Ringo
I like to not get involved in these matters
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Saturday 1st August, around 14.30 Swedish time, my wife and two kids witnessed a large rocket ascending into the sky. They were driving through Krusboda and had just turned off on the road towards Alby Nature reserve. It was a clear, bright blue sky. My son saw it first, then my daughter and then my wife briefly (as she was driving).
He said it was lifting off, projecting lots anf lots of white smoke. My son said that it had stabilising fins but seemed to be rotating. They said it had a red nose cone but was predominantly white with some sort of pattern on it.
My wife didn't see it until it was higher in the sky but she estimates now that it was 4 or 5 cm high in her field of vision. She estimated it to be very large. She thought is big enough to hold persons/people but she saw it so briefly that she couldn't be sure. She also said that it was travelling stright up and producing lots of white smoke.
They mentioned it to me when I got back from the UK. I have searched online but found no articles or mentions of it. Just to point out that there are no lauch facilities in Stockholm (that the public is aware of). They only lost sight of it when they turned a corner and trees obscured their view.
It may have been a hobby rocket but it sounds massive.
He said it was lifting off, projecting lots anf lots of white smoke. My son said that it had stabilising fins but seemed to be rotating. They said it had a red nose cone but was predominantly white with some sort of pattern on it.
My wife didn't see it until it was higher in the sky but she estimates now that it was 4 or 5 cm high in her field of vision. She estimated it to be very large. She thought is big enough to hold persons/people but she saw it so briefly that she couldn't be sure. She also said that it was travelling stright up and producing lots of white smoke.
They mentioned it to me when I got back from the UK. I have searched online but found no articles or mentions of it. Just to point out that there are no lauch facilities in Stockholm (that the public is aware of). They only lost sight of it when they turned a corner and trees obscured their view.
It may have been a hobby rocket but it sounds massive.