Report on Light Phenomenon Sighting — Edebäck, Sweden, August 24, 1946

This document is a military report issued on August 26, 1946, by the V. Military District Command (V. Militärområdet Militärbefälsstaben) to the head of the Air Defense Department of the Defense Staff. The report details a sighting of a light phenomenon that occurred on August 24, 1946. The information was received by the military command on August 26, 1946, via the district police office (landsfiskalskontoret) in Uddeholm. The witness is identified as a master barber named K. E. Grundström from Hagfors. The observation took place at Edebäck, located 6.5 kilometers north-northwest of Uddeholm, at 20:50. The witness described the object as a brightly shining, cigar-shaped entity observed at a high altitude and a great distance. The object followed a horizontal path, moving in a southerly direction. The duration of the sighting was approximately two seconds. The report explicitly notes that there was no sound and no smoke associated with the object. The document is signed by H. Pennycook, acting head of Section I c.