Late one eve­ning in 1957, a far­mer and his wife are dri­ving through the Sto­re Vild­mo­se area when they obser­ve a stran­ge craft. Read the unusu­al story here!

Case Type: CE3

When: Sto­re Vild­mo­se, North Jut­land

Whe­re: Octo­ber, 1957 (not repor­ted until 1960)

Investigator(s): N/A

One eve­ning in Octo­ber 1957, at about 23:00, a farm owner and his wife were dri­ving in their car across Sto­re Vild­mo­se (“The Gre­at Wild Bog”), a for­mer ombro­trop­hic bog area — in fact once the lar­gest of its kind in all of Euro­pe — loca­ted in the north of Jut­land. Sud­den­ly, they saw an unusu­al­ly bright glowing object that eit­her flew or drove towards them from a near­by field, moving at a spe­ed that they esti­ma­ted to be 30–35 km/h. When the car pas­sed by the object on the field at a distan­ce of 50–75 metres, the two wit­nes­ses could now see that it was some type of vehi­c­le with two peop­le sit­ting insi­de a glass dome. The dome had a stran­ge blu­ish-gre­en glow.

The farm owner wan­ted to go clo­ser and inve­sti­ga­te the stran­ge vehi­c­le but his wife war­ned him against doing so. Hee­ding her advi­ce, he drove away, but very slo­wly. They then fol­lowed the myste­rious object from the rear win­dow of their car, see­ing it dis­ap­pear to the north.

Inter­pre­ta­tion of the sigh­ting, illu­stra­ted by Simon Hes­sela­ger Johan­sen (2022)

Com­men­tary

The only real sour­ce for this sigh­ting is the Febru­ary 1960 issue of UFO-Nyt, whe­re it was repor­ted three years after the fact. So it is unclear to which extent the two wit­nes­ses remem­ber the sigh­ting exa­ct­ly as hap­pe­ned to them. For examp­le they could not remem­ber the exa­ct date of the sigh­ting. It is notewort­hy that the wit­nes­ses were unclear whet­her the vehi­c­le was flying or dri­ving on the gro­und, and at no point did they descri­be the “pilots” as anyt­hing other than human, nor did they specu­la­te that the vehi­c­le was from ano­t­her pla­net. Actu­al­ly, the descrip­tion of the vehi­c­le seen near Sto­re Vild­mo­se sounds more like a hovercraft than anyt­hing else. Hovercraft were still in the testing sta­ge during the 1950s and did not enter mass pro­duction until the 1960s. Howe­ver, it is unclear whet­her any pro­to­ty­pe hovercraft were being tested in Den­mark at the time like they were in Fin­land, the UK and the US.

Sour­ces

  • Wil­ly Weg­ner — UFO-Lan­din­ger i Dan­mark
  • UFO-Nyt, Febru­ary 1960