In Kronoskogen, a suburb of the Swedish town of Ängelholm, a memorial was built in 1972 to honor an alleged UFO landing witnessed by Swedish ice hockey player Gösta Carlsson on May 18, 1946. The UFO encounter supposedly provided Carlsson with recipes for natural medical remedies, which led to the founding of pharmaceutical companies Cernelle and Allergon. As a result of his success, Carlsson became a prominent investor in the local ice hockey club, Rögle BK, and converted a former Cernelle warehouse into an ice hockey arena. Rögle BK then signed Ulf Sterner, Sweden's first player to make a National Hockey League roster. In the 1960s, Rögle BK won its division and was promoted to the country's highest league, Hockeyettan.
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Written by Nik Frost
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