The Gesten flying pyramid.

Gesten, western Denmark, November 21 1957.

It was a Thursday afternoon in late autumn, and a man named Hans Haugaard Hansen was driving his car from Gesten to Egholt to pick up supplies for his grocery store. As he got closer to the Gesten forest area, he saw a strange machine over a nearby turnip field owned by Robert Andersen, about 150 – 200 meters away (164 – 219 yards).

At first, Hans thought it was a tractor with a transparent glass cabin, but as he got closer, he saw that it was a 3 meter (10-foot) high pyramid-shaped flying object, which radiating a faint red-orange glow. He stopped the car and let it idle. He then discovered that he could not hear any engine noise from the machine hovering above the field. The object was made of a material that Hans thought resembled semi-transparent plexiglass. Inside, he could see two people facing each other sitting still on chairs at some controls. It then flew on at 60 – 70 km/h (37 – 43 miles/h) towards a hill in the nearby field where it looked as if it landed for 1 minute, but they could just as easily have hovered low above the ground on the hill without landing, according to Hans. It was difficult to tell. After that, the pyramid-shaped glass object flew away at treetop altitude towards the marshland near Gesten and disappeared from sight.

When Hans returned from his errand in Egholt, he stopped at the site of the sighting and went out into the field to look for physical traces of the now gone craft, but he found nothing. He then contacted the police and told them what he had seen. They in turn asked the Danish Air Force at the base in nearby Karup if they had seen anything on radar or if they had been flying in the area at the time, and they had not. However, the police were contacted by other witnesses who had also seen strange things that afternoon.

At almost the same time in the nearby village of Jordrup, two people had just stepped out of a barn on their farm when they saw a pyramid-shaped object hovering low over the ground. The witnesses described the craft as flying slowly above the ground at a low altitude and when it came to a fence it increased in height just enough to pass over the obstacle. It also seemed to follow all differences in the terrain in a similar way. They could not hear any engine noise from the craft other than a faint humming sound. It also had some kind of light or glow on its underside that illuminated the ground below it.

Interpretation of the craft from a magazine.

In yet another South Jutland town, Vorbasse, three people also saw a UFO at 4 pm on the 21st of November 1957. The office manager Niels Poder, his wife and a woman named Amalie Nielsen saw a glowing object shaped like a T or a cross flying at a very low altitude. This sighting lasted roughly 10 minutes. The three witnesses described the UFO’s vertical bar as glowing but the horizontal bar being dark.

Sources: Hiddenmark, Willy Wegner: UFO’er Over Danmark & UFO-Landinger i Danmark