Petit-Rechain and the Belgian Triangle
The photographic centrepiece of the Belgian wave of 1989–90: a black triangle with a light at each corner and one in the middle, taken at Petit-Rechain near Verviers in April 1990. It went round the world, was analysed at the University of Mons and the Royal Military Academy, and produced expert talk of plasma and of an image impossible to fake. In July 2011 Patrick Maréchal went on RTL-TVI and showed how he had done it: a piece of polystyrene painted black, four spotlights and a long exposure. He had kept it to himself for twenty-one years because the joke had got away from him.
Palomar and Adamski's Venusian Scout Ships
George Adamski ran a hamburger stand at the foot of Palomar Mountain and from 1952 published photographs of a Venusian scout ship — a bell with three spheres underneath and a dome on top. The shape gave it away at once: the spheres match General Electric light bulbs exactly, and the hull matches the cover of a surgical lamp, or the hood of a chicken brooder lamp sold in the same hardware stores. Joe Nickell and others rebuilt the model from period parts and got the same photograph. Adamski maintained until his death in 1965 that he had flown to Saturn.
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