Case file · Sighting
Petit-Rechain photograph
The famous photo of a dark triangular craft with lights, taken during the Belgian wave, was admitted to be a fake made with polystyrene in 2011.
1990 CE · 50.59, 5.81 · status: hoax
The account
The slide, said to have been taken at Petit-Rechain in April 1990, was promoted by Belgian ufologists (SOBEPS) as the best image of the triangles and studied for years. In 2011 Patrick Maréchal told RTL television he had made the model from painted polystyrene with spotlights and photographed it.
The sceptical view
Confessed hoax; it should not be used as evidence for the wave.