A strange sighting in the misty forest.

Munkedal, swedish westcoast, summer 1965.

Four girls aged 13 – 15 years old went to the same school and were best friends and lived close to each other in the small town of Munkedal in western Sweden. They had been hanging out in the evening and then decided to pick blueberries the next day and therefore went to bed early to be able to get up early in the morning. Not far from where they lived began a large, vast forest. And about four kilometers (approx. 2.5 miles) from Munkedal, there was a large hill in the forest (Hästekullen/ Horse hill), where they knew there used to be a lot of blueberry bushes.

It had been raining heavily all night, and the girls knew it would be very wet in the forest, so they dressed in boots and rain gear. In the morning when they gathered with their bicycles, luckily the rain had stopped and the dark clouds were starting to break up. It was still a bit damp and foggy in the air, but it would clear up later in the day, according to the weather report on the local radio station.

When the girls arrived at the spot near Hästekullen, where they were going to park their bikes, it was very foggy and wet in the forest, just as they had thought. As they walked through the undergrowth, branches and leaves were still wet and they could hear the splashing of their boots as they stepped in soggy dirt. There were also even some puddles of water left on the ground from yesterday's rain. But the forest inhabitants did not seem to mind the bad weather as they could hear the chirping and singing of the birds and the rustling here and there in the grass and bushes from other small animals.

Ulrika Nilsson was 15 years old and the oldest of the four, and she therefore felt a certain responsibility for the other three girls, and when they had gone a little further into the forest, she got a strange feeling that they were being watched. It must be the birds and the animals and my nerves, she thought. But when she talked to Stella (14), Elin (13) and Sara (13), they also felt the same thing. And now they also noticed that all the sounds of the forest had fallen silent. They didn't hear any birds chirping anymore and everything was eerily quiet. The girls became scared and nervous and started whispering to each other. They now began to imagine that there was some large, dangerous animal hiding in the bushes, watching them, like a bear or a wolf or an angry moose...or perhaps something even more terrifying...a monster. Their imaginations were running wild and the girls were not at all interested in picking blueberries anymore.

Then the girls saw someone a little further on into the forest. It looked like a small person, like an 8-year-old boy in a shiny green overall, standing there and looking at them. At the same time, Stella felt how her nose started to itch and her sudden sneezing seemed to scare the “child” who ran away further into the forest and disappeared in the fog. Ulrika was now angry that Stella had scared away the poor boy who might have gotten lost in the forest. How could they help him now? Annoyed by what Stella had done, Ulrika ran after the boy, and Stella ran after to help and try to make everything right again. Ulrika told the other two youngest girls to stay behind. But since they didn’t want to be left alone in the spot, they also came with her.

All the girls ran away towards a forested ravine that they had seen the boy disappear into. Down at the bottom of the ravine there was a larger stream, which came from a forest lake a little further away. Now they saw the green-clad boy over by the lake, where the fog was still thick. He must have moved there incredibly quickly. Then it looked as if he just disappeared into the veils of the fog. The girls ran down the ravine and fell several times and got really dirty. Then they ran over an old wooden bridge that went over the stream, and then continued along a small gravel trail towards the lake.

Suddenly they heard a strange, rising and dull sound or rumbling. The girls stopped abruptly. The sound increased in strength and finally they saw something large coming up from the surface of the water on the lake. It was an object that looked a bit like a rectangular rudder on an old wooden boat. But instead of vertical, it lay horizontally in the water and it had a shiny and metallic surface and the edges were rounded and soft. The length of the object in the water could certainly be between 7-8 meters (23 – 26 feet). The width was probably only 1 meter (3.3 feet). On the hull of the object there were also a lot of flashing lights in different colors.

Now it seemed as if a strong wind was coming from the object and the fog on the lake was torn apart and the wind whipped the surface and created small ripples. The wind was so strong that the girls on the gravel trail by the lake were pushed on the ground. Sara shouted to drown out the wind noise: “Where did the boy go?” Elin shouted back and pointed: “Probably into that!” Finally, it was no longer possible to converse because the noise from the object drowned out the girls. “The thing” rocked violently and then it flew straight up at high speed and disappeared. Four shocked, teenage girls were left sitting on the trail, staring up at the sky. “What was that?” Elin wondered as she stood up. But none of the others could give an answer.

The shocked girls returned to the blueberry spot further into the forest and picked their bags full of berries, because there were plenty of them right now. While they picked berries, the shock began to wear off and the tears came and they didn't say much to each other. In the evening, the girls started to feel sick and get a fever and their parents thought it was because they had eaten too many blueberries in the forest. None of the girls ever told their parents, siblings or other friends what they had experienced. The only ones who knew were their future husbands, to whom they told the story many years later. It was "Elin" who finally told UFO-Information about the incident in exchange for them using different names for the girls in the story.

Source: UFO Information #4 1989