1946, date unknown — two cases: a disputed Zhitkur wreckage claim from Romania, and the Tampa, Florida C-47 sighting cross-referenced to its fully dated August entry. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1946: Unknown Date UFO & Entity Sightings Archive
This page holds 1946-dated cases carrying no specific month. Two of the three entries here turn out to be versions of cases already fully documented elsewhere on this archive: the Florida C-47 sighting is the same “Puckett case” given a full report under August 1946, and the Romania wreckage claim belongs to the same disputed Zhitkur legend already flagged on the 1945 Unknown Date archive. Only the Sweden entry stands alone, and it is itself a general summary of the year’s ghost rocket wave rather than a discrete case.
Date: 1946 (month/day unknown)
Location: Romania
Time: Unknown
Summary: Again, wreckage transported to Zhitkur.
Source: Undocumented
Source Status: DISPUTED / HOAX-ADJACENT — this entry belongs to the same Zhitkur (Kapustin Yar-adjacent) Soviet UFO-crash-retrieval legend flagged on this archive’s 1945 Unknown Date page (Bulgaria entry, identical “wreckage transported to Zhitkur” phrasing). No verified primary Soviet military or scientific documentation exists for any Zhitkur retrieval program; the claim circulates primarily through post-Soviet-era fringe and tabloid sources. Retained for the historical record of the claim, not as an established event.
Date: 1946 (month/day unknown)
Location: Sweden
Time: Unknown
Summary: The well-documented “Ghost Rocket” invasion of Sweden took place as cigar-shaped objects rained down on land and lake across this area of northern Europe.
Source: Undocumented
Editorial note: This is a general summary of the year’s Scandinavian ghost rocket wave rather than a discrete, dateable case; the individual incidents it references are documented in detail across this archive’s monthly 1946 pages (May through September in particular).
Date: 1946 (likely August 1, 1946, per the fully-dated version of this case)
Location: Near Tampa, Florida
Time: Unknown
Summary: The pilot and crew of a C-47 aircraft, 30 miles northeast of Tampa, saw a cigar-shaped object with luminous portholes hurtle toward them in horizontal flight at the same altitude, 4,000 feet. At a distance of 1,000 yards, it swerved to avoid them. The object was estimated at twice the size of a B-29 bomber. [see the “Puckett case,” August 1, 1946]
Source: Undocumented on this entry specifically; see the August 1946 archive for the fully sourced version (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III)
Editorial note: This entry matches the “Puckett case” already documented on this archive’s August 1946 page (August 1, 1946, near Tampa, Florida, 40 miles north rather than 30 miles northeast, otherwise identical details: C-47, cigar-shaped object with luminous portholes, 1,000 yards distant, twice the size of a B-29). Retained here as a cross-reference rather than a separate case.
