Sighting between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. reported by Mr. S.:
The witness is a brigadier of the “water and forests” public service designated as “Mr. S”. His home is in a road parallel to the Verviers Street, in Eupen, near the exit of Eupen.
Between 05:30 p.m. and 06:00 p.m., he was going home driving a Jeep, and suddenly saw a set of lights appear in the sky, moving at an estimated height of 200 meters above the ground, and a rather large distance of about 1 km.
He discerns that there are 4 or 5 lights arranged in a rhombus. They are not very illuminating. The lights move in the direction of Membach, but very slowly, the witness considered that this slowness was anomalous.
He cut the engine of the Jeep off, got out of the car, and was very surprised to hear no sound of aircraft or helicopter.
After a minute, what he was observing goes out of sight behind the obstacles.
The investigators note that the observation shows a path that is in line with that of the previous sightings.
Source:
SOBEPS published a sketch showing the arrangement of the lights and the direction of the movement observed, a sketch that looks like this:
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I locate the observation like this, based on the given information. The witness is in a street parallel to the Verviers Street (“Vervierserstrasse” shown by my red line) at the exit of Eupen, so it is likely that he is on the street shown by the green line. He observes the group of lights moving in the direction of Membach. It is not said where the lights were relative to the witness, so I can only show where Membach is: in the green circle.
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A second source exists for this sighting. It comes from investigator Patrick Vidal, LDLN representative in the Benelux countries, and tells what follows.
At Eupen, at about 05:45 p.m., to the nearest 15 minutes, Monsieur S. arrived at the end of rue du Roi Albert, near the Intercom electricity station, and saw, towards the West and moving away on a NE-SW trajectory, towards Membach, a group of four of five lights, which he had in view for about one minute.
Although he had switched off his car engine, he heard no sound from the phenomenon. Admittedly the distance was the order of about one kilometer or so, and the lights at a height which he estimated might be about 200 meters, and admittedly the Vervier road, pretty busy with traffic at that time of the day, lay between the witness and the phenomenon.
The estimated size of the object was 25 meters by 15 meters, and the speed was no more than 50 or 60 miles per hour.
This source provides this situation map (the “témoin” arrow indicates the witness position):
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This source also provides this sketch:
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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
Between 05:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. a resident of a street parallel to the street of Verviers, suddenly sees at 1 km a set of five lights forming a rhombus in the sky moving at 200 m above the ground. The witness hears no noise. After a minute the phenomenon is hidden by obstacles. (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p 22.)
Source example:
| Version: | Created/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | September 3, 2013 | Creation. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | September 3, 2013 | First publication. |
