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into the reports is being conducted by the county constabulary. The division has also received a message about mysterious lights seen Tuesday evening outside Tromso. There is every reason to believe that the observations are real. During the last sighting in upper Norway many people received mysterious radio signals. The ghost fliers returned to Scandinavia in 1936, following the same routes and patterns of the 1934 sightings. They were again accompanied by baffling radio signals. The New York Times correspondent, who had tried to blame Japan in 1934, now accused Germany of broadcasting the signals. But none of the Scandinavian newspapers mentioned Germany in connection with the planes or the radio signals. When a brilliant glowing object pursued a railroad train across the Midwest in 1937, the New York Times (August 15, 1937) quoted astrono- mers who explained the incident as being caused by Venus. I hardly need mention that the populations of northern Scandinavia are very familiar with the northern lights and other routine atmospheric and astronomical phenomena. It is unlikely that they would pay too much attention to something that seemed to have a natural explanation. We have two widely separated reports from 1937 that deserve notice here. On Thursday, February 11, 1937, the crew of the fishing boat Fram started out from Kvalsvik, Norway, at 9 P.M. Just outside of Kvalsvik there is a cape with high hills separating it from the mainland. As the Fram circled this cape, they discovered a very large airplane resting on the water. Thinking the plane was in trouble, the captain changed his course and headed for it. Red and green lights were glowing on the machine, but as the boat approached, the lights were suddenly extinguished. Then the plane was quickly enveloped in a cloud of smoke, and it vanished! At noon the next day, Friday, February 12, 1937, an unknown aircraft appeared over Vienna, Austria, and circled the city. This event was unusual enough to be widely noted in the European press. Apparently the identity and origin of the plane were in doubt for some reason. On June 10, 1946, objects ‘‘resembling German V weapons’”’ passed over Finland. Within a few short weeks UFO-type lights, cylindrical objects and unidentified winged machines were being seen by thousands of people throughout Norway and Sweden, with the greatest concentra- tions taking place in the bleak, sparsely populated north country. The Unidentified Airplanes / 121 Scandinavia: 1946