SOBEPS gives this information:
Mrs. C., attached to the alderman of the city of Verviers, was returning home with her 22-year-old daughter on November 29, 1989.
At about 05:30 p.m., they arrived in the street where they resided, between Verviers and Andrimont, and there they noticed a "huge" dark mass, motionless about 500 meters above the ground. The mass was shaped like a triangle with three large white lights near the corners, and a flashing red light in the center of the triangle.
The triangular outline was well discernible against the clearer background of the sky.
The witnesses were convinced that the blinking red light corresponded to a ball, placed a little below the flat bottom surface. It rotated like a beacon.
They went out of the car to open the garage, and were surprised that the object was hovering almost at their vertical.
The engine of the car was stopped, they did not hear a sound, not even when the object started to move.
They noticed that the triangle moved oddly with its base forward.
They went inside the house and found that the object was going away in a straight line towards Battice.
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In their second volume, SOBEPS came back on this testimony, in a collection of sample cases of shapes and lights during the Belgian flap.
SOBEPS says that on November 19, 1989 at 05:25 p.m., the observation in Andrimont had two witnesses, and quotes, "Suddenly she sees clearly silhouetted against the sky still somewhat clear, a huge mass in the form of an isosceles triangle, dark, fitted at each corner with a large white and powerful headlight, and in the center, a red 'ball' flashing like a beacon. This red lights has a clear spherical appearance and seems to be set significantly below the triangular structure 'like a hanging Christmas ball.'"
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Another report, in the Flying Saucer Review, indicates for this observation:
At around 1730 hrs., at Andrimont, Mme Colemont and her daughter saw an enormous triangle with three powerful white lights and another light which was red and flashing or, rather, rotating like a revolving coastal station light. The thing seemed to be at an altitude of around 500 metres, and was travelling slowly and soundlessly, with its wide side towards the front.
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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, between Verviers and Andrimont
Two witnesses arrive in the street where they live and then see a huge dark mass motionless at about 500 m above the ground. It has the shape of a triangle with three large white lights near the corners. A red flashing light in the center of the triangle. The witnesses are convinced that the flashing light is a ball under the flat underside. The ball spins like a beacon. Leaving their car they are surprised to see the object hovering at their vertical. The engine of the car is stopped, but they do not hear any noise from the machine, not even when it started slowly moving with the basis forward. (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p 28)
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Above: According to the map of the observations by the SOBEPS (first source cited), the observation is about the red dot. We so see a residential area there. Andrimont is in the northeast, Verviers is the town at the south.
A very remarkable thing about this report is that the red light is perceived as if it were a sort of ball, hung lower than the bottom surface of the UFO. Indeed, this detail appears in other reports, and in some of the reports the red ball comes off the object and flies about on its own. This is in my opinion something very important, completely silenced by those commentators who insist that these objects were aircraft or helicopters.
| Version: | Created/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | September 19, 2013 | Creation. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | September 19, 2013 | First publication. |
