By Robert E. Bartholomew, Anders Liljegren and Clas
Svahn
Source: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU),
Norrköping, Sweden
Quote from the document:
“Between early May and September 30th, 1946, a widespread panic
occurred across Sweden as tens of thousands of citizens reported observations
of phantom missiles. This led to the widespread folk theory that
remote-controlled German V-rockets confiscated by the Soviets at the close of
World War II, were being test-fired as a form of political intimidation, or a
prelude to an invasion. Despite the widely publicized views of Swedish and
foreign politicians, military officials, newspaper editors and scientists
supporting the rocket’s reality, and voluminous press reports often treating
their existence as factual, no concrete physical evidence was ever found. By
the episode’s end, Swedish military investigators concluded that most
observations were of meteors and related celestial phenomena, and of those
unexplained, none were V-rockets.
Active American assistance supplied to Sweden during
the ghost bomb crisis, reflected their concern over the Soviet’s long-range
missile deployment capacity given the widespread conviction that they would
soon develop atomic weaponry. American aerial warfare expert General James
Doolittle flew to Sweden, discussing the sightings with Swedish Air Force
commanders on August 21st, the same day it was reported that Swedish officials
had approached Great Britain about buying radar equipment to track the ‘rockets,’
as British radar experts reportedly visited Sweden to provide first-hand
evaluations of radar investigations. Curiously, a British intelligence report (‘Investigation
of missile activity in Scandinavia,’ dated September 9) bears no evidence of
such a visit. Most of the data in this report is from Norway, and nothing is
said about radar sightings or analysis thereof. The radar cases that have been
documented in the Defense Staff Archives, are not impressive and could be
judged as such by competent Swedish Air Force personnel. Meanwhile phantom
rockets were occasionally sighted during the episode in other Scandinavian
countries, and to a lesser extent in Europe, but none matched the Swedish
reports in terms of volume and social reaction.
On October 10th, the Defense Staff announced the
results of its four-month investigation. It concluded that 80 percent of
approximately 1,000 reports were attributable to ‘celestial phenomena,’ and of
the remainder that were unexplainable, there was no conclusive evidence that
any were V-type rockets or other objects of foreign-government origin.”
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NOTE: The paper is presented in English (not Swedish) at AFU.se.
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NOTE: The paper is presented in English (not Swedish) at AFU.se.
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