Clas Svahn
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But they didn't understand what it was.
And they were so excited about this.
They made drawings that was really fanciful.
And there was so much speculation.
Every newspaper wrote about this.
And I knew what it was.
I wrote to the newspapers.
I was 16 and I published my explanation.
It was the planet Jupiter.
I saw it for hours and I was so scared about this.
Everyone took pictures of it.
They were printed in the newspapers and I could compare the stars around this object with my pictures taken the same evening.
Of Jupiter.
Why?
The same stars.
Why would they be so freaked out about the planet Jupiter?
Because they didn't know what it was.
And.
It doesn't normally show in the sky there.
One guy, a civilian, was there.