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a front window being pressed in. As usual with breaking-proof glass, the window was pulverized and most of it ended in the car. The door remained open.

- Almost simultaneously as I crawled to my feet, the object ascended as swift as a lightning. During the next 2 or 3 seconds I glimpsed the object as the size of a pea. I guess that the altitude then was about 1000 meters. There it was once more surrounded by a powerful light and disappeared in the next moment.

- What did you do after this?

- After having collected my wits, I got rid of the rubber frame in which the front window was embedded, and the remaining glass pieces. I looked at my watch and realized that I really had to hurry up if I wanted to get to Ueland before they closed. I arrived at Ueland at 5 o'clock and got a piece of plastic as a substitute for the front-window. In this way I managed to get to Kristiansand during the evening.

THE CREDIBILITY OF THE WITNESS

It is our impression that in this case, we have to do with a qualified witness. The extensive, very minute account indicates this.

The calmness of the observer systematically noticing important points does also indicate this. Editor Halvor Toreskaas in Christiansands Tidende, who wrote the first report in the press, and who was one of the first who heard about the event, says in a letter to UFO-Sverige: "I also have done comprehensive investigations to check the credibility of Reidar Salvesen, and the result was positive all over. When I got to know about the case through a mutual acquaintance, Reidar Salvesen first refused to give any information to the press. He had an appointment to give a report to the police the following day. With the permission of the police officer, I was allowed to publish the case".

In order to control the account of Salvesen, editor Toreskaas made contact with the shop where Salvesen had bought the plastic cover. According to Salvesen himself, he had asked for a piece of plastic and something to dry some blood from his hand because a wound was the result when he had fallen to the ground and supported himself with his hand. The shopkeeper hadn't got any information, however, of the fact that Salvesen had seen a UFO; everything according to Salvesen.

The shopkeeper could confirm this part of Salvesens account completely.

- Did he seem to be excited or shaken?

- He seemed to shudder a bit. But I thought that he was cold after having driven a long time without a front window. By the way, it couldn't have been for very long, because there is a graveled road only 5 kilometers from here.

- The fact is that the accident happened about 12 kilometers from Ueland.

- It isn't correct, because it was a stone-slide?

- No, it wasn't a stone-slide. He encountered a UFO, a flying saucer! Shopkeeper Risa was silent for very long by pure astonishment.

POLICE INVESTIGATION

The incident took place on a macadamized road, and this rules out the possibility of stone-slide as far as the front window is concerned. The police officer at Helleland was inspecting the place of observation November 2nd. On that place where Salvesen's car had been parked, he found fragments of the front window. In the letter we got from Salvesen on November 31 he writes: "I have not been in contact with the police lately. The case has been taken over by the Police's Superintendence