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others watched strange lights darting about. Two elliptical objects joined in the north, another in the south, illuminating the flight line by shining beams down to the ground. They all disappeared before 4:00 A.M. Some days later, USAF intelligence agents arrived at RAF Walton and confiscated the radar tapes. There are numerous stories, conflicting and unverified, that have come from this incident. One of the more provocative ones involves one of the security policeman. He apparently was one of many in a convoy of both American and British military assembled that night at Rendlesham Forest. The assemblage included gas-powered "light-ails" (trailer-mounted lights used for illuminating large areas), large movie cameras, and helicopters overhead. He described the object at the center of attention as taking the appearance of a transparent aspirin tablet, hovering about one foot off the ground, approximately 50 feet in diameter, with a bright, pulsating, yellow mist inside. He and some others were about ten feet away. He heard a field radio announcement, "Here it comes." A red light appeared and hovered about 20 feet over the aspirin-shaped object and then broke up into a shower of particles. Suddenly, in place of the red light and the aspirin-shaped object, another vehicle appeared. He said it was a domed disk, bright white in color, with an intricately detailed surface. "As he and the other men walked around the object they noticed a strange effect. Their own shadows were cast onto the object, apparently from the Milka Lt ae ta ATLa Lt. ata. ‘light-ails' in the field. Not only did their shadows bend upwards at the head, but as they walked and then stopped, the shadows would appear to advance one pace more and then stop. Stunned and disbelieving of this effect, he and the others walked and stopped several times, each time noticing the effect repeat itself. The third time they tried this a light came over the head of a shadow and moved from one head to another. ”! Later, he and the others would be checked for radiation, debriefed, and cautioned to maintain extreme security. He maintains that versions of the story leaked to British media were deliberately contrived to mislead the public. False evidence was intended to be discovered to discredit and thus preserve secrecy. One of the best-documented and most mysterious UFO waves occurred over the skies of Belgium between November 1989 and March 1990. During this period more than 26,000 sightings of triangular-shaped UFOs were noted by civilians, policemen, military personnel, and NATO fighter pilots. During the four-month period a large amount of data was gathered by military police, Air Force officials, and civilian scientists from the Belgian Society for the Study of Space Phenomena, known as (SOBEPS). What is unusual about this wave of UFOs is that for the first time in history government officials, led by the Belgian Minister of Defense, Guy Coeme, authorized government personnel and Air Force officials to fully cooperate with civilian UFO researchers. According to SOBEPS files, the first sightings occurred on the night of November 7, 1989, when two military policemen from Esneux observed a giant craft hovering silently with two powerful lights directed downward at the ground. On November 15, 1989, police officer Frances Michalczyk saw another large triangular craft floating silently 44 THE BELGIAN WAVE