American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive

February 21, 2026·1h 54m·7-min readnarrativescience
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This episode profiles Clas Svahn, a pioneering Swedish ufologist and archivist who has spent over 50 years building what is considered the world’s largest UFO research archive, the Archives of the Unexplained, housing over 22,000 case files from Sweden alone. The conversation reveals the

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Clas Svahn

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Clas SvahnJesse MichelsBetty HillJacques ValléeBilly MeierGeorge Adamski

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Files of the Unexplained

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Borderlands Science Research Association

Topics

Cold CasesInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismScientific MethodTrue Crime

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