SCCM 2012r2 - Remove "invisible" packages/applications from Distribution Point

Hello alltogether,
I've encountered the following issue:
Our distribution points are displaying applications/packages as "In Progress - Waiting for Prestage content".
These packages doesn't exist anymore. Neither as prestage file nor in the config manager itself. We never tried to apply this package by using a prestage file because such a file never existed.
Even if I open the "content" tab of one distribution point, I can't find these packages in there.
The exact status of this package is the following:
Message: Distribution Content
Message Detail: Distribution Manager instructed Package Transfer manager to send Package "x" to distribution point "y".
Status Type: In Progress
I want to remove these "ghost" packages from the Distribution Status overview. Anyone has a clue how to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards
Feyh

Hello,
thanks for your answer!
Unfortunately no, there is no information about these files.
Yesterday we installed a new one, extracted all of our prestage files on it and watched the status. The Packages weren't listed in the "Distribution Point Configuration Status".
After some time we added the new DP to our general DP-group where all of our packages/applications are assigned to. Now the "non-existing" packages are added with the "in Progress" status.
I had a look into "Distribution Point groups -> Our group -> properties -> content" but these packages aren't displayed in the list. Some of the packages are now in the "waiting for prestage content" state, others are staying with the "Detail will
be available after the server finishes proccessing ...".
We managed to remove one of the packages by deleting it from the database.
The following statement removed it from the Distribution status overview. However, we still are able to find the package in the database.
select * from SMSPackageswhere PkgID = 'P100003B'
DELETE from SMSPackages
where PkgID = 'P100003B'
Apparently the delete-statement affected 72 rows. But we are having no clue which. As long as we are not sure we killed anything important we are not going to do this with the other packages because it's the productive system. We can't reproduce this in our
test system...

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