Date:
November 11, 1956
Location: Isle of Vaddo, Sweden
Stig
Ekberg and Harry Sjoberg were driving on the Island of
Vaddo, Sweden, when they were approached by a flattened
sphere shaped object. It settled in the middle of the
road, about 100 meters in front of them. After about ten
minutes, the object lifted off and accelerated away. At
the landing site, the witnesses found a shiny "rock"
that was hot to the touch. It was a three-sided piece
of metal about the size of a matchbox, and had a heavy
weight. Upon analysis, the object was found to be composed
of tungsten carbide and cobalt.
Two pieces of the artifact (the two left images are piece
#1, and on the right is piece #2).
(credit: Illobrand Von Ludwiger)
Source:
Jacques Vallee, in Peter Sturrock, 'The UFO Enigma'
[This
fragment sample] was recovered by two witnesses of an
aerial phenomenon. Although the material appears to be
common tungsten carbide, the original shape of the specimen
was unusual and it has not been identified as an object
serving a conventional use.
According
to a summary of the case compiled by Von Ludwiger (1998),
the two witnesses, Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjoberg, were
building a house on the island of Vaddo, about 90 kilometers
north-northwest of Stockholm. At about 10 p.m., Ekberg
was driving his Ford V8 pickup when they saw a bright
flying object with the shape of a flattened sphere 8 meters
wide and 3 meters high approaching from the right (from
the east) against the clear night sky. They estimated
that it flew about 1 kilometer in front of them at an
altitude of 100 meters. Suddenly it made a sharp turn
toward them, at which time the truck engine sputtered
and died and the headlights went out. The object started
"slowly gliding down." It seemed to rock back
and forth until it came to a stop in the middle of the
road, about 100 meters in front of them, 1 meter above
the ground. "It was illuminating the surrounding
landscape with such a tremendous amount of light that
even a barn, half a kilometer away, was visible as if
the sun was shining." The air smelled like ozone
and smoldering insulation.
After
about ten minutes the light of the object intensified,
it lifted off the ground, moved to the left and up, made
a sudden turn, and accelerated away in the direction from
which it came. At that point Ekberg was able to restart
the truck normally, and the headlights came back on. Observing
that the grass at the landing site had been flattened,
they investigated further and found a shiny "rock"
that was hot to the touch. It was a three-sided piece
of metal about the size of a matchbox, and had a heavy
weight.
After
several unsuccessful attempts to have the sample studied,
it was taken to the SAAB airline manufacturing company,
where Mr. Sven Schalin conducted a thorough analysis.
Other tests were later run in laboratories in Sweden,
Denmark, and Germany. The general conclusion was that
the object was composed of tungsten carbide and cobalt,
consistent with manufactured products. According to Von
Ludwiger, "All industrial countries have companies
which produce such hard metals, and the manufacturing
technology is in principle the same. . . . The overall
quality of the material was outstanding, but not unusual
for the early 1950s."
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case837.htm