04-30-1976

Lake Objects Reported In Scandinavia

By Richard Hall

       Professor Bertil Soderquist, MUFON Representative in Sweden, has reported several incidents of mysterious objects in lakes, but with no apparent UFO association.       

(Extract)

       In Lake Siljan, Dalarna Province (central Sweden), April 30, 1976, three witnesses saw a pointed object tearing a channel through the ice between 5:15 and 5:30 pm.

Side View

Lake Siljan, Sweden, 1976. Sketch from INFO Journal, Vol. 6 No. 3

The object, estimated to be moving 90 km/hr, cut a channel 1 km long and 3-4 meters wide through the 20 cm thick ice. Ice floes and water cascaded around it as it forced its way through the ice. The object was dark (2 witnesses) or gray (1 witness) and about 10 meters long.  

This reference: The MUFON Journal #108, November 1976, p. 11

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATA BASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN -109818

UFOCAT URN – 109818 UFO Information Sweden, July 1976, p. 4

UFOCAT URN – NONE    The MUFON Journal #108, November 1976, p. 11

UFOCAT URN – NONE    INFO Journal, Vol. 6 No. 3, September/October 1977

Europe - Sweden

Lake Siljan       Latitude 60-50 N, Longitude 14-45 E (D-M)

Dalarna            Latitude 61-01 N, Longitude 14-04 E [Province]

Reference: Sweden Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., February 1963.