The Belgian Triangular UFO: Eyewitness Accounts, Radar Encounters, and Ongoing Controversy

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Starting in 1989, thousands in Belgium reported a low, triangular UFO with three white corners and a red center seen over towns like Eupen and La Calamine, witnessed by gendarmes Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert Von Montigny who tracked a large craft with headlights and an orange center, while dispatcher Albert Creutz logged the report, and by 1990 a photo appeared as SOBEPS formed to coordinate future encounters; radar stations including NATO confirmed an unknown object that Belgian F‑16s could not lock onto as it performed extraordinary accelerations and descended from high altitudes to very low levels with no sonic boom, prompting officials such as Lt. Col. Pierre Billen and Maj. Gen. W.J.L. De Brouwer to seek explanations, while skeptics blamed atmospheric echoes or misidentifications, though Nicoll and others maintained the experiences were real, making the case controversial with many Belgian sightings but fewer in neighboring countries and leaving an enduring mystery about high‑speed triangular phenomena.