Belgium · 04 April 1990

Petit-Rechain, 1990

Scientific context

A Belgian military academy put the most famous UFO photograph in Europe through computer analysis and concluded the object was material, twenty-one years before the man who took it produced the painted polystyrene he had hung from a broomstick.

Where

Petit-Rechain, near Verviers, Liege

When

04 April 1990

Who reported it

1 civilian photographer

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / REJECTED

Evidence class

SCI-2

The record

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

UNVERIFIED - documented at https://rr0.org/1990-04_PetitRechain.html

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

What is not settled

CONFESSED HOAX (2011). A 60-80cm polystyrene shape on fishing line. A demonstration of how far institutional analysis can go on an image with no chain of custody. Not evidence of a phenomenon.

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