Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Report on Observed Light Phenomenon — Säve, Sweden, September 22, 1946
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AI-Generated Summary
A flight-trained witness observed a yellowish, tail-bearing spherical object moving at 400 km/h over the F9 airfield in Sweden on September 22, 1946. Military authorities confirmed no friendly aircraft were in the vicinity at the time.
On September 23, 1946, Fänrik Bengt-Åke Lindbeck of the Kungl. Göta Flygflottilj submitted a report to the Air Defense Department of the Defense Staff regarding a sighting that occurred on the evening of September 22, 1946. The witness, identified as Asp Krebs, who possessed flight training, observed a light phenomenon at 2205 hours from the F9 sports field in Säve, located approximately 300 meters from the airfield. The object was described as a yellowish sphere with a relatively short tail. It traveled from the southwest toward the northeast, passing over the eastern part of the airfield at an estimated speed of 400 km/h and an elevation angle of 40-50 degrees. The object appeared to move in a zig-zag pattern, though the witness noted this might have been an optical illusion resulting from the object only being visible through gaps in the cloud cover. At the time of the sighting, the weather conditions included a 10/10 cloud cover at 2000 meters and 5/10 cloud cover at 150 meters. The report explicitly confirms that no aircraft from F9 or Torslanda were in the air during the time of the incident.
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Official Assessment
The witness, Asp Krebs, suggested that the zig-zag movement could be an optical illusion caused by the object only being visible through gaps in the clouds.
A yellowish spherical object with a short tail was observed moving from southwest to northeast at approximately 400 km/h. No aircraft from F9 or Torslanda were in the air at the time.