Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Sighting Report — Stockholm, 20 June 1946
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A 1946 report by a Swedish naval engineer describes an unidentified aerial object with a horizontal trajectory. The author dismisses the possibility of a signal rocket due to the object's movement and clear weather.
This document is a brief report dated June 20, 1946, authored by Pontus Melin, a civil engineer at the Stockholm Naval Shipyard (Stockholms Örlogsvarv). The report describes an aerial observation made under conditions where the night sky was exceptionally bright, rendering typical shooting stars invisible. The author notes that the initial impression was that someone had fired a signal rocket at sea. However, the author explicitly rejects this conclusion, citing the horizontal trajectory of the object and the clear weather conditions as factors that made the signal rocket hypothesis unlikely. The document serves as a contemporary account of an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed in Stockholm during the summer of 1946.
Första intrycket var att någon signalerat med raket till sjöss, men rörelsens horisontella riktning och det vackra vädret gjorde detta osannolikt.
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Official Assessment
The observer noted that the night was too bright for standard shooting stars to be observed. While the initial impression was that a rocket had been signaled at sea, the horizontal direction of the movement and the clear weather conditions made this explanation unlikely.