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Swedish Pilot ~eports 'Saucer'
By Unit.ed Preas
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The .Swedish Royal Air Force
ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing
a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases.
Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander-in-chief, called 1n
complete reports from all Swedish radar stations aft_.er joining the
defense staff in promising a detailed inquiry.
Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense
staff he· and his crew saw the disc-shaped metallic object shortly after
noon yesterday over the southern Swedish town of. Haessleholm, about
·300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast.
"It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and • ci1scular
object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious,
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Capt. Christiernsson said the object !Jew faster than sourldl ab.out,
5000 .teet above the ground.
Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low-
lying 'cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He
said he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared ln the
dire~tion of East Germany's Baltic shore. near the former Nazi research
station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians.
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