The Västernorrland Forest Being

Before he died, the account says, the being spoke to the men both by telepathy and in Swedish, telling them of visitors from other worlds and of parallel worlds. Following instructions they sealed his body in a sack and threw it into the river. It dissolved. The witness kept a fork-like metal tool as proof.

The story begins in July 1955 in a forest beside a river in Västernorrland on the Gulf of Bothnia coast. Three timber workers saw a cigar-shaped object come down. According to the account it gave off a blinding light like an X-ray and a wave like a vacuum. Near the wreck they found a small being with black eyes and yellowish skin, dressed in a reddish metal suit and badly hurt.

What is on the record

The two claimants come from a single video: an anonymous forestry labourer, and two unnamed brothers entered together as one. No one is named, and the story reaches the archive through the labourer's telling alone. The brothers do not speak for themselves anywhere in the record.

Outside the archive the story has one known origin. It appears in a single catalogue entry that cites the first issue of UFO-Norway News in 1989, some thirty-four years after the events it describes. No independent source backs it, no official body is recorded as taking an interest and no one has offered an explanation. The fork-like tool is not described as examined by anyone, and the archive holds no photograph of it.

Why it sits where it does

By the archive's count of claimants this is L3, and the count is generous. The case is one anonymous man's account that surfaced late, and the second entry is a pair of brothers who appear only inside his story. It sits in the archive because the source tells it and the record should show where it came from. What fell into the forest by the river is not resolved here.