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considerable publicity in Scandinavia at the time, and photos of their plane had been widely published. Six years later, when the mystery planes began to appear, many of the witnesses compared the craft to Byrd’s Fokker. The Swedish government took these reports most seriously. In 1934, no less than twenty-four Swedish Air Force biplanes were sent to the isolated, thinly populated sections where the “‘ghost fliers’? were being reported. A thorough search by land, sea and air was held. Conditions were so hazardous that two of the Swedish planes crashed during the search. I will try to summarize some of the main events of this flap. Our sources are the following newspapers: Dagens Nyheter; Stockholms- Tidningen; Vasterbottenskuriren; Norrbottens Allehanda; Hudiksvalls Tidningen, and the New York Times. A dispatch published on January 22, 1934, described some early sightings: Pitea. The permanent curate in Langtrask has reported that he has been seeing mysterious airplanes in the area for the past two years. Last summer the ghost flier passed over the community twelve times, following the same route each time, southwest to northeast. On four different occasions the plane appeared at very low altitude, but no marks or insignia were visible. Once the plane’s altitude was only a few meters above the parsonage. For a few seconds two persons were visible in the cabin. The machine was grayish in color and single-winged. The curate had not reported this earlier because he thought the flier had been reported by the coastal population. Published reports are scanty until December 1933, but, as with the 1909 New England reports, we are led to believe that there had been many sightings before that. Our first item briefly describes a sighting on Christmas Eve: “December 24, 1933. Kalix—A mysterious airplane appeared from the direction of the Bottensea about 6 P.M. Christmas Eve, passed over Kalix, and continued westward. Beams of light came from the machine, searching the area.”’ On December 27, 1933, the New York Times devoted almost a full column to the audible appearance of a “mystery airplane” directly over New York City during a fierce snowstorm. At 9:30 A.M. on December 26, people throughout Manhattan heard the sound of an airplane appar- ently circling overhead in the blinding storm. An NBC newscast men- 114 / Operation Trojan Horse