AUDIOBLOG A 1970 UFO and Occupant Report From Finland

The first two years of the 1970s seems to have been a slow period for UFO reports in the U.S. if the 1970 and 1971 UFO Chronology hosted on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena website is any indication, with the 1970 chronology consisting of 5 pages, and the 1971 consisting of 8 pages. As a comparison, the 1966 chronology page count is 35 and the 1967 count is a massive 85. This might have been expected after the release of the Condon Report and the termination of Blue Book. There is a comment to this effect in the 1971 chronology: “An apparent lull in sighting reports may be the result of the closing of Project Blue Book and the media coverage of this for several years, and may not reflect the actual situation.” By 1973, things would pick up in the U.S. in a big way (35 pages in that chronology) with high-strangeness cases dominating the headlines. However, there seems to have been a head start on this in other parts of the world and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization had people in place to investigate and report. Read more →
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
A nineteen seventy UFO and occupent case from Finland by
Charles Lear. The first two years of the nineteen seventies
seems to have been a slow period for UFO reports
in the US if the nineteen seventy in nineteen seventy
one UFO chronology hosted on the National Investigations Committee on
Aerial Phenomena website, is any indication, with the nineteen seventy

(00:35):
chronology consisting of five pages in the nineteen seventy one
consisting of eight pages. As a comparison, the nineteen sixty
six chronology page count is thirty five in the nineteen
sixty seven count is a mass of eighty five. This
might have been expected after the release of the Condon
Report and the termination of Blue Book. There is a

(00:56):
comment to this effect in the nineteen seventy one chronology.
An apparent lull in citing reports may be the result
of the closing of Project blue Book and the media
coverage of this for several years, and may not reflect
the actual situation. By nineteen seventy three, things would pick
up in the US in a big way. Thirty five

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pages in that chronology with high strangeness cases dominating the headlines. However,
there seems to have been a head start on this
in other parts of the world, and the Aerial Phenomenal
Research Organization had people in place to investigate and report.
In the July August nineteen seventy APRO bulletin, there is
an article headlined Finns observe UFO occupant, with an account

(01:40):
that is said to have been forwarded by APROS Swedish
representative k Costa Ren. According to the article, Wren got
the story from a Finish magazine it would be nice
to know which one, and contacted the author and satisfied
himself as to the credibility of the two men. According
to the UNT, on January seventh, nineteen seventy, at around

(02:03):
three forty five p m. Two men, Arno Heinonen thirty
six and Esco Virzo thirty eight, were cross country skiing.
They stopped to rest and saw a bright light coming
in from the north that was enveloped in a fog
described as a cloud. It changed direction, came towards the
men and they started to hear a humming sound. It

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came down lower and lower as it got closer, and
the noise got louder. At this point, the cloud is
described as red gray and pulsating, with smoke coming from
the top like smoke from a chimney. When it was
around fifteen meters off the ground, the men are said
to have been able to see a shiny gray metal
craft that was three meters in diameter with three round

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balls on the bottom, along with a pipelike affair that
was two centimeters long and five centimeters in diameter. The
men are said to have been able to see a
dome on top of the craft as it stopped around
three to four meters off the ground and the cloud thinned.
Heinronan reportedly said that he felt like something grabbed him
around his waist and pulled him back. At that point,

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he said to have noticed a creature standing in a
circle of light that emitted from the tube. The creatures
described as being about ninety centimeters tall, thin and slender,
with a waxy, pale face. No eyes were seen, and
it seemed to have a hook like nose. Its clothing
is described as a light green overall, with darker green

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boots and white gloves that had gauntlets that went up
to the elbows clutched in its claw like fingers, is
said to have been a black box with a pulsating
yellow light shining out of a round hole. Filjo's take
on the creature is different. According to rn, Philjo said
he didn't get an impression of clothing on the little figure,

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but noted that he glowed like he was made of phosphor.
Piljo is also said to have described the creature's head
as being crowned with a metallic looking helmet. According to Wren,
the men said that after fifteen to twenty seconds, the
creature turned towards Heinenen, and the light coming from the
box that was directed towards him was brilliant and almost blinding.

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The red gray mist is described as pouring down from
the craft, and big sparks are said to have been
jumping from the luminous circle on the ground. The sparks
are described as one centimeter long, red, green, and violet
luminous staffs. According to Ren, they seemed to flow outward
from the circle quite slowly, and some of them struck Heinanin,

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and he was surprised that he did not feel them.
The creatures said to have been covered by the fog
and the light cone on the ground appeared to be
sucked up into the opening at the bottom of the object.
Coren says the fog then dissipated and the men saw
that the craft was gone. According to ren for two
to three minutes, the men stood there, and then Heinanen,

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who had been closest to the circle and the object,
started to experience a numbness on his right side. He
went to move forward and his right leg gave out,
and Viljo had to half carry and drag his friend
to his home, which was located about two kilometers from
the area where the object was seen. Both men reportedly
suffered physical ailments upon arriving at Einenan's home. Viljo's face

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is described as being swollen and red, and Heinenin is
said to have complained of aching joints, a back ache,
to have vomited, and to have said during an interview
for a finished magazine that his urine was black for
two months. Wrenn says that the men were examined by
a doctor who attested to the complaints of Heinenin, but

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said that both men were so excited in telling their
story that they were nearly incoherent and felt they had
encountered some kind of electrical phenomenon. The assessment of who
we assumed is then editor Coral Lorenzen, is that the
case is quite possibly one of those that will need
to be looked at more deeply to be understood. It

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is noted that there are elements that have turned up
in other cases, and the readers told that any further
important information will be published in a future issue. Scandinavia
has a long history of UFO reports that pre dates
the Flying Saucer mystery that started in nineteen forty seven
in the United States. Starting in nineteen forty six, there

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were mysterious rockets reported over Sweden and Finland that have
become known as ghost rockets, and before that, from nineteen
thirty three to nineteen thirty four, there were mystery aeroplanes
reported over Sweden that have become known as ghost flyers.
Wren's archives are housed at the Archives for the Unexplained
in Sweden and co founder and board vice chairman HUCKEM.

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Blankfist wrote a biography of Wren titled k Gusta Ren
a Pioneer that he posted on his blogspot dot com
site Hockomblankfist's blog. According to Blankfist. Brenn was born in
eighteen ninety one, and while he had dreams of becoming
a concert pianist, due to family finances, he was persuaded

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to study law instead. He is said to have become
interested in the UFO enigma in nineteen fifty four after
reading Donald Keho's nineteen fifty three book Flying Saucers from
Outer Space, which he translated into Swedish and had published
in nineteen fifty five. Blunkfist describes him as a hard
line atheist, materialist and socialist, and says that in spite

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of this, he became active in eupology in nineteen fifty
eight as a field investigator and Swedish representative for APRO.
He wrote four books on the subject, and, according to Blankfist,
felt that the ETI extraterrestrial intelligence theory was the only
one that was scientifically acceptable. Charles Lear is the author

(07:59):
of of the Flying Saucer Investigators, available in its second
edition at Amazon dot com.