Ramsele, summer 1946

The Ghost Rockets over the Inland

Cigar-shaped metallic objects flying silently above dark pine forests and still lakes at dusk, one diving toward the water — Original image generated for West Northland

During the great wave of 'ghost rockets' in 1946, several cigar- and torpedo-shaped metallic objects were observed moving at high speed over the forests and lakes of Ångermanland. Witnesses around Ramsele and the Faxälven river reported objects that flew silently, or with a low humming sound, at low altitude before diving steeply into forest lakes. The military carried out extensive searches and draggings in several Norrland waters without ever finding any wreckage or traces of fuel. The summer passed. The objects did not explain themselves.