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lized he risked becoming a public laghing stock. He therefore asked the police to keep the event secret. Gradually his disappointment with the authorities gre because of their lack to take any action. Both the police and the military authorities had been informed about the event, but neither seemed to take it for real. He means that any real investigation was never made. Therefore Ante finally contacted Kvàllposten (an evening newspaper) and revealed the whole story. The result was a large sensational article 22 November 1984.

Conflicting statements

Most details in Ante's story were of course inpossible to confirm.

What can be confirmed is that in the area Ante was attacked no civil or military air¬traffic took place. No other military activities was taking place in the area. The weather report as received from Vaxjo Airport tells about a cloudy sky, about zero degrees Centigrade, wind from east; 7-9 feet/sec and good visibility.

After a careful reconstruction of the course of event a time schedule has been made for the events. By comparing this with the statements from one of the police officers who found Ante, Ante's wife and some other persons indirectly involved, one comes up with a messy and conflicting picture of the event. There could be different explanations to this. Almost a year has passed since the event and that could cause that Ante didn't remember all the details any more. Another explanation could be that Ante's experience was published both in Kvàllsposten and the local newspaper Krono-bergaren with different description of the details. Those who now has left reports could easily have mixed what they had known with what they later read in the papers.

Some circumstances can in some part confirm Ante's story:

1. Ante himself. He is a settled person with work, wife and children. He appears to be engaging and is calm and sensible. It could also be pointed out that he is a teetotaler. His free time he uses for photographing and model building of old cultural buildings. He has been noticed for his cultural work the last years.
2. The person who called the police reporting seeing an object hovering above the road beside Ante's car.
3. The policemen found Ante in a state of shock and this condition was confirmed from the hospital.
4. A lot of persons in the area of Tingsryd and north of the area have reported different kinds of UFO phenomena for many years. Only a couple of