Titled ghost rockets, the film opened up a phenomenon that residents of sweden had experienced since the aftermath of the second world war. Its the movie that puts the ghosts back into the rockets. First published december 6, 2015 research article find in pubmed. A strange aircraft with eight engines and carrying pontoons was spotted winging its way through a line of mountain valleys. More reading on the swedish ghost rockets taken from the rockefeller briefing document incident. Ufo sweden and this expedition is also the subject of ghost rockets 2015, a new documentary by michael. A man who together with three friends were at bjerkebukta in jeloy says that at five minutes till 23 a large luminous star was noticed. Flying saucers, extraterrestrials, and america in postwar germany. It does put forth other stories of ghost rockets sightings since 1946. Four rockets were launched from the island of griefswalder oie, but all failed in flight. The film weaves together an ambitious ufo investigation with a personal story that gives a rare insight into the hearts and minds of a ufoinvestigator. For centuries before 1947 strange aerial objects were seen and. Article information, pdf download for making ufos make sense.
He has been investigating ufocases since he was 14. Just how old it is, on the other hand, is impossible to say. The ufo ghost rocket mystery began for real may 1946 over sweden, where the media covered the case and named the unidentified flying objects ghost rockets. Decades of sightings and eyewitness reports have pushed several swedish ufo researchers to assemble a fullon search for the supposedly phantom rockets ufos that have been seen diving into several of swedens lakes. The ghost rockets documentary centers on the key premise of curiosity and the universal human desire to explore and explain the unknown.
The month after in july, the number of reports about mysterious rockets increased dramatically over both sweden. One night in late november 1933 residents of northern sweden saw something weird flying through their skies. Ghost rockets the ufo that landed in lake nammajaure. The reports began in the 1940s and continue on to date. The album was preceded by the internationally successful single, ghost, as well as uk singles glow, yours and mirror man. This morning the aftenposten has received inquiries from many persons who think they saw a ghost plane over the oslo area last night at 23 oclock. Whatever they were, the ghost rockets were being taken very seriously.
When i saw this book advertised, i knew i had to buy it. Dont be surprised if you find yourself dozing off, checking your watch to see how many of its 72. Listen to the ghost rockets soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create schweinfurt. The swedish ghost rockets the mystery of unidentified objects seen in the sky is nothing new. The cemetery is the final resting place for 7,992 american military dead lost during the drive into germany, many in the battle of the bulge. Chapter one is the debut studio album by english singer and songwriter ella henderson. Stream tracks and playlists from the ghost rockets on your desktop or mobile device. The project led by the chairman of ufosweden, clas svahn conducted extensive investigations into the strange sightings many hundreds of incidents of these ghost rockets occurred in the midto.
If ghosts are pretty awesome and rockets are always awesome then just imagine how awesome making explosive ghost rockets is going to be. Aug 43 r v jones, chief british technical intelligence expert, learns of v1. Watch ghost rockets online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Together we can help solve the mystery by translating text, tagging clues, finding patterns and proposing theories. Suspicions immediately fell on the russians, who had taken possession of the german. Soviet union accusing the soviets of testing the captured german v 2 rockets. Spokraketer, also called scandinavian ghost rockets were rocket or missileshaped 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. Despite clas attention to detail, the ghost rockets phenomena has been haunting him for.
Dont panic if you dont have any of those old school film canisters from when i was a kid theres a simple way round it that works just as well. You can now order a dvd from ufo swedens online shop. The term now given to these objects is ghost rockets. In january 2015, the album was certified platinum in the uk. Jamielee won with ghost, which was also her winners single from the voice. On 22nd august an object had crashed in a turnip field on the island of bornholm in the baltic, roughly halfway between germany. Trying to figure out the difference between these connectors. I stumbled across it while researching the swedish mystery airplane flap of the 1930s as part of a footnote to a bit im writing about the swedish ghost rockets. In 1946, however, it was thought likely that they originated from the former german rocket facility at. Ghost rockets were rocket or missileshaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly. The ghost rockets documentary centers on the key premise of curiosity and the universal human desire to. With its haunting minimalist sound, ghost tells the. Welcome to the world of the 2015 swedish film ghost rockets.
Ufosweden has gained access to the documents collected by the swedish military ghost rockets investigation committee and made them available online for the first time. I was fascinated with stories about the ghost rockets over sweden in 1946. The first reports of ghost rockets were made on february 26, 1946, by finnish observers. Can the supernatural song give her a lucky third victory at eurovision. The ghost rockets were allowed to crash deep in the inland forests of swedens and finlands north and recovery teams were sent out to bring back pieces. The mystery that goes under the name flying saucers is new, at least in name and in the reactions it has caused.
After decades of trying to unravel the case, the head of ufosweden clas svahn and his team, are now setting out on an expedition to investigate the latest of these. A movie worth seeing and paying to see but i warn you. In 2015 a revealing documentary hit the mainstream. As you read this post, players all over the world are starting to play our sequel to supersonic acrobatic rocketpowered battlecars, and our labor of love, rocket league. On july 9 alone, more than 200 ghost rocket sightings were. About 2,000 sightings were logged between may and december 1946, with peaks on 9 and 11 august 1946. Archives for the unexplained, sweden 1946 official ghost rocket documents, u. One of the newest additions to the archive is the declassified ghost rockets documents from the swedish military consisting of witness statements, drawings and investigation results, making the ghost rockets. A 25ft, 1,650ft rocket with gyro, jet rudders and actuators. Perhaps the most often cited conventional explanation for the ghost rocket phenomenon has been test firings of soviet missiles developed from captured german v2 rockets. In june that year, they were also reported over denmark and finland. Ghost rockets centers on human desire to explore and explain the unknown. Soon launching the worlds first collaborative ufo investigation.
But this book barely touches that fascinating story. Vergeltungswaffe 2, retribution weapon 2, technical name aggregat 4 a4, was the worlds first longrange guided ballistic missile. To all military observers and intelligence services, the view evolved that the ghost rockets were confirmation that the russians were making early and very fast strides in rocketry. Clas svahn, the head of ufosweden, takes his work very seriously. For all their quirkiness, their more serious originals sparkle. The soviets goal was to restore v2 production, and achieve up to 30 test launches per day.
We follow the members of an organization called ufosweden as they attempt to solve a mystery that has baffled even the swedish government, the ghost rockets. Chapter one reached number one in the uk in its first week of release. The missile, powered by a liquidpropellant rocket engine, was developed during the second world war in germany as a vengeance weapon, assigned to attack allied cities as retaliation for the allied bombings against german cities. Ghost rockets then and now posted on november 1, 2010 february 4, 20 author micah hanks during the 1940s, particularly toward the end of world war ii, odd lights in the sky and socalled foo fighters were already becoming the stuff of legend among military pilots. For the last 65 years people have been seeing strange objects crashing and landing in lakes over sweden. The group have been meeting since the 70s in a common dream to answer the biggest questions and, more recently to unravel the puzzle of the mysterious ghost rockets. Influenced by 60s california country rock and pop, they do bluegrass covers of beach boys songs, and monkees songs in german. He has written numerous books on the subject and spends his work hours as a journalist for swedens biggest newspaper dagens nyheter. The ufo ghost rocket mystery alienspacecentereasts blog. I realize that the rocket requires fitting but are there. In october 1946, just over a year after their arrival a year which incorporated the time frame of the ghost rockets the soviets closed the plant in germany and moved their entire v2 program to a new facility near moscow. The mystery ghost rockets of scandinavia ufo insight. Media in category ghost rockets the following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total.
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