Eupen

We had our first site visit at DNV Speida in Newcastle, and now we're at PTC with the support of ATEP of course.

Next, in two weeks we're going to have another webinar with DNV, and first of week of June we're going to have our mini conference that takes place in Belgium in Eupen, third and fourth, a two-day event.

And we started our second year of mentorship in January with 14 pairs of mentor-mentees.

Wow.

And the case is intriguing because it intersected civilian alarm, police reports, and military radar logs in an unprecedented blend of documentation.

The fact that ordinary observers across cities such as Eupen, Verviers, and Brussels were calling gendarmes with identical descriptions, a dark triangular object gliding silently at low altitude, meant that authorities had to scramble their own data repositories, cross-referencing air traffic control recordings with on-station radar feeds in real time.

This early convergence of mass public perception and institutional record-keeping provided a richer dataset than most single-night incidents offer, but also raised the stakes for investigators, who suddenly faced dozens of independent corroborators and had to decide whether the phenomenon warranted a full military response.

Police dispatch logs from that period consistently describe an object that was huge relative to the surrounding infrastructure, with three white or pale lights arranged in a perfect triangle, moving at speeds inconsistent with conventional aircraft, yet hovering just beneath 3,000 meters.

The admission highlighted not only how visual media can shape collective memory of an event but also how the integrity of evidence can be compromised by the very tools used to document it, particularly when the source material is digitized, compressed, and shared across social media platforms that prioritize virality over verification.

This case underscores a recurring issue in UAP research: that post-hoc fabrication, even if done unknowingly or for artistic purposes, can retroactively taint the authenticity of otherwise credible reports.

The discovery that the photograph was not contemporaneous with the sightings prompted researchers to re-examine the original witness accounts logged by Belgian gendarmes and civilian reporters, many of whom had recounted seeing a triangular formation in a forest near Eupen on the night of March 30.

These early logs describe a silent object that glowed with three evenly spaced lights—blue at the apex and white at the base—that moved with no detectable engine noise or aerodynamic trails.

Ähm, kann man die Amortisationsfrage nicht so gut-- Also die, die Technik, die wir verbaut haben, wird sich amortisieren, ja.

Ich war jetzt auch kürzlich in, in, äh, dem schönen ostbelgischen Ort Eupen.

Da gibt es ein Hotel, das heißt Sleepwood Hotel.

Also wenn mal jemand in Aachen ist und irgendwie richtig cool übernachten will, dann lohnt sich’s vielleicht, das in Eupen zu machen.

Die haben auch, äh, alle Äh, alle Räume.

Ich glaub, das Haus ist halt 'n altes, ich glaub, oder nee, ich glaub, die haben das auch neu, haben die das auch neu gebaut.

Ähm, ich bin Jörg Vomberg.

Ich wohne in Eupen, das ist in Belgien und dort arbeite ich für das Ministerium der deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft.

Wir branden uns, ihr seht's da oben, [lacht] unser Ostbelgien.

Das ist ähnlich ein bisschen wie Südtirol.

Ähm, es gibt drei offizielle Landessprachen in Ostbelgien.

Eine davon ist Deutsch.

Das verhält sich so, dass nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, ähm, mit dem Ver, äh, Sailler-Vertrag, ähm, Eupen, Malmedy und Sankt Vith Belgien zugeschlagen worden ist.

Ähm, da könnte ich jetzt mit Sicherheit viel drüber erzählen, aber das wär ja dann eher 'n geschichtlicher Podcast.