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VETERAN SWEDISH ADOOll OBSERVE,
D£SCRD3.E DISK-SBAP£D AIRCRAFT OVER SKAAE
/Tbe fo!ormatioo io this report vas taken tram three articles
vhicb appeared in tht! l beral Stockholm daily, Dageos Nyheter 00
18, 19, and 20 Dece.r:iber 1953. Io the rendition of tbe first tvo
articles (18 and 19 Dec ember), repetitioas elements have been
acitted. The third article is given 10 tlll.l •
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The cbiet pilot tor Trensair Airlines, Flight Captain 01.t Chrutiernsson,
and his !-light 11echa01c, Olle Johaouoo, reported that on the atteroooo ot
17 December 1953, vhile n11og in a DC-3 cTer Skaane, they Bighted a myste-
rious circular metal obJect fiying in an opposite direction ot them at a speed
estimat ed at about the 1peed or soand. The airmen estimated tbat the obJect
vas about 10 meter, 1D diameter. ·
Captain Christierosson, at present empl?)-ed by Transair 1n ny1og the
morDi.og (Stockholm] papera to aoatbern Sveden, baa TfrY exteD51Te ajz ex-
pe:-1.ence, bartog served as a Tolunteer v1th the BA1' trom 1942-1946, tinishing
hi• aenice vith the rank or captain. Be nev 30 8'1,aaioas ap1nat. eoem7 terr1-
tor7 rrom· Borth Africa &na 1tal7.
Captain Christiernason made tbe folloving statement to Dagen, Jlybeter:
•1 do not doubt for an instant that it vu not a Jet plape. Wbat I aav vu a
completely unorthodox, metaJ.llc, aymmetr1c, round obJect. vbicb vas unlike ~-
thing I b&Te aeen before . The · mysterious obJect appeared 1uddeDl7 OD the air
ro\lte traveled b7 all coot.rolled air traffic betveeo Bulltof'ta &Dd Bra::aa air•
fiJ:lda (at Mala!S. an.d Stockbolllll rea;pectinly]. I ■r-elt viu en route to !rCJIIIII&-
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