Summary: The following article provides a rare example of the
civilian and military sectors successfully working together to
investigate UFO sightings. Life in the tiny kingdom of Belgium
is anything but harmonious. In fact, ferocious rivalry between
the Flemish up north and the Walloons down south has dominated
Belgian politics for centuries. But according to UFO activists,
a mysterious triangular craft may do much to change this.
Belgians from the north and the south, it seems, have put aside
their differences to form what some call the most coordinated
UFO investigation to date. It all began on November 29, 1989,
when hundreds of people from two Belgian towns—Eupen and
Wavre—reported sighting a dark gray deltoid shape, one white
light per tip, gliding across the night sky. The mysterious
object, with a wingspan of 50 to 100 meters, was apparently
silent, says Michael Bougard, president of Belgium's Society for
the Study of Space Phenomena (SOBEPS), a nonprofit citizens'
organization. "And no one reported s