The Spjellerup Hole (1953)

The hole went through flint. Whatever made it came down in a field near Spjellerup and left a shaft about 3.5 metres deep and only 25 centimetres across, passing through "a thick stratum of flint". The owner of the land pushed a long iron rod into the hole and found that the thing at the bottom was metallic. It was said that "quite a number of unidentified flying objects" were over the area when it fell. The military were to help dig it out, to settle whether it was a meteor, a shell or "some part of a flying saucer".

What is on the record

The source is a foreign press report the CIA collected, not a CIA investigation. The Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet ran the item on 24 May 1954 under a heading the CIA translated as "Celestial object to be dug up in Denmark". It dated the landing to about six months earlier, which puts it around the end of 1953. The agency's report 00-W-30883 was distributed on 25 August 1954 as unevaluated information. It gathers saucer stories from Swedish, Turkish, French and German papers. The archive holds two scans of that one report.

Much is missing. No one is named, not even the landowner. Two places on Zealand bear the name, a hamlet near Næstved and Store Spjellerup near Faxe, and the report does not say which. The map pin is a rough point between them. No Danish account was found. Nothing on record says whether the dig happened or what it turned up. Loren Gross's history of 1954 quotes the same text and files it under Sweden, so it adds nothing independent.

Why it sits where it does

L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT. The record names no witness. Its two documents are copies of one CIA digest of a Swedish newspaper story, so they count as one source. The tier measures sourcing rather than truth. What made the hole near Spjellerup, and what was at the bottom of it, is not resolved here.