The Ghost Rockets of Scandinavia

In the summer of 1946, residents of Sweden and Finland began reporting strange objects in the sky. They were described as rocket, or missile-like, fast-moving, sometimes glowing, and often silent. Many appeared to plunge into lakes without exploding, and strangely, without wreckage. The Swedish press soon gave them a name: spökraketer, or ghost rockets.


A meteor such as this could easily be mistaken for a rocket. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA



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