Swedish UFO sightings reported to Finnish archives

Article written by: Jarkko Päiväniemi
Translated by: Anita Hellström-Sandberg:

In Sweden there are several hundreds of Ufo sightings reported every year. But there are also other observations - these sightings are reported to foreign Ufo societies for some reason. There are a number of observations that have been reported to the finnish Ufo organisation called the Suomen Ufotutkijat ry.

Ulvgryt, Örebro in Sweden
Sommer of 1945 and 1949:
In the Summer of 1945 a six-year-old boy was picking raspberries on his parents farm. Suddenly he spotted three silvercoloured lightspheres bouncing up and down. They were about the size of tennisballs and appeared about 10 metres in front of the boy. Estimated height was about 1,5 metres.When the boy approached them and even tried to grab the silvry spheres, they just slipped away - and vanished totally.

The second observation took place four years later in the same location. This time the sighting was about a cigar-shaped craft.It was reddish and hovered in the sky for a couple of minutes. Then the craft began to move slowly.The height was estimated of 1 kilometre. The boy who was ten years old at that time, ran into the house and told the others to come out and take a look.But when they got there, the cigar-shaped craft had disappeared.

One may add, that the man who reported the two sightings, had also seen two unidentified phenomena and reported them to Finland. The first observation was about a light-phenomen in a starry nightsky. On the second occasion he reported having seen a atrange object flying in front of a twinengined aeroplane.

Outside of Ekerö, Stockholm in Sweden
09.05 1974:
This observation was reported by a Finno-Swede who was 37 years old and worked as a ships electrician.The sighting took place when he was taking a trip by boat together with a friend.It was early dawn andabout 2-3 kilometres from their position, when the man spotted a spherical craft which was shimmering in blue. He estimated its size at approximately 35 metres in diameter. The craft was surrounded by 5-6 yellow windows or perhaps smaller crafts. The man shouted to his friend to come up on the deck and look at the object. When his friend came up they stared at the craft for 2 minutes. Then the craft began to descend and landed behind a clump of trees.

A couple of days later, the man and his wife returned to the area where he thought that the craft had disappeared out of sight. In the middle of a forest they found a gravel-pit, with no roads leading to it. The gravel-pit was 30-40 metres in diameter and 10 metres deep. They both associated the gravel-pit with the previous observation.

Abrahamsberg, Stockholm Sweden
10 am, in the Summer of 1976:
A man and a woman went for a walk on a warm evening. There where some thin clouds high up in the sky. The couple spotted three plough-formed formations above the clouds. Each formation consisted of 3-4 dots shining clearly,but with different colours. The man estimated, by his own calculations, that the objects were moving with approximately 30.000 km/h. Those days the couple belonged to a religious church and the woman commented on their observation that -it must have been a sign from God.

Kapellskär, Sweden
1979, in the evening:
This sighting is reported by a Finnish woman and her friend when they were visiting Sweden. On a clear and sunny after-noon they were driving towards the harbour of Kapellskär. When they passed by the side of a glade in the woods, they noticed a sphere of light which appeared "out of nowhere" in front of the car. They stopped the car and both of them saw how this sphere of light moved slowly across the road from the right side to the left.It left no trace, no sound or smoke or sparks. After about 10 seconds the sphere of light disappeared into the woods on the left side of the road. The Finnish woman estimated the light-sphere to be about 1-2 metres in diameter moving approximately 2 metre above the ground. The closest approach was 2 metres from the car.

Heikki Virtanen, who is a member of the UFO-research in Finland has read the reported observations:

- In four of the cases there are not enough of information and we have not been able to check them... however, in the fifth case, I refer to the sighting at Ekerö, they could really have seen the moon or some man-made structure which left clouds of smoke behind it-says Virtanen.