The Overby Boys

Eight small human-like figures in striped suits came down from a dark craft in a basket on a cable. In the boys' account they carried camera-like instruments and waved in an unusual way. Then the craft departed over the Kattegat. One of the boys had taken the dark object for a tornado at first. The other hid in a ditch and watched it change colour. It had retractable legs made of beams of light and a strange appendage.

Both witnesses were boys at the time. The archive describes them by role and does not name them.

What is on the record

The archive holds one telling and enters both boys as a single claimant, the way that telling lists them. The paper trail is good for a case of this age. Flying Saucer Review carried it in its September to October 1967 issue, citing the Danish journal UFO-Nyt. It is case 1967-35 in the HUMCAT catalogue of humanoid reports. The Hatch and Johnson catalogues carry it too. In those sources a dark grey craft descends and puts out three legs. Then it moves out over the Kattegat and lowers a box on a cable.

The date is not settled. The archive's source and a 2025 re-interview give 18 January 1967 at about 4.40 in the afternoon. The catalogues date it to between 13 and 15 April 1967. The Danish SUFOI file is the place to settle it and the archive does not hold that file.

The record also carries its own corrections. Black material was seen falling, and a lump of strange material was later found on the shore. That material was later linked to dumped fertiliser. The 2025 re-interview cast doubt on many of the recorded details.

Why it sits where it does

This case grades L0, a single account. Two boys saw it, but they reach the archive together through one video, so the grading cannot count them as independent. A contemporary magazine report gives the story an early paper trail that most single accounts lack. The 2025 re-interview weakens many of its details. What the two boys saw at Overby is not resolved here.