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LocationCountrySweden is a Nordic kingdom whose 1946 "ghost rocket" wave drew one of the first military inquiries into unidentified aerial objects, and the base of Beatriz Villarroel's archival sky research.
Sweden is a Nordic kingdom whose 1946 "ghost rocket" wave drew one of the first military inquiries into unidentified aerial objects, and the base of Beatriz Villarroel's archival sky research.
Sweden is a Nordic kingdom on the eastern Scandinavian Peninsula, with about 10.6 million people, a long Baltic coastline and its capital at Stockholm. A parliamentary constitutional monarchy, it remained officially neutral in the Second World War and stayed outside both Cold War blocs while keeping close private ties with Western governments. It joined the European Union in 1995 and entered NATO in 2024, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Sweden's place in UFO history rests on the ghost rockets of 1946. After first reports from Finland in February, about 2,000 sightings of rocket- or missile-like objects were logged across Scandinavia between May and December, peaking on 9 and 11 August. The Swedish Defence Staff investigated with radar, field reports and debris analysis by the National Defence Research Institute. On 10 October 1946 it said most observations were vague, but that some clear ones could not be explained as natural phenomena, Swedish aircraft or imagination, and that alleged fragments were ordinary coke or slag. A three-week military search of Lake Kölmjärv after a reported crash on 19 July found nothing.
American officials followed the wave closely. A January 1947 War Department intelligence review, released by the US Department of War in August 2026, concluded that only a few reports may have involved low-flying V-1-type missiles and that many high-altitude sightings were probably meteors or fireworks. Sweden's later record has been kept largely by civilians. The Archives for the Unexplained in Norrköping, chaired by Clas Svahn, holds about 20,000 Swedish reports and copies of roughly 2,000 Swedish Armed Forces investigations since 1946, most of them concerning ghost rockets.
Sweden is also home to a scientific strand of the subject. Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel of Nordita in Stockholm leads the VASCO project, whose October 2025 papers reported associations between transients on 1950s Palomar survey plates, nuclear tests and UFO reports; critics, including a July 2026 paper by Wesley Watters and colleagues, argue the transients can be explained as photographic artefacts. In 2026 she and explorer Dennis Åsberg, who had complained in March of near silence about UAP in Swedish public life, organized a Stockholm conference on the subject. Sweden's record thus runs from one of the earliest military inquiries into unidentified aerial objects to one of the few attempts to test such reports against archival astronomical data.
**New** Jake Barber talks about his experience with UFO Legacy Program Crash Retrievals - He describes two different types of UFO 🇺🇸🛸👽 “A lot of people confuse and think that I had this extremely spiritual and emotional experience while retrieving the egg but it’s not the case. It was the other object.” At the Beyond Institute Event in Stockholm, Sweden - Former Air Force special operations helicopter pilot Jake Barber described recovering two non-human craft during his work with crash re...
[Retweeted] On October 1, 2026, Beatriz Villarroel and I took a step that meant more to us than I can really put into words. Just over six months earlier, we had started talking about an idea. Why not create something here in Sweden? An institute, a platform where scientists, researchers, whistleblowers, explorers and people with extraordinary experiences could come together, share their knowledge and be heard. A place where we could ask difficult questions without being afraid of what others...
[Retweeted] UAP Disclosure: A Global Challenge During a recent UAP panel in Stockholm, Sweden, Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers), Executive Director of the Disclosure Foundation, and Dylan Borland (@TheDylanBorland), former U.S. Air Force specialist and UAP whistleblower, discussed the international challenges surrounding UAP transparency. Their discussion highlighted the influence of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, the lack of formal UAP reporting mechanisms across much of Europe, and the...
After 5+ years deep in the modern Swedish ufology landscape, I'm writing an ambitious but rather short book. On how I'm 99% sure regarding the basic binary question - are we alone or not? For reference I've co-founded Citizens for Disclosure Sweden under Danny Sheehan's New Paradigm Institute and been it's national coordinator. I'm in contact during these years with our local UAP-star Dr Beatriz Villarroel (Sol Foundation, VASCO, etc), who has agreed to write the foreword. Personally I'm a ci...
🛸 A Metallic Robot Sphere 🛸 Drop 7 - 1953 - A Transair Captain/pilot sees and reports a shining metal spherical elliptical object for 6-7 seconds as he flew near Hässleholm, Sweden. "Previously I have been extremely skeptical about all the stories of mysterious objects - called flying saucers -- that have been seen at diverse points, said the Captain. Now I don't know exactly what to think; but it did seem to me that we had seen a robot of some kind." One problem: "An extremely reliable sou...
Considering how slowly the topic moves in the general public, media and politics in most of Europe (despite the recent advances in the US, Brazil, Japan), and since I am an Event Architect ( https://paralello.se and https://soundcloud.com/houseofursa for reference) and an IT Engineer I've created a website with my event plan: https://flyingdisco.eu 20th June 2044 we celebrate 100 years of European space history, marking the date that the German rocket MW 18014 crossed the Kármán line and beca...
[Retweeted] This is a recreation of the Orb that I saw in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 last weekend. 🛸 I took this photo overlooking Gamla Stan from the top of the steps at 7pm on October 3rd. It was a few minutes after this photo when the orb appeared. The same orb was reported by @dennis_asberg along with many other witnesses in different locations around Stockholm. It travelled from right to left the full width of the sky, unfortunately it was too quick to capture on film. Most certainly not a...
This is a recreation of the Orb that I saw in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 last weekend. 🛸 I took this photo overlooking Gamla Stan from the top of the steps at 7pm on October 3rd. It was a few minutes after this photo when the orb appeared. The same orb was reported by @dennis_asberg along with many other witnesses in different locations around Stockholm. It travelled from right to left the full width of the sky, unfortunately it was too quick to capture on film. Most certainly not a shooting sta...
Two white shape-shifting objects drifted randomly with the wind over Gubbängen, Sweden — Oct 3, 2026, 3:15 PM
I have to admit... Dennis' overall positive "come together" vibe is contagious and I respect it very much. https://t.co/bRocpVGoKN [Quoted] I woke up here in Sweden this morning with a thought. The sun is shining, blue sky, and maybe I’m thinking way too big this early in the morning, but why the hell not? After what we just did in Stockholm, bringing people from the US, UK and other places together to talk openly about the UAP phenomenon, science, witnesses, stigma and the future, I started...
