Sweden
In Kronoskogen, a suburb of the Swedish town of Ängelholm, a memorial
was erected in 1963, to remember an alleged UFO-landing seen by Swedish
ice hockey player Gösta Carlsson on May 18, 1946. The memorial, which
is built of concrete, consists of a model of the UFO and a concrete
base.
Gösta Carlsson claimed that during his encounter with the aliens he
received recipes for natural medical remedies which made him healthy.
According to Carlsson it was based on this knowledge that he founded
pharmaceutical companies Cernelle and Allergon. He later established the
first professional ice-hockey club in Sweden — Rögle BK.
Not everyone, even those who believe in aliens, agrees with Carlssons
claims. Clas Svahn of UFO-Sweden, a group dedicated to investigating
UFO sightings in Sweden, investigated the claims and found no convincing
evidence. The only other UFO memorial in Europe can be found in Poland
at the Emilicin UFO memorial ground.
