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Auguste Meessen
Physicist and Belgian UFO investigator
Who they are
Auguste Meessen was a physics professor who participated in SOBEPS’s investigation of the Belgian UFO reports. His published account discusses witness reports, investigation and radar limitations from an investigator’s perspective. It is one part of the case record, alongside military documentation and the separate history of the Petit-Rechain photograph.
His account documents how a scientifically trained participant interpreted the Belgian wave; its claims remain attributable to him.
Selected contributions
- Investigated Belgian reports with SOBEPS and published an account of the sightings and radar questions.Source ↗
Selected works
Report · 1991
The Belgian sightings
Meessen presents his investigation of the Belgian reports and discusses aspects of the radar evidence. It is an investigator’s interpretation, useful alongside the separate Air Force record.
International UFO Reporter, May/June 1991; headnote identifies earlier publication in Inforespace in November 1990.
Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Read opening sections on November 29 reports, the author’s investigation and radar limitations. Later case narratives in the article were not comprehensively checked.
In the timeline
- November 1989Belgium’s UFO reports prompt an Air Force response
Biography sources
- The Belgian sightings ↗International UFO Reporter, May/June 1991; CUFOS