Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Report on Rocket Bomb Sighting — Strängnäs, Sweden, July 1946
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A 1946 Swedish military report documenting a civilian sighting of a 'star-like rocket' that descended vertically near Kungsör. The report was filed by a Home Guard officer to the Defense Staff.
This document is a formal report issued by the Strängnäs Defense District (Strängnäs Försvarsområde) on July 11, 1946, addressed to the Chief of the Air Defense Department at the Defense Staff (Försvarsstaben). The report details a sighting reported via telephone by an individual named Thomasson, residing in Hällbybrunn, Eskilstuna. According to the report, on July 9, 1946, at 14:35, the witness observed a large, star-like object resembling a rocket. The object was described as having angular sides and emitting fire from those sides. The witness reported that the object broke through the clouds and descended vertically toward the ground in the vicinity of Kungsör. The author of the report, Hemvärnsofficer (Home Guard Officer) Gustaf Frithz, noted that the direction from which the rocket originated could not be determined.
en stor stjärna liknande en raket med sidorna kantiga och från dessa utstrålade eldsken, som bröt igenom molnen och föll lodrätt ned mot marken i närheten av Kungsör
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- ThomassonWitness