Ghost rockets 幽灵火箭
![A ghost rocket or a meteor. Photographer Erik Reuterswärd suspected a meteor was depicted in his widely circulated photo. The Swedish Army, who released the picture, was less certain.](/Images/godic/202501/15/Ghostrocket_7-09-19462146.jpg")
![Swedish Air Force officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll searches for a](/Images/godic/202501/15/Ghost_rocket_search_July_19462146.jpg")
![November 1948 USAF Top Secret document citing extraterrestrial opinion](/Images/godic/202501/15/1948_Top_Secret_USAF_UFO_extraterrestrial_document2146.png")
Ghost rockets (Swedish:Spökraketer, also called Scandinavian ghost rockets) were rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.
The first reports of ghost rockets were made on February 26, 1946, by Finnish observers. About 2,000 sightings were logged between May and December 1946, with peaks on 9 and 11 August 1946. Two hundred sightings were verified with radar returns, and authorities recovered physical fragments which were attributed to ghost rockets.