Swedish ghost rockets and the Lake Kolmjarv impact
Officer Karl-Gosta Bartoll during the 1946 search of Lake Kolmjarv for the reported ghost rocket Swedish military photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In summer 1946 Swedes reported hundreds of rocket-like objects; on July 19 witnesses saw one dive into Lake Kolmjarv, but an army search of the lakebed found nothing. A Defence Staff committee attributed many reports to meteors, suspected Soviet tests for the rest, and never found proof.
