This week, AP is joined by Simon Hesselager Johansen for a fascinating discussion about UFO contactees that are not well known outside of Denmark and other select locales within Europe. Simon is a writer and researcher with HidDenmark, a group which chronicles and maps high strangeness, folklore, and mystery throughout the country, and in his recent work on the site he has done a deep dive on those claiming contact with beings from other planets. In this conversation, he first explains the history of HidDenmark and his contributions to it, and a bit about some historical encounters with UFOs such as the Aarslev Enge case of 1600. He then presents his wonderful research into a Polish born Danish mechanic named Josef Maliszewki and his encounters with beings from Zutorn, which allegedly pre-date the earliest American contacts. AP and Simon then talk about a later contactee, a taxi driver named Knud Weiking and his channeled messages from Orthon. Simon explains how these contacts culminated in more recent claimed contacts in Czechia and Slovakia with another name familiar to those conversant in UFO history, Ashtar Command, through personalities such as Ivo Benda and a healer called Branjo.

Throughout the conversation comparisons are made to American contactee accounts, with a particular focus on George Adamski and his worldwide following through his contact with another Orthon. They also dissect origins of Space Brother narratives, making distinctions between those drawn from Theosophical traditions and others which seem to have a Christian focus. Along the way listeners will hear about anomalous light phenomena, doomsday bunkers, the finer points of extraterrestrial couture, and even Tintin's encounter with ancient astronauts!

It was a wide-ranging and in-depth chat, with Simon expertly presenting a history of Scandinavian ufology that's largely unknown or ignored by English speaking flying saucer enthusiasts!

To follow along with Simon's work, be sure to check out HidDenmark here: https://hiddenmark.dk/category/english/