Åsum, near Odense in Denmark. The fall of 1981 or 1982.

This is a very strange case and the man who submitted the report was a 22 year old night shift warehouse worker and he chose to remain anonymous. We will call him "PN".

It is the middle of the night at about 2 am and PN is driving his car through the quiet and sleeping village of Åsum. He is on his way to work in the city of Odense 4 km (2.5 miles) away. Soon he comes to a crossroads of three roads framed by a small leafy, triangular beech forest. When PN is driving on one of the streets that run along the forest lot, the engine of his little Fiat 125 suddenly dies. But since there is a slight incline towards the intersection, his car rolls down the flat hill. Arriving at the intersection, PN brakes the car.

Artistic impression of the car being chased by the space robots

He looks to the right down Åsum Bygade (Åsum Village Street), and about 60 meters (65 yards) from him, he sees something very strange. A luminous sphere hovers at a height of 1-2 meters (3-6 feet) just above the road. The sphere was 3 meters (9 feet) in diameter and was shining with a strong orange-yellow color. An opening is visible in the sphere and from it a ramp leads down to the forest area. PN could not see any details inside the ship, only an orange light came from the doorway. PN also saw groups of strange triangular creatures. The first group consisted of seven, who went up and down the furthest part of the ramp. It looked like the creatures were gathering soil and plants which they gave to someone standing in the door and they moved jerkily in a mechanical way. The other group consisted of three slightly larger, but similar creatures. Two stood by the doorway and one stood down at the end of the ramp. PN got the impression that these were some kind of guards and they stood completely still, like on post.

Map of the encounter.

The short creatures were about 1 meter (3 feet) tall and gray-white in color and had a very bizarre appearance. They resembled two triangles stacked on top of each other, the bottom one being slightly larger. PN assumed the small top triangle was the creature's head. The guards looked similar to the small creatures but larger. PN didn't see any arms or hands on the creatures, but it still looked like some were carrying some sort of device. He also saw some short stubs at the bottom that looked like legs, but they didn't move when the creatures moved. He could see that the creatures were hovering and gliding along just above the ground, almost like a hovercraft.

Painting of the encounter by Hiddenmark.

After observing the creatures for about one minute, the shocked PN saw a taxi parked by the bridge over the Odense River, in the other direction about 150 meters (165 yards) away. He saw that the taxi flashed its headlights several times. But PN did not understand if it was to him or to the UFO-beings the taxi was flashing. He now tried to start the car again and it started right away. The sound of the engine now made the creatures discover PN and several of them started moving towards him at high speed. He now saw that the taxi took off and made a 180-degree turn and drove at high speed in the opposite direction towards Odense. PN now became very scared and gassed the car and swerved sharply to the left in the same direction as the taxi had driven. He drove away quickly and when he got past the bridge, he looked back in the rearview mirror and could now see the creatures on the crest of the bridge. They were quite close to him and they followed him a little further, but then the road turned and then he could no longer see them.

The place near the small wooded area where the craft had landed.

When an upset PN arrived at the warehouse in Odense, he noticed that he was quite early. He must have been driving very fast. At 4 pm while driving home from work, he stopped at the site of the strange encounter to see if there were any physical traces. He found nothing. And unfortunately he did not mention the incident to UFO-investigators. The only person he told was his mother. And it was she who many years later told SUFOI what had happened. The UFO investigators later tried to find the Taxi driver, but were never successful. When they asked nearby residents around, strangely enough no one had seen a bright glowing sphere and lots of small creatures. But the investigators perceived PN as an honest person. This is one of many UFO cases that will never be solved.

Sources: UFO-Nyt #1 1997