Case file · Government program
Swedish ghost-rocket inquiry
Sweden's defence staff set up a committee to investigate about 2,000 reports of 'ghost rockets' over Scandinavia in 1946.
1946 CE · 59.33, 18.07 · status: official
The account
Reports began in Finland in February 1946 and peaked in Sweden that August. Around two hundred were tracked on radar and some fragments were collected. Military investigators suspected Soviet tests of captured German missiles but never proved it.
The sceptical view
The investigators themselves put most reports down to meteors and other natural phenomena. A residue of radar cases stayed unresolved.