Declassified UFO / UAP Document

Observation Report - Valme, Sweden, August 1946

📅 1946 📍 Valme, Sweden 🏛 milbefstaben 📄 field_report

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TL;DR

A report detailing a 1946 sighting of a fireball and black smoke in Sweden, which military investigators distinguished from a nearby railway maintenance incident. It also records a separate sighting of a small, hissing aircraft.

This document is a field report dated August 30, 1946, detailing two separate observations. The first event occurred at 1445 hours, where a witness, Fru Rettig, reported hearing a sharp bang followed by the appearance of black smoke and a high-speed fireball that passed her window. She later discovered white slag pieces at the site. Military staff investigated the incident and compared it to a railway maintenance event involving a repairman named Björk, who had triggered a detonator on the tracks at 1345 hours. The investigators concluded that the event witnessed by Fru Rettig was not the same as the railway detonator, as the timing, sound intensity, and smoke characteristics differed. The second event occurred on August 27, 1946, at 1140 hours in Valme, where a small aircraft was observed flying at an altitude of 100-200 meters with a strong hissing sound, traveling in a westerly direction.

Omedelbart efteråt kom en eldkula med hög fart och passerade rätt mot det fönster, bakom vilket fru Rettig stod.

Official Assessment

The investigation by military staff determined that the bang heard by Fru Rettig was not related to the railway detonator triggered by repairman Björk, as the detonator event occurred at a different time and produced a weaker sound and lighter smoke.

The military investigation concluded that the event reported by Fru Rettig was distinct from the railway maintenance activity occurring nearby.

Key Persons

  • BjörkRepairman (reparatör)

Organizations