The Nivå Mum­mies

The Enco­un­ter

In Decem­ber 1993, SUFOI (Scan­di­navi­an UFO Infor­ma­tion) recei­ved a report from a woman living in the North Zealand town of Hor­n­bæk about a sigh­ting she had back in 1988. She was dri­ving home late at night through Nivå, pas­sing through the stre­et Gam­mel Strand­vej. The weat­her was rai­ny. Sud­den­ly, in the head­lights, she saw two huma­noid beings in front of her, aro­und half a meter in height (approxi­ma­te­ly 1.7 ft), stan­ding near a gut­ter. They were gesti­cu­lat­ing with their hands. Their heads were almost egg-sha­ped, with a sharp poin­ty chin, and were dis­pro­por­tio­na­te­ly big com­pa­red to their bodi­es. The wit­ness saw neit­her eyes, nose or mouth on them. The two beings wore iden­ti­cal, oli­ve-gre­en one-pie­ce sui­tes with gro­oves in the pla­stic-like fabric. In addi­tion to unusu­al­ly big heads, they had very wide shoul­ders, but nar­row hips and elbows and kne­es. The hands had only one fin­ger and a thumb. The wit­ness got very sur­pri­sed,  drove furt­her away to find a side stre­et to turn the car aro­und, wan­ting to see the beings one more time. Howe­ver, a myste­rious strong anxie­ty grip­ped her and she deci­ded to con­ti­nue on home inste­ad. Accor­ding to the wit­ness, the who­le epi­so­de lasted about 2–3 minu­tes. When the wit­ness wro­te to SUFOI about the obser­va­tion, she inclu­ded an illu­stra­tion of the two beings, which can be seen below.

The Inve­sti­ga­tion

It is a very rare occa­sion that enco­un­ters with sup­po­sed ali­en enti­ties are repor­ted here in Den­mark, and to make the assump­tion of extra­ter­re­stri­al visi­ta­tion in this case may not even have any merit, sin­ce at no point was an actu­al UFO obser­ved. SUFOI nevert­he­less opted to inve­sti­ga­te and inclu­de the case in their maga­zi­ne UFO-Nyt, due to the fact that the wit­ness her­self see­med to draw the con­nection — and pro­bably also becau­se the beings loo­k­ed similar to ste­reo­ty­pi­cal “grey” extra­ter­re­stri­als which had beco­me ubiqui­tous in UFO-circ­les aro­und this time. This was an ima­ge that was also increa­sing­ly gai­ning momen­tum in the bro­a­der public, due to the recent TV pre­mi­e­re of The X‑Files.

SUFOI inve­sti­ga­tor Toke Haun­strup found the wit­ness to be hone­st, inso­far as she belie­ved that she saw what she descri­bed. Still, they found some issu­es with the story when they visi­ted the loca­tion to inve­sti­ga­te. The gut­ter that the wit­ness had men­tio­ned in her report was aro­und 50 metres away from Sta­tions­vej. Accor­ding­ly, she should have been able to see the two enti­ties again when tur­ning aro­und and dri­ving back down Gam­mel Strand­vej. Howe­ver, nowhe­re did she men­tion this in her report. Ulti­ma­te­ly, SUFOI didn’t have enough data for any real con­clu­sion of what the wit­ness saw, but felt that the dark­ness and rai­ny weat­her could very well have led her to misi­den­ti­fy somet­hing much more mun­da­ne – for examp­le two chil­dren in gre­en rain­co­ats.

Com­men­tary

It is notewort­hy that the enti­ties descri­bed are very similar to the ali­ens enco­un­te­red by Char­les Hick­son and Cal­vin Par­ker in Pasca­gou­la, Mis­sis­sip­pi on Octo­ber 11 of 1973. Hick­son and Par­ker famous­ly clai­med to have been taken onto a flying sau­cer, man­ned by beings with coni­cal heads, wrinkly elep­hant-like skin and crab-like pin­cers for hands. The only big dif­fe­ren­ce seems to be that the Pasca­gou­la ali­ens, whom Par­ker descri­bed as robot mum­mies, were tal­ler than adult humans – not shor­ter. That and the dis­pro­por­tio­na­te ratio betwe­en head and body. Even in 1988, the Pasca­gou­la case would pro­bably have been shown on Danish TV or men­tio­ned in news­pa­pers, so even peop­le with no lar­ger inte­r­est in UFOs could easily have been expo­sed to it.

Sour­ces

• SUFOI Intern #4 (1997)
• SUFOI News­let­ter #14 (1995)
• UFO-Nyt #2 (1994)