F-16 Radar Scramble (30-31 Mar 1990).
documentedclose_encounterLandmark High-Strangeness Cases
Belgian Air Force scrambled two F-16s after ground radars (Glons, Semmerzake, Beauvechain) tracked unknowns; pilots got brief radar contacts but no visual.
The night is the wave's evidentiary peak: multi-sensor ground radar plus F-16 onboard radar tapes. At least one ground-radar/F-16 correlation was reported, weakening a pure electronic-interference explanation, but analysts disagreed on whether returns were real targets. Pilots never visually acquired the object. The popular 'eight locks' and extreme-kinematics figures exceed what the abridged official report supports.