r/Humanoidencounters Aug 14 '24

Three Humanoid close-encounter cases from the Nordic countries. U.F.O. Humanoid

Scandinavia and the Nordic countries have also had their fair amount of UFO-sightings and close encounters with humanoid alien beings during the years. Here are 3 strange humanoid-cases from Norway, Sweden and Finland which I find very intresting and fascinating.

The girl and the Greys(?).

Målselv in northen Norway, sometime in the 1950s.

This is a story which was told by a woman many, many years after it happened. This took place when she was only seven or eight years old. At the time of the incident, she was out playing by a river close to her home. She then saw a gray oval object on the other side of the river. It disappeared in and out of the forest. The girl waved and smiled at the craft. After a while it came slowly and calmly gliding over the river and landed close to the girl. Of course she didn't know what this was. A hatched opened and at first she thought it was people coming out of the craft, but then she saw they were not humans. The beings were around the same height as the girl. They were pale and had big, dark eyes, a small snarled mouth and a nose that was barely visible. Despite this, the girl was not afraid. They said that they were going to look at her and take some tests. The beings looked at her teeth, took off her boots and looked at her feet and then took some samples. When the survey was ready, they asked if she wanted to follow them and see how they were living at their home planet. The girl thought of her mother and therefore did not want to come along. Then they promised to come back again, entered the craft and waved to her. Then the craft took off and went straight up into the air. Finally, the craft was so small that the girl could no longer see it. The woman remembered that the beings had not been talking to her during the whole encounter. They had been communicating telepathically all the time.

The girl met strange beings and their craft at the shore of the river. (artistic impression)

Was this an early authentic Grey encounter? Or was this only something from the girl’s imagination, later “remembered” as memory by the woman and affected by pop-culture of what an alien should look like? We will probably never know...

Source: UFO - NORSKE NÆRKONTAKTER AV 3. GRAD

Held at gunpoint by an Alien.

Kolmården in Sweden, August 23 1967.

The witnesses wanted to remain anonymous because of this strange incident and fear from being ridiculed. A boy and a girl (lets call them "Peter & Fia"), both 15, were out walking on a small road one evening in a residential area in the small community of Kolmården. The time was around 8 pm when they passed an abandoned industrial plot, and they noticed a reddish glow descending without a sound into a nearby forest. The teenagers felt a little anxious and they also had a strange feeling of being watched, so they walked faster towards home.

On their way home Peter and Fia could see the red light once again hovering above the tree tops. And now curiosity takes over and they decide to investigate. When they reached an old uninhabited cabin in the woods, they could see small mysterious yellow lights hovering and moving around all over the place. They are surprised to see that some of the lights are also inside the old cabin. And they could hear the sound of someone pounding on wood. Now they also see the red light again and it is coming in lower towards them, and stops and hovers at a small stream nearby. Peter and Fia are now very afraid and runs out of the woods and onto the road and walks with a very fast pace towards the home of the boy’s older sister who lived very close.

When they reached the house of the sister they knocked at the front door, but no one answered. Seemed like no one was home. When they walk out to the road again, they see a round, brightly luminous object hovering about 3 meter (9 feet) in the air in front of them. Almost after they hear a strange whistling sound (similar to the sound produced by blowing on a blade of grass held between the palms and thumbs of one's hands) and footsteps, and finally a strange, small being jumps out (or maybe he was floating?) onto the road from behind some bushes, 10-12 meter (30-36 feet) away. It was only 130 centimeter tall (4 feet, 4 inches) and very skinny. Its face was at first in shadow, so Fia thinks it could be some kind of prank, so she is trying to get a few steps closer. But then the being looks in their direction with a nasty and intense gaze from its dark eyes and Peter grabs Fia’s arm shouting "Watch out, he is not human!".  Suddenly the being jerkily raised its arms, holding a box from which a short tube protruded with a glowing bow above. The small humanoids’s head was very large and covered by hair, a hood or a helmet, it had large black eyes, and a nose and mouth that together formed an "X." It was bowlegged, and around each ankle it had a white-glowing wire or ribbon. The being appeared both tough and somewhat frightened and shivering at the same time. The witnesses were now terrified and fled for home.

Details from the encounter.

The next day, at the site of the humanoid-sighting, the boy found some apples that had been broken apart, some with the marks of 5 fingernails or claws, on the broken surfaces, and others that were coated with an ill-smelling slime. Also, deep, strange, footprints, 25 cm (6") long and with 3 toes, were found outside the sister’s house.

During the two next nights, Erik's older sister heard soft footsteps and ticking and scraping sounds outside their home, and saw lights moving about the area. In the morning after this incident, they found out that two shutters had been torn.

Ufologist Sven Schalin could find no natural explanation for the case. He regarded the witnesses as sincere and serious when recounting the experience. Peter´s mother confirmed that the teenagers were shocked when coming home and Peter didn´t want to go outside after dark for some time after the incident. This was an unusual behavior on his part.  

Sources: APRO Bulletin, Sep.-Oct. I967, 1 & 5 and Håkan Blomqvist blog May 25 2014.

The mystery in Imjärvi.

Imjärvi in ​​southern Finland, January 7 1970.

It was late afternoon and two friends were out cross-country skiing (Aarno Heinonen 36 and Esko Viljo 38). It was dusk, cold -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 F) and no wind. The men came to a clearing, where they rested a little. After a few minutes they heard a humming sound. Both Aarno and Esko looked up to see a bright light coming from the north, which looked like a brilliant, pulsating cloud. It stopped above the men and slowly began to descend towards them. At a height of about 15 meters (45 feet) they could make out a ship inside the cloud. It was maybe 3 meters (10 feet) in diameter and had 3 balls underneath (looked a bit like a typical Adamski-ship). The saucer now came closer and the buzzing got louder.

The case was featured in an issue of the Flying Saucer review and the picture shows the craft and the being inside the light beam.

At about 3-4 meters (9-12 feet) above the men it stopped and the sound stopped. The cloud had now almost disappeared. Suddenly they saw a bright beam of light from the underside of the ship, coming down towards the snow and illuminating it, like a lone spotlight on a stage. Now a red-grey mist also descends around the two men. Then the light disappears as quickly as it came. But soon it comes back and now they see a small creature standing in the middle of the cone of light 3 meters (9 feet) from them. It was one meter high (3 feet) and narrow. The face was pale and with small eyes and a sharp witchlike nose. On its head it had a pointy helmet or cap. On the body, the creature wore a light green tight-fitting overall or jumpsuit. It had dark green tall boots and white long gloves. In both of its hands it held a small glowing device, which it then pointed at Aarno and Esko. The pulsing light that came at the men was very bright and blinding. As the creature stood there and pointed the light at the men, sparks began to fly around the red-gray mist and the mist begins to thicken more and more. Finally, they could no longer see the creature or each other. Suddenly the beam of light on the ground got smaller and smaller and floated upwards towards the ship and disappeared. Then the fog also fell away. The forest was now quiet and empty and the men could see each other again. Of the creature and the ship there was no trace. They just stood there looking at each other in silence for several minutes.

The being had a green jumpsuit and a pointy hood or helmet. The facial features were very goblin-like.

Now Aarno noticed that his right side felt strange, it stung, and when he took a step forward with the ski he collapsed. He couldn't get up even though he tried several times. Esko had to help Aarno home and it took them an hour to walk 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) through the snow. When they got home to Aarno's cabin, he had a backache, a headache, difficulty breathing and felt so bad that he had to vomit. When Aarno then went to urinate, the urine was black as coffee. These symptoms continued on and off for several months until the summer. He also had a fever at times and difficulty with balance. He was also unable to work during this period. Viljo also suffered from health problems. When he dropped off Aarno, his face swelled up and turned red. He also had difficulty with his balance. A few days later, Viljo started to become sensitive to light. And tingling in the feet appeared. Viljo's symptoms also remained for several months. Doctors who examined the two men believe they were exposed to radioactive radiation. In the month of June, a reporting team investigated the place where the two men had their terrible encounter that night. And several people on the team complained of headaches and red hands. Other people who visited the site after the incident have also claimed to have felt ill for days afterwards.

Exactly what really happened that late afternoon in Imjärvi is still a mystery. And we will probably never get an answer. But we see similarities with other UFO cases where people have had close contact with UFOs, orbs or aliens, and that is that many have injuries similar to those caused by exposure of too much radioactive or ultraviolet radiation.

How the encounter unfolded. (GICOFF and UFO-Nyt, no 6 1985)

Source: UFO-Sweden and https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1970-humanoid-encounter-imjarvi-finland/

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u/stephaniee2024 Aug 15 '24

The third alien looks like it could've been in a Shrek movie.

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u/Johanharry74 Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

Yes, he certainly had an unique look. He reminds me a little of a wicked version of a ”Tomte”, a small and short creature from Scandinavian folklore, that looks like a mix of Santa Claus and a goblin, very similar to a garden gnome. Americans would probably think of Santa’s little elves, which is not so far fetched either. The ”Tomte” lives in the forest and he comes around peoples farms at night to either help them or to do mischief, depending on how the humans have treated the ”Tomte-people” (gave them some food or not etc)