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From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@li.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:39:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:36:04 -0500
Subject: Re: 'Similarities' between Belgian UFO & Vulcan
From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@li.net>
To: <updates@globalserve.net>
Re: Re: UFO UpDate: 'Similarities' between Belgian UFO & Vulcan Bomber
>From: BRETT.OLBRYS@appl.ge.com
>To: <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: UFO UpDate: 'Similarities' between Belgian UFO & Vulcan
>
>Date: Fri, Mar 21 14:27:48 1997 -0500 (EST)
>
>AVRO Vulcan Bomber
> Does anyone else notice the similarity between this Bomber
> and the Triangular craft that was photographed during the
> Belgium wave of sightings? * Take a look at it and see if
> you don't think they are similar, especially after watching
> the Quicktime movie at the address I'll provide. Pay
> attention to the very end of the movie, the very last
> frame/shot. Each corner of the Triangular Bomber is illum-
> inated just like in the Belgium sightings.
>The address to view the quicktime movie and article is:
>http://www.scifi.com/sightings/web1108/vulcan.html
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Hello Brett,
The big question for me is "wouldn't the Belgium Air Force (part of
the NATO chain) be able to figure this out somehow, before going
public with it?" When I saw the case recreated on "Unsolved
Mysteries," with the videotaped testimonies of dispatchers, police,
high brass from the Belgium military and the gun camera data I was
impressed. They were baffled. What the police described in one
sighting was that one of the triangle craft hovered over a building,
then the 3 lights in the corners of the craft merged into one light,
and the whole thing shot off faster than the eye could follow. This
does not sound like the Vulcan Bomber. A pertinent question is "Does
the Vulcan bomber have the technical capabilities to do what is
reported in the following article." If we don't know now, we'll know
when the upgrade to the present Vulcan model comes out. My vote is
the Vulcan probably can't do what was reported. (But, I could be wrong.)
It may be possible that "some" of the reports may possibly have been
related to what you say but other eyewitness descriptions seem to
refute this when examining the "core" cases.
Respectfully,
Jerry Cohen
E-mail: "Jerry Cohen" <rjcohen@li.net>
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BELGIUM CASE: (From a previous post regarding this)
* Belgium case shown below as it appeared in the July/Aug 1990
issue of CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) IUR (International UFO
Reporter). The case was reenacted on "Unsolved Mysteries" narrated by
Robert Stack. Recorded data taken by Belgian Air Force plane radar
was included in the ruination along with videotaped statements from
military & police personnel. I find it extremely difficult to believe
that the Belgian Air Force and national police would put their
reputations on the line to say something of this sort if there wasn't
something substantial to it. Something had to really shake them up
enough for them to say it as a combined group. The descriptions given
by the police in the video were amazing to say the least.
These people are trained observers to handle emergencies & wartime
events. It seems to make sense to me to trust a _large group_ of
trained observers before I will believe any individual skeptic who
_thinks_ he has proven otherwise.
>----start here----
"On the night of March 30th, one of the callers reporting a UFO was a
Captain of the national police at Pinson, and [Belgian Air Force]
Headquarters decided to make a serious effort to verify the reports.
In addition to the visual sightings, two RADAR installations also saw
the UFO. One RADAR is at Glons, southeast of Brussels, which is part
of the NATO defense group, and one at Semmerzake, west of the
Capitol, which controls the military and civilian traffic of the
entire Belgian territory. The range of the two RADARs is 300
kilometers, which is more than enough to cover the area where the
reports took place. . . . Headquarters determined to do some very
precise studies during the next 55 minutes to eliminate the
possibility of prosaic explanations for the RADAR images. Excellent
atmospheric conditions prevailed, and there was no possibility of
false echoes due to temperature inversions.
". . . at 0005 hours the order was given to the F-16s to
take off and to find the intruder. The lead pilot concentrated on
his RADAR screen, which at night is his best organ of vision. The
F-16 is equipped with very sophisticated equipment, including chase
RADAR, which is not fixed directly ahead of the airplane, but makes a
wide search in an arc of 90 degrees left and right of the nose. . . .
"Suddenly the two fighters spotted the intruder on their
RADAR screens, appearing like a little bee dancing on the scope.
Using their joy sticks like a video game, the pilots ordered the
onboard computers to pursue the target. As soon as lock-on was
achieved, the target appeared on the screen as a diamond shape,
telling the pilots that from that moment on, the F-16s would remain
tracking the object automatically . . . .
"[Before the RADAR had locked on for six seconds] the object
had speeded up from an initial velocity of 280 kph to 1,800 kph,
while descending from 3,000 meters to 1,700 meters . . . in one
second! This fantastic acceleration corresponds to 40 Gs. It would
cause immediate death to a human on board. The limit of what a pilot
can take is about 8 Gs. The trajectory of the object was extremely
disconcerting. It arrived at 1,700 meters altitude, then it dove
rapidly toward the ground at an altitude under 200 meters, and in
doing so escaped from the RADARs of the fighters and the ground units
at Glons and Semmerzake. This maneuver took place over the suburbs
of Brussels, which are so full of man-made lights that the pilots
lost sight of the object beneath them . . .
"Everything indicates that this object was intelligently
directed to escape from the pursuing planes. During the next hour
the scenario repeated twice. . .
"This fantastic game of hide and seek was observed from the
ground by a great number of witnesses, among them 20 national
policemen who saw both the object and the F-16s. The encounter
lasted 75 minutes, but nobody heard the supersonic boom which should
have been present when the object flew through the sonic barrier. No
physical damage was reported. Given the low altitude and speed of
the object, many windows should have been broken."
This case has all the hallmarks of the classic USAF
jet-scrambling cases of the 1950s and 1960s, with one notable
exception: the Belgian Air Force is not covering up anything.
For a full translation of the Paris-Match article, write to:
Robert J. Durant, 106 Hessian Hill Drive, Pennington, NJ 08534.
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