Petit-Rechain triangle photograph, later admitted hoax

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Dark triangle with lights at its corners against a black background
The Petit-Rechain photograph, which its author later admitted was a hoax J.S. Henrardi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A photo said to show a lighted triangle over Petit-Rechain became the best-known image of the Belgian wave and was analyzed by the Royal Military Academy and others. Its author later admitted it was a hoax.

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  1. PressOVNIS: En 1989, la Belgique voit des OVNIS partout (opens in a new tab)RTBF / 2022-07-02

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This reports on Belgian UFO wave begins (29 Nov 1989).

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