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UFO case file · UFO-6631

Belgium Location Unknown abduction report — November 23, 1944

CE4Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg1944-11-23

BELGIUM LOCATION UNKNOWN, Belgium, Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Belgium Location Unknown abduction report — November 23, 1944
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Belgium Location Unknown abduction report — November 23, 1944

Case description

An account set in Belgium on November 23, 1944, describes British anti-aircraft gunners watching a United States B-17 bomber land without an apparent crew. When the aircraft was checked, the account says that nobody was aboard and that all ten parachutes remained inside. The location, the crew's identities and their whereabouts are not supplied. No unusual being or separate flying object is described in the reported landing. The story was included in Loren Gross's 1976 publication on Charles Fort and UFOs and subsequently in the UFO*DB chronology.

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Case videos and witness interviews

Phantom Fortress: The Crewless Landing of a B-17

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This video discusses the historic empty B-17 landing story catalogued here, rather than an observed alien encounter. Historical retellings vary between November 21 and November 23, 1944.

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