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Case · C-003

The “ghost rockets” over Sweden and the Swedish Defense investigation (1946)

Sweden (reports from much of the country; cases also in Norway and Finland) · Sweden · May 1946 – Dec 1946

In flight Mixed witness types Radar

Unexplained

What happened
Between May and December 1946, nearly a thousand testimonies were collected in Sweden according to the head of the Krigsarkivet, the Swedish military archive (about two thousand according to other reconstructions), of rocket-like objects or fast lights, with a peak on August 11, when over 300 reports arrived. The Defense Staff set up a commission with the Air Force, the Navy, the radio interception service (FRA) and the Defense research institute (FOA), which suspected Soviet launches from the Baltic without finding evidence; on October 10, 1946 it stated that most observations were vague, but that some could not be explained by natural phenomena or Swedish aircraft and that radars had also recorded detections. The commission held its last meeting on December 12, 1946 without an overall explanation.
Proposed explanation
Many reports have been attributed to meteors (the August peaks coincide with the Perseid shower); the hypothesis of Soviet tests with captured German missiles, considered at the time by the commission, found no confirmation.
Official investigation
Swedish Defense Staff (committee with the Air Force, the Navy, the FRA radio service, and the FOA research institute); the U.S. Central Intelligence Group followed the reports
Words of the document
also monitored reports of "ghost rockets" in Sweden in 1946

Official documents

  1. Gerald K. Haines, «CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90», Studies in Intelligence, 1997 (copia FAS) · CIA – Center for the Study of Intelligence (FAS copy) · 1997

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (en) – Ghost rockets (other)
  2. Wikipedia (sv) – Spökraket (Defense commission and archive in the Krigsarkivet) (other)
  3. Riksarkivet, Arkivpodden “Spökraketer” (the head of the Krigsarkivet: “bortåt 1000 vittnesmål,” over 300 on August 11) (primary source)

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