Anders Liljegren

Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases. In 1977 he was allowed to study the Swedish military files on the Scandinavian ghost fliers of the 1930s. No smoking gun emerged. In 1989 he and Clas Svahn published Domstensfallet, their study of the 1958 Domsten Encounter, which until then had ranked among Sweden's best observations. Three people said the men had admitted it was a bluff. He also weighed in on the Imjärvi skiers' case of 1970. He found Heinonen's later contact stories closer to sagas and myths, noting that no concrete evidence was ever produced.

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The Scandinavian Ghost Fliers, 1933-34 and 1936-37

c. 1933 · Northern Scandinavia: Norrland (Sweden), northern Norway and northern Finland

Sweden

UAP · Other · 17 sources

36Partially documented

AFU researcher who studied the Swedish military investigation files in 1977

The Domsten Encounter (Domsten Blobs), 1958

December 20, 1958 · Clearing beside the road between Helsingborg and Domsten, Skåne

Sweden

UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources

10Thinly documented

AFU researcher, co-author of the 1989 study that exposed the hoax

The Imjärvi Skiers' Encounter

January 7, 1970 · Forest clearing near Imjärvi village, Heinola rural municipality (now Heinola), Päijät-Häme

Finland

UAP · Disc / saucer · 29 sources

15Thinly documented

Swedish ufologist (AFU) who criticised Heinonen's later contact claims

Pro early

The Helleland Close Encounter: Reidar Salvesen's Cracked Windshield

October 29, 1970 · About 3 km past Helleland, Eigersund municipality, Rogaland

Norway

UAP · Disc / saucer · 13 sources

23Thinly documented

Wrote the 1971 Flying Saucer Review article