A Swedish Roswell
“Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if we are alone in the universe? Then UFO Norrköping is an exhibition for you.”
The exhibition "UFO Norrköping" arranged at the Museum of Work until March 2025.
Don't know if there is any chronology in this that would be better than any other? The fact that the exhibition ended now and then is probably due to several things. It has an interesting, multi-layered background. With several connections precisely to this Östergötska locality. To begin with, the Swedish blockbuster has “UFO Sweden” (2022) filmed mostly in Norrköping, by the local film collective Crazy Pictures. The film has been noticed and celebrated in the English-speaking world as well. Here's a clip from Moviezines review:
The film, in turn, was both inspired by and borrowed props, etc., from the greats Archives For The Unexplained (AFU) which is located in that city. (For example, the chairman of the archive participates, as well as the DN journalist, Clas Svahn, in a fairly prominent extra role 🙂 )
The archive which in turn once grew out of the old organization The national organization UFO-Sweden, whose activities – report phone, field investigator, etc. – as far as I understand, are not that far from the action in the film. On their website there is also a long information text about the AFU archive at English and a shorter one on svenska.
By the way, the UFO exhibition is going on in parallel "I Want to Believe" at Malmö City Archives.
And I myself saw the film "UFO Sweden" yesterday. (Can be found in several places, e.g. Netflix and SF Anytime.) Thought it was charming, impressive in its genre. With winks to the old TV series Arkiv X, to the not-so-old series Stranger Things, to the film Interstellar, etc. But sat many times and thought about how an American experiences the environments, Swedish association and authority culture, etc., in the film? So familiar to yourself, but must have felt exotic to many others who have seen and been able to appreciate the film.
PS The title obviously refers to the small town of Roswell in New Mexico, USA. An event there, "The Roswell Incident", 1947, some say ignited the public interest in UFOs and since then the resort has become a kind of place of worship. Mr.
