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"On the night of March 30th, one of the callers reporting a UFO was a
Captain of the national police at Pinson,  and [Belgian Air Force]
Headquarters decided to make a serious effort to verify the reports.
In addition to the visual sightings, two RADAR installations also saw
the UFO.  One RADAR is at Glons, southeast of Brussels, which is part
of the NATO defense group, and one at Semmerzake, west of the
Capitol, which controls the military and civilian traffic of the
entire Belgian territory.  The range of the two RADARs is 300
kilometers, which is more than enough to cover the area where the
reports took place. . . . Headquarters determined to do some very
precise studies during the next 55 minutes to eliminate the
possibility of prosaic explanations for the RADAR images.  Excellent
atmospheric conditions prevailed, and there was no possibility of
false echoes due to temperature inversions.
 
        ". . .  at 0005 hours the order was given to the F-16s to
take off and to find the intruder.  The lead pilot concentrated on
his RADAR screen, which at night is his best organ of vision.  The
F-16 is equipped with very sophisticated equipment, including chase
RADAR, which is not fixed directly ahead of the airplane, but makes a
wide search in an arc of 90 degrees left and right of the nose. . . .
 
        "Suddenly the two fighters spotted the intruder on their
RADAR screens, appearing like a little bee dancing on the scope.
Using their joy sticks like a video game, the pilots ordered the
onboard computers to pursue the target.  As soon as lock-on was
achieved, the target appeared on the screen as a diamond shape,
telling the pilots that from that moment on, the F-16s would remain
tracking the object automatically . . . .
 
        "[Before the RADAR had locked on for six seconds] the object
had speeded up from an initial velocity of 280 kph to 1,800 kph,
while descending from 3,000 meters to 1,700 meters . . . in one
second!  This fantastic acceleration corresponds to 40 Gs.  It would
cause immediate death to a human on board.  The limit of what a pilot
can take is about 8 Gs.  The trajectory of the object was extremely
disconcerting.  It arrived at 1,700 meters altitude, then it dove
rapidly toward the ground at an altitude under 200 meters, and in
doing so escaped from the RADARs of the fighters and the ground units
at Glons and Semmerzake.  This maneuver took place over the suburbs
of Brussels, which are so full of man-made lights that the pilots
lost sight of the object beneath them . . .
 
        "Everything indicates that this object was intelligently
directed to escape from the pursuing planes.  During the next hour
the scenario repeated twice. . .
 
        "This fantastic game of hide and seek was observed from the
ground by a great number of witnesses, among them 20 national
policemen who saw both the object and the F-16s.  The encounter
lasted 75 minutes, but nobody heard the supersonic boom which should
have been present when the object flew through the sonic barrier.  No
physical damage was reported.  Given the low altitude and speed of
the object, many windows should have been broken."
 
        This case has all the hallmarks of the classic USAF
jet-scrambling cases of the 1950s and 1960s, with one notable
exception:  the Belgian Air Force is not covering up anything.
 
        For a full translation of the Paris-Match article, write to:
Robert J. Durant, 106 Hessian Hill Drive, Pennington, NJ 08534.
 
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