On 10 May 1978 a farmer named Jan Wolski was driving a hay cart along a road by this village in the Lublin region when, by his account, he picked up two short beings in tight-fitting suits who sat down beside him. After a while they led him to a white craft hanging over a field, lifted him inside, examined him and let him go. Wolski was illiterate, made nothing from the story, and told it the same way until his death. Local authorities and Polish investigators looked into it; marks were found in the ground. In 2005 a stone monument with an account of the event was put up in the field — the second such in Europe after the Swedish one.

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A Norwegian valley where luminous objects have been observed since 1981, at times twenty times a week. Unlike most such places it has a permanent automated observation station, built in 1998 by Østfold University College, and the phenomenon has been under instruments for a quarter of a century. Hypotheses exist — dust ionisation, a piezoelectric effect in the rock — and none accounts for all of it.