- Note: Quite a number of people
have emailed to say that they believe this image is very likely a low-grade
telescopic photo of Saturn, and not a UFO. We will accept on good faith
that Paul's story is true, but it may be that the photo he found was not
the UFO photos he had heard his father speak about.
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- The picture I send you was taken by my father during
the time he was enlisted in the Belgian army. (army-duty) He died in 1992
and I have no means to check if this is the picture he took, but I believe
it is. He told me this story when I was a kid and he wasn't really a believer
in ufo's. He always said this was probably some new kind of radar they
were testing and that they weren't allowed to know anything about it. He
told me he still had the picture but he didn't know where he put it. I
recently went through some old pictures and found this picture in an envelope
with the insignia of the Belgian Air force. I immediately remembered his
story and decided to sent the picture and the story to your website. I
don't know if this picture or the story are genuine but I know my father
would not joke about stuff like this. He was a man of science and wouldn't
have told it when it did not happen. Feel free to check this picture and
feel free to post this mail.
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- The story goes as follows :
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- He enlisted in the army in September 1954 for his 15
months of army duty (He was 22 at that time). After a few months of basic
training at the air force Base Koksijde (still in use) he was ordered to
continue his duty at the air force base Marche en Famenne (The Ardennes)
where new pilots where trained. Because he was a teacher with a major in
physics, maths and chemistry, they asked him to tutor physics and arithmetic
to the pilots in training. They also gave him the ranking of corporal because
only a person with some ranking could teach pilots. He became friends with
a lot of them and he accompanied them frequently when they went for a drink.
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- On one of the evenings when they where coming back to
the base they saw a weird flying object hovering over the base. They all
thought at first this was some kind of kite with a lamp attached or some
lamp dangling on a post. But then they Noticed it moved and started hovering
over an other area of the military base. They ran inside to get a camera
and my father took several pictures of this object so they could prove
this to their commander. He gave them all pictures except one he hid to
keep for himself. He and his friends were told by the commanding officers
that this was probably a light effect of the moon or something and that
the radar had not picked up anything at all that night. The whole incident
was forgotten until a few months later some of them talked to a radar operator
who was at call that particular night. The operator told them the object
was recorded on radar and that it had appeared several nights in a row.
Some officer also took a moving picture of this object. This film was investigated
by the intelligence service of the army. The operator also asked them not
to talk about this as he was ordered to keep this quit. The incident was
not talked about anymore. A few months later his army duty ended and my
father went back home, with this picture as a souvenir.
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- Kind regards,
- Paul Colson
Gent, Belgium
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