UFO-Sweden - a brief presentation
The organisation UFO-Sweden (UFO-Sverige) was founded in
1970.
All investigations, publications and other activities are made on a
strictly non-profit basis with the subscription incomes from our
magazine as the sole base for all our work - beside our own input of
money.
Our magazine UFO-Aktuellt (four issues a year) have today 1.700
subscribers. We also publish a small publication six times a year
called Rapport Nytt and a newsletter - in English, since 1990 -
(published by the Archives for UFO Research) four times a year.
26 local groups, scattered all over Sweden, are connected to UFO-
Sweden. They all have their own activities.
Our archives - situated in Norrköping - is one of the largest in
Europe and possibly in the world. Here we keep a couple of
thousand books and magazines from all over the world and a news
clipping archive encompassing articles from 1946 to this date,
mostly from Sweden but also from USA, Norway and other
countries. More than 12.000 case histories are also placed here
together with videotapes, audiotapes, pictures and UFO-
paraphernalia.
The aim of the organisation is, according to our statutes, to
"counter-balance uncritical thinking, unjustified disbelief or blind
faith concerning the UFO phenomenon."
Another aim is of course to research and evaluate reports of
unidentified flying objects over Sweden. Every year more than 300
reports - last year 468 - are forwarded to UFO-Sweden. After
thorough investigations natural causes are found for 90-95 percent
of the observations. Very few CE 3 and CE 4 cases are reported in
Sweden.
Some very good observations, in broad daylight with more than
one witness, have been investigated during the last years. In one
case, from August 1991, a cigarr shaped object with a sound from a
"motor" passed a small town near Umeå. The case was investigated by the local security police and found "unidentified".
The investigations are made by more than 120 specially trained
researchers. These are educated by UFO-Sweden at special courses
held once every year. All investigations are supervised and
controlled from a central unit in Kolbäck, about 100 km south-west of Stockholm. This unit is also responsible for the publication of a yearly report on UFO-cases researched by UFO-Sweden.
UFO-Sweden work closely together with the Research Institute of Defence and the Swedish Institute of Meteorological and Hydrology in a project called "Study Circle". The project was started in 1991 to collect and research reports of circle phenomena in Sweden.
UFO-Sweden corresponds with most of the major UFO
organisations over the world. A special interest have been focused
on the former communist countries.
UFO-Sweden has a long tradition of openess and will to share
results and publications with other groups. Our attitude to the
phenomenon is based on research and not speculation. We are open
to any answer to the phenomenon and do not advocate any pet
theory. This standpoint reflects in our magazines as well as in our
public lectures.
Clas Svahn, Chairman of UFO-Sweden
E-mail:clas.svahn@online.dextel.se
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