Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the UFOs of Sosterberg.
That's correct, the UFOs of Sosterberg.
Now, this concerns a military base over there in the
Netherlands. There's a movie that's being
released about that. We'll get into that in just a
minute or so here. And I have some links.
This is a fascinating case. So have this giant triangle UFO
hovering over a military base. A military base that the US had
operations going on at, by the way.
And we have to wonder, what are these things trying to tell us?
Now we find out that on the early morning of February 3rd,
1979, a giant black triangular object flew over Sosterberg Air
Base in the Netherlands. At least twelve soldiers
witnessed A bizarre spectacle, and the incident remains one of
the most well documented UFO sightings in the country's
history. The military personnel who saw
the object described it as a large silent triangle with three
bright lights on the front and a red light on the back.
It flew over the base at a low altitude and several of the
soldiers said it was moving so quickly that it was impossible
to see any details. The soldiers who witnessed the
UFO were all trained observers, and they were adamant that what
they saw was not a conventional aircraft or any other known
object. They also reported that their
radar equipment detected the object, but that it was moving
too quickly for them to track it.
The Dutch Air Force investigated the incident, but they were
unable to offer an explanation for what the soldiers had seen.
They initially dismissed the sightings as a hoax, but they
later changed their stance and admitted that they could not
explain what had happened. The Socialburg UFO incident
remains a mystery to this day. Now, some people believe that
the soldiers saw a secret military aircraft, while others
believe that they witnessed evidence of extraterrestrial
life. There's no definitive answer to
the question of what the soldiers saw, but the incident
is one of the most intriguing UFO sightings in history.
You know, we have these, we have these soldiers, as we're being
told, they were trained observers and they saw this
thing, but even even in the government doubted them and at
one point was trying to claim this as some sort of mirage or
reflection from cloud cover, maybe over the mountains,
basically the old swamp gas excuse.
And clearly that's not what these guys saw.
Now, this Softerberg UFO incident is definitely a
significant event in the history of UFO ology.
But the problem is, I think we don't really hear about it that
much because it happened, you know, across the ocean.
And it seems like with the US kind of being in the center of
news on these sorts of things, we we kind of missed the point.
Sometimes when things happen in France or the Netherlands or the
UK, lots of great sightings over there that just don't get the
coverage that they deserve because of the antiquated
mainline media. But we're going to put a stop to
that. We're going to start reporting
some of these things, and this is a case that deserves
reporting. Like I said, this new
documentary is coming out. Looks like it could be really a
great thing to watch. And we're going to talk about
this a little bit now. I wanted to look just a little
bit at what's going on at this base.
Just a little tiny bit of background here.
Now we're go to Wikipedia. I'll tell that the 32nd Tactical
Fighter Squadron was there, it says.
As a result of the 1968 Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia,
the US Air Force announced that its F1O2 squadrons would be re
equipped with modern McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom Twos.
The 32nd FIS was a first in line to undergo the conversion and
the F1 O Twos were flown back to the United States and were
transferred to the Air National Guard.
Now it goes on and tells us that in July 1969, the US Air Force
redesignated the unit as the 32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron.
On August 6th, 1969, the 1st 2 brand new Phantoms arrived
flying the F14 Phantom met some drastic changes for the squadron
and the base, so you got going. Things going on here.
Clerk into 1989. We're talking about having
troops there, and then even the 1991.
So this is an active area where it was feared that work could
break out. You know, 1979, we're still in
the heights of the Cold War. And so you have all this drama
between what was, you know, Russia now, what was then the
Soviet Union and the United States on one side, with this
base here in the Netherlands kind of in the middle.
It seems so often that these things are attracted to
situations where there's a lot of trauma, maybe some kind of a
natural or human disaster and war, they really seem to feed
off of war. Now let's take a look at this
next site right here. There's a new documentary out
called The UFOs of Sosterberg. That's the UFOs of Sosterberg
and I'm going to put a link at the Buy Me a Coffee website.
There's about a two-minute preview of this documentary.
It looks awesome. I would just love to see it.
Now the posting on this is dated October 5th, 2023 and the poster
is UFO Mill Punt Netherlands. I guess that's there from the
Netherlands. It's says that the director and
producer is Bram Rosa and then it's got the folks listed in it
Production of the mad scientist movement got their website
there. It says the future documentary
about the about the Netherlands most famous UFO incident.
A dozen soldiers at Socialburg Air Base also known as Camp New
Amsterdam saw an enormous UFO at the heart of the Cold War.
And this is, this is great. I watched the video and they're
interviewing one of the pilots there that that saw this thing.
Talks about 12 to 15 people have seen it.
Really fascinating stuff. Now I want to go ahead.
Then I'll put, like I said, I'll put the link to buy me a coffee.
As always thanks to folks that support over there and at
Spotify. But you can take a look at the
video and you can watch it there and link to it.
It's just like a 2 minute video. Now I want to go ahead and look
at this report that I found and I had to use the Google
Translate to translate this from Dutch to English, but we'll go
through it and just see what they had to say about this
incident when it happened back there in 1979.
I found this report on this sighting over Socialburg back in
February 1979, but it was written in Dutch.
So I went ahead and ran it through Google Translate and it
came out a little bumpy, so I had to do a little bit of
editing on it so we can, you know, read it without too much
hesitation. So what I've done is I've put a
link for the original report in English over at the Buy Me a
Coffee website and you can check that over there and then I'll
read through this just slightly edited version that I've just
kind of pared down a bit so we can just and get an idea what's
going on there. And the report's quite lengthy
so I won't read the whole thing, but I want to go through part
the the, the, the main parts of it so we can get the gist of
what happened. Because this is, this is really,
I think, a cool sighting. Now it tells us that it says the
report of this UFO sighting over Social Burg Air Base in the
morning of the 3rd of February 1979 was examined by three
members of the N0B 0V0 working group, including Doctor W de
Graf, working at the Astronomy Institute in Utrecht or Utrecht
and serving as an advisor to N0B 0V0.
It has been revealed that there were two different flights of
lights above the base. So we have two separate
sightings which were observed by a total of five various items
scattered throughout the base, each man by two more soldiers.
The phenomena was first seen at 5:45 and lasted a total of 5 to
6 minutes. It was observed successively by
post A in the West and post B in the northeast, post C in the
north, post D in the northwest, and post E in the southwest of
the base. The distance between the post
was one to three kilometers. In observations during the first
passage, Post A reported at exactly 545 that they saw three
bright white lights in the east above an open strip of ground.
The 2 outer lights were about a moment high above the ground and
the third light in the middle between the two was slightly
higher. The lights emitted focused,
fierce bundles that came together on the ground.
So in other words, these lights were coming down, just beams of
light coming lights coming down. The lights slowly approached and
after some minutes were right above the post where the
observers ended up in the light beams.
For a few moments during the passage, a fourth red light in
the middle of the white lights became visible larger than the
white lights emitting a strange down facing beam.
Immediately after the passage the lights disappeared from
sight behind the trees. Now in the video, even though
you know they're speaking in Dutch or whatever you they got a
few subtitles and they say hey these guys could the light was
so bright that you could read a book by it.
That was the exact quote. Now this goes on.
It says Post B saw almost immediately after the first
notification over the radio from Post A lights in the South
passing at the open strip, the estimated height relative to the
horizon was 10 to 15 degrees. It was clear that the slanted
downward facing beams illuminated the ground.
Since the field of vision was small, the lights were visible
for just a few moments. The combination of both
observations, apparently related to the same phenomenon, provides
a flight altitude from 150 to 250 meters and an average speed
of 50 to 100 kilometers per hour.
So 30 to 60 miles an hour. They're up in the air, you know,
maybe they're up there, what, 700 feet?
The passage was only observed by Post A&B, so they're actually
able to figure out the the altitude and the speed of these
things based on the reports of these two different sets of
observers at two different locations.
This light sweeping over the area.
In every observation of the second passage, Post C saw the
lights pass very close between the trees.
The time was too short for a clear perception and the
observers were very impressed by what they saw.
Post D initially could not see anything after their first
report from Post A. It turned out that she was in
connection with the cover of the present deforestation during the
passage and could not have seen it.
After later reports should post A&B, Post D went to look again
and saw the lights approaching from the direction of Post C in
the northeast. Post D first saw three large
orbs, the middle one slightly higher than the others, emitting
a bright white light. The spheres were surrounded by a
clearly visible black edge and initially beamed straight toward
the observers. Although the beams were fierce,
it was possible to look at them without glare symptoms, unlike
the case with car headlights or airplanes.
Now I find that particularly interesting with my own
experience, and I've talked to many times on the program about
my personal experience at having an up close encounter with the
UFO on the way home. You know one night on a on a
rural highway at the same just kind of emerged out of the
ditch, seemed to increase the size, drifted across the highway
directly in front of me. Took up the whole Rd., pretty
much remaining stationary, kind of hovering just a few feet off
the ground as it went into the center part of this four lane
highway and just kind of parked itself there for a second And
the light that emitted around it.
And we had this blue flashing light on top I've talked about,
but this very white like a stage light, almost very clear, crisp
white light that just seemed to illuminate everything and drive
away all the shadows. You could look directly at it.
It's this brief encounter that I had as I went past this thing
and you did you could see all the details of it but there was
no glare like you would see from a very bright headlight of a
car. Didn't bother my eyes at all but
it was just fascinating, the properties and the quality of
this light and I get the feeling that this that's what's going on
here. But they talk about you could
read a book by it. You could that.
That's kind of what my experience was.
This thing was so bright, but at the same time you could look
directly at it. And it didn't your your eyes
didn't squint. They didn't react to it like,
oh, you know, here's the Super bright headlights coming at me.
It wasn't, it wasn't like that at all.
There was no eye strain, but but the light was just, it just
filled everything. And I get, I got to get this
feeling that this is what they're talking about here.
It says it's emitting a bright white light that goes on, and
says the spheres were surrounded by a clearly visible black edge
and initially beamed straight toward the observers.
So they're taking the light, this thing, whatever it is, it's
beaming this light directly at the people are looking at it.
Although the beams were fierce, it was possible to look at them
without glare symptoms. Unlike the case with car
headlights or airplanes, the lights made a slight curve and
passed the observers at a distance of approximately 100
meters. So through about 320 feet
something 330 and a height of about 50 meters.
So what 150? A 160 feet estimates from
further track analysis. A red like tail light became
visible with a straight downward facing beam whose rim past the
observers a few dozen meters away.
When the lights disappeared in a southerly direction low above
the ground and where the beams were passing, the ground clearly
illuminated. At one point the lights were
even lower than the lanterns at the back of the field, so that
they must have been just above the ground.
After the lights had come near Post EA flash of light was seen.
The white lights disappeared and the red light disappeared with
increasing speed through a turn to the right at the top of the
clouds. So it sounds like it's going
from ground levels to cloud level pretty quickly.
In total, post E was able to follow the lights over a
distance of 2 to 2 1/2 kilometers.
So you know what are we looking at here?
Like a mile and 1/2 or something.
Finally, Post E saw the lights above the treetops coming
straight from the north. They also saw the flash of light
and the lights were gone. The red light disappeared at the
great speed in the western direction.
Post B given its position and was unable to perceive the
second passage. Post A could have done so from
the original position, but the observers involved went into the
forest after the lights disappeared during the passage
to see if they could see them even further away.
So it looks like things got a little chaotic there on the
base. This giant triangular shaped UFO
passed over and shown its beams down on the observers.
Now we'll move along with the report here just a little bit.
Now this report goes on. It says further the the
particulars form. All observations taken into
account, the direction from which the lights were seen
appear to correspond to an arrangement of three white
lights and one red light in the form of a blunt kite.
If you look at the pictures of this thing you can it does look
kind of like a like a rounded triangle.
While the red light was at the bottom point, some observers saw
dark saw dark contours that connected the white lights,
while behind the so formed triangle was a dark rectangle
with the red light at the back. So maybe this is a triangle
shape with like the back end, almost like a bumper on.
It sounds like with a red light. The lights themselves must have
had a center line of some meters where the red light was larger
than the white lights. The white lights seemed encased
in or surrounded by a clearly visible dark edge, and they're
slanting forward. Targeted bundles came together
in the air or on the ground. The red rear light beamed
straight down, so it sounds almost like these guys are
shining. These beams of light from the
white lights are kind of coming down in the group and focusing
on the point. And then the red light, it says
just beams straight down. So I can imagine this thing
flying up here, this giant triangle with these three
intensely bright white spotlights just kind of
searching the area, almost like a helicopter would search.
And they're beaming down and and connecting with people.
And like they said, the light was so bright that you could
read a book by it. So this intense bright light
comes down. Think about that, this things up
in the air. 300 feet, 400 feet, well 200 meters.
So what maybe 700 feet up and that lights coming down but it
doesn't sound like it's diffusing like a normal
spotlight or Searchlight would. You know from from a man made
one. This thing sounds like so many
of these things. The light is controlled.
Just like my experience. Light was controlled.
The light was in a certain specific area.
Here the UFO is this, this craft, you know, maybe 20-30
feet across, maybe maybe 30 foot tall.
The lights in in is inside that, you know, basically it looked
like a tabletop shape. So the lights within that craft,
within those open areas, you can see it's all lit up, but the
light's not spilling out onto the surrounding area.
It's almost like that light's just kept inside, it's
controlled. And the same thing I'm seeing
here with this with these large triangle, the light's not
diffusing out, it's coming straight down.
It's focused like a laser and these guys that they see it, the
light just lights up where they're at, but they point
outlook. We we didn't have any blindness
from this. We didn't have any eye strain
like you would if you're looking into a an extremely bright
headlight of a car or maybe a helicopter, see what they're
getting at. This isn't a normal light.
Now that's the three white lights.
They're searching around. They're like they're on some
sort of survey or something maybe.
And in the back you've got this red light which says, hey this,
it's just shining straight down. I don't know if it's keeping
this thing on some sort of course of what it's doing, but
there's a reason. There's got to be a reason why
the three white lights are searching around and this red
light in the back is just stationary, straight down beam
of light coming down now it goes on.
It says in the first passage the lights must have moved from east
to West over a distance of approximately 3 kilometers.
So at a couple miles above the base, with an average speed of
50 to 100 kilometers per hour, 30 to 60 miles an hour, and the
second passage, the lights came from the northeast made a slight
bend more to the South, after which the white lights went out
upon reaching the southwestern edge of the base, and the red
light disappeared with a steep bend to the West.
So they're flying over that base and they're looking around
searching it with these lights. Although the lights must have
flown at varying speeds, sometimes they seem to stand
still. This distance of approximately 3
kilometers with a comparable average speed as the first has
been taken. And that says none of the
stations heard any sound during the approach and passing of the
lights, and at least no sound of significance after passing all
posts except post C obscured by the engine sound of their own
vehicle, a very soft sound was heard.
The observers from post D heard this sound shortly after the
lights passed and disappeared. The other posts heard it about
an hour after the observation. Now that's bizarre.
So they're hearing this sound now.
Maybe it's related to these UFO, maybe not.
But since some of them heard it as it passed, some of them heard
it about an hour after the observation.
That's interesting. Radar.
During neither passage was any unusual phenomena recorded on
the bases radar. Also, radar stations in the area
observed nothing particularly. Now, we know from a number of
witnesses in the Disclosure Project that the standard answer
to the questions of whether something special was observed
on radar is no. We observed nothing special.
This is also the standard rule for Dutch military bases.
However, it appears regularly that UFOs, for whatever reason,
are indeed not true on the radar.
And then it says, residents of weather, the ground temperature
at the time of observation was approximately -1 degrees
Celsius. So that's like around 30
degrees, Yeah, Fahrenheit. The humidity was 77%, and a wind
blew at a speed of approximately 16 mph from the northwest.
So it's chilly and windy. It was overcast, no stars, not a
moon with a view of approximately 25 kilometers.
So what, I don't know about 1520 miles.
The base of the cloud was approximately 1500 meters and
temperature inversions occurred at altitudes of approximately
250 to 2000 meters. Analysis of the reports, A
comparison of all reports shows that on the morning in question,
the area of social spur airspace must have been visited twice by
a system of lights. That's interesting.
System of lights From the reported agreements between the
two lighting systems and the fact that both passages that
both passages occurred shortly after each other, one gets the
impression that in both cases it concerned the same system of
lights. Although that cannot be said
with absolute certainty, In a first reaction from the Air
Force it was discerned whether the observers might have seen a
weather phenomenon by E swamp gas from auto lamps against the
mirrored air layers and inversions.
However, this statement seems to contradict the reports from the
various posts that they saw the lights almost straight overhead
and were in the light beams at the beginning of the flight
period. Post A and Post B saw the lights
simultaneously in almost perpendicular directions east
and South, which is difficult to explain as reflections.
It looks like it. Also the message from Post D
that the lights at a given moment were lower than visible
objects on the other side behind them from the field over which
it moved seems to contradict the statement.
The observers involved are very firm in their statements that it
was not a known normal type of aircraft that could have caused
the symptoms. The lights looked very different
from those of such aircraft and also with the dark contours.
That was a case the lack of noise while overflying and radar
observations. While according to base books
versions, the radar whatever much to the normal plane that
thought all those routes seems to support the statement by the
observers. Given the general conditions in
which the observations must have taken place and the way in which
the observers had responded, some felt anxious, others
resisted conversations about them, fearing ridicule.
The possibility that it was an inseen fitted graph seems to be
excluded. Also, the chance of a collection
SANSI cell seems to be negligible because the observers
were at various posts and their reports nevertheless yielded a
surprisingly coherent picture. Although during the second
passage there were no mutual context.
Given the nature of the descriptions, there seems to be
a technical description here rather than a natural or
psychological phenomena. For the time being, it remains
unclear what technical phenomena it could be.
No. It is taken of the official
position of the air base that the case is considered closed
and for the reactions to it will be referred to the N0B 0V0
working group. The conclusion?
On the basis of the currently available data, it was found
that Sosterberg base was visited on February 3rd 1979 by an
unknown air moving system of lights and that there is a clear
UFO case. Well, good for them.
They were able to utter the word UFO.
So much for the very comprehensive report of the know
of the N0B 0V0 working group, which be which became following
the observation. The members of this group were
given permission by the authorities to talk to the
witnesses and investigate the case at the airport itself.
The N0B 0V0 therefore believes that the observation is not
currently to be explained. The thing I love about this
report is that even though they kind of had talk around it a
little bit, they just finally came out and said this is what
they saw. We've got no idea what it is.
We'll call it a system of lights, but it's definitely a
UFO. Anyway, I'm not, I won't spend
too much more time on the article here.
I'll have the link up and they've got a couple comments
that they made here talking to witnesses and stuff and pretty
much going over the same thing that we just covered.
So I won't repeat myself, but I just find this to be such a
fascinating case. Here we have this, we have this
air base back in 1979 there in the Netherlands, where the
United States has a very prominent presence, by the way.
And on this particular evening, 5:00 in the evening, I didn't
think they said it was 545. You have these two large
triangular shaped craft fly overhead and you have between 12
and 15 witnesses at least that witness this thing A very
specifically describing about how the these searchlights
coming out of these things operated, how they look like
beams of light. Talking about this red light at
the rear of the craft that just shined down straight almost like
an anchor light. Talking about the speed and the
altitude and how it's just kind of moseied across this this air
base and this is a way that these reports should be written.
Our own Defense Department, arrow, whoever wants to talk
about disclosure and new websites and doing this and
doing that, they can take a look at how the Dutch were doing it
back in 1979. And just presenting the facts,
repeating what they were told by the eyewitnesses, trying to
reconstruct the size, shape and speed of these craft, and then
reporting that. And then allowing the readers,
the citizens, to make up their mind.
That's what you call real disclosure.
You cannot have disclosure without transparency.
Look at the way the Duchess did here.
This is called transparency. Look at the way we do it in our
country, in the US today. It's the opposite of
transparency. And without transparency, we
will never get disclosure. And that's why, like I always
say, we have to Crowdsource our own disclosure.
And this is how we do it. Just by finding these great
cases, reading over them, talking about them, and
comparing them to all the other cases that we know about.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning.
Over and out.