The Belgian UFO Wave, 1989–1990: The Triangle Over Wallonia, and the Night the Jets Were Scrambled

The Grand Place in Brussels at night

About 4 min readFrom November 1989, thousands of people in Belgium reported a silent, triangular object with lights at its corners. On 30 March 1990, the Belgian Air Force scrambled F-16s — and then, in an unprecedented press conference, said it could not explain what its jets had chased.