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and Stig looked at spark plugs and cables with a flashlight without finding anything wrong. He then asked me to turn the ignition key and the engine started up at once. Relieved that nothing was wrong we jumped into the car again to get going.

WARM AN HEAVY PIECE OF METAL

Harry was interested in what they had seen and he therefore asked Stig to stop at the place where the object had been seen. At the "landing spot" Harry got out and looked around. The first thing he saw was that the grass on both sides of the road was pressed down in a half circle. Amazed by the finding Harry called: "Come here and have a look, Stig, something's been here". Stig took his flashlight and stepped out of the car and took a look. The two friends wandered about looking with wonder. "I spotted something on the ground that gleamed when I let the light hit it", Harry says. "To my surprise it was a smooth hot piece of metal. It was so hot that I could hardly hold it. He came to me and he could see it too. What surprised us besides the heat was that it was so heavy considering its small size. It was triangular and had the size of a matchbox", Stig continues. "It must have been because of its smoothness and heaviness that I brought it along, otherwise I probably would have thrown it away".

After Stig and Harry had looked around the place they returned to the car and drove on to where they were going.

NO EXPLANATION TO THE PIECE OF METAL

After this event Stig and Harry passed the place several times and they came to talk about their strange experience. "We told our friends about it, but they thought we were joking", Stig says.

Almost a year passed before Stig and Harry once again took interest in the piece of metal. It was because they met a young man who was a metallurgist. However, he could not tell what kind of material it was, but referred to a metal laboratory on Drottninggatan in Stockholm. There Stig and Harry would get to know what kind of strange piece of metal it was. But they failed the task and referred to another lab in Regeringsgatan. No success there either, so Stig and Harry were once more referred to another place. This time to a laboratory for metal analysis in Helsingborg. There too the results were small, but they had managed to split the piece of metal into three parts. According to information this should have been accomplished by ultrasound.

After this the circus really began. The piece of metal went from one examination to another. Before the investigators got the pieces of metal, they were sure they would solve the riddle. But as said before, everyone failed. As an example one could mention Oxelösunds jernverk who got one of the pieces to make a so-called wet analysis. The only result was that one analysis mill broke down at the ironworks' laboratory and had to be repaired for almost 20,000 sw. crowns. The piece of metal was on the other hand intact and unaffected. During the entire period of examination neither Stig nor Harry had with one single word mentioned the circumstances that lead them to the mysterious piece of metal. This was mostly because they did not put it in connection with the strange object that had landed in front of their car some years earlier. "UFO or "flying saucers" were something we had never heard of at that time", Stig says. "It was much later we read of a Norwegian case, where a car had stopped when a glowing object was observed. It reminded a lot of what we had experienced, and I guess it was then we started to see a connection".