Turku, Finnish west coast, March 1954.

This is a quite well known contactee-case in Finland and was told by the Finnish Air Force mechanic Osmo T. Liene in a TV-documentary from 1992. Most of the events took place when he was a kid and lived in the countryside outside of Turku. A few nights in March 1954, some very strange things would happen to him.

One evening when Osmo and his brother were out playing in the area where they lived, they saw an aluminum-colored disk coming over the nearby treetops. It stopped and stood and hovered at the field beside them. The brothers managed to estimate the size of the ship to be about 5-7 meters (15-21 feet) in diameter. Suddenly the craft speeds up towards them and they have to throw themselves into a nearby ditch to avoid being hit by the saucer. As the craft passes over the boys, it drops a white sand quartz-like substance over them. Then the saucer quickly disappears beyond the treetops again.

The saucer sprayed something over the boys hiding in the ditch.

A few nights later, Osmo had fallen asleep in the living room. Everyone else in the family was sleeping too. It was around midnight when he woke up to people walking outside on the porch and he heard voices talking in a foreign language he had never heard before. He carefully opened the front door and outside stood three strange men dressed in brown overalls made of fabric that almost looked like velvet. They were shorter than normal adult men, had a slightly oriental appearance and they were a bit wrinkled (weathered) and bald. Osmo thought they were Russians, who might have gone to the wrong address. Suddenly they push open the door and barge into the house. The men were surprised that Osmo was already awake, but they said it was good, because he was the one they had come to see. They had questions for him. The leader who seemed to be the youngest of the three, wondered if Osmo was the boy who built radios. He answered yes, and then the stranger entered his room and examined Osmo's radios. The family in the rest of the house was still asleep. The young leader now entered his parent’s bedroom and stood at the edge of the bed where the father was sleeping and smiled kindly at him. Then the man left the room again. Why he did that, Osmo didn't understand.

Osmo thought that the unknown men at the door were Russians.

One of the other strangers, who looked to be 35-40 years old, was carrying some kind of bag. He asked Osmo to sit at the living room table, while he picked up something. It looked like a small, strange flat TV set, with a monitor and a switch on top (today we would have thought it looked like some kind of laptop), and he placed it on the table in front of the Osmo. The third man who looked to be the oldest at about 50 years of age, was now standing by the window. He kept looking out, as if on guard, wanting to make sure no one came. Osmo saw that the man by the window was sweating on his bald head and forehead, as if he were sick, and asked if he wanted water. The man refused and replied that it was the air they were breathing here that was strange and that it would soon pass. Osmo also tried to light a lamp, but the men forbade him. They now asked him to sit down at the table, and the interview began. Osmo noticed that he understood the strangers perfectly when he had his head towards them and looked at them, but if he turned his head to the side, only a murmur could be heard from the men's mouths.

A collage of the encounter. The men had a strange device were Osmo could see his future on a TV screen. Also at one point they put something on his head, like electrodes.

After each question, the 40-year-old man turned the control on the TV and a clip from Osmo's future was shown. He talked and showed videos from Osmo's whole life up until the "end", which was not a nice picture, but showed that he would unfortunately die in a tragic accident, when he was middle-aged. At one point, Osmo tried to turn the switch himself, but then he received a harch reprimand. In the TV documentary, Osmo Liene claims that everything the strangers showed him when he was a boy actually happened later in his life, and he seemed worried that the ending might also be true. Then the "TV show" ended and instead they put something on his head. They would now carry out an "experiment". It felt like he was getting electric shocks and he was now put into a kind of dream-like trance. The men now continued the interview for a long time before finally finishing. But before they left, the strangers told Osmo that they came from a planet far away, which was in a dense distant group of stars at the edge of our galaxy and that Osmo had been chosen to be one of their contacts here on Earth. Then they went out the front door and disappeared into the night.

After this occasion, Osmo was contacted several times. But after a few visits, the strangers discovered several disturbing and dangerous traits in him and they terminated his mission as a contactee. However, Osmo still met the visitors sporadically throughout his life. At one point when he got older and started working as an aircraft mechanic, he was even given a private flight demonstration of the alien´s saucer craft. The speed Osmo claimed he measured was Mach 35.

Unfortunately, Osmo T. Liene died a few years after the documentary in 1992. How he passed away is a bit of a mystery. Some say he died in a tragic car accident just like the aliens predicted, others say he just disappeared and was never found and they say he was actually abducted by the strangers to their home planet, and some say he drank himself to death and passed away completely undramatically at home on the sofa. In any case, this is a fascinating story, which we will never know if it is true or if it was just pure fiction. However, another event occurred that may have a connection to Osmo's case and corroborate it.

A few days after Osmo's first encounter with the Strangers, a woman in Finland named Hellwig reported that she encountered an aluminum-colored disk that landed on a road. Outside the ship she saw three people. There was a bald man and two women with long black hair. All three were light skinned and looked oriental with slightly slanted eyes. They were all dressed in a brown full coverall that appeared to be made of velvet. They called Hellwig and a conversation began. The creatures used their own language that sounded very musical, as well as telepathy to communicate with the woman. They invited her to look at their craft, which was about 3 meters (9 feet) wide and had a window at the front. In the woman's UFO report, a detailed description of the craft's construction and propulsion was also given. The visitors also told that they came from "Arion", a planet that was very far away, and that their world was ruled by a "Monarch". When the craft then took off, Hellwig only felt a light gust of wind and no sound was heard. Some time after this meeting, she began to experience strange things mentally and have mental problems. No doctor understood what was causing it and no medicine seemed to help.

Osmo T. Liene as an older man telling his story in an interview.

Sources: Thinkaboutits, Tapani Koivola, Youtube: UFO contactee Osmo Liene