The SHOCKING Story of the SWEDISH UFO FLAP and CRASHES

The SHOCKING Story of the SWEDISH UFO FLAP and CRASHES

by Bill Knell

Several UFO crashes and many sightings have occurred in Sweden, most notably during 1946. This was the era of the "Ghost Rockets" which featured thousands of sightings and a reported crash into Lake Kölmjärv on July 19, 1946. Another less credible event is the alleged 1946 Ängelholm UFO. an alleged UFO-landing seen by a member of a Swedish ice hockey team. A concrete monument now stands commemorating the event. The “ghost rockets” were originally thought to be errant Russian rocket club devices, but it later turned out that there were no rocket clubs or experiments there during those times.

The 1946 Lake Kölmjärv event turned out to have teeth. Observers described a low-flying, loud, "rocket-shaped" object that plunged into the lake. The device was tracked on radar. A team of military investigators led by Swedish Air Force officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll was assembled and eventually went searching for the object. In August of 1946 they reported finding disturbed bottom sediment, but no debris. He suggested the object may have been made of a light, disintegrating material (like magnesium alloy). However, the truth was not as simple as that.

The U.S. government, fearing Soviet tests of captured Nazi technology, sent General Jimmy Doolittle to investigate. He was dispatched with a battle ship and Navy divers. US Navy personnel, and some local witnesses, claim that an “unusual object” was retrieved by the US dive team and moved on to the battleship. Doolittle took it to the UK and transferred it to a more suitable vessel which brought it to the US. The disturbed lake areas found by the Swedish divers was where the object had been. They were six days late investigating the crash, allowing the Americans time to find and remove the object.

Doolittle and others were certain this was not a human produced object. Their theory was backed up by several oddities. They could find no entry point. The thing was surprisingly light, but the material was impossible to cut or burn. During the voyage the crew members said the thing stayed warm and made weird noises. Doolittle eventually left any examinations to be done by the experts and scientists back in the US. Stories of UFO crashes continued. In 1955, witnesses described a cigar-shaped object crashing into a river near the Gulf of Bothnia. It was immediately covered up.

Approximately 2,000 sightings of "Ghost Rockets” occurred between May and December of 1946, with around 200 tracked on radar. These caused serious security concerns during the early Cold War.

In 2011, the Baltic Sea anomaly was discovered by the OceanX team. The Baltic Sea anomaly is a feature visible on an indistinct sonar image taken by Peter Lindberg, Dennis Åsberg and their Swedish OceanX diving team while treasure hunting on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea at the center of the Gulf of Bothnia in June 2011. The team suggested their sonar image showed an object with unusual features of seemingly non-natural origin prompting speculation that the object might be a sunken UFO.

The Baltic Sea Anomaly is located on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea, specifically at the center of the Gulf of Bothnia. The exact coordinates are 61°22.6'N 18°26.9'E. It sits approximately 80 to 90 meters (260–300 feet) below the surface. It is situated roughly 60 kilometers offshore, between Sweden and Finland. The object is found at the end of a 300-meter flattened strip that some have compared to a "runway" or crash site. The anomaly was first detected in June 2011 by the Ocean X Team, a Swedish diving group, while they were using side-scan sonar to search for shipwrecks. Many believe it might be a sunken UFO.

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