August 19, 1946🇸🇪Investigation
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Stockholm, Sweden: Doolittle, Bader and Sarnoff arrive during the ghost rocket scare

On August 19, 1946, General Jimmy Doolittle, Group Captain Douglas Bader and RCA president David Sarnoff arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, ostensibly on private business, while the Chief of the Swedish Defense Staff openly sought the generals' advice on the ghost rocket reports.

Date
August 19, 1946
Location / Country
Type
Investigation

Background

Two experts on aerial warfare, General Jimmy Doolittle and British Group Captain Douglas Bader, together with RCA president General David Sarnoff, arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 19, 1946, ostensibly on private business and independently of each other. Officially, Doolittle, by then vice president of the Shell Oil Company, was inspecting Shell branch offices in Europe, and Sarnoff, a former member of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's London staff, was studying the market for radio equipment. According to the press account, the Chief of the Swedish Defense Staff, Col. C. R. Kempf, made no secret that he was extremely interested in asking the two generals for advice and, if possible, would place all available reports before them. Doolittle denied any such connection to Barry Greenwood in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence of a collaboration. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.