Belgian F-16 radar intercept 1990 (Belgian wave)

Night of March 30-31 1990. Belgian Air Force F-16s from Beauvechain AB intercepted a radar target tracked by Glons + Semmerzake ground radar. 9 radar-lock-ons over ~75 min, each broken in seconds by maneuvers consistent with 40g accelerations and thousands of feet altitude shifts. No visual contact by pilots. Maj Gen (then Col) Wilfried De Brouwer publicly released the radar tapes + pilot statements July 11 1990 — one of the very few cases worldwide where a national air force published its full primary records. SOBEPS + Prof Auguste Meessen (Catholic Univ of Louvain) produced civilian scientific analysis. Petit-Rechain photograph from the same April 1990 period was confessed as a hoax by Patrick Marechal in 2011 — the hoax impeaches the photo, NOT the radar/pilot data.