The Night the Belgium Wave Began 🛸

On the night of November 22, 1989 two police officers patrolling a rural stretch near Eupen witnessed a strange formation of bright lights hovering low above the forest. The night was quiet and cold. The usual hum of distant traffic and farmland activity was absent. The lights appeared fixed in a triangular pattern and remained suspended just above the treeline. As the officers approached, the lights revealed a massive black triangular craft that moved without sound.

The object drifted slowly across the trees with precise control. Three bright white lights sat at each corner of the triangle and a single red light pulsed in the center. The craft paused at points in its path as if observing the ground below. It then shifted direction with a smooth motion and continued across the hills surrounding Eupen. Both officers described the size as far larger than any helicopter or conventional aircraft they had ever encountered.

In the weeks that followed similar sightings spread across eastern Belgium. Civilians, police, pilots, military personnel, and radar operators reported the same details. A large triangle. Silent movement. Hovering capability. Sudden acceleration that produced no engine roar or rotor sound. More than two thousand witnesses came forward within the first year of the wave. The Belgian Air Force later scrambled F 16 aircraft to intercept one of the objects during a peak period of activity. Radar systems recorded abrupt altitude changes and velocity jumps that did not match the performance of any known aircraft of the time.

The first sighting in Eupen marked the beginning of what became one of the most thoroughly documented UFO waves in European history. The calm patrol of November 22 grew into an international case study supported by eyewitness testimony, official reports, and technical radar evidence that remains unexplained.