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Meddelande nr 706/1946: Ang. raketprojektiler

📅 5/9 📍 northern Greece 🏛 Försvarsstaben 📄 intelligence report
Greecerocket projectiles1946Swedish Defense Staffflares

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A 1946 Swedish intelligence report details conflicting accounts of rocket sightings in northern Greece, with British officials suggesting the objects were likely flares.

This intelligence report, dated September 11, 1946, and issued by Colonel Arvid Eriksson of the Swedish Defense Staff (Försvarsstaben), concerns reports of rocket projectiles observed in northern Greece. According to the acting Greek Foreign Minister, Stephanoposdos, these projectiles were observed on September 5, 1946, by both Greek division commanders and British officers. The estimated flight altitude of the objects was reported to be between 5,000 and 10,000 yards. However, the document notes a contradiction from the British Embassy in Athens, which reported on September 6 that no British officers had confirmed seeing any such rockets. The British Embassy suggested that the observed objects might have been a type of flare used in a Very pistol, noting that several such flares had been reported in the same area.

Från ambassadens sida uttalas att raketerna kunde ha varit en "type of flare, as used in a Very pistol, a number of which havé been reported in the same area".

Official Assessment

Från ambassadens sida uttalas att raketerna kunde ha varit en "type of flare, as used in a Very pistol, a number of which havé been reported in the same area".

Conflicting reports exist regarding the observation of rocket projectiles in northern Greece; while Greek officials reported sightings, the British Embassy in Athens stated that no British officers had reported seeing such rockets, suggesting they may have been flares.

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  • Stephanoposdostjänsteförrättande utrikesministernGreek government

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