Härja, western Sweden, August 25 1958.

Ivar Neumann and his wife had rented a small cabin for the summer, from a farmer, Oskar, who lived in a bigger house across the yard from the cabin. This was in the farmlands of Västergötland in Sweden. At around midnight August 25, Ivar was sitting at the cabin’s kitchen table reading a book. His wife had already gone to bed and was probably sleeping. When he put the novel away to lit his pipe, he glanced out of the window beside him. Then he saw a figure moving near the outhouse. It was dark outside and he couldnt see the figure clearly, so he thought it was the farmer Oskar. Ivar continued to read the book, but then after a short while it suddenly felt like he was being watched. He turned around and looked at the window, and stared straight into a face, not more than 50 cm (20 inches) from him. Only the glass separated them. Ivar first thought it was a human, but then he quickly saw that the ”person” standing outside was shorter than a human, height like a child of elelven or twelve. The head was covered by a hood or helmet, and it was shining in a blue, cold light. The being wore a kind of jumpsuit or overall in the same shining blue color. Ivar was not sure about the skin color, but it was lighter than the clothes, maybe greyish. They eyes were definately larger than a human’s and they were dark, almost completely black. ”His or hers gaze had an unexplained effect and it hypnotized me.” – Ivar said.

For some reason Ivar was not scared of the mysterious being and hastly put on his shoes and jacket and rushed outside. He saw that the being was already running away, and it had jumped over a low fence and was now in a field behind the cabin about 100 meters (300 feet) away from him. So Ivar ran out on the gravel road near the house to try to intercept the creature. After running for a while he finds himself standing in a wheat field just staring in awe. 25 meters (75 feet) up ahead he could see a strange craft. Ivar had never believed in UFO tales, but here was one now, just in front of him. The craft was quite big. About 12 meters (36 feet) in diameter, and in the shape of a disc. Now Ivar felt a wierd smell and also felt tired in an unreal way. At this moment he could also see that the small being had reached the craft and started to climb a long ladder. The being then disappeared up into the ship. Suddenly he hears a buzzing sound like an electric motor increasing in speed. The three telescopic legs under the craft retracts into the hull, and the craft now starts to slowly rise into the air. Ivan is tries to move, but notice that he is completely paralyzed and can’t move. The craft starts to accelerate and flies over some nearby birch trees, that sways in the wind draft from it. In just a few seconds the UFO disappears high up in the night sky. When the craft was gone, Ivar could move again, and in the air an odor of ozone could be felt. With a thousand thoughts in his head, Ivar walked back towards the cabin. He woke up his wife to tell her about what had just happened, but she didn’t believe him and said he probably only had a nightmare.

The next morning Ivan is back at the landing site in the wheat field, but now he is joined by the farmer Oskar. They search around and find three deep impressions in the soil with a depth of 30 cm (12 inches) and a width of 20 cm (8 inches). The vegetation was also pressed down in a circle that measured the outer dimensions of the craft, 12 meters (36 feet). Ivar Neumann reported the incident to investigators. This is just one of many old cases found in the Arhive for the Unexplained.

Source: UFO-Information 1969-1979 jubileumsnummer närkontaker, Håkan Blomqvist’s blog and Archive for the Unexplained

EDIT: I modified the size of the alien because I always thought he was too tall.