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Tuesday, 28 June 2016

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“Swedish Air Force officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll searches for a ‘ghost rocket’ seen to crash into Lake Kölmjärv on July 19, 1946.” (Wikipedia text) (wikimedia.org(wikimedia.org photo)

Saturday, 2 July 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO News Articles Mentioning
Ghost Rocket/Ghost Rockets


Website: Google News Archive (news.google.com/newspapers):

(Search term: “Ghost Rocket”)

(“Ghost Rockets”)

UFO news article:
“GHOST ROCKET BLAZES TRAIL OVER HELSINKI”

11 June 1946
(The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington)

The whole article:
“Witnesses said today they had seen a light-emitting ‘ghost rocket’ pass over the Finnish capital in a southwesterly direction Sunday night (9 June 1946).

The rocket, the observers said, was flying at an altitude of 900 to 1200 feet and was followed by a smoke trail. It was the first one observed in Finland although several have been reported lately crossing southern Sweden and Denmark in approximately the same direction.”























Map of Sweden (and most of Scandinavia) (lib.utexas.edu)
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Google Website Search:
Focus On Project Blue Book Documents
Mentioning Ghost Rockets


Website: Fold3.com (Lindon, Utah):


















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Wednesday, 20 May 2020

UFO Radio Interview:
“Clas Svahn, Files of the Unexplained,
UFOs & More”


Streamed live: 14 January 2020
(Podcast UFO, Sebago, Maine)

Source: Martin Willis Live Shows (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Clas Svahn will be joining us from Sweden to discuss UFOs in Sweden, [UFO-Sverige’s] massive library and his latest and very interesting book, Files of the Unexplained, The Hidden History and Forgotten Photographs from the world of the Unknown.  https://bit.ly/35H0S2f

[UFO-Sverige]: https://www.ufo.se
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CLAS SVAHN Born: 12 April 1958 in Mariestad, Sweden.
Education: Journalist since 1978 after studies at Journalisthögskolan in Gothenburg.
Occupation: Journalist at Mariestads-Tidningen (Mariestad) 1978-1983, Norrbottens-Kuriren (Luleå) 1983-1990 and Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, since 1990. Works as a reviewer for UFO, science fiction and other related books for the Swedish libraries.
Family: Wife Anneli and two children, Niklas (born 1992) and Markus (born 1994).
Hobbies: UFO research, amateur astronomy.

UFO-history:
Founded the local organisation UFO-Mariestad on 17 May 1974, member of UFO-Sweden’s board since 1988 and chairman 1991–2013. Since 2013 Svahn is international director for UFO-Sweden [UFO-Sverige] and also vice chairman for the organization. Chairman of Archives For the Unexplained, AFU, in Norrköping since 2017. Editor of UFO-Sweden’s magazine ‘UFO-Aktuellt’. Leader of two expeditions to Lake Nammajaure in 2012 and 2014 trying two locate a sunken Ghost Rocket. Main character in the documentary ‘Ghost Rockets’ 2015.

UFO-books in Swedish:
‘Domstensfallet – en svensk närkontakt 1958’ with Anders Liljegren (‘The Domsten case – a Swedish close encounter in 1958’, AFU 1989); ‘Mötet i gläntan’ with Gösta Carlsson (‘The encounter in the clearing’, NTB Parthenon, 1995); ‘UFO-Mysteriet – från flygande tefat till cirklar i sädesfälten’ (‘The UFO mystery – from flying saucers to crop circles’, Parthenon 1998); ‘Fakta om UFO’ (‘Facts about UFOs’, Parthenon 1998) with Göran Norlén; ‘UFO – möte med det okända’ (‘UFO – encounter with the unknown’, Semic 2000); ‘Vålnader, utomjordingar och mystiska fenomen – Bilder av det okända’, (‘Hauntings, aliens and mystical phenomena – Pictures of the unknown’ Semic 2010); Main contributor to ‘Världens största konspirationer’ (‘The world’s largest conspiracies’, Semic 2012); ‘UFO – spökraketer, ljusglober och utomjordingar’, (‘UFOs – Ghost Rockets, orbs of light and aliens’, Semic 2014); ‘Mötet i gläntan’ with Gösta Carlsson (‘The encounter in the clearing’ Parthenon & UFO-Sverige new and expanded edition 2015); ‘Det okända – övernaturliga möten och fenomen, (‘The Unknown - supernatural meetings and phenomena’, Semic 2018) and ‘Verklighetens Arkiv X’ (‘Files of the unexplained – the hidden history and forgotten photographs from the world of the unknown’ (Semic 2019).

UFO-books in English and contributions to other UFO books:
One chapter in ‘UFOs 1947–1987 – The 40 Year Search for an Explanation’ with Anders Liljegren (Fortean Tomes 1987, ed. Evans/Spencer); One chapter in ‘Phenomenon’ (Futura 1988, ed. Spencer/Evans); One chapter with Robert Bartholomew and Anders Liljegren in ‘UFOs & Alien Contact’, (Prometheus Books 1998, Bartholomew/Howard); One chapter in ‘The Swedish Ghost Rocket Delusion of 1946’ with Robert Bartholomew, Glenn Dawes and Anders Liljegren (Fortean Studies Volume 6, John Brown Publ. 1999, ed. Steve Moore); Two chapters in ‘UFOs and government – A Historical Inquiry’, (Anomalist Books 2012, ed. Michael Swords & Robert Powell); One chapter in ‘Ovnis: Las 50 mejores evidencias’, (Cydonia 2017, ed. José Antonio Caravaca); One chapter in ‘Aliens, Ships and Hoaxes’ (Kindle 2018, ed. Milton W. Hourcade); ‘Files of the unexplained – the hidden history and forgotten photographs from the world of the unknown’ (AFU 2019) and one chapter in ‘2019 International UFO Symposium’ (MUFON 2019, ed. Barbra Schuessler Sobhani).

UFO related books:
‘Övernaturligt’ (‘Supernatural’, coauthor, Semic 1997); ‘Oförklarligt’ (‘Unexplained’, coauthor, Semic 1998); ‘Gåtfullt’ (‘Strange’, coauthor, Semic 1999); ‘Berättelser om det okända’ (‘Tales of the unexplained’, Semic 2008)

Other media:
Svahn has also co-produced several domestic TV-programs in Sweden as well as SciFi Channels ‘Earthscan’ and ‘Sweden special’. During 2019 he produced a series of UFO programs for Dagens Nyheters TV channel. He has contributed with articles in many Swedish and foreign UFO magazines. Svahns pictures have been published in many books and magazines, such as: Evans/Spencer, ed: UFOs 1947–1987 (1987), Stone: UFO Investigation (1993), Moran: Alien art (1998), Clark: The UFO Encyclopedia (1998), Bord: ‘The World of the Unexplained’ (1998) and Nylén: ‘Den nödvändiga boken om Allsvenskan’ (2004).”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4eA3y-ytw

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Saturday, 19 May 2018

UFO Documentary Film Excerpt:
“UFOs: HIDING it from the Public”


Published: 17 August 2015

Source: GhostRocketsFIlm (YouTube channel)

In this video, a former Swedish military official comments on the investigation of the 1946 ‘ghost rocket’ phenomenon.

GhostRocketsFIlm is the official YouTube channel of the Swedish UFO documentary film, “Ghost Rockets.”


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Thursday, 30 June 2016

UFO News Article:
“Mysterious ‘Ghost Rockets’
Puzzling to Swedish Army”


12 August 1946
(The Victoria Advocate, Texas)

Quote from the article:
“Swedish military authorities plan to publish within the next few days a communique on an investigation they have been making of the ‘ghost rockets’ that have been streaking daily over Sweden since early July.

Between July 9-12 authorities received  300 reports of the missiles and since then reports have poured in daily. Fragments examined by scientists gave little in the way of clues.

In general the rocket is described as a small object with a flaming tail, which speeds at great height, making little sound. The longest flight of any of the missiles, so far as military experts could determine, was about 600 miles.

Swedish newspapers have been cautioned not to publish the names of places where the rockets appear.”

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19460812&id=EsZHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Un8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5162,6975329



















The Coat of Arms of the Swedish Armed Forces
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Saturday, 19 May 2018

UFO Website (YouTube Channel):
“GhostRocketsFIlm”


This is the official YouTube channel of the Swedish UFO documentary film, “Ghost Rockets.”


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Sunday, 20 March 2016

UFO Article:
“The Greek Ghost Rockets of 1946”


By Thanassis Vembos
(Vembos.gr, Greece)

Quote from the article:
“On September 5, 1946, Greek prime minister Constantine Tsaldaris, while in London, stated during a press conference that ‘flying rockets’ were sighted in the skies of Northern Greece. In particular, twelve rockets were spotted during the night of September 1 by Greek divisional commanders and British officers; they flew from north to south and to other directions too; their nature and origin remained unknown. One of them was seen by British officers in Thessaloniki; the rest were seen in various areas, from Stavroupoli to Kastoria, over Serres and Drama (cities in western central and eastern Macedonia). Note that all the above regions border with Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, countries that actively supported the bloody Communist Rebellion (1946-49); tensions with northern neighbors were extremely high at the time and the presence of British military was strong. ‘We do not know where the rockets were from,’ stated Tsaldaris diplomatically, ‘or from which direction they came.’ Tsaldaris statement hit the headlines in most of Greek newspapers the next day, September 6.

http://www.vembos.gr/Greek_Ghost_Rockets.htm























Map of Greece (lib.utexas.edu)
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Wednesday, 31 August 2016

UFO Paper:
“The Swedish ‘Ghost Rocket’ Crisis of 1946”


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.”



















The Coat of Arms of the Swedish Armed Forces (wikimedia.org)
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Wednesday, 26 September 2018

UFO Case Directory (TRACECAT):
“ ‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes Into Lake
July 18, 1946
Southeastern Norway”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Ole Jonny Braenne:
July 18, 1946; Southeastern Norway
Between 12 and 12:30 p.m. A ‘ghost rocket’ crashed into Lake Mjøsa. Several witnesses observed a V1-like object coming in low from the west at about 50 meters height. The witnesses first heard a strong whistling sound, not exactly like that associated with known aircraft. The object flew so low as to cause the trees to sway. It impacted in Lake Mjøsa about two kilometers from the western shore and seven kilometers from Minnesund, where the depth is 300-400 meters. It was cigar-shaped, about 2.5 meters long, with about one meter-long wings placed one meter behind the nose. The front and back parts were shining like metal, but the middle section including the wings was dark. The wings seemed to flap a little, as if made of fabric. No fire, exhaust, or light was seen. When it hit the lake, the water splashed several meters into the air. There was no explosion. The sky was clear, and the water quickly calmed. Some witnesses thought they saw two objects, one in front of the other. The Norwegian Defense High Command conducted an investigation according to press reports of the period, but the documents have never been recovered. There is a distinct possibility that all documents on the 1946 ghost-rocket wave have been destroyed. If so, this is a disaster for UFO historians, who will be left with only newspaper accounts as source material.”


Wikipedia article: “Mjøsa” (translation by Google Translate):


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Lake Mjøsa (photographed looking north from Minnesund),
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

UFO Book:
“The Ghost Rocket File: Documents and News Articles Concerning Anomalous Objects Seen
Over Scandinavia in 1946”


Compiled by Jan L. Aldrich
(Fund for UFO Research, Mount Rainier, Maryland)

Source: Archives For the Unexplained, Norrköping, Sweden

Jan L. Aldrich presents U.S. government documents, one Italian government document (Page 15) and news articles (Page 126).


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Map of Sweden (and most of Scandinavia) (lib.utexas.edu)
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Monday, 9 April 2018

UFO Newsletter Article:
“From the 1946 ghost rocket files (1):
Cigar sighted from B-18 bomber”


AFU Newsletter, Issue 44, September 2002
(Archives for UFO Research Foundation, Norrköping, Sweden)

Source: NICAP.org

Lieutenant I., a Royal Swedish Air Force SAAB B-18 pilot, sighted a cylindrical shaped, unknown object while flying the route from Malingsbo to Krylbo, Sweden (sighted after about two minutes), on 14 August 1946, at 10:02-10:04 a.m.

The unknown object, which kept a constant cruising altitude of 250 meters, vanished in a south-easterly direction, according to the article.


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The Coat of Arms of the Royal Swedish Air Force
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Satellite photo of Krylbo, Sweden (tageo.com)
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Saturday, 23 June 2018

UFO Radio Interview:
“UFOs and Government -
A Historical Inquiry - Robert Powell”


Published: 12 August 2017
UFORadio International, Episode #5
(UFORadio International)

Source: OmniTalk Radio (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“In today’s episode we are talking with prominent researcher - Robert Powell. We will discuss important book titled ‘UFOs and Government - A Historical Inquiry.’ Interview covers important elements of UFO history with 7 rare audio clips that serve as companion pieces. Some of the subjects that we covered were:

Foo Fighters and Ghost Rockets
Kenneth Arnold’s Sighting
Project Sign and Estimate of the Situation
Projects Grudge and Blue Book
Washington UFO Flap 1952
Michigan UFO Flap 1966
Condon’s Committee
FOIA era of UFO Documents in 1970s
Scientific Coalition of Ufology
November 2004 Radar-Visual USS Princeton / USS Nimitz Incident”

The radio show is hosted by journalist and UFO researcher Giuliano Marinkovic.


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Tuesday, 16 April 2019

UFO Web Page:
“The New Mexico Page”


(NICAP.org)

The whole text (links):
New Mexico Map, Color Relief
New Mexico Map - Project 1947

Project TWINKLE Report - Project 1947
Project TWINLE Report - BB Microfilms, NARA-PBB85-491 - Blue Book Archive
Green Fireballs Over Los Alamos: The New Mexico Missile Crisis - Joel Carpenter
Green Fireball Chronology: 1946-February 1949 Green Fireball Chronology - Joel Carpenter
The Ghost Rockets, Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear - 1937-53 - Joel Carpenter
Chapter Four: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and Grudge - Ruppelt
Summary of Sightings in the New Mexico Area - La Paz Catalog - Docs 407-479 - BB Microfilm -  Dan Wilson
January 31, 1949: FBI Memo: Protection of Vital Installations - Project 1947
January 31, 1949: CO Kirtland, NM to Chief of Staff,  Director of Special Investigations - Patrick Gross
April 19, 1949 Report: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in New Mexico-West Texas Area - NARA-PBB90 1011-1014
The Importance of Santa Fe Operations, New Mexico - 165-Page Report - AEC

Conferences:
February 16, 1949 - Los Alamos, NM: Conference on Aerial Phenomena
Conference - Docs 374-397
Conference Transcript
Report on Conference - Docs 398-401
April 27-28, 1949 - Kirtland AFB, NM: Concern over Los Alamos, Sandia Base, Capmp Hood
Conference - Docs 635-639
November 3, 1949 - Conference, Scientific Advisory Board to Chief of Staff
Conference Transcript
Report on Conference on ‘Green Fireballs’

White Sands Newsclippings - BB Microfilm - Dan Wilson
Alleged Sightings At White Sands - Docs 687-702 - BB Microfilm - Dan Wilson
Interesting Concentration of Sightings - Docs 578-583 - BB Microfilm - Dan Wilson
NCP-12: The White Sands Proof - Bruce Maccabee
NCP-13: White Sands Films, Mirarchi, and Project Twinkle - Bruce Maccabee
How Scientists Tracked A Flying Saucer - Cmdr. R. B. McLaughlin, USN (TRUE, March 1950)
May 25, 1950: Cover letter for Summary of Observation of Aerial Phenomenon in the New Mexico Area - Patrick Gross
Have We Visitors From Outer Space? - LIFE Magazine article, April 7, 1952
The New Mexico Sightings - Nuclear Connection Project - Francis Ridge


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Map of New Mexico (lib.utexas.edu)
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Map of New Mexico, Colour Relief (nicap.org)
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