Clas Svahn
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedSvahn leads the world's largest archive of UFO material, which holds the papers of many researchers and organisations. The corpus interviews him about the archive and the Scandinavian 'ghost rocket' cases.
Who
| Role | Swedish journalist; head of the Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) in Norrköping |
|---|---|
| Side | researcher |
| Status | verified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true) |
Interviews and appearances
- 0:00:00 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE 20 February 2026 guest ▶ YouTube
- 0:00:00 The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive 21 February 2026 guest ▶ YouTube
Claims made
The three-week Swedish military search of Lake Kolmjarv after the 19 July 1946 ghost-rocket crash recovered no material, and the officer who led it reported the lake bottom was disturbed but concluded the object had largely disintegrated.
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
in 1946, as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were indentations at the bottom. >> Not a single debris, not
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
AFU field teams obtained radar returns indicating an object lying in roughly four metres of mud in a lake in far northern Sweden where two witnesses reported an object landing in 1980.
- 0:47:17 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
in 1980 there was a landing and an object that um sank in a lake up in the very north of Sweden called Damaya. >> And we have been there and we have radar returns that something is in the
- 0:47:17 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
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“A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE 20 February 2026
- 0:00:00 ▶ interview
- 0:08:34 ▶ Clas Svahn
in 1946, as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were indentations at the bottom. >> Not a single debris, not
- 0:47:17 ▶ Clas Svahn
in 1980 there was a landing and an object that um sank in a lake up in the very north of Sweden called Damaya. >> And we have been there and we have radar returns that something is in the
The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive 21 February 2026
On the map
Swedish ghost-rocket lakes, 1946 (Lake Kölmjärv). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
in 1946, as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were indentations at the bottom. >> Not a single debris, not
- 0:47:17 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
in 1980 there was a landing and an object that um sank in a lake up in the very north of Sweden called Damaya. >> And we have been there and we have radar returns that something is in the
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