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UFO case file · UFO-18419

Vastervik, Swd being encounter — December 4, 1979

CE3Scandinavia / Finland1979-12-04

VASTERVIK, SWD, Sweden, Scandinavia / Finland

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Vastervik, Swd being encounter — December 4, 1979
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Vastervik, Swd being encounter — December 4, 1979

Case description

Lilli Ann Karlsson reportedly had an encounter on Brevik Hills at Västervik, Sweden, around 1 a.m. on December 4, 1979. She described becoming unable to move as a luminous object remained low above the ground. The imported entry and fuller retellings differ about the exact estimated height of the figures. Two thin, approximately human-sized beings allegedly appeared from behind the craft. Karlsson felt that they were discussing her, then perceived a reassuring voice. One extended a hand toward her. The account ends with the figures returning to their object and a smoky effect beneath it before it vanished. It does not provide a reliable detailed facial anatomy or justify assigning the visitors a familiar alien type. The source trail names investigator Tor Wiklund and Swedish UFO publications from 1980–1981. Those reports preserve the witness’s experience; they do not establish the object’s origin or an externally measured paralysis mechanism. The plate includes Karlsson, both figures and the luminous craft, with deliberately unresolved faces and an interpretive vehicle outline.

Recorded details

Local time
01:00
Craft description
Craft / Vehicle
Entity description
Humanlike, Unknown
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

Case videos and witness interviews

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Current source-based Atlas record uses December4,1979 around1a.m.; film repeatedly says December3 and publisher calls it evening while narration says1a.m. Keep this explicit date/time disagreement. Film adds chocolate-cake interpretation and a scanning device; these are not established by the sparse source comparison. Preserve unresolved anatomy, claimed paralysis and lack of physical evidence.

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