Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Rapport tisdagen den 13 augusti 1946
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A Swedish goldsmith reported seeing a silent, glowing, ball-like object with a tail flying at low altitude on August 11, 1946. He believed the object crashed into Lake Galten shortly after he first spotted it.
On August 13, 1946, the police in Köping, Sweden, filed a report regarding a sighting reported by a local goldsmith, Karl Axel Hjelm. Hjelm appeared at the police station on Monday, August 12, 1946, to report an incident he witnessed the previous evening, Sunday, August 11, at 20:45. According to Hjelm, he was at his summer cottage on the island of Linlandet when he observed a ball-like object moving at a tremendous speed. The object, which he described as having a red-yellow core and a 5-6 meter long tail of bubbling green-yellow light, traveled from the direction of Torpa lighthouse toward Köping at an estimated altitude of 100 meters. Hjelm noted that the object made no sound. He observed the object descending at an angle of approximately 45 degrees and formed the firm opinion that it had crashed into Lake Galten, about 300 meters from the northern tip of the island. Hjelm based this conclusion on the fact that he immediately rushed out of his cottage to see where the object was going, but it had already vanished. He estimated the time interval from his initial observation to reaching the yard was approximately 10 seconds. The report concludes by noting that no impact was observed.
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Official Assessment
The witness, a goldsmith named Karl Axel Hjelm, reported observing a comet- or rocket-like object while at his summer cottage on the island of Linlandet. He estimated the object was at an altitude of 100 meters and moving from Torpa lighthouse toward Köping. He believed the object crashed into Lake Galten, approximately 300 meters from the northern tip of the island, based on the angle of descent and the time it took him to exit his cottage.
Witnesses
- Karl Axel HjelmGoldsmith