Incident Report: Sighting of a Fireball at Husby, Glanshammar, July 1946

This document consists of a formal report and accompanying correspondence regarding an aerial sighting in Husby, Glanshammar, Sweden, on July 9, 1946. The report details an account provided by a former farmer, Gustav Theodor Karlsson, who observed a 'fireball' while looking out from his residence at approximately 14:30. Karlsson described the object as being roughly the size of a plate, yellowish in color, and accompanied by a long tail of the same hue. He noted that the object did not move quickly and was visible for a significant duration. The object appeared to descend obliquely toward the ground on the property of Halvar Persson in Storsicke, though the actual impact was obscured by a large birch tree. Karlsson, having previously witnessed lightning strikes, characterized the phenomenon as similar to one. The report was forwarded by the acting chief of staff of the Örebro Defense District to the Defense Staff's Air Defense Department on July 13, 1946, and was subsequently received by the FOA (Swedish Defense Research Agency) on July 16, 1946. The official correspondence suggests that the objects mentioned in the memorandum likely originated from a meteor.