Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Sighting Report — Lövsjö Herrgård, Sweden, August 11, 1946
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A report from August 1946 detailing a sighting of a rocket-like, elongated object with a tail of fire observed by three people over Lövsjö Herrgård, Sweden.
On August 12, 1946, Bengt Collin, a Licentiate of Philosophy, submitted a report to the Defense Staff Air Defense Department in Stockholm regarding an aerial observation made the previous evening. On Sunday, August 11, 1946, at 20:48, three witnesses observed a rocket-like projectile moving at high speed from the south to the north over Lövsjö Herrgård. The location is identified by the author as being in the southwest corner of the Grängesberg NO topographic map. The object was described as having an elongated shape and a tail of fire. While the witnesses initially considered the possibility that the object was a meteor, they concluded that it was too brightly lit to be one. The author notes that he has no information regarding the object's altitude or further details.
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Official Assessment
The object was initially mistaken for a meteor, but it was considered too brightly lit to be one.