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UFO case file · UFO-14527

Norrbotten, Swd being encounter — August 1970

CE3Scandinavia / Finland1970-08

NORRBOTTEN, SWD, Sweden, Scandinavia / Finland

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Norrbotten, Swd being encounter — August 1970
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Norrbotten, Swd being encounter — August 1970

Case description

The imported record places this roadside episode in Norrbotten during August 1970, around noon. A small humanlike figure reportedly appeared near a car, which stopped. A brilliant flash then distracted the occupants, and the figure and an associated saucer were no longer visible afterward. The compressed source does not identify a precise settlement or describe the craft’s structure. A later Swedish catalogue appears to preserve the same episode as an August 15 encounter on road 397 involving three people in a car. It adds dark clothing, radio interference, a loud sound and subsequent visual problems for the driver. Those details are later catalogue material rather than evidence that the imported record’s exact date and identities have been independently resolved. No reliable facial description is available. The broader “little man” reports in eastern Norrbotten included other incidents in 1971, some with lights or box-like objects at the figure’s waist. Those distinctive details must not be transferred to this 1970 event merely because they occurred in the same region. The illustration therefore keeps the small figure distant and the saucer partly obscured. It uses the reported month, an ordinary period car and a plausible summer forest road, with the people’s appearances and exact site treated as illustrative.

Recorded details

Local time
12:00
Craft description
Craft / Vehicle
Entity description
Other Humanoid
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

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