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light up the cottage at all. The brightness began to vanish by and by from my fingers after some 30 seconds, and at last it disappeared completely.

Immediately, I went out to reinvestigate the light phenomenon on the forest road, but it too, had disappeared. Erkki didn't follow me outside, but looked through the window, even if he was looking in the wrong direction. He didn't see me, because of the darkness. I tried to listen and see something in the darkness of night perhaps for five minutes, but nothing happened. At last I dared to go to my car, but I was quite afraid. I backed my car to the cottage yard.

During the evening we were thinking what really had taken place. I could not sleep well that night. In the morning we investigated the area where the light phenomenon was seen, but there was not trace of any kind to be found. It was raining a little in the morning. After I had told about the matter at home, we came back on Tuesday (30 July) at the same point of time, together with other persons, but nothing happened.

On Wednesday, I called several professors at the Biological institute and Institute on environmental research at the University of Jyväskylä. They could not give me any complete answers directly. However, they suggested two possibilities, namely fireflies and a kind of luminous bacteria. A firefly emits point-like light, whereas the light from bacteria is yellow-green. These phenomena, however, are observed mainly around the equator, so they are not satisfactory as an explanation to these phenomena".

[Image caption:] Olavi Schroderus showing his hands.

Investigations

Lasse Ahonen from The UFO Research of Finland visited the observation place together with Olavi Schroderus 10 August 1985. The place where the light spot had been, is the left hand side of the forest road, seen from the cottage. Nothing could be seen on the ground where the light spot had been. There were several ant paths on the place, and the small insects seemed to move as usual.

The first observation was made from a distance of 16 m, when only a clearly contrasted reddish light spot was seen on the ground. The diameter was then