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1946-08-27: Aftonbladet, quoting Daily Express (interview with Ahlgren)

Aftonbladet Tisdag den 27 augusti 1946

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Ghost bombs raise great English interest

London, Tuesday (TT, Reuter)

Reports regarding projectiles that are passing over Sweden are coming in to the Swedish defense air defense department, are a representative for the Daily Express in Stockholm explaining. The most mystical projectiles are called ghost bombs by the Swedes, they are slow quiet projectiles that fly in a straight line.

In an interview yesterday, the correspondent continues, the chief of the air defense department Major Nils Ahlgren revealed following fact regarding the projectiles.

1) The ones flying north across Sweden are tracked with radar by the air force.

2) They seem to be of two types - one winged projectile that fly horizontally at a speed of 800km/h and has a bright light that comes from a nozzle aft of the projectile, and a projectile that falls vertically from a very high altitude, it has a much greater speed and also has wings.

3) No projectiles have exploded on or near ground, and no damage to life or property has occurred. The projectiles may have exploded in the air but there are no fragments found of them.

Not even with radar can the Swedes determine the exact start place, but it is believed that they may come from a Russian research facility at Penemunde on the coast of Germany. The correspondent is quoting Major Ahlgren that the official point of view is that all of the rockets are falling down on a prepared site in the northern parts of Baltic Sea. The reporter claims that the projectiles have transmitters sending data regarding flight time, altitude, range and accuracy.

When TT asks Major Ahlgren he claims that the reporter has only been given the same kind of information that has been given to the Swedish press.

The reporter obviously complemented this with information obtained from other sources, and reached conclusions that are wrongfully claimed to be sourced from Major Ahlgren. Neither Ahlgren nor any other officer within the defense staff has stated anything about the origin of the projectiles. To the contrary, the origin of the projectiles remains unknown.

Translation AE with edits by Fredrik

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