The full story was quite funny. I got contacted by a journalist from Sweden in this who was researching this sighting and had found out about the Great Baltic Sea Ride and that we had passed the area but not that particular place that day.



I asked around and found two riders who had missed a particular turn not too far away from the spot where the woman saw the object. One of the two could verify that it had been him, missing the turn, following the road to the next town before turning around to head back to the turn-off he missed. On the way back the woman saw him. Time and place did match.



The journalist is a respects figure and also engaged in a Seedish NGO devoted to researching UFO sightings of which Sweden has quite a few. Their interest is to find out whether there wasn't some plausible other explanation of the reported sighting.



In this case, the original sighting had made it to the local paper, which caught the attention of said journalist. His findings were then also published by that paper together with a picture of the velomobile that I believed at the time had been the one the woman had seen -- had send it to the man before we found that it actually was the Milan rider she must have seen.



The story doesn't end there, though. The woman contradicted the report and insisted not to have seen a velomobile (she surely had never seen one in her life) and provided and hand drawing of the object she saw. It didn't look quite like a Milan (she was sure, however, to have made eye contact with the alien) but we could see from the drawing why she insisted: the object had no wheels (whereas the front wheels of the Evo Ks in the picture I had sent were very obvious), the Milan's wheels on the other hand are hardly visible with its enclosed wheels and the low clearance.



She likely still believes in her version. We know now she saw the Milan -- it was there at the time. The Swdish UFO hunters have closed the case, they are certain it has been this rider from GBSR.



Josef __________________

gone: Quests #205, #502, #607 and #621, Quattrovelo #19, and DF #9; current rides: DFxl #124 & DFxl 247