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SUBJECT: BELGIAN SKIES SOUTH-EAST OF BRUSSELS FILE: UFO3132
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The Belgian skies south-east of Brussels were densely populated during
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the night March 30-31, 1990. There were at least three, and maybe six
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bright lights with changing colors, observed by gendarmes from 23 h
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(local time) to 1 h. There were two F-16 chasing (hunting ?) true or
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false echoes from 0 h to 1 h. I already posted (on last September 29)
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the listing of one of the half-dozen lock-on(s?) they got. Dale Amon
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said it could be a fire and forget air to ground missile, Phil Fraering
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said the missile could be a penetrator, and "Topcoat" said it was
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probably just jitter.
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But there was something else. At 0 h 28, the Semmerkaze radar detected
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an object 2500 ft over the western part of the Brussels agglomeration,
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moving towards Liege (roughly speaking, towards east) at 450 knots. At
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0 h 29, the Glons radar detected it also. From 0 h 29 to 0 h 33, both
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radars followed the craft, which was going in straight line towards
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Liege, increasing its speed and its altitude. The Semmerkaze radar
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spotted it again 6000 ft over Liege at 0 h 35, speed 650 knots. The
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last point was some 12 miles east of Liege, altitude 12000 ft, at
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0 h 36.
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The Semmerkaze radar is an array type radar. It is used for military
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air safety. Semmerkaze is about 30 miles west of Brussels.
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Glons CRC is a part of NADGE (NATO Air Defense Ground Environment).
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There are about 80 NADGE CRC in Europe (including Turkey). Its
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missions are: 1. detect and follow every flight in the Belgian air
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space, 2. identify friend or foe, 3. if foe, intercept and/or
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destroy according to the alert status. The Glons radar is a
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multipurpose impulsion type radar. Glons is about 6 miles north
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of Liege. The distance Brussels-Liege is about 60 miles.
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There is another radar at Bertem, for civilian traffic. The craft
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passed 5 miles south of Bertem at 0 h 30. The Bertem radar did
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not see anything.
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What was this?
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1) Civilian traffic? I don't know anything in aviation, but I
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believed that airliners did not go that fast when they were that
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low. Also, I thought that each civilian flight was known to
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the military.
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2) A little private jet? Maybe, if all this story is a hoax (it
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should be a really big hoax, with airship(s), jet(s) and probably
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ULMs).
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3) A military plane? It was not one of the two F-16, which, instead
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of moving in straight line, were describing complicated loops (I have
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the plot of all the trajectories). In my opinion, it looks more like
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a stealth aircraft (F-117 A or TR-3 A), because it was seen only from
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certain angles. The Bertem radar, which was the best located, never
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saw it. But apparently the Belgian military did not know of this plane,
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at least in May 1990, when the Belgian Air Force released its first
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report about the incidents:
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# 00 h 32: The Glons and Semmerkaze radars have a contact at 110 / 6 NM
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# away Beauvechain, which heads for Bierset at 7000 feet and high speed.
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# The registered speeds go from 478 to 690 knots. The contact is lost
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# above Bierset. The Maastricht radar control center has had no contact
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# with this UFO.
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Any idea? It is more and more difficult to have direct informations. The
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Belgian authorities now forbid any contact with the Belgian military. I
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have been more or less involved in an inquiry made by a popularization
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(and skeptical) review. The journalist who wrote the article managed
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to make an appointment with a general of the Belgian Air Force, but it
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was cancelled in the last minute. A well-known member of the CSICOP
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told me that he suspects "that they have been SO badly embarrassed
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by their blunders that they simply refuse to discuss the subject now."
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However, I had a long discussion a few months ago with somebody who
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works (professionally) very closely with the Belgian military, and
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that was not what he said.
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