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May 31, 2023 61 mins

#163 Clas Svahn UFO Researcher Investigative Journalist
Born: 12 April 1958 in Mariestad, Sweden.
Education: Journalist since 1978 after studies at Journalisthögskolan in Gothenburg.
Occupation: Journalist at Mariestads-Tidningen (Mariestad) 1978–1983, Norrbottens-Kuriren (Luleå) 1983–1990 and Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, since 1990. Works as a reviewer for UFO, science fiction and other related books for the Swedish libraries.

UFO-history: In 1974 he founded a small UFO group in his hometown Mariestad and joined the nationwide group UFO-Sweden. During 1991 to 2013 he was the chairman of that organization and is now it’s international director and vice-chairman

He is also editor of UFO-Sweden’s magazine UFO-Aktuellt, a frequent lecturer and head of the yearly field investigation trainee course.
Family: Wife Anneli and two children, Niklas (born 1992) and Markus (born 1994).
Hobbies: UFO research, amateur astronomy.

Archives for the unexplained: Since 2017 Svahn is chairman of Archives for the unexplained, AFU, an archive he has been actively involved with since the early 1980s. AFU is the world’s largest archive covering all Fortean topics with a shelf capacity of three kilometers (February 2021).

AFU could be found at: www.afu.se

Books: For a complete list of his more than 25 books see:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clas_Svahn

Other media: Svahn has also co-produced several domestic TV programs in Sweden as well as SciFi Channels “Earthscan” and “Sweden special”. He has contributed with articles in many Swedish and foreign UFO magazines. Svahn’s pictures have been published in many books and magazines, such as Evans/Spencer, ed: UFOs 1947–1987 (1987), Stone: UFO Investigation (1993), Moran: Alien art (1998), Clark: The UFO Encyclopedia (1998), Bord: “The World of the Unexplained (1998) and Nylén: “Den nödvändiga boken om Allsvenskan” (2004).

He can be contacted through clas.svahn@gmail.com

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