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)

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