFO UPDATE:
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Belgium's military has begun to work hand
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in hand with private groups to track UFOs
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By Beth Livermore
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Life in the tiny kingdom of Belgium is anything but harmonious. In fact,
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ferocious rivalry between the Flemish up north and the Walloons down south has
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dominated Belgian politics for centuries. But according to UFO activists, a
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mysterious triangular craft may do much to change this. Belgians from the
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north and the south, it seems, have put aside their differences to form what
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some call the most coordinated UFO investigation to date.
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It all began on November 29, 1989, when hundreds of people from two Belgian
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towns - Eupen and Wavre - reported sighting a dark gray deltoid shape, one
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white light per tip, gliding across the night sky. The mysterious object, with
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a wingspan of 50 to 100 meters, was apparently silent, says Michael Bougard,
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president of Belgium's Society for the Study of Space Phenomena (SOBEPS), a
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nonprofit citizens' organization. "And no one reported seeing it land."
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By March, adds Bougard, "everyone from farmers to teenagers to high-ranking
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military officers and professors claimed to have seen the UFO." In addition,
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on March 30, controllers at a radar station in Glons detected a foreign object
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on their screens. They quickly contacted colleagues at a station in Ghent.
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The second station confirmed the presence of a slow-moving blip.
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"At this point it had become a scientific problem deserving serious
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investigation," says Professor Leon Brenig, a physicist at the Free University
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of Brussels. "It couldn't be steel coming back into the atmosphere because the
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edges were smooth, not bent. It couldn't be a NATO aircraft because its
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capacity for flight seemed to outreach current technology. I decided it was
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worth my time."
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Apparently the military agreed. Belgium's Air Force contributed two F-16's,
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an expert crew, and instruments to a hunt later that spring. Scientists and
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citizens participating in the effort formed four watch groups, each responsible
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for calling sightings into headquarters, an airport southeast of Liege. The
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airport tower, in turn, alerted pilots, who flew planes equipped with infrared
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cameras in pursuit of the triangle. The pilots failed to get photographs
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because of the deltoid's reported great speed.
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Nonetheless, the effort goes on: Engineers and physicists at the Free
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University are analyzing radar images of the object. Belgium's Air Force
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training school, the Ecole Royale Militaire, is analyzing UFO photos with
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computers. And botanists are examining burn patterns in fields where the
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triangle was reportedly seen.
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"This investigation is unprecedented - its gone further than any I know of,"
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says Walter Andrus, international director of Mutual UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON).
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"We are impressed that Belgium's military cooperated. That is a major step."
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Indeed, adds Lucean Clerebaut, SOBEPS's secretary-general, while the French
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have a government office dedicated to UFO study, "this is the first time that a
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national authority has worked with a private society in researching UFOs."
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Whether or not the Belgians eventually unravel the mystery, the unusual
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official effort may affect the perception and pursuit of UFOlogy worldwide.
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According to MUFON's Andrus, for instance, in the United States, "every
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military and intelligence agency we can identify has been involved in
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investigating UFOs since 1947, but they will not share their information. If
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nothing else, we hope the efforts of the Belgians will embarrass the U.S.
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government into admitting some of what they know," he says.
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*End Article*
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I pose this question: Will our military and government officials learn from
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this unique example of Belgian cooperation with the general public? Let's hope
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so, it's time we were told the entire truth of how much and what is known.
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It's time we were treated as intelligent and responsible people who are tired
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of living in the shadows of reality.
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Regards,
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Dale
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* Origin: \_Speculation sometimes leads to Confirmation_/ (Quick 1:19/19.22)
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