Label: UFO

Traveling in horrors

Traveling in horrors

Clas Svahn is a strange man in the public eye. He is seen most of the time on morning sofas and heard in podcasts as an expert on all things obscure and mysterious. Chairman (or if it is vice, or former?) of the National Organization UFO-Sweden. At the same time, a heavy, respected reporter at DN for a long time. You have to respect his courage!

Now at work with a new book about the history of flying saucers. On his blog, you can read in more detail what the book will contain

Most things are ready
The theosophist who traveled around with flying saucers

The theosophist who traveled around with flying saucers

Håkan Blomqvist at SWEAT, i.e. "Archives For the Unexplained", in Norrköping, in its work to catalog the history of the Swedish UFO movement has reached this little nugget.

A report from when Borlänge was visited by the theosophist, ufologist, etc., Alve Holmqvist, in the early 80s. I want to remember it was my own "scoop" from when I was browsing the newspaper during junior high school, or shortly thereafter. You can read more about this Holmqvist here the blog post by Håkan Blomqvist. And here, in one Post from Clas Svahn's blog.

A reflection when I re-watch the old clip and google the lecturer is how certain interests seem to be able to coincide so well: Flying saucers, Pyramid mysticism, Healing, Occultism, Western esotericism, battle squares, etc.

"UFO Sweden" - new blockbuster is being prepared

"UFO Sweden" - new blockbuster is being prepared

When a teenage rebel placed in a foster home suspects that her father is not dead but kidnapped by UFOs, she enlists the help of a UFO association to find out the truth.

“Crazy Pictures' first feature film The heyday is now coming was a great success in both Sweden and the rest of the world when it premiered three years ago. Now the recording of the film collective's new big venture, the adventure film, is approaching UFO Sweden, which is expected to premiere in theaters Christmas 2022.”

Read more on Clas Svahn's blog: http://csblogg.ufo.se/csblogg3/?p=65705

Meeting with the Space Brothers

Meeting with the Space Brothers

I had just gone and thought about my spiritual search and what contexts I had actually been in. And I had established that it was not directly sects, but more what can be described as unorganized, or possibly semi-organized, alternative spirituality.

But then I read a fresh one Post on the author Håkan Blomqvist's blog, about the history of the UFO movement in Sweden. And his meeting in the early 70s with a certain Sten Lindgren, alleged "contact person" for extraterrestrial civilizations, and representative of the "InterGalactic Federation", IGF. Or simply "The Space Brothers"

And then I know at least once (there are a few more) when I touched - and felt the strong gravity of - what must be described as a "sect" with a clear leader.

“On November 21, 1970 Kjell Jonsson and I went by train to Stockholm where we were picked up by Sten Lindgren and his co-worker Bjarne Håkansson. We were taken to Sten Lindgren's apartment at Lidingö. Arriving at our destination we were soon made aware of that this was no ordinary Swedish home…”

For me it happened at the end of the 80s, at least fifteen years after the meeting Håkan Blomqvist tells about. I was in my late twenties and working in a sort of alternative bookstore at the time. A man who introduced himself as Sten Lindgren started talking to me over the counter, and soon invited me to a meeting at his home on Lidingö.

And I went there. It was a surreal, but of course also exciting, evening that sometimes appeared in the memory. Like now. As I remember it, most of the participants that evening were more familiar with and already sympathetic to Lindgren, his ideas and sensations.

The strongest memory from the evening was how he explained to us that at the same moment that we were sitting there in his sofa group, "reconnaissance discs", i.e. a kind of ufo drone, were probably hovering outside the windows and watching us. And that we wouldn't be surprised if they followed us from a distance when we left the house. Previous visitors had testified to this.

Here is a longer article, also the one by Håkan Blomqvist, about the phenomenon of Sten Lindgren.