A Polish mecha­nic living in Den­mark in the 1950’s, had a seri­es of ali­en con­ta­ct expe­ri­en­ces that were ahe­ad of their time. Read his incre­dib­le story below!

JOSEF MALISZEWSKI’S INI­TI­AL EXPE­RI­EN­CE

On June 19, 1951, at about 2AM, Polish-born mecha­nic Josef Maliszewski heard a myste­rious whi­st­ling sound from out­si­de his sum­mer resi­den­ce in Møn­ster­ko­lo­ni­en 166, Søn­der­borg. He went out­si­de and saw a stran­ge-look­ing vehi­c­le lan­ding in a near­by field to the east, in the direction of the vil­la­ge of Sunds­mark. The vehi­c­le somewhat resem­b­led an aircraft, but was 100 meters long – lon­ger than the big­gest com­merci­al aircraft manu­fa­c­tu­red even today — and blu­ish sil­ver in colour. The vehi­c­le had hal­f­moon-sha­ped wings that fol­ded out when lan­ding, a rotor in the mid­dle, and stood on lan­ding gear with hor­ses­hoe-like feet. The vehi­c­le had round win­dows on the side, similar to tho­se on a sea­go­ing ship. Maliszewski ran towards the vehi­c­le, but approxi­ma­te­ly 50 meters from it a myste­rious for­ce stop­ped him. He could not walk any furt­her, but could still hear and see as well as move his arms and hands. He noti­ced that not just had the birds stop­ped sin­ging, the catt­le and hor­ses in the field had also stop­ped moving. Maliszewski assu­med for some rea­son that the occu­pants of the myste­rious vehi­c­le had come to abduct the live­sto­ck in the field, but he then sud­den­ly heard a voi­ce saying: ”Do not be afraid, we will not take any of them.”

Sketch/model made by Maliszewski of the craft he enco­un­te­red

Maliszewski then saw eight small flying sau­cers exi­ting the vehi­c­le, four from each side. The small sau­cers ascen­ded into the sky, whe­re they stay­ed hove­ring over the big­ger vehi­c­le making a slight wobbling sound. A type of esca­la­tor des­cen­ded from the main vehi­c­le and six crew­men wal­ked out the vehi­c­le through the esca­la­tor. Two of the crew­men began repai­ring the right wing of the vehi­c­le, two others inspecting the vehi­cle’s left wing whi­le the remai­ning two stood guard at the esca­la­tor. The crew were unusu­al­ly tall, dark-skin­ned and extre­me­ly gra­ce­ful in appea­ran­ce but per­fect­ly similar to Earth humans – Maliszewski would later descri­be the crew as South East Asi­an in appea­ran­ce, remin­ding him of Indo­nesi­ans. They wore glit­te­ry dark blue one-pie­ce spa­cesu­its with no appa­rent seams, and trans­pa­rent bubb­le-sha­ped hel­mets. Their faces were cove­red by a type of oxy­gen mask with tubes con­necting to 2 oxy­gen tanks on each of their backs, similar to tho­se worn by navy divers. Maliszewski saw more crew mem­bers in the vehi­cle’s win­dows, wea­ring the same uni­forms as tho­se out­si­de the craft.

Whi­le Maliszewski wat­ched the stran­ge vehi­c­le and the crew, he said to him­self ”oh how we peop­le on Earth are stupid” only to imme­di­a­te­ly recei­ve a tele­pat­hic reply from the vehi­c­le, about Earth peop­le not being any less intel­li­gent than the spa­ce­fa­rers, but now that we had ente­red the ato­mic age the spa­ce peop­le had arri­ved to warn us about the importan­ce of taking con­trol over our desti­ny. The tele­pat­hic mes­sa­ge from the spa­ce peop­le men­tio­ned that they had also maste­red nuclear ener­gy, but we had not yet lear­ned to use it in a safe, che­ap and pea­ce­ful man­ner. After the crew had finis­hed repai­ring the spaceship’s wings, the wings retra­cted back into the ship’s hull and fol­ded back out again.

The crew went back into the spa­ces­hip and the esca­la­tor was retra­cted. Maliszewski then recei­ved a final tele­pat­hic mes­sa­ge from the crew: ”Farewell, we will meet again.” The spa­ces­hip ascen­ded into the sky with a whi­st­ling sound. When it rea­ched an alti­tu­de of 100 meters, the small unman­ned sau­cers retra­cted into the spa­ces­hip as well, dis­ap­pea­ring into doors on the sides of it — four sau­cers on each side. The spa­ces­hip then ascen­ded furt­her into the sky and dis­ap­pea­red in a flash of light that illu­mi­na­ted the enti­re sky, with sparks of light visib­le afterwards.

Maliszewski could sud­den­ly move again, and the live­sto­ck in the field now began run­ning away. The birds even resu­med sin­ging. He also noti­ced that the spa­ces­hip had left lan­ding tra­ces on the field with two clear marks from the sup­por­ting lan­ding legs’ hor­ses­hoe-like feet. Each lan­ding mark’s sur­face was 4 x 2 meters, and 35 foot­steps were visib­le betwe­en the tra­ces. Maliszewski later asked the neig­h­bours, who told him that a lot of peop­le had wal­ked over to the field afterwards to get a good look at the myste­rious tra­ces.

Maliszewski also noted that his pock­etwatch had stop­ped at 2:30. When he arri­ved back at his sum­mer resi­den­ce, he saw that the clo­ck in his bedroom had also stop­ped at 2:30. A few days later, Maliszewski attemp­ted to repair both his pock­et watch and the sta­tio­nary clo­ck in his bedroom. He suc­ce­e­ded in get­ting the pock­et watch to fun­ction as befo­re, but not the clo­ck.

In the days fol­lowing his expe­ri­en­ce, Maliszewski had a weird aci­dic taste in his mouth and was con­stant­ly thirsty. He also had pro­blems with fal­ling asle­ep at night as well as diar­r­hea.

Maliszewski later told co-wor­kers at the gas sta­tion whe­re he was employ­ed, about the inci­dent. None of them belie­ved him and replied that he pro­bably had been hal­luci­nat­ing or drea­m­ing, or got­ten drunk and seen an aircraft that he mistook for an advan­ced spa­ces­hip. Maliszewski replied that he had never been intoxi­ca­ted in his life. After work, Maliszewski made a sketch of the spa­ces­hip and con­ta­cted the local news­pa­per Søn­derjy­den (”the South Jut­lan­di­an”) about his expe­ri­en­ce.

MALISZEWSKI’S SECOND EXPE­RI­EN­CE

On May 18, 1954, Maliszewski went on a fis­hing trip at aro­und 2 AM to his favo­ri­te spot, hal­fways betwe­en Hørup­hav and Søn­der­skov. The­re, Maliszewski saw a small and ele­gant-look­ing sau­cer-sha­ped craft flying towards him, over the water at a low alti­tu­de. The spa­ces­hip made a buzzing sound that Maliszewski later com­pa­red to that of a sewing machine. The flying sau­cer stop­ped clo­se to him and a hatch pop­ped open, with the pilot disem­bar­king from the ship. He held a sil­ver-colou­red pit­cher con­tai­ning a blue liquid and pou­red it into a glass for Maliszewski, who at first hesi­ta­ted to drink it. Maliszewski found his anxie­ty dis­ap­pea­ring and drank the glass of blue liquid, which tasted similar to red wine.

The pilot then invi­ted Maliszewski abo­ard the spa­ces­hip. When the spa­ces­hip had flown out over the oce­an, the pilot play­ed a tape recor­ding of a mes­sa­ge spo­ken in flu­ent Danish by a femi­ni­ne voi­ce. The sau­cer pilot also gave Maliszewski a pie­ce of bre­ad he had. The voi­ce from the tape recor­der told Maliszewski to eat the bre­ad abo­ard the ship.

The sau­cer’s pilot play­ed more tape recor­dings that descri­bed in fine detail how the spaceship’s engi­nes fun­ctio­ned, and showed Maliszewski the machin­e­ry on board: Their nuclear rea­ctors fun­ctio­ned accor­ding to dif­fe­rent ope­rat­ing prin­cip­les than the pri­mi­ti­ve ones on Earth, making them safer and less waste­ful as well as che­a­per to main­tain, with the flying sau­cer being powe­red by a nuclear rea­ctor loca­ted bene­ath its floor; their anti-gravi­ty engi­nes that used electro­mag­ne­tic fields to com­press air and cre­a­te an air cus­hion, as well as how their spa­ces­hips could turn invi­sib­le.

Maliszewski asked the pilot whe­re he came from, and the pilot play­ed a new tape recor­ding. This mes­sa­ge reve­a­led that the spa­ce­fa­rers came from a pla­net named Suton or Zutorn, in ano­t­her solar system. (Dif­fe­rent arti­c­les about Maliszewski’s UFO enco­un­ters use dif­fe­rent spel­lings — Maliszewski never spe­ci­fied which spel­ling he pre­fer­red) Maliszewski would later cla­ri­fy that Zutorn was not to be con­fu­sed with Saturn in our own solar system, and had 4 moons and orbi­ted a sun similar to our own. The pilot also disclo­sed to Maliszewski that the Zutor­ni­ans had a mot­hers­hip in orbit aro­und Earth whe­re it would stay for a 15-year mis­sion, and the sau­cer could not fly furt­her away from the mot­hers­hip than 50,000 kilo­me­ters. In the upper rea­ches of our atmosp­he­re, the Zutor­ni­an vehi­c­les flew on mag­ne­tic waves and not air cus­hions like they used clo­ser to the sur­face.

Befo­re the Zutor­ni­an pilot drop­ped Maliszewski off at the fis­hing spot, he told Maliszewski that they would return to pick him up again exa­ct­ly 14 days later.

Maliszewski’s Final Expe­ri­en­ce

On May 30, 1954 Maliszewski inde­ed met the same sau­cer pilot as a coup­le weeks befo­re, again at his favouri­te fis­hing spot. Once more, Maliszewski was invi­ted abo­ard the small sau­cer-sha­ped ship by the pilot, who smi­led but did not utter a word, inste­ad com­mu­ni­cat­ing by tele­pat­hy. The Zutor­ni­an pilot offe­red Maliszewski to show him how beau­ti­ful outer spa­ce was. This time, the sau­cer pilot took him up through the atmosp­he­re to the kilo­me­ter-long Zutor­ni­an mot­hers­hip in orbit aro­und Earth. From the sau­cer, Maliszewski could see the Earth and obser­ve the aur­ora bore­a­lis near the poles, which Maliszewski descri­bed as a fire slin­ging up from the sur­face and shin­ing as bright as the sun. Maliszewski saw this from a tele­vi­sion scre­en abo­ard the sau­cer, not through its win­dows. He was also shown video recor­dings that the Zutor­ni­ans had taken of other pla­nets of our solar system, inclu­ding Saturn and its moons.

The sau­cer even­tu­al­ly arri­ved at the mot­hers­hip and ente­red through a circu­lar air­lo­ck on its side, whe­re the pilot and Maliszewski wai­ted a minu­te befo­re they could lea­ve the sau­cer and take a walk abo­ard the mot­hers­hip.

Abo­ard the mot­hers­hip, Maliszewski met an extre­me­ly beau­ti­ful and extre­me­ly tall (approxi­ma­te­ly 2 meters) slen­der woman who wore a glit­te­ring suit, a miniskirt and a clo­ak. She was accom­pa­nied by similar-look­ing indi­vi­du­als who said not­hing. The woman spo­ke flu­ent Danish and gave him three kis­ses – one on each che­ek and one on the fore­he­ad. She then told him: ”You are my bro­t­her, and I am your sister. You should not belie­ve that you are alo­ne in this migh­ty uni­ver­se”. Maliszewski then asked her about how the socie­ty of the Zutor­ni­ans was orga­ni­sed, as well as whet­her they had any type of reli­gion and belie­ved in a God or Devil like tho­se of Chri­sti­a­ni­ty. The Zutor­ni­an woman told Maliszewski that they knew of an enti­ty they cal­led the Supre­me Being, and that the only thing the Supre­me Being reque­sted was that you love your neig­h­bor. The Earth was the Supre­me Being’s colo­ny, which he had used similar races to colo­nize who might have had dif­fe­rent skin col­ors, but were the same under­ne­ath. She then said that the Supre­me Being wis­hed no evil upon his cre­a­tions, but the­re exi­sted also a being of envy who wan­ted to destroy eve­ryt­hing, and who might be the same enti­ty that humans cal­led The Devil.

Maliszewski had a lengt­hy discus­sion with the Zutor­ni­an woman about the sta­te of affairs on Pla­net Earth. She told him that the peop­le of Earth ought to abo­lish mili­ta­ri­es and the money-based eco­no­my, work less, as well as give inde­pen­den­ce to all our colo­nies, to bring our socie­ty clo­ser in line to that of the Zutor­ni­ans. The Zutor­ni­ans had no use for pas­sports, wan­de­ring fre­e­ly betwe­en pla­nets, and viewed life on Earth as similar to a pri­son sin­ce we kept restri­cting our lives for no rea­son. Maliszewski was also told that spa­ce peop­le similar to tho­se on Zutorn and on Earth lived on many pla­nets throug­hout the cos­mos, all of which were ruled by the Supre­me Being men­tio­ned ear­li­er, and that the­se spa­ce peop­le did not age like we Earth humans did. Their pla­net also had plant and ani­mal life similar to that on Earth. The rea­son that the­se spa­ce peop­le had not yet offi­ci­al­ly con­ta­cted us on Earth, was that we were still not intel­li­gent enough to avoid using nuclear power for

war, and if a third wor­ld war was to hap­pen, then human life on Earth would not sur­vi­ve. The Zutor­ni­ans had come to Earth to warn us against exa­ct­ly that sce­na­rio. The Zutor­ni­an woman told Maliszewski, that on her pla­net “the small was as the gre­at and the gre­at as the small”, mea­ning that nobo­dy had a posi­tion above any­o­ne else. He was also told that Venus was inha­bi­ted by spa­ce humans.

The woman took Maliszewski on a tour aro­und the mot­hers­hip, which was 1 kilo­me­ter long and had a crew of 300 men and women, as well as 100 dwar­ves (!). Maliszewski saw gar­dens with flowers aro­und the mot­hers­hip, and was told that the inner machin­e­ry of the ship was made from ste­el and sil­ver, whe­reas its exte­ri­or hull was made from a pla­stic-like mate­ri­al der­i­ved from the cof­fee plant. Maliszewski had no pro­blems com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the crew, as the Zutor­ni­ans had fol­lowed radio trans­mis­sions from Earth for long enough to per­fect­ly under­stand eve­ry Earth langu­a­ge. In par­ti­cu­lar, they took gre­at inte­r­est in liste­ning to our church ser­vi­ces.

When Maliszewski had been given a gui­ded tour of the mot­hers­hip, they took him back to the fis­hing spot whe­re they drop­ped him off at half an hour past 5 AM. The trip abo­ard the Zutor­ni­an mot­hers­hip, Maliszewski calcu­la­ted, had lasted 3 and a half hours.

FURT­HER EVENTS

1958, Decem­ber: The Danish maga­zi­ne UFO-Nyt prin­ted an arti­c­le about Maliszewski’s sigh­ting, con­tai­ning an illu­stra­tion he made of the spa­ces­hip he saw near Søn­der­borg, com­ple­te with details of its con­struction and equip­ment. The arti­c­le repor­ted that Maliszewski’s clo­ck, which stop­ped wor­king after the enco­un­ter and he could not get repai­red him­self, was later sent to a labo­ra­tory for ana­ly­sis.

1959: Maliszewski beca­me one of the main spe­a­kers at SUFOI’s annu­al con­fe­ren­ce.

1963, March: Maliszewski reve­a­led in an inter­view with a local news­pa­per that he was wor­king on a spa­ces­hip model and on his 80th bir­t­h­day would gat­her the Danish press to invi­te them on a spa­ce trip to the Moon.

1963, Octo­ber 26: Maliszewski died. His son, who lived in the town of Var­de at the time, inhe­ri­ted the spa­ces­hip model.

Maliszewski with his spa­ces­hip model

Com­men­tary

The name Josef Maliszewski is vir­tu­al­ly unk­nown today, and very litt­le has been writ­ten about his expe­ri­en­ces out­si­de of Den­mark. Even the many older Danish arti­c­les about Maliszewski only men­tion his first enco­un­ter in 1951 and not the fol­lowing two enco­un­ters in May 1954 – per­haps

becau­se of all the ele­ments of ”high stran­ge­ness” such as the ali­ens gif­ting Maliszewski with bre­ad and wine on the second enco­un­ter, or the third enco­un­ter reve­a­ling that the ali­ens belie­ve in a Supre­me Being and a Being of Envy similar to God and Satan in Chri­sti­a­ni­ty. That was pro­bably a bit too much for lar­ge­ly non-reli­gious danes to swal­low. Today, his story will seem even more absurd and nai­ve, but it has some inte­r­e­sting details that should make us hesi­ta­te rejecting it out­right. That does not not mean, howe­ver, that we should just accept it at face value.

The Maliszewski case is the first in Den­mark, whe­re the wit­ness actu­al­ly iden­ti­fied the vehi­c­le they saw as an extra-ter­re­stri­al spa­ces­hip and its crew as extra­ter­re­stri­als: The Aars­lev Enge case of the year 1600 hap­pe­ned befo­re air tra­vel was on the mind of most peop­le — let alo­ne spa­ce tra­vel — hen­ce the wit­nes­ses tal­king about ”a wagon with no hor­ses” and ”stran­ge­ly dres­sed peop­le”; even the wit­ness to the Kgs. Thi­sted case of 1944 inter­pre­ted what he saw as an expe­ri­men­tal Ger­man mili­tary aircraft and its human pilots.

Maliszewski’s 1951 enco­un­ter was also one of the first clas­sic con­ta­ctee cases anywhe­re on the pla­net and, as far as we know, the first in Den­mark. Maliszewski’s enco­un­ters with gra­ce­ful, human-look­ing ali­ens in glit­te­ry jumpsu­its who had come to our pla­net to warn us Earth peop­le about our war­li­ke ways, even pre­da­te his coun­try­man Geor­ge Adam­ski’s similar enco­un­ter with Ort­hon from Venus, which did not hap­pen until Novem­ber 20 of 1952. It should be men­tio­ned that this sce­na­rio of human ali­ens tra­vel­ling to Earth to warn us humans to get our own civi­liza­tion in order, is the exa­ct plot pre­mi­se of the 1951 Hol­lywood sci­en­ce-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still… yet this film did not pre­mi­e­re in Den­mark until Novem­ber 6 of 1952, more than a year after Maliszewski’s first enco­un­ter. Some of Maliszewski’s later enco­un­ters fol­low the lead of other con­ta­cte­es, howe­ver – the enco­un­ter with the beau­ti­ful woman astro­naut on May 30 of 1954 hap­pe­ned a year after the Ame­ri­can con­ta­ctee Tru­man Bet­hurum in 1953 wro­te about his enco­un­ter with the fema­le spa­ce cap­tain Aura Rha­nes from the pla­net Cla­rion.

Like many other UFO sigh­tings, Maliszewski’s first enco­un­ter con­tains a per­fect examp­le of the “Oz Factor”, whe­re time seems to stand still as the enco­un­ter hap­pens as well as the wit­ness fee­ling like in a bubb­le, with all sounds dis­ap­pea­ring. Maliszewski get­ting phy­si­cal­ly ill after the enco­un­ter is also a com­mon fea­tu­re of clo­se enco­un­ter cases and sug­ge­sts that somet­hing tan­gib­le and phy­si­cal hap­pe­ned to him. The same is the case for his pock­et watch and the sta­tio­nary clo­ck that stop­ped wor­king, somet­hing we have heard time again, yet at the time was not an establis­hed effect of UFO enco­un­ters. On a side note, it is curious that he had suc­cess repai­ring the pock­et watch but not the clo­ck insi­de his hou­se. Also, the enco­un­ter did not just impa­ct him but also the catt­le and hor­ses out­si­de, as the neig­h­bors even visi­ted afterwards to inve­sti­ga­te the myste­rious mar­kings in the field.

To 21st cen­tury rea­ders, the small sau­cers dis­ch­ar­ged by the spa­ces­hip in the 1951 sigh­ting sound very similar to dro­nes. As far as the appea­ran­ce of the spa­ces­hip itself goes, it is inte­r­e­sting that it loo­k­ed very litt­le like eit­her the flying sau­cers or the cigar-sha­ped mot­hers­hips that, accor­ding to Geor­ge Adam­ski, fun­ctio­ned as flying aircraft car­ri­ers for the sau­cers. What the spa­ces­hip that Maliszewski enco­un­te­red in 1951 inste­ad resem­b­led, more than anyt­hing else, was the Sän­ger Sil­ber­vogel (”Sil­ver bird”) — a con­cept for a rock­et-powe­red bom­ber aircraft that engi­ne­er Eugen Sän­ger drew during Wor­ld War 2 for the Ger­man air for­ce.

The Sil­ber­vogel bom­ber. Com­pa­re to the illu­stra­tion in the begin­ning of this arti­c­le and you will noti­ce the simila­ri­ties.

Later on, howe­ver, Maliszewski would enco­un­ter man­ned small sau­cer-sha­ped scout ships and long thin mot­hers­hips orbi­ting the pla­net, similar to tho­se descri­bed by Adam­ski. The small sur­veil­lan­ce dro­ne sau­cers being ope­ra­ted from a lar­ger spa­ces­hip also sound similar to Adam­ski’s Tele­me­ter Discs.

It is notab­le that Maliszewski descri­bed the Zutor­ni­ans as look­ing per­fect­ly human with their phy­si­cal appea­ran­ce being similar to that of peop­le from Java in Indo­nesia. This was a pret­ty com­mon descrip­tion in ear­ly CE3 cases, but not somet­hing that came into focus until years later.

Ano­t­her stran­ge aspect of the Maliszewski case that is sur­pri­sing­ly com­mon to UFO enco­un­ters across the pla­net, is part of the second enco­un­ter, whe­re the flying sau­cer pilot gave Maliszewski a glass of wine and a pie­ce of bre­ad. A well known similar case is that of Joe Simon­ton, who in Nort­hwoods, Wiscon­sin back in 1961 enco­un­te­red ali­ens that gif­ted him with three small pan­ca­kes. It also has clear paral­lels to the fairy tale tra­di­tion of Euro­pe (them­sel­ves built on a bro­a­der folk tra­di­tion stret­ching far back in time), but it was not until years after Maliszewski’s death that ufo­lo­gi­sts would start to expl­o­re the­se similar traits.

Ulti­ma­te­ly, we do not know whet­her Josef Maliszewski was a com­ple­te fraud, a per­son with a very vivid imag­i­na­tion, or actu­al­ly expe­ri­en­ced what he said he did. Per­haps the answer lies somewhe­re in betwe­en tho­se three options. What we can say for sure, howe­ver, is that his story plays an important role in a ufo­lo­gi­cal-histo­ri­cal con­te­xt, and there­fo­re deser­ves to be sha­red with a wider audi­en­ce than it has so far.

Pri­va­te pho­to of Josef Maliszewski near the end of his life

 Sour­ces

  • FUFOS — Josef Matiszewski [sic] – En dansk kon­takt­per­son. (17 page pamp­hlet publis­hed in 1970) + audio recor­ding of inter­view
  • John Keel — Visi­tors from Spa­ce
  • UFO-Nyt, Decem­ber 1958
  • Wil­ly Weg­ner — Ufo­er over Dan­mark
  • Wil­ly Weg­ner — Ufo-lan­din­ger i Dan­mark