Scandinavian UFO wave
| UFO event: Scandinavian UFO wave | |
|---|---|
 Meteorite misinterpreted as a ghost rocket |
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| Country: | Sweden |
| Place: | several lakes |
| Date: | February to December 1946 |
| Object: | Ghost rockets |
| Hynek classification : | NL, DD |
Scandinavian UFO wave is a name for a series of UFO sightings in 1946 that became known from Scandinavia . Allegedly, witnesses saw several rocket-shaped UFOs and occasionally their impacts in Scandinavian lakes. In the press these were referred to as ghost rockets (Swedish Spökraketer , English ghost rockets ).
Events
From February 1946, there were frequent reports of sightings of unusual spherical objects over Sweden . From June of that year, sightings of rocket-shaped objects were also mentioned in this context, which are said to have been similar to the V1 and V2 , with the difference that these had rounded heads rather than pointed ones.
By the end of 1946, 987 such sightings had been reported in Sweden.
Attempts to explain
At first it was suspected that the spherical objects could have been meteoroids . However, this was ruled out by scientists due to the unusually high number and the equally unusual flight behavior of the objects sighted.
What kind of objects were at the time is unclear. One possible explanation is that the objects were Soviet missiles . This was supported by the fact that the objects came from the direction of the USSR and that German V2 rockets had already gone off course several times during the Second World War when they took off in Peenemünde and hit southern Sweden - for example, on June 13, 1944 at Bäckebo in Småland . This was countered by the fact that there were also reports of sighted objects flying very low.
literature
- Berliner, D., 1976: The Ghost Rockets of Sweden. Official UFO, October
- Clark / Farish 1974: The Ghost Rockets of 1946. Saga's Ufo Report, Case
- Gross, LE, 1974: The Mistery of the Ghost Rockets. Fremont, Cal.
