In September 1946, an object over Florence, Italy, changed direction in the sky. It was visible for ninety seconds. Meteors do not turn.

This episode follows the phenomenon as it spreads across thirteen countries in thirty days, from the mountains of Greece to the skies over North Africa. Five governments launched classified investigations. All five reached the same conclusion: the objects were real, structured, and could not be explained by any known technology.

Meanwhile, the official explanation -- Soviet rockets from Peenemunde -- collapsed. The facility had been dismantled. The distances were impossible. And the objects were doing things no rocket of that era could do. When five separate governments independently ruled out every conventional explanation, U.S. Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg personally rejected the finding and ordered the classified report destroyed.

This episode covers the 1946 Ghost Rockets, the Greek government UFO investigation, the British Air Ministry response (AIR 40/2843), the Swedish Defence Staff analysis, declassified U.S. intelligence assessments, and the origins of the investigate-classify-deny pattern that would define official UFO policy for the next eighty years.

Topics covered: Ghost Rockets Sweden 1946, UFO sightings over Europe, Peenemunde V-2 rocket facility, Greek Astronomical Society UFO report, British Air Ministry declassified files, Project Sign, Estimate of the Situation, General Hoyt Vandenberg, mass sighting analysis, Cold War aerial phenomena, unidentified aerial phenomena history, government UFO cover-up origins.

Primary source: Loren E. Gross, "UFO's: A History -- 1946: The Ghost Rockets" (3rd ed., 1988), supported by declassified U.S. intelligence records, British Air Ministry files, Greek Astronomical Society archives, and the Archives for the Unexplained (AFU), Norrkoping, Sweden. Full source list and original documents at unresolvedsignals.com.

Part 2 of 2. Previous episode: The Ghost Rockets -- Scandinavia 1946. Next episode: The First Investigations -- when the U.S. Air Force opened the file on flying saucers.

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