Finnish Air Force UFO Sighting

Military observations of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have given a new perspective on the reality of unexplained objects in the sky. With the development of better sensors and recording devices, much evidence of UFOs has come forward from military channels in recent decades. However, military sightings of UFOs in the sky are not a new occurrence. In fact, many World War II pilots claimed to have seen unexplainable objects with them in the battle-torn skies over Europe. Those sightings have continued to today. Two decades after the war, the Finnish Air Force had their own run-in with UFOs in their airspace.

On April 12, 1969, pilots from the Finnish Air Force were conducting training exercises in Fouga Magister jets above an airfield in the city of Pori. Seven objects were seen in the air at a moderate altitude of between 5,000 and 10,000 feet above ground level. One pilot, Tarmo Tukeva, was tasked to intercept the objects to investigate. He, along with dozens of other pilots involved in the day’s exercises, described the objects as “round, like balls, with no extremities and pale yellow in color.” After the flight, Tukeva declared that as he had approached, the objects retreated away “at great speed”, much faster than his jet was capable of, and into a headwind measured at 180 km/hr. No sensor detection was made at Pori, but it was reported that the objects were seen on radar in the town of Vaasa approximately 125 miles away.

Tukeva maintained his story until his death. In fact, he was interviewed and appeared in the 1992 UFO documentary Visitors from Space. He died of a heart attack two weeks after his interview. 

To this day, the Finnish government has no explanation as to the identity of the seven objects observed over Pori that day. Undoubtedly, these objects were “unidentified.” But, were they spacecraft of extra-terrestrial origin? Perhaps, we’ll never know.