Väddö, Sweden: Object lands on road before two carpenters, engine fails, metal piece found

At 10:00 p.m., carpenters Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg were driving from Stockholm to their cabin on Väddö island when, about 6 miles north of Älmstä, the engine of their Ford V8 pickup sputtered and failed and the headlights went out. A huge shining object, estimated at 53 feet long and 20 feet high, descended, turned above Väddö Bay and landed on the road about 300 feet ahead, lighting up the landscape; the air smelled of ozone and smoldering insulation. After about 10 minutes the object grew brighter, lifted off and sped away, and the engine started again at once. At the landing site the men found flattened grass and a still-hot, smooth, triangular piece of metal the size of a matchbox, which was later split into three pieces during laboratory tests; one piece went to the US Air Force and was not returned. In the early 1970s James Harder at the University of California, Berkeley, examined another piece and reported that it consisted of tungsten carbide, cobalt and traces of titanium and had been manufactured. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.