This happened long before the term "flying saucers" appeared, and few people know about this case. It happened at the end of January 1917, in Jurinvaar, North Karelia, now this territory belongs to Russia, but at that time it was the territory of Finland. The local woman, Annie Lattou, was abducted by aliens in those last days of January.
Annie Lattu, lived alone in her small house in Jurinvaar, about 6 km west of Kurkiyoki. She disappeared for a few days and the villagers decided that she went to visit her daughter. But when she returned, she told an incredible story.
Annie told the villagers that a large machine, similar to a large washbasin, had landed from the sky near her house (note that the term "flying saucer" did not even exist at that time, but the large washbasins of that time that the residents used looked like large soup bowls, so this is the first UFO sighting in the form of a "plate"), from this "washstand" a ladder descended down which small creatures went down.
Although Annie resisted and did not want to go with them, she was taken aboard by force, and they flew very quickly, according to her, these creatures, whom she called "demons" showed everything to her, and there were "many miracles."
Inside the car it was warm, cozy, there were very soft and comfortable chairs, it glowed inside, and did not make "any noise, not at all like on the train."
Annie Lattou said that she was lifted above the world and even between the stars, and somehow she could understand the language of small creatures, although she did not speak to them. During the trip, one communicated with her and his voice sounded right in her head.
She often repeated her story in the area, but people thought that she must have had hallucinations from a fever because her house was cold, or maybe she was just having a dream. However, Annie Lattou disagreed with these explanations. She went on to claim that it was actually not a dream, that she did not have a fever despite the fact that she had a cold home.
This incident was first mentioned in the Kurkijokelainen newspaper, which is read mostly by people who previously lived in the small Kurkijoki community in North Karelia. The newspaper understandably contains many memories of life in Kurkiyoki before the war (and during the war). One of them was a short article, signed "Latomäen Aino," in No. 23 (June 9, 1978) of Kurkiyokelainen.
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Because of this article, Research Finland researcher Maurits Hietamäki discovered and interviewed a woman born in 1910, who was then still a child and living with a family that was one of Anni Lattu's neighbors when the event happened.
The woman told him that in the years that followed, Annie Latto often remembered what had happened and constantly returned to that incident in conversations with neighbors and fellow villagers.
It turned out that Annie Lattou was born in 1873 and died in 1930, that she was not a widow, although she lived alone. In fact, her husband Juho, who lived separately and died 11 years after her. Annie Lattou was always alone when she visited other villagers, which is why she was considered a widow. Annie Lattu lived in a small house on the eastern shore of Lake Kankaanlampi, in the village of Alho.
This abduction event by the "devil" took place between January and Easter 1917. Annie Lattou was doing her day-to-day work when an apparatus landed on the road in front of her house, which she described as shaped like a washbasin - they were then shaped like large soup bowls in the village.
The device had ladders, through which Annie was taken on board against her will. There were many small people inside the craft who were moving very quickly. Annie Latto never talked about their clothes, and it seems she had no idea what these little people were.
Since the religious people in the village decided that these little people were devils, Annie agreed with this and later called them "demons".
From Annie's story, which was remembered by an eyewitness, it turned out that these little people had a leader with whom she communicated, possibly through telepathy. Annie had been inside the ship for several days; they traveled around the world and approached the stars.
Annie was also asked to stay, but she did not want to. The inside of the ship was comfortably warm and the seats were comfortable. Finally, Annie was brought back to the same place from where she was taken, that is, on the road near her house.
The other villagers thought Annie had a fever (her house was very cold in winter) and she must have had feverish dreams. Annie never admitted this and often talked about what happened, because she could not understand who these little people were and what they needed from her.
After the abduction, according to the witness, Annie had the ability to predict the future and she became a well-known fortuneteller in the district.