Swedish ghost rockets and the Lake Kolmjarv impact

Swedish Air Force officer by a lake during a 1946 search
Officer Karl-Gosta Bartoll during the 1946 search of Lake Kolmjarv for the reported ghost rocket Swedish military photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In summer 1946 Swedes reported hundreds of rocket-like objects; on July 19 witnesses saw one dive into Lake Kolmjarv, but an army search of the lakebed found nothing. A Defence Staff committee attributed many reports to meteors, suspected Soviet tests for the rest, and never found proof.

Sources

  1. OfficialArkivpodden avsnitt 33: Spokraketer (with military archivist Bo Berg) (opens in a new tab)Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archives) / 2024-11-15
  2. OfficialA Die-Hard Issue: CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 (Gerald K. Haines), note 4 (opens in a new tab)CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence / 1997

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