Documents:

SWEDEN

CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND IN SMAELAND

By Haekan Sterner

Date: Friday 3 February 1984
Time: Around 1.50 am
Place: Between Vàxjö and Tingryd
Witness: Ante Jonsson

Nature of sighting: Several huge objects together with creatures

A dark night a little more than a year ago something very strange and dramatic happened close by a road between Vàxjö and Tingsryd. A man was pulled out of his car and came close of being abducted by small strange creatures. This was short after he almost had collided with a UFO that had landed on the road... The man was Ante Jonsson, 41 years of age and living in Tingsryd. He claims that he experienced this spooky and incredible event the night towards 3 February 1984.

Ante Jonsson had spent the evening with some friends in Ingelstad, a village 12 miles south of Vàxjö. At 1.00 am he left to drive south towards his home in Tingsryd about 14 miles distant.

He tells: "The road was slippery and it started to snow. I went on a bit slower and I slowed down even more just before a meadow where I knew that mooses used to cross the road. It was a couple of miles before the village Vàckelsaeng. Just before that meadow I met a pedestrian on the other side of the road. When I reached the meadow I saw something through my left side window that made me look twice. I turned the handle to open the window and to my big surprise I saw something huge and oblong hovering, without making a sound, just a few feet above the distant part of the meadow. It should have been almost 350 feet away and appeared to be 250-300 feet long and 30 feet high. The shape looked like a submarine with curved ends and something rising up from the middle. The external erection was longer and more curved at the top than the tower on a submarine. No light could be seen from the object -it was completely black. Although dark and snowing its outlines could easily be seen. I looked for the pedestrian I spotted earlier, but no one could be seen beside the road any longer. Then I came to think of my camera and that it would be fantastic if I could take a picture of such a strange object. I was sure that it wasn't any airplane or any other normal object. Since I am rather interested in photographing I usually bring my camera along when I drive longer distances, but this time I naturally hadn't brought it along. I therefore decided to drive home to fetch it and take a chance on that the strange craft would remain sited. It was really hovering without moving. As fast as I could -despite the slippery road -I returned home, rushed in and got hold of my camera. My wife who was sleeping woke up and wondered what was going on. I explained in a hurry what I had seen north of Vàckelsaeng and I was going to drive back to take some pictures".

UFO blocking the road

"When I returned to the site I became disappointed to see that the object was gone. The snowing had stopped. I looked around while I slowly drove along the road. There was no traffic and I can't remember meeting a single car either when I drove home or back again. I soon quit searching and thought of turning back at a sideroad further along. Just before I was to slow down to turn around I spotted something blocking the road just pass the crossing. I got all shook up and stepped on the break, which made the car skid and turn a full circle on the road. It stopped just a few feet from a large and high object that was completely black, just like the one from the meadow. The headlights shone on the matte surface of the object. The object was 50-60 feet wide and maybe 20-30 feet high. Beneath the object I could see three bulges that looked like