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Rocket bomb, meteor or training grenade?

Around 14.30 on Tuesday, a number of people in Falun observed an object moving across the skies, which was believed by some to be a meteor, while others were determined that it was a rocket bomb.

Most observers saw the celestial phenomena to the east of the city - up around H&ouml;gbo. A few described the flying object as a pear shaped thing with a glowing tail following it. Just about everyone saw the celestial body move vertically down towards the ground a bit to the east of Falun.

One assumption is that the celestial phenomena is nothing other than a light grenade, fired from Dalregementet&#39;s training ground up around the whereabouts of Myran. The observers do not believe this assumption, as they claim that a regular light grenade could never achieve this kind of effect in the middle of the day.

Most likely is that the object in question is a meteor. The assumption of it being a rocket bomb is likely to have its cause in the latest days numerous messages of rocket bombs observed at the coast of the Baltic sea.

The defense wants reports

The chief of the defense department reported on Wednesday night that around 13.30 on the 9th of July light phenomena were observed in many places around the country. As such, a strong glowing body with blue green tail was observed at several places around the Stockholm area. Simultaneously, something similar was observed around Sundsvall, where an impact occured as well. In this place fragments were recovered and sent by military agencies to Stockholm for analysis. The analysis will take place at the defense staff&#39;s research department.

It is of high importance for the continued investigation that observations are reported as soon as possible, the public is urged to immediately report by phone or mail to closest military unit, or to the defense staff&#39;s aerial defense department, by phone to the Military staffs, postal address Stockholm 90.

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Meteorite after all?

Falun wasn&#39;t the only place in Dalarna to observe the flying celestial body at 14.35 this Tuesday. &nbsp;Enviken and Stora Skedvi as well observed it, and the observations were pretty coherent with those in Falun. One person in Enviken claims to have observed the projectile strike down out in the fields after having exploded with a yellowish glow, but he made no closer investigations at the location.

A railroad worker reported that he and a few other people, who at the time were located at Dagl&ouml;sen in V&auml;rmland, observed an object - to the shape resembling and &quot;upside down bottle&quot; - pass over the skies and declining to the horizon. The object was surrounded with a light brighter than the sun. Other places in V&auml;rmland made similar observations as well.

The simultaneous appearance of the phenomenon at seperate places several hundreds of kilometers apart suggests that this is not the case of a projectile but a meteor, which may eventually have been a larger one that when entering the atmosphere split into several ones, falling down in different places.

After all, we should - until investigations give determined results otherwise - assume, that the projectile in Medelpad had the same celestial origin. The coinciding times of the different events would otherwise be more than remarkable.

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Translation: Fredrik Aldhagen

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