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DOW-UAP-D099 Intelligence Review of Ghost Rocket Incidents, 1947

US Department of War · 2026-08-07 · 8 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 4 …The Scandinavian press, with the exception of the Com munist papers, initially reported the incidents in…
  • p. 5 …Spokesmen for the Defense Staff repeatedly have told the United States Military Attache that they definitely…
Notice
Tiu inulliqenu cm1tainr.,l in tM• report lias bun pro
duced by th4 l11t,•lliyc11cc lJit>isi,m as a result of careful
reaearch and a,,alyai, of informatioo received from
all eourcea. A"11 rW(_'6r posseuinq information which
appear, w mt>di'fy or contradict the intelligence con
taint-d Mrtin i, requested to forward it promplly to:
Director of Intelligence,
WDGS, War Department,
Washingtoo S5, D. C.
Communiootions should refer to this publicatioo, set-
ting forth item and page to which reference is made. In
reporting informatioo, the cootrfbutor should identify
and evaluate his sources and give the dates of incidents
mentiooed.
DISTRIBUTION
U8FET...................... 11 IADB....................... 1 U8MA.-.................... S
MTOUSA.................... g 08W........................ 1 080......................... 10
OINCFE.................... 12 OU8W....................... 1 IOAF........................ 2
PBILRYCOM.............. 2 OA8W....................... 1 NWO........................ 12
MARBO.................... l 008......................... 1 AF80. ...................... 6
AOFPAO................... 8 PAD......................... 3 Al8.......................... 2
Army Adv Op China........ 2 OTD........................ 2 Nav War Col................ 1
Pelplnc Bqs Op............. 2 88PD........................ 1 ONI......................... 22
USF., Austria............... 2 POD......................... II ClnOLantFlt................ 1
AOC, Bulgaria............... 2 RDD........................ l ComNavEu.................. 1
AOC, Hungary.............. l OAD........................ • ComNavMed................ 1
AOC, Rumanta.............. 1 Hlsl Div..................... 1 ComSoLantFor.............. 1
OMO, Oermany............. 18 OOOW8..................... 11 ClnOPacFlt................. 1
ODO . ...................... 2 OQMO...................... 3 ComNavJap................. l
POD.························ 3 00s1,o...................... 7 ComFtrstTaskFlt......... .. l
Ant. Dopt................... l OOE......................... 1 ComNavWesPac............. 1
OINOAL.................... l 000......................... 12 USMC........................ 29
AIL~kan Dept................ 2 OCT......................... 6 FMFPAO................... 1
M Al. . . ...................... 68 080......................... 1 State Dept................... 16
White Bouse................. 2 OTIO........................ 1 SWNOO..................... l
010 ........................ 12 MDW....................... 2 FBI.......................... 8
118 ......................... 2 A.AF......................... lil ID........................... 129
JSO.......................... l Add A.AFPAO L........
JWPO....................... l A.OF......................... 67

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