Nammajaure — 1980 landing report
Also: Nammajaure; Damaya (legacy automatic-caption rendering)
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Clas Svahn · 0:47:17
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedBo Berg and Liz Hellström reported a rocket-like object turning and sinking in Nammajaure, Muddus national park, in 1980. Svahn documents searches in 2012 and 2014: natural sonar targets, followed by unresolved buried radar echoes. No craft was recovered in those accounts.
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The formerly unresolved caption name is Nammajaure. Svahn’s project history dates the sighting to 31 July 1980 and reproduces the witness diary; Berg’s later Riksarkivet podcast instead recalls August. His interview date recollection also differs. These source differences remain visible in the investigation.
The 2012 elongated sonar targets proved natural on inspection. The 2014 survey described separate buried echoes; the weak magnetometer response did not securely identify metal or a rocket. These are not the 1946 Kölmjärv searches.
Source review, September 2026: Read the fixed-locations investigation for the obtained records, source differences and remaining tests.
Where the pin is
not placed unplaced
Lake identity established from Clas Svahn’s own project account and linked to the 1980 case. The old 67.85,20.2 regional placeholder was not a lake fix and is withdrawn. No surveyed target coordinate was obtained in this review.
Norrbotten, Sweden
What is claimed
Svahn says that in 1980 an object landed and sank in a lake in the far north of Sweden, and that his team has been there and has radar returns of something in the mud.
- 0:47:17 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
I mean 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 mud.
- 0:47:17 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
Svahn says the two witnesses photographed the lake about two minutes after the object had sunk, then reported the case to the Swedish military.
- 0:47:47 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
they take a picture two minutes after the object is gone. They go back to uh Stockholm.
- 0:47:47 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
Svahn describes roughly four metres of bottom mud and interprets a buried radar return as the object; this is not a recovery.
- 0:48:53 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
But the object is there. It's 4 m of mud.
- 0:48:53 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
Svahn reports subsurface echoes at Nammajaure; his project history distinguishes 2012 natural sonar targets from 2014 unresolved buried echoes. Their composition and connection to the 1980 sighting are not established.
- 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 mud. >> Yeah. So >> when are you going to go look? >> We'll be there again next year.
- 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
- 0:47:17 ▶ Clas Svahn
I mean 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 mud.
- 0:47:17 ▶ Clas Svahn Svahn reports subsurface echoes at Nammajaure; his project history distinguishes 2012…
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 mud. >> Yeah. So >> when are you going to go look? >> We'll be there again next year.
- 0:47:47 ▶ Clas Svahn
they take a picture two minutes after the object is gone. They go back to uh Stockholm.
- 0:48:53 ▶ Clas Svahn Svahn describes roughly four metres of bottom mud and interprets a buried radar return…
But the object is there. It's 4 m of mud.
- 0:47:17 ▶ Clas Svahn
Sources on this record
- 0:47:17 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
I mean 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 mud.
- 0:47:47 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
they take a picture two minutes after the object is gone. They go back to uh Stockholm.
- Clas Svahn — Norrlandsprojektet
- Bo Berg — Riksarkivet Arkivpodden
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