Hello and welcome to the program.
You have the warning, today's topic, the Belgian wave And
we're not talking about the kind of wave they do in football
stadiums. Now, this was a wave of UFO.
Sightings that occurred in Belgium, 30 years ago, I found
this article on the week.com written by java.lang titled 30
years later, we still don't know what really happened.
During that Belgium UFO, wave the article begins.
At first the witnesses claimed. All you noticed, were the
lights. They were so bright.
You could read by them. So, brilliant.
That a policeman describe Them as like lights on a huge
football field only gradually, did you notice the object a
minute from a hulking, triangular shape with three,
enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground and a red
flashing light at its Center. The whole thing, we called the
policeman is if barely able to believe himself was floating in
the air. It was a clear November night in
1989 near the town of upin Belgium, which sets Which sets
some seven miles from the German border Hinrich.
Nicole, the policeman and his partner Hubert van montagu.
I called their dispatcher to report the object they said
they'd set stumbled on while on a routine Patrol.
Suddenly, they told me they were seeing a strange object in the
sky Albert kreutz, who was on the receiving?
End told the unsolved mystery 1972 episode.
It made no noise. We joked about it.
And said, it might be Santa Claus trying to land Now, you
can imagine seeing this enormous triangular shape, with this.
Brilliant Spotlight coming down. These three red spots.
On the corners of it. Doesn't look much like a Santa
Claus sleigh, but, you know, people, sometimes when they see
these things become a little bit nervous.
And I could understand why that would happen because on a says,
but by the time the evening was over, at least 30 different
groups and three separate pairs of police officers, would allege
to have seen the unidentified flying object.
I want to notice how the use of word alleged here, you know, if
those same people and those police officers saw, somebody
commits a crime rob, a bank and wonder if they will use the word
allege, but when something like this happens at so, out of the
ordinary, so different from our normal everyday life, It's even
hard for people to accept that it's real when the whole
Community sees it. It says, by the time the evening
was over, at least 30 different groups in three, separate pairs
of police officers, would allege to have seen that unidentified
flying object and they wouldn't be the last belgians months-long
UFO wave culminated. 30 years ago today on March 30th 1990 and
a physics Divine in a physics. Defying Chase through the Skies
over Europe is to Belgium Air Force f-16s pursued, mysterious
objects on their radars. That they couldn't even see.
So they were able to see the option radar but they weren't
able to make a eye contact eyes on observation of these things.
So we see a couple things going on here.
We see these, we see these giant UFOs intentionally or perhaps it
unintentionally, interacting with humans.
Do these. Enormous bright fluorescent
lights, that just seemed to light up the entire area.
They fly over and we're also seeing another trait that we see
in these UFOs. So commonly and that's the
disappearing act people on the ground, see them, but people
pursuing them in the jet airplanes, the pilots can make
no eye contact, they do however show up on radar.
It appears as though they're trying to camouflage themselves
to the human eye and actually when they want to do that it
seems like they're able to do it pretty easily.
The article goes on. But, okay, okay.
Today, aliens really visit Belgium.
It certainly seems deeply deeply unlikely yet.
Three decades later. It's still hard to entirely
dismiss the two thousand odd. Sightings that took place in the
country between November 1989 and 1990 variable.
Now here again, we see the bias of somebody who is an
unbeliever. I don't know why it would seem
really, really unlikely, deeply unlikely when people use the
emotional emotional emotional, It's like this.
It's almost as if their own fear of the UFO realities coming
through. They're not able to even not
even able to entertain the notion of the possibility of
UFOs. That puzzles.
Me. Because so many of these people
They don't seem to have any kind of religious Paradigm that
they're up against. It's just it's just this
storybook nature. Of reality that they've been
taught from the time they were a child that we all evolve from
rocks and that everything here conforms to Newtonian physics.
It's as if they haven't even as they haven't even gotten to the
level to where they could even comprehend.
The notion that quantum physics govern.
So many things in our universe goes on us as Patrick Fern, the
president of Belgium of the Belgian committee for the study
of space. Phenomena SOB EPS.
Told the telegraph, you must know that most of these
sightings will have the most banal explanation.
But there is a residue, which we simply can't explain.
And of those are maybe two or three where they may have
questions over, where they came from.
This is another little bit of of A little bit of tortured logic.
People used to explain UFOs and to kind of kind of somehow, I
think he's their minds. A lot of times, they'll say,
well, you know, most of these sightings can be explained with
just the simplest terms and there's a few of them.
We can't explain. So they put those over in the
corner and they compartmentalize.
Authentic UFO, sightings with the notion that there are
thousands and thousands of false reports.
Maybe there are a lot of false reports with the fact is there a
lots and lots of good reports and as I heard one UFO
investigators say and it's kind of I guess it's probably a
common Story. You probably have heard repeated
about the one white crow and you can say that there are no such
thing. As one as white crows, all crows
are black. And you can put this Theory out
there, all crows are black and in general, that is true, but it
only takes one crow to break that rule. and once that rules
broken, Then your statement before that, there are no black
crows is no longer true. And the same thing with UFOs,
doesn't matter if there's a single UFO sighting, or if there
are 10,000 UFO, sightings doesn't matter.
If one person legitimately saw a UFO, or if a million people,
legitimately saw a UFO. If that one UFO exist, then it
totally defies. And disassembles your argument
that there are no UFOs. And so, a lot of times when you
see these cases where you have multiple sightings sightings by
police officers, who quite frankly can put somebody in jail
based on their testimony. But suddenly when they see a
UFO, their testimony doesn't mean anything to the debunkers.
And when the debunkers come up against these really solid
observation cases, then they want to fall.
Um the other thing up, well, there's a million amount that
they don't count. We're not talking about the
million of UFO cases that don't count.
We're talking about the ones that do count, and those are the
ones that matter and no matter how much you disparage and
debunk, the mistaken identities, that people that are the
hoaxers, all that Doesn't, it doesn't hold up your argument
that there are no UFOs article goes on.
And says, Lots can be lots can be ruled out, though, for
example, a classic photograph of the triangle-shaped aircraft.
No one is the pet. It retching picture is without a
doubt, a hoax, the forger admitted as much when he came
forward. 2011, we made the model with polystyrene.
We painted it, and then we started sticking things to it,
then we suspend it in the air. Then we took the photo the
prankster confessed to Reuters. Brian Dunning, the writer and
producer of the podcast skeptoid also refutes a number of the
sightings arguing that the November apparitions were.
In fact, a helicopter and that police officers interviewed by
were interviewed by biased you fol just conflicting information
published by Reuters claims instead that the lights over
upin were from a Soviet satellite break up regardless,
where things really started to get strange is in March of 1990
at that point. Have been months of sporadic
sightings throughout Belgium, including by an army.
Colonel Andrei, Amin who claim to have seen the lights while
driving in his car with his wife and December.
The Belgian military needless to say, was well aware of the
descriptions pouring in from across the country and it had
little, in the way of answers, the chief of operations of the
air staff General, wolfer, devour who offered his account
to investigative reporter Lisa Keen for her book for 2010.
Buck UFOs generals. And government officials on the
record said that his initial belief was that the American
Military must have been testing some sort of experimental.
Aircraft were his country. He went as far to follow
enquiries with the u.s. Embassy in Brussels prompting,
the Americans to create a memo dryly titled Belgium, and the
UFO issue, which confirmed that no US Air Force, stealth
aircraft were operating the area during the periods.
In question, will even really have to wonder why the Americans
would be testing. A top secret military aircraft
at risking starting a war in Europe, when they had the entire
American, southwest to do something like that, though, it
continues to report your credible enough that Belgium's
Air Force Federal Aviation authorities and police devised.
A plan to try to catch one of the unidentified Intruders and
action by preparing. F-16s to quickly, take off in a
sighting was ever reported by the police and a radar station
at the same time. Sure enough is 2 bar.
It accounts and UFOs that night came on March 30th when several
policemen and two military, radar station spotted, an
unknown object. Once Aloft the Belgian Pilots,
try to intercept the alleged aircrafts and at one point,
recorded Targets on their radar with unusual behavior such as
jumping, huge, distances, and seconds and accelerating Beyond
human capacity by our rights. Well, this is something we see
with the Tic Tac videos that the Navy released and the debunkers
and the Skeptics and All the rest of those, folks can say,
whatever they want to negatively about these sightings.
But the fact is these sightings were recorded separately by
Military radar. So what are the odds that both
of these both of these? Fighter jets could have
accidentally recorded the same thing on the radar screen.
The article goes on, but frustratingly the photos, the
pilots never managed to see the object.
They were pursuing after analysis of the aircraft's
readings. The Air Force's decision was
that the evidence was insufficient to prove that there
were real crafts in the air on that occasion.
Well, let me tell you something, until these things show up on
the White House. Lawn, the evidence is going to
be insufficient, it goes on to borrow reports, still throughout
1990. The Air Force was asking, could
never specifically account for the sightings which, which all
told numbered in the thousands by the time.
They quietly started going away again in April, 3 decades later,
explanations are still in short supply although some scientists
now consider the event to be an example of mass hysteria
certainly and I'm sure that the mass hysteria extended to the
radar tracking by the Two fighter pilots.
It goes on here, and it gives quite an in-depth explanation of
why it could have been mastix. Massac hysteria, which were not
really interested in. And then it says, toward the end
of the article, it says, what we do know for certain is that
there is a lot. We don't yet understand about
our earn about our universe. Even the US Army has multiple
stories of chasing strange and possible objects through the sky
while the Belgium UFO wave. Likely wasn't a visitation from
Little Green Men. Now notice what the author is
doing there. They're, they're playing down
this thing. They're bringing in a little bit
of mocking, and they're not, they're not using any kind of
logic or fax the body to back up their argument.
Well, the Belgium wave likely wasn't a visitation, by Little
Green Men. Well, nobody said it was a
visitation by little green, man. We have is a couple of thousand
people. That's all giant triangular,
triangular craft hovering in the sky above them, shining bright
white light down on them. With these three ominous-looking
red lights, positioned and a corners of each each corner of
the triangle. That's why they saw no one said
anything about green men? It goes on says today.
There is not yet any explanation.
Well, that's correct among the colonel.
Who saw the lights with his wife told Cain.
That is a Pity because I want to know before dying.
Give me a correct explanation at my sighting that is all I can
ask. Well, I like the fact that they
reported what happened in the article.
I didn't like the fact that the author devoted about a third of
the Arctic, which we didn't even read to the debunkers and the
debunkers, don't add anything to.
To the phenomena of UFO. The like a wood tick they're
just they're sucking the life out of a popular subject.
Now if somebody wants to be an honest skeptic and ask
questions, that's one thing that's fine is that vestigators?
We should be skeptical but we have a case like this where
2,000 people report seeing the same thing from all different
kinds of angles. That's one piece of evidence is
called eye witness evidence. We live in a society that sends
people a sense people for crying out loud to life in prison or
the death chamber based on eye witness evidence.
That's a fact sometimes eyewitness evidence can be
biased or can be mistaken, but when a couple of thousand
people, including a whole bunch of police officers, see the same
craft at the same time and this happens repeatedly over a period
of say three or four months. I think we really should lend
some Credence to that bit of evidence, which is an eyewitness
testimony. And investigating something like
this is fine, but when you're simply interviewing debunker or
skeptic who wasn't in the area who didn't see the thing, they
really don't have anything to add to the discussion.
When you are, I look at one of these UFO investigated.
One of these UFO cases as a person with an open mind.
What we're adding is a perspective from an open, not
from an open mind on a closed mind.
So if we walk into this thing and say well I wasn't there, I
don't know what happened but let's read about what other
people say happen and then we can make a decision.
On what we feel a likelihood. Of this sighting whether or not
it's true, we can say, well, it seems about 80% reasonable and
it was a truth or maybe 90% or maybe I'm totally convinced.
But when they interview these debunkers and Skeptics that you
see them all the time on the History Channel or every
documentary seems like they want to include one of these
goofballs and they add nothing to the discussion.
All there therefore is to ease the mind of the people who are
too afraid to believe are too afraid to Except the possibility
of the UFO phenomena for some reason.
For some reason, the Paradigm, they live their world by their
reality. They've created does not allow
them possibility to believe in anything paranormal or
Supernatural when we are surrounded in our daily life by
the Paranormal Supernatural. So to say that, A wave of these
giant UFO. Swept over Belgium, for three
months, and then were witnessed by a couple of thousand people.
Well, that's not beyond the realm of possibility.
For those of us who understand that really strange.
Things can happen in life, but for people that live their life,
as if the world is built out of Tinker Toys and every little
block has to be stacked on top of every other block.
I think sometimes these sightings Threatened.
The reviewer reality and they'll go miles to debunk them.
At any rate, it was an interesting article and that was
a really fascinating time back there in 1989 1990 in Belgium
when this wave of giant triangular shaped UFOs were
spotted moving across the countryside.
There's some great documentaries on it, a lot of good visual
stuff recommend, you take a look until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.