Swedish ghost rockets
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Erik Reuterswärd's photograph, 9 July 1946
The only photograph from the 1946 wave: a streak over Sweden taken by Erik Reuterswärd on 9 July 1946, printed in the press as a 'ghost rocket'. Most researchers read it as a daylight meteor. Small original; shown at its own size.
Erik Reuterswärd · 1946 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗Searching Lake Kölmjärv, July 1946
Swedish military personnel search Lake Kölmjärv after a reported fall. The three-week search recovered nothing. Archival photograph · context.
Swedish military photo · 1946 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗American Alchemy · 0:15:10
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:38:01
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:08:34
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedThrough 1946 Swedish authorities logged about 2,000 reports of rocket- or cigar-shaped objects, some said to fall into lakes. The Swedish military dragged several lakes and found no debris. Corpus guests recall the episode as a reason US commanders took post-war reports seriously and describe the objects as modified V-2s.
The event
| Date | (month) |
|---|---|
| Place | 61.0000, 15.0000 region · Sweden |
| Official response | The Swedish Defence Staff concluded in 1946 that most reports were meteors or conventional aircraft and that no physical debris had been recovered. |
Reported by
- swedish public witness civilian reports collected by the Swedish Defence Staff
Investigated by
- swedish defence staff military
- us army air forces military
Who spoke about it later
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
“We Have Antigravity UFOs!” (ft. Nick Cook) 17 September 2024
“Tesla's Technology is Still Classified!" (Ft. Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell) 2 April 2025
“A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE 20 February 2026
Named in 2 uploads (automatic name matching, 2 mentions)
On the map
Swedish ghost rockets, Swedish ghost-rocket lakes, 1946 (Lake Kölmjärv). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:15:10 “We Have Antigravity UFOs!” (ft. Nick Cook) ▶
have Swedish ghost rockets. And I think it was, you know, so on the radar of top military personnel in the US that Eisenhower actually sends General
- 0:38:01 “Tesla's Technology is Still Classified!" (Ft. Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell) ▶
there were these ghost rockets showing up in Sweden. They looked like these modified V2s. you had over a thousand sightings of
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were
- Ghost rockets
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