Intelligence Review of Ghost Rocket Incidents 1947

Summary

DOW-UAP-D099 is a secret 20 January 1947 intelligence review by the Intelligence Division of the War Department in Washington, D.C., copy number 597 of the WDGS publication. Its featured section, 'Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,' reports that flying missiles were first reported over southern Sweden in late May 1946 under a press-coined name, with later reports from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Common descriptions were 'a ball of fire with a tail' and a 'shiny cigar-shaped object', with reported altitude variations from treetop height to 160,000 feet. The review recounts a Swedish Air Force pilot's 14 August report and Swedish Defense Staff investigations, and notes the Scandinavian press initially attributed the missiles to the Soviet Union.