Belgium · 29 November 1989

Eupen, 1989

Reported

Two Belgian gendarmes on a night patrol stopped their car and watched a triangle the size of a building hang over the road throwing three beams straight down, for the better part of an hour.

Where

Eupen, Baelen-Membach, Gileppe reservoir, Liege

When

29 November 1989

Who reported it

2 on-duty gendarmes lead; 13 gendarmes across 8 observations; ~140-250 civilian reports

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED

Evidence class

GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNVERIFIED - second-hand at https://www.rtbf.be/article/des-ovnis-en-belgique-les-gendarmes-face-a-l-inexplique-en-1989-dans-la-region-d-eupen-10538394

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

The primary document is not public; the case rests on gendarmes' later accounts relayed by a private research group. Sceptics attribute it to bright astronomical objects, helicopter lights and laser show beams. All ranges estimated by eye at night.

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