Ghost Rockets

Ghost Rockets

From late May 1946 the press in Sweden reported flying missiles, which it named “Ghost Rockets”; in June there were reports from Finland and Denmark, by July from Norway, and by the end of July the Swedish Defense Staff had received almost 1,000. The only account from the time in the US releases is a four-page article in the War Department’s Intelligence Review of 9 January 1947. It records descriptions from “a ball of fire with a tail” to a “shiny cigar-shaped object”, no fragments other than “nonmetallic slag”, and Swedish officers who spoke of Soviet rockets but could produce no evidence. Its authors put the high-altitude reports down to meteors or fireworks and thought that a handful of low-flying ones might have been real missiles.

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