SOBEPS gives this information:
A short while after 07:15 p.m. near the GB of Eupen on the Herbestahl street, Miss K. saw a dark motionless mass with three big headlights.
Their intensity is compared to those of the projectors of a soccer field.
The craft is motionless, its shape is indistinct, but it seems to be viewed from the front because the three lights are almost on the same horizontal line.
After some time, the headlights pivoted to the right, and then the craft started moving very slowly Herbestahl.
The sighting lasted 10 minutes.
Source:
SOBEPS again summarized the observation in his second volume, saying this
On November 29, 1989, at 07:15 p.m., in Eupen, a witness saw something motionless at an altitude of about 150 meters, close to the crossroads and in a horizontal position.
It looked like a dark mass of solid appearance and poorly defined shape, with three large headlights that emitted a white, powerful light, comparable to that produced by soccer fields projectors.
These three lights are arranged more or less in line, one at each end and one in the center.
After having pivoted to the right, the object started to move very slowly and went away.
No noise seemed to come from the phenomenon, but there was traffic.
Source:
There is a summary for this observation, published on the web by the Belgian ufologist Godelieve Van Overmeire in her catalog circa 1999, now gone, but much copied by UFO websites and forums. This summary is as follows:
1989, November 29
BELGIUM, Eupen
[Other sighting report.] At the same time [05:50 p.m.] Another witness near the Eupen GB on Herbesthal street sees a motionless phenomenon, at an altitude of about 150 m, near the crossroads and horizontal. It looks like a dark mass of solid appearance and poorly defined with three large headlights that emit white, bright light, comparable to that produced by the projectors of a soccer field. These three lights are arranged more or less in line, one at each end and one in the center. After rotating to the right, the object starts moving very slowly and goes away... No noise seemed to come from the phenomenon, but there was traffic. (VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 195)
Source example:
At this time, it is pitch black. But this happens in an area with public lighting of the city of Eupen.
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Above: localization from the SOBEPS map.
In gray, the city of Eupen, in black, the roads, and the green circle shows the localization given by SOBEPS for the observation.
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Above:: localization on a map.
Mw green line is to indicate Herbestahl street.
The green spot shows the localization given by SOBEPS.
If there wasn't a mention of the distance of 150 meters, and if there were no apparently concomitant observations, then this observation would make anyone shrug their shoulders: airplane, helicopter, ultralight plane...
If the distance of 150 meters was real, an airplane or a helicopter would necessarily have been heard, even with the traffic noise. An ultralight or balloon would still be possible, as well as several helicopters or several helicopters or several ultralight planes flying in formation, for example, since a shape was not clearly observed.
Information that would allow an assessment is sorely lacking: no duration, no angular sizes, no angular displacements, no elevation angle, no headings, etc. Obviously, this is a sighting such as notified by the witness, probably by telephone, one of those for which SOBEPS could not conduct an investigation.
So we are just left with someone else who was intrigued by something in the sky in Eupen at that date.
| Version: | Created/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | September 12, 2013 | Creation. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | September 12, 2013 | First publication. |
