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*In my series of UFO-cases from Scandinavia, I will this time look into two cases that involves children. And we all know that kids have a vivid imagination and make things up for attention (well, some adults do that as well sometimes). So can we trust kids when it comes to UFO-cases? Those who know their children best are the parents and they can immediately see that something is wrong and when they are scared. The parents also have a sense for when their kids are lying or telling the truth, as we can read in these two stories. In these two stories there is also physical evidence as well as other witnesses to backup the children's claims.*

The "man" with red glowing glasses in the black sphere, Norway 1954

Norway is known for its oil and skiing and the country has some beautiful nature with a lot of fjords, mountains and forests. But Norway has also a lot of UFO-sightings. Most known world-wide are the strange ”Hessdalen lights”. In this case though, the phenomenon takes a more physical form, and in addition to the girls that witnessed a scary black orb, there were also mysterious traces to back up their claims. This story takes us to Torpo in the Norwegian Highlands, not very far from Lillehammer where the Winter Olympics was held 1994.

It is in the afternoon of November 23, 1954. Anne Storedal, 10 years old and her sister Tora Storedal, 9 years old and Tora-Moy Hauge, 9 years, are on their way home from school. It is late autumn and there is already some snow on the ground, and the three girls must walk on a small gravel road through a forest area. When they reach some power lines, one of the girls see a small black dot high up in the sky. And they could see that the object was descending towards them at a high speed, because it quickly became bigger and bigger. The girls thought it was an airplane or helicopter at first, but some seconds later they could see something that looked like a shiny black sphere.

The object was now not very far from the girls and moved slowly over the treetops were it knocked down some snow and then it continued towards the power lines. The three girls on the road were chocked and terrified and saw how the black sphere now moved down towards them and stopped and hovered almost silently just 4-5 feet from their heads. They gave the following weird description of it: *”It looked like a stone or a ball about 10 feet across. The lowest part was black, but trimmed with yellow spots which could have been made of glass, and there were also a number of small, red lights and sharp jags[?]”* The girls also tell how the upper part was transparent and the trees could be seen through it. There was a human or being visible inside operating a control stick of some sort. He was dressed in black, and had big eyes covered by a pair of immense red glasses or googles. When the being turned to look at them the girls froze with terror. Suddenly the sphere rose again with a droning sound and on its way upwards the object hit the power lines and a shower of sparks erupted. The girls came to their senses and started running for their lives in the opposite direction. With their backs to the sphere they could smell an odor which they lated described as ”fried sausages”. The girls ran in fear almost the entire way home.

A black sphere is descending towards the three girls and inside they could see a being with red glowing \\"glasses\\" staring back at them. (artisitic impression) (https://preview.redd.it/07wyt2nfexgd1.jpg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=…)

Anne and Tora’s mother was at home and was cleaning the floor, when she saw the girls running inside at around 3:20 pm. She immediately understood that something was wrong. The girls were terrified and she asked them what was wrong. The girls explained that they saw a big black stone coming down from the sky, with an evil man inside who stared at them with big red eyes. It took several days before the parents got the whole story of what happened from the chocked girls.

A couple of days later some adults from the village was searching the sighting area and under the power lines they found a 75 feet long trail, as if something had been dragged along the ground. A Lieutenant from the Army also came to take pictures. UFO-investigator Oddvar J. Larsen was contacted as well and he too photographed the trail. Larsen also recorded this*: "In the snow, there was found and photographed a disturbed track around 25 yards long, presumably made by the craft after the girls had turned their backs on it."* He also conducted separate interviews with the three girls and they all told him the same story. And everyone in the village who knew the girls were convinced that they were telling the truth. Did something strange happen that afternoon or did the girl just made it up and created the 75 feet trail? We do not know. But according to the mother of the the two sisters, she had never seen her girls so afraid before.

*From: UFO-Nytt #6, 2008*

Two boys encounter a UFO up on a hill and are chased by it, Sweden 1983

This case was published in Nordic UFO Newsletter issue 1, 1984 and takes place in Borås, which is a city of about 115.000 people. It Is situated in western Sweden at about 45-50 min away with car from Gothenburg, the second largest city in the country.

As usual with UFO-stories we only have witness testimonys. But here we have it from two separate sources, two kids and one adult, who saw the object from different angles. This is how the story goes.

It was 9 pm the evening of October 21, 1983 and it was clear and a bit chilly outside. Two boys, Christoffer Holmstrand, 10 years of age and Joakim Ljungquist, 9 years, lived closed to each other and were walking home after a school party at Bergdahl’s school. They lived in the area a few streets away, and to get home they needed to walk on Torkarpsgatan, a residential street that ran across a small hill called Tokarpsberg. From up there you had quite a good view of the nearby surroundings.

When the boys almost reached the top of the hill near the woods, something odd happended. Christoffer tells: *"At first it looked like a shooting star in the sky. But then a shining object came closer with a tremendous speed and with jerky movements. We got scared when the thing just grew larger and at the same time we began feeling strange and stiff in our legs"*, Christoffer continues. *"Joakim cried and we threw ourselves into a hedge, when the object was right above us. The whole street was illuminated by a strong light shining down towards us.”* The object was now almost directly above the boys in the same height as the treetops. What they saw over them was an oval craft that looked like an egg tilted to the side. Along the outer edges of the object, there were a lot of different coloured lights, and the lower "body" glowed in an orange colour. Christoffer even saw something that looked like a hatch on the top of the object. Christoffer described this intensive light from the craft as *”stronger than the lights on Ryavallen"* - the stadium for Elfsborg, the city’s beloved Soccer team. During interviews with UFO-researchers, both Joakim and Christoffer made identical drawings of the UFO and both their testimonys were the same.

The two boys tries to hide in a hedge near the street, as the UFO approach them. (artistic impression) (https://preview.redd.it/4zcrx0rzfxgd1.jpg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=…)

*"We tried to run away"*, Christoffer tells, *"but it felt like our legs refused to move at first and only then after a while we could run normally. The craft followed us, and when it moved the trees swayed! Not once during the sighting could we hear a sound from the luminous object - the only thing we heard was the humming from a broken street lamp close by.”* Now the boys were very scared and ran as fast as they could down the street, back towards Bergdahl’s School to warn the teachers and the other students. When they reached a small electrical relay building not far from the school, the craft above them tilted to the side and then disappeared up inte the sky with tremendous speed. Christoffer and Joakim could see how the trees bent when the UFO left and then everything was back to normal again. Shocked the two boys just stood there for a while watching the now empty night sky and the twinkling stars. What on Earth did they just see?! But Christoffer and Joakim were not the only ones to experience this event.

A few streets away, on the other side of the hill, Birgit Ljungqvist, the mother of Joakim, was standing at her balcony to watch the boys walking home from the school party. She was a little worried, because they were a bit late. Suddenly she sees a strange bright thing hovering over the tree tops at Tokarpsberg 300-400 yards away. In her testimonys she said that she thought the object looked like a car with red lights in front and the back. The distance between the lights was about 30 feet. This was definately not a helicopter, it looked too strange. Instinctly she wanted to run out. If Joakim was there, he could be in danger. *”I thought I might never see him again!”* she later tells. Birgit ran into the apartment to grab her coat. But at that moment she heard the front door open and Joakim came inside crying, and then both she and her husband had to calm the shocked and upset boy. Simultaneously the same thing happened at the Holmstrand family. Christoffer also came home shocked and scared, and his father Osborne told UFO-investigators that the boy was uneasy and not himself and had nightmares and wet his bed during the nights for a long period after. "It's totally clear that the boy has experienced something extraordinary, that shocked him deeply", Osborne Holmstrand said.

The parents contacted the Military District West staff, who started an investigation. But the military came back later with the answer: *”No military activity in the area, and no radar sightings.”* One thing that is odd about this history. Why was there no other witnesses? This sighting was in a residential area with both detached houses and small apartment buildings and also it was not late, only around 9 pm in the evening. Wouldnt someone else have seen a bright light like this? Other than the three witness testimonies, we do not know what really happened that evening almost 40 years ago.