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28 and hovering or floating. By the end of 1946, more than 1,000 re- ports of the objects came from Sweden alone. The objects, however, were seen all across Europe and even in Africa and India. By 1947, there were 2,000 reports, including a few citing explosions or land- ings. There was no evidence, however, of any injuries to people, nor was anyone able to recover one of the objects. The Swedish Defense Ministry launched an investigation, believing that the objects were probably secret Soviet weapons. Their research showed that at least 200 of the reports were unexplained and “cannot be the phenomena of nature or the products of imagination.”’ From ancient times up to 1947, mainstream society still had not faced the possibility that Earth was being visited by extraterrestri- als. However, something was about to happen that would change re everything. UFOS AND ALIENS