The SPANISH UFO DOCUMENTS – part 1

Columnist:

Giuliano Marinkovic

uforadio@gmail.com

http://uforadio.podomatic.com

TRIANGLES ABOVE THE BELGIUM

In the March of 1990, the large wave of UFO sightings, have caught the sky of Belgium. The reported objects were in the shape of the triangle. The most known case refers to attempted UFO interception by two Belgian planes F-16, after the objects have been detected on radar. Besides the Belgian Air Force, the investigation has been carried out also by the police and the Scientific Society from Brussel  - “Society for the Study of Space Phenomena” (on French the abbreviation is “SOBEPS”). The joint study has gathered across 2000 reports of eyewitnesses, dozens of photos and video recordings together with testimonies from the police. The Belgian Air Force has openly cooperated with the public during the study of this problem. At the end, Air Force has prepared the public report about the noted incidents. The report has been signed by the General Major Wilfried De Brouwer, Commander of Aircraft Operations at the time. On the basis of this open cooperation with the air force, SOBEPS has published the final 500-page report about the Belgian UFO incidents, under the title 'UFO Wave in the Belgium'. This new open approach of institutions, towards the UFO phenomenon, additionally was marked with the public process in Spain. The process refers to public release of Spanish UFO documents, back in 1992.

HISTORY of the SPANISH UFO DOCUMENTS

During the 1968, Spanish Air Force has started with the intensive collection of UFO reports, because of the increasing number of sightings. Air Force has also called for help from general public. The ads were published in daily papers with requests towards the citizens to report their UFO sightings to the nearest Air Base. Collected testimonies were archived and after the analysis the data have been assorted in different reports.

In 1976. journalist J. J. Benitez with the help of the certain general, has been able to acquire military documents which are describing 12 UFO incidents above the Spain. He has published his findings in the book called 'UFOs  - official documents of Spanish government'. Because of this oversight, Spanish Air Force has intensified the surveillance and level of secrecies in order to prevent such leaking of documents in the future.