From February 26 to December 1946, more than two thousand ghost rockets were recorded in Sweden and other European countries. The peak of sightings of strange UFOs in the form of rockets came in mid-August of the same year.
The origin of the ghost rockets is still unknown. Some studies link them to the meteor shower that crossed the Earth's orbit that August. However, most of the observations had nothing to do with meteorite activity, in addition, eyewitnesses reported the maneuverability of these UFOs, which is completely impossible for falling meteorites.
According to other hypotheses, these could be German V-1 or V-2 cruise missiles, which could have been fired by the Russians from the Peenemünde test site, a former missile center of the Third Reich located in northeastern Germany.
Since many cases defied any logical explanation, hypotheses were even put forward about the extraterrestrial origin of mysterious rockets. All these theories prompted the Swedish military to launch their own investigation.
It was found that the rockets very often hit the lakes, but the fragments of these objects were not found. For example, on July 19, 1946, one of the rockets crashed into Lake Kölmjärv in northeastern Sweden. Eyewitnesses reported that a gray rocket-like object with wings exploded as it fell into the lake. Nevertheless, in the strictest secrecy, the military searched for possible debris at the bottom of the lake for three weeks, but found nothing.
Karl Bartholl, a Swedish Air Force officer who took part in the search, suggested that the rockets could have been made from a material that quickly decomposes in water. A ship built from a similar material, which, moreover, could move at great speed and at the same time perform any maneuvers, was clearly made using more advanced technologies than in 1946.
Bartall rejected all fantastic hypotheses and argued that the objects were of a material nature: "People saw real, physical objects."
For the entire 1946, except for Sweden, ghost rockets were seen in Portugal, Greece, Belgium and Italy. After the information about the rockets was declassified in 1997, no one has been able to refute the spectacular theory of their extraterrestrial origin.
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