Sighting Report — Villa Grankullen, Västra Bodarne, August 24, 1946

On August 30, 1946, Civil Engineer Karl Erik Kylén of Aktiebolaget Svenska Kullagerfabriken submitted a formal report to the Chief of Staff of the 32nd Defense District in Gothenburg regarding an aerial sighting. The incident occurred on the evening of Saturday, August 24, 1946, at 20:58:30. Kylén observed an intensely bright white light moving at high speed without any audible noise. The object traveled in a south-westerly direction from his observation point at Villa Grankullen in Västra Bodarne. According to the report, the object appeared between two spruce trees, moved in a nearly horizontal or slightly ascending path, and eventually disappeared behind a tree and into a dark cloud. The sky was clear in the north and northwest, but cloudy in the west and southwest. The observation lasted only a few seconds. Kylén explicitly stated his belief that the object was not a meteor. Using an estimated elevation angle of 14 degrees and an estimated cloud height of 800 to 1000 meters, he calculated the distance to the object at the time of the first sighting to be approximately 5000 meters. The report was submitted as a supplement to a previous report dated August 26, 1946, and was forwarded to the Air Defense Department of the Defense Staff.