Rapport: Sighting of a Rocket Bomb, 14 August 1946

This document is a formal report dated August 14, 1946, from the Skärstads parish police district regarding a sighting of an unidentified object described as a 'rocket bomb.' The incident occurred on the evening of August 11, 1946, at 20:55. According to the report, the object was observed by multiple witnesses, including Georg Konrad Andersson and his wife, as well as a 12-year-old boy named Arne Gideon Ekblom. The witnesses described the object as having a glowing white ball at the front, approximately 25 centimeters in size, followed by a darker, two-meter-long body with a smaller ball at the rear that also emitted a white light. The object traveled in a straight line from the east-southeast toward the west-northwest at an altitude of approximately 200 meters. Its speed was estimated by witnesses to be between 500 and 600 kilometers per hour, or roughly twice the speed of a standard airplane. The object was reported to be completely silent. The path of the object was traced over Stackeryd, Flättinge, and Gunneryd before it disappeared over Lake Vättern. The report was forwarded to the military assistant in Jönköping and subsequently to the Air Defense Department of the Defense Staff for further consideration.