Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Sighting Report of Light Phenomenon — Tärna, Sweden, July 9, 1946
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AI-Generated Summary
A report by a Swedish reserve captain regarding a luminous aerial object observed on July 9, 1946. The witness described the object as a silent, white, round light that he identified as a meteorite.
This document is a formal report submitted to the Air Defense Department of the Swedish Defense Staff by Carl Friman, a gymnastics director and reserve captain in the I 21 regiment. The report details a sighting that occurred on July 9, 1946, between 14:35 and 14:40. Friman, located approximately 3 kilometers southwest of the Tärna folk high school, observed a round, white, luminous object. He described the object as appearing from the sky at an altitude of approximately 60 degrees and moving in a southwest-northeast direction before disappearing at an altitude of approximately 30 degrees. He noted that the object's appearance was not unlike a powerful light from a flare pistol, though it was not accompanied by any smoke trail or sound. At the time of the report, written on July 11, 1946, Friman concluded that the object was a meteorite.
Det var ett runt vitt ljusglänsande föremål ej olikt en kraftig ljusraket från lyspistol, som med farten hos ett stjärnskott föll i riktning sydväst-nordost.
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Official Assessment
The author considered it a meteorite at the time.
The witness observed a luminous object moving across the sky and concluded it was likely a meteorite.
Witnesses
- Carl Frimangymn.-dir, kapten I 21 res.