It's been 33 years since one of the biggest unsolved UFO sightings in history.
It all began in November 1989 when several Belgian citizens and police officers sighted UFOs across the sky above the small town of Eupen, near the German border.
Officers Heinrich Nicoll and Euber Von Montige were on patrol when they saw a field near the road that was lit up like a football field.
But when they pulled over to the side of the road – they discovered more than they expected.
They claimed to have seen a huge triangular platform and large headlights, with an orange flashing light when they called it into dispatch – who didn't believe them.
However, dispatcher Albert Creutz recorded the unusual object in his log as the officers proceeded to follow the object for over thirty minutes.
But it soon began rising into the sky with another object and disappeared.
They suspected it could have been an American military aircraft as eleven other officers and over 100 citizens claimed to see it too.
However, this theory later crumbled when the encounters kept happening.
The incidents peaked on the night of March 30-31, 1990 as another object was found on the radar and Belgian Air Force F-16s were sent to investigate.
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However, the pilots couldn't track it down and no public reports were made on that night.
But in the two weeks following the encounter, 143 people filed reports claiming they saw it.
To this day, nobody has been able to explain all of the sightings that made the Belgium UFO wave but some pictures emerged later of the alleged objects.
However, in 2011, one of the images, which had become known as became Petit-Rechain, was debunked as one of the people behind the picture has revealed more than 20 years later in a TV interview.
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The forger, who pulled off the hoax when he was 18, said: “You can do a lot with a little, we managed to trick everyone with a piece of polystyrene.
“We made the model with polystyrene, we painted it and then we started sticking things to it, then we suspended it in the air… then we took the photo."
One of the triangular objects was believed to be a Soviet satellite breaking up.
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