Swedish ghost-rocket lakes, 1946 (Lake Kölmjärv)
Also: Lake Kölmjärv; Kölmjärv; Ghost rockets
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Military search of Lake Kölmjärv, July 1946
Swedish military personnel dragging Lake Kölmjärv in Norrbotten in July 1946 after witnesses reported a rocket-like object falling into the water. Nothing was recovered. Archival photograph of the search · context.
Swedish military photo · 1946 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗Clas Svahn · 0:08:34
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedLake Kölmjärv in Norrbotten, where witnesses on 19 July 1946 described a grey rocket-like object falling into the water, stands for the scatter of Swedish lakes searched during the "ghost rocket" wave. Clas Svahn says a three-week military search recovered nothing. Speakers treat the wave as the first modern retrieval hunt.
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Where the pin is
66.4167, 22.5000 approximate
Approximate inherited Kölmjärv regional locator; the original gazetteer citation and exact search fix were not obtained in this review.
Norrbotten, Sweden
What is claimed
Svahn says Swedish military teams searched several lakes during the 1946 wave, found bottom indentations and recovered no debris.
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
in 1946, as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were indentations at the bottom. >> Not a single debris, not anything, not anything like that or like the V piece.
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
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“A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE 20 February 2026
- 0:08:34 ▶ Clas Svahn
in 1946, as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were indentations at the bottom. >> Not a single debris, not anything, not anything like that or like the V piece.
- 0:08:34 ▶ Clas Svahn
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Sources on this record
- Swedish ghost-rocket lakes, 1946 (Lake Kölmjärv) — Wikipedia
- 0:08:34 “A UFO is Under This Lake in Sweden!” -Top Investigator | MEMBERS RELEASE · Clas Svahn ▶
in 1946, as we talked about the ghost rockets, uh, the military were looking for them in several different lakes around Sweden. All they found were indentations at the bottom. >> Not a single debris, not anything, not anything like that or like the V piece.
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