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This is a SECRET War Department Intelligence Division publication dated January 1947 with a feature article titled "Ghost Rockets" over Scandinavia. The article covers missile reports over Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway from May 1946, a Swedish Air Force pilot's sighting, press censorship and the Swedish Defense Staff's contradictory communiques. It concludes there were perhaps only 2 to 10 real incidents of low-flying V-1 type missiles. It judges that the high-altitude reports were meteors or fireworks.
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GHOST ROCKETS ..sBORB'F layman is that of a Swedish Air Force pilot. On 14 August, at 1000 hours, he was flying at 650 feet over central Sweden when he saw a dark, cigar-shaped object about 50 feet long and 3 feet in diameter flying 200 feet above and approxi mately 6,500 feet away from him at an estimated speed of 400 m. p. h. The missile had no visible wings, rudder, or other projecting part; and there was no indication of any flame or Jight as has been reported in the majority of other sightings. His report states that the missile was maintaining a constant altitude over the ground and, consequently, was following the large features of the terrain. The last state ment casts doubt on the reliability of the entire report be cause of the inability of a missile, without wings, to maintain a constant altitude over hilly terrain. However, the pilot does imply that there may have been wings which he was unable to see, because he stated that it could not have been a Swedish jet plane as there was none flying in the vicinity at that time. The Scandinavian press, with the exception of the Com munist papers, initially reported the incidents in some detail and openly attributed them to missiles fired by the U. S. S. R. In August, a partial censorship was imposed on the press, restricting the publication of exact details or localities where missiles were seen. The Communist press has continued to ridicule the entire matter and claims that there was no basis for the reports that the missiles were of Soviet origin. In fact, a charge was made that they came from the United States and that Gen. Doolittle was sent over to observe the effects of the missiles I Official Investigations Official investigations of these reports were begun by the Swedish authorities in June. The Defense Staff requested the public to report any unusual observations, and by the 18 SECRET
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