Lighted disk scared boys

By Steve Sandström

Two young boys from Bergsbyn in Skellefteå were out in the meadow below one of the boy«s home playing with a homemade go-cart. Suddenly an unknown light flew in front of them only metres away. The place where all this happened, lies just 600 metres from the marsh were a UFO landed (UFO-Update 2/94).

The two boys were playing with the go-cart. The grass on the meadow was short, allowing movement of the cart, fitted with a grasscutter motor. The time was about 20.00hrs on the evening of 12th of June 1994. The weather was lovely, it was still light outside. Suddenly, there came a light trevelling above the ground. It was no futher than 5 metres from the boy nearest and about 10 metres from the other one.

The light was an intensive white, flat like a plywood plate and perhaps 50 or 60 centimetres in dia. Both boys looked in astonishment as it disappeared into the edge of the forest.

Contracourse

After a second it returned at the same fast speed but now on a contracourse still flying in front of the boys. Apart from the cart motor, they heard no sound. The lighted disc flew so low that it brushed the ground. It disappeared just about where it first shot up towards the forest edge behind where the two marsches Inreviken and Yttreviken lay just a few hundred metres away. The total observation time was approx 3 seconds which points to the disc«s speed being many hundred kilometres per hour.

The local UFO association in the area, UFO Skellefteå, visited the boys some days after the incident. No traces in the grass were found, nothing indicating anything unusual had happened. However, UFO Skellefteå found the boys very credible. Of course there is always the risk of children making things up but one should not automatically assume this is the case. On the contrary we must work on the basis that they are not lying and there was no indication the boys had made their experience up. There was no mistaking their sincere astonishment.

Previous UFO Incident

The interesting thing with the above case is that it happened only some hundred metres from the place where the previous year a bigger UFO Incident took place. Of course one cannot assume a connection but the closeness of the locations cannot be ignored.

If we take it the boys were not bluffing - maybe hearing something about the earlier nearby incident, their description does not copy with the object seen by the Burea family nor the actual place. Children fantasise greatly but usually one can see the source of their inspiration. We still have here a notable UFO case to examine.

Yet another case

A similar incident happened in the More Backe part of Skelleftå around 10 years earlier. The then 11 years old Per Karlgren was in the forest just outside a villa area int the city«s north eastern outskirts, only 5 kilometres from the place the later incident(s).

Per suddenly saw an intensive white lighted object lift from the ground somewhere between two ditces, right next to a powerline. It stepped up sufficiently slowly for him to note it had an "edge" or that the object apperared to be solid. The thickness he estimated to be around 50 centimetres.

Question difficult to answer

After stepping up relatively slowly for 2 centimetres the lighted object shot upwards 45 degrees in the blink of an eay and disappeared into the void. The observation time was only about 2-3 seconds.

It was an Automn evening and dark so the light from the UFO phenomenon would make an indelible impression. What is the underlying power that lies behind UFO phenomenon like this? Are we involved with an unknown natural phenomenon. If Per Karlgren is correct in his estimation that the object had a sharp edge, this points us towards such an explanation. What exactly this is however is inpossible to conclude. If we all keep our eyes and ears open for similar reports, maybe one day we will get nearer to an answer to this mystery.

Footnote: The cildren did not wish anonymity but on the grounds of their young age, we have decided to not leave out their names.

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