Hessdalen as a portal - 2

As I mentioned in the previously published article "Hessdalen as a portal", there are mainly three hypotheses that apply in relation to the UFO phenomenon, - in Hessdalen - AND globally:

1: One currently unknown natural phenomenon, possibly originating in geophysical conditions.

2: Secret military experiments with exotic technology.

3: "Visitation" - in one form or another.

With regard to hypothesis number 1, it is not suited to explain more than a fraction of the observation material - alone. But it cannot be ruled out that several phenomena co-exist in Hessdalen. So that unknown natural phenomena may co-exist with structured, solid objects, ie 'classic' UFOs.

Option 2 is covered by several articles already on this blog. See, for example, Hessdalen, UFOs and NATO and the series of articles on Roswell / Nazi Germany / Die Glocke etc.

This article should therefore be more about Alternative 3 - whether this can be a form of visitation - in one or another form.

It may be extraterrestrial visitation?

With billions of habitable planets in our own galaxy, there must be trillions of them in the universe. How many of the habitable planets that actually have life, are hard to say (Source: forskning.no).

But the theory that UFOs represents alien intelligence involves a number of assumptions.

Main assumption: That the alien intelligence really exists. For the time being, there is no evidence that races other than us exist. Perhaps an extremely rare combination of events must be necessary to produce intelligent beings? Mankind's development may seem to be the product of a wide range of environmental coincidences - which can occur on any planet - but perhaps not in the right combination or at the right time?

Despite this, it seems that more and more scientists are arguing that it will be naive to assume that we are alone and that it is statistically far more likely that we are not alone.

But if they exist, is it possible for "them" to come here?

J. Allen Hynek has a good illustration of the incredible distances in space:

If you imagine that the thickness of a playing card represents the distance between the earth and the moon, how many cards do you need to reach the nearest star outside the sun? The number is utopian, you need over thirty kilometers of playing cards!

(Hynek in Hessdalen 1985)

But maybe there are "shortcuts"? A type of "hole" in the space-time continuum? Portals etc?

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J. Allen Hynek in interview with UFO-Norway's Odd Gunnar Røed:

The typical UFO is seen by many, it seems real and leaves marks, and then disappears. It is rarely reported from city to city. When a 747 departs from New York toward San Francisco, it is possible to follow this metal chunk every inch of the journey. This does not apply with UFOs. These occur spontaneously within a confined area, remain visible for a short time, and disappear. Maybe the UFOs have two aspects. They can be something in between our reality and a parallel reality - the door to another dimension? (Source: Tidsskriftet (journal) "UFO" no. 4, 1985).

A while back I came across the book "Demon Haunted" by John Zaffis. One of the chapters in the book deals with portals, and goes as far as to list specific characteristics that, according to the author, are often present in areas of increased paranormal activity - within the UFOlogy often referred to as "window areas" and / or "portals".

Under the section "Geophysical signatures" one can read:

Portals have one or more characteristic geophysical properties. One is marked magnetic deviation. Many portal areas have high concentrations of magnetic or diamagnetic content in the ground, such as iron, magnetite and quartz. Other characteristics include underground water, especially when it comes to the surface, natural caves, tunnels after mining, large bodies of water, especially flowing, and marshy areas.

All in all, this could have been a description of Hessdalen.

Now I do not know what sources Zaffis operates with - he states no one - and possibly this is based entirely on his own experiences and investigations. But it is nevertheless a pretty incredible coincidence whether Hessdalen holds all the hallmarks of a "portal" according to Zaffis if it was based on pure coincidence! While there may be every reason to question the scientific basis of Zaffis' characteristics, such a theory probably does not arise in a vacuum. It must probably be based on something?

And Zaffis isn't the only one to speculate along this line; In the book “Haunted Hudson Valley” by Cheri Revai (2010), one can read:

Investigators in the paranormal believe that specific geological conditions, such as areas with large deposits of iron ore and quartz, can result in increased paranormal activity.

Another book - "Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions: The Science of the Unexplainable" by Louis Proud (2014) - follows the same line:

These phenomena tend to haunt specific locations, places that are geologically "special" in one or more ways, such as being near a fault zone, by large bodies of water, - a lake, pond, river or waterfall - or by significant deposits of minerals.

The mountains in and around Hessdalen have a complex geology - with long traditions for mining. There are many old, abandoned mines in and around the valley, and just south of Hessdalen lies Norway's largest ore deposit - untouched. According to experts, the Hessjøen field is estimated to hold 16 million tons of ore - mainly iron, copper and zinc.

Large ore deposits generate strong magnetic fields.

(Hessdalen, - view to the west: Mount Finnsåhøgda).

In addition, we know that there are significant deposits of quartz crystals in Hessdalen. And precisely crystals are often mentioned in connection with "portals" in paranormal literature - such as e.g. in the book New Realities of the Twenty-First Century, by P. Wildman:

Quartz is known to be piezoelectric, ie, has the property of being
electrically charged when pressurized. In combination with strong magnetic fields, this can create a kind of electromagnetic chain reaction at the atomic level, as well as at the subatomic level - electrons, photons, protons and neutrons.

An "electromagnetic chain reaction" is a rather vague description of what is supposed to happen, I think ... But can there be something like that happening in Hessdalen?

Frenchman Jaques Vallée is known in UFO circles for suggesting a multidimensional visitation hypothesis as an alternative to the more widespread - and according to Vallée - narrow - extraterrestrial, visitation hypothesis. Vallée has explored the commonalities between UFO and other paranormal phenomena, including traditional folklore, and speculation on these potential links is presented in Vallé's third UFO book, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (1969).

(Valleé - suggests a multidimensional hypothesis)

Vallée seems to believe that there is a real UFO phenomenon - associated with a form of non-human consciousness - that has been active throughout human history, and seems to mask itself in different forms in different cultures.

American John Keel defies a related view. In his third book - UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970 / re-released in 1996), he links UFOs to supernatural concepts such as monsters, ghosts and demons. Keel uses the term "Ultraterrestrials" to describe the UFO-pilots which he assumes are non-human beings (or intelligence) capable of assuming any form - or rather, giving the illusion of any form.

(John Keel)

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Do we live in a multidimensional world? Quantum mechanics seem to be open up for this, and more and more physicists seem to be of this opinion. What was pure science fiction just a couple of decades ago seems to be pretty much mainstream today.

Is it that our physical world is just one plane or dimension among many? And is it then possible that the UFO phenomenon - and possibly other paranormal phenomena - is due to the interaction between our own and one or more of these other dimensions?

Is it, after all, all about thin borders? So that there are small "accidents" that cause paranormal events?

A kind of "rift" that constitutes an "opening" between two or more worlds? If so, could it be that Hessdalen in Norway - as well as a number of other similar places around the world - so-called windows - are places where such "rifts" are more likely to emerge?

UFOs and Hessdalen; the history, and current status

The "UFO wave" in Hessdalen (which was not limited to Hessdalen, but covered the entire Gauldalen valley area in to Trondheim, Støren, Soknedal, Oppdal and Røros, etc.) began in December 1981. There are reports before this time - but the mass observations began then. That was also when the phenomenon was made publicly known.

Initially it was mostly locals that gathered on Aspåskjølen, a lookout point north in the valley, but gradually rumors spread, and people came from Ålen, Røros - and eventually Trondheim, and the whole country. There could be dozens of cars gathered every night on Aspåskjølen to look for the UFOs in the winter of 1982 and 1983. At its most intense, 20-30 observations were reported a week - and that was just what was reported / what the organization " UFO-Norway ” (and Project Hessdalen) was able to track.

(Lookout point Aspåskjølen)

And what was people reporting? Mainly, there were lights in the sky in different shapes, sizes and colors - which sometimes carried out maneuvers that excluded planets / stars / planes / helicopters / satellites, etc. When brave Hessdalen residents reported daytime observations, describing vehicles resembling classic UFO sightings, they faced opposition. They were ridiculed, and blamed for everything from extensive alcohol abuse, to visual hallucinations - as a result of inbreeding!

A signature campaign was created among the residents during this period, requiring the authorities to initiate investigations, and the list of signatures was handed to the local police department in Holtålen. The answer was that "they could do nothing, because the UFOs had not done anything criminal ..." The norwegian military defense was also contacted - without luck. Among the inhabitants of the village, an opportunity was discussed during the period to possibly shoot down an object on private initiative! This tells a little about the seriousness and the desperation.

Although public authorities did nothing, fortunately a group of enthusiasts decided to launch a private project: "Project Hessdalen". Partial support was received from norwegian universities, as well as the Defense Research Institute. Radar, magnetometer, spectrum analyzer, geiger counter, etc., was borrowed, and in the winter of 1984, a one month long field action in January / February was conducted, - with, among other things, observers on mountain peaks around the valley. A number of registrations were made, including on radar. One did not succeed in finding out what the phenomenon was (and is), but once and for all one could kill all star / planetary theories, airplane / satellite and helicopter theories, - as well as bluffs and hallucinations.

(Project Hessdalens head quarter in the1985 field action)

Similar field action was attempted in the winter the following year, but ended somewhat in  evacuation and rescue action due to bad weather. The Hessdalen mountains by winter are not a joke in that way.

After 1985 there were fewer reports. It is somewhat unclear how much that fact is due to a decrease in observations, or how much was due to residents quitting to report due to ridicule. In journalist Tore Strømøy's radio documentary on NRK (norwegian national broadcasting) in 1990, for example it was stated that Hessdalen residents collectively decided to "keep quiet" because of all the ridicule.

In 1993, Erling Strand was back in Hessdalen to inform about the data analysis from the project in 1984. In conversation with several of the valley's residents, it was revealed that the observations did not stop after 1985. On this basis, Strand decided to restart the project, and in 1994 the Project Hessdalen Workshop was held at the Hessdalen community center with the participation of prominent researchers from all over the world - including Russian Boris Smirnov, Nobel Prize candidate in physics.

In 1998, Strand set up an automatic measuring station in Vårhuslia hill, northeast in Hessdalen, - “Blue box” - a container equipped with alarm camera and software set to respond to light, - as well as other instruments - such as radar, magnetometer, geiger counter etc. The Blue Box also has two cameras that stream Hessdalen live on the internet 24/7 to interested people around the world.

(Head of Project Hessdalen: Siv. ing. Erling Strand)

Among the participants in the workshop in 1994, was also the Italian astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani, leader of Project Embla who conducted three field studies in Hessdalen in the early 2000s. The Embla team came up with interesting conclusions: In a series of published articles, Teodorani explains that the majority of Hessdals phenomenology is about light with a probable geophysical origin (according to the EMBLA-team). But in addition to these, there exists in Hessdalen a small, but significant, minority of structured objects! Teodorani speculates, among other things, whether Hessdalen is designated as site for military experiments with "exotic technology".

 

(Head of the EMBLA missions in the 2000s: Dr. Massimo Teodorani)

Since 2007, Østfold University College has organized “Science camp” in Hessdalen. During these two weeks in September (also in March / April in recent years), many researchers and students monitor the valley with instruments and keep tent bases on several of the mountain tops in the area. In addition to the "Blue Box" at Vårhus, a permanent measuring station, "White Box", has also been set up with opportunities for manning the Skarvan mountain south in the valley.

(Erling Strand and myself in front of the White Box during Science Camp, October 2019).

In the summer of 2007, it was widely reported in the media that the riddle in Hessdalen was resolved. In NRK's ​​"summer open" program, an employee at Østfold University College, who is also involved in Science Camp and associated with the research projects concerning Hessdalen, was interviewed - where he launched a theory about what was happening. Easily said; it was dust from the ground in Hessdalen that was ignited and, through a combustion process, caused light. These lights moved around in the valley with the wind.

In retrospect, they demented that they had any solution to the phenomena. On the contrary, it was emphasized that conflicting data had been obtained, that the phenomena were more complex than expected, and that one might be further away from a solution than ever. Still, it may seem that parts of the opinion are left with the impression that the riddle is resolved, and if you google UFO + Hessdalen, Addresseavisen's (Trondheim newspaper) 2007 article with the headline "UFO mystery solved in Hessdalen" comes up as the first hit.

Another proposed theory goes with Radon - a radioactive element - which is often found in Scandinavian granite. If Radon is exposed to dust in the atmosphere, the waste products can ionize the air and produce "macroscopic Coulomb crystals". The theory was launched by Pavia and Taft.

However, it is unclear how the phenomenon / light can move towards the wind direction.

The aforementioned Massimo Teodorani has - among other things - proposed piezoelectric effects to explain phenomena in Hessdalen. If quartz is exposed to tectonic stress, electricity is generated, which can be amplified by the presence of iron and copper.

However, the energy produced during this process appears to be too weak to explain the strength of the lights.

Italian Jader Monari is one of the latest to launch a hypothesis; Hessdalen as a giant, natural battery. Hessdalen can roughly be subdivided into the eastern side where copper is the dominant mineral and the western side is dominated by iron and zinc. Furthermore, sulfuric acid leaks from a closed mine into the river that flows through the valley, and is believed to function as an electrolyte - so that the valley can theoretically form a kind of natural giant battery.

 
However, the theory is not able to explain why the lights are also seen in the Øyungen area and also high up in the sky. Nor is it able to explain the different properties of the phenomena.

Monari also admits that the theory only deals with light in different forms. Observations of structured, craft-like UFOs have not been attempted to be explained with this hypothesis. Monari may seem to assume that light and structured objects are two separate things.

(Daytime picture taken by french Pierre Beake in 2015, - Lake Øyungen, Hessdalen).

Other people involved also seem to think the same; For example, Erling Strand has stated that there is so much different seen in Hessdalen:

"We get conflicting data, says Strand. Some data point in one direction, while other data point in the opposite direction. It is hard to imagine that all this should be part of the same phenomenon."

The above-mentioned Teodorani speculates in several articles whether light and structured objects are two separate phenomena that for some reason appear to exist in parallel in Hessdalen, or whether it is the same phenomenon observed at different physical stages.

(Daytime picture taken by french Pierre Beake in 2018, - Lake Øyungen, Hessdalen).

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The majority of all reports are about "lights" in the sky in Hessdalen. A small minority of reports describe crafts, objects and vehicles. (In addition, you have reports in the middle that describe objects shrouded in intense light). Mainly, there are three theories that apply:

1: This is a hitherto unknown natural phenomenon - probably of geophysical origin linked to the bedrock in Hessdalen.

2: This is testing and secret experiments with exotic technology - possibly led by NATO.

3: This is "visitation" - in one form or another.

It is possible that point 1 is correct, but this hypothesis may not be correct alone - which now seems to be consensus among researchers as well. In recent years, several of the researchers involved have argued that there may be two (or more) phenomena that co-exist in Hessdalen. Alternatively, there may be one and the same phenomenon that occurs across different physical stages.

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In 2019 I published a book about Hessdalen that dealt with the history, the research programs and my own experiences with the phenomena. I am now in the finishing process of a new book, where I present my own theories and considerations to a greater extent.

UFOs and the sulfur connection:

To the extent that odor is mentioned in UFO reports, strikingly often bad odor / odor of sulfur is mentioned. In addition, odor of sulfur is also related to other paranormal events. Is there a connection? AND - In the middle of Hessdalen - a closed sulfur mine ...

The mine is in the middle of the valley, with the entrance / exit of the shaft down by the river Hesja. This mine was in operation until 1933 when the mining company went bankrupt. It's clear traces of the activity to this day.

In 2013, Italian Jader Monari presented a theory intended to explain (some of) the lights in Hessdalen, namely 'Hessdalen as a giant battery'. The theory goes in short; tension is believed to occur as a result of various minerals located on either side of the valley; copper on the east side, and iron / zinc on the west side. The Hesja River - which flows in the middle of the valley - is thought to function as an electrolyte in that sulfuric acid leaks into the river from the abandoned sulfur mine down by the river bed. (http://www.itacomm.net/PH/2013_Monari_et-al-en.pdf)

It's a neat - albeit contentious - theory. It has been criticized from several places;

- I do not think such a battery can explain the phenomenon. The distance is too large, says Bjørn Samset (Norwegian physicist). - Another question is whether the electric field has enough energy to make the gases glow.

Monari emphasizes that the theory is intended to explain light of the (apparent) plasma type, and NOT craft-like lights with an inner structure that has also been observed in Hessdalen.

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BUT; - sulfur is also often mentioned in classic UFO reports:

A randomly selected example in this way:

Greenville SC, 2008:

[... It was triangular, dark and metallic, very sleek and smooth, with three white lights at each vertex and a concave red light, and it seemed blurry because the darn thing was wobbling a bit. I forced myself to look at the road and was surprised to find an unnatural glow around myself and the car, and as it grew brighter, I brought my eyes up and caught it above my windshield and I craned my neck and promptly began to panic because the craft was now above my car, silent ...] [... It was at this moment I smelled, yes I know .... sulfur .... something like sulfur, so strong I held my hand over my face .. .] (Source: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/064/S64416.html)

Sulfur odor has also been reported in Hessdalen in connection with sightings:

[... they saw a big bright light above the hill south of Vårhuskjølen. When they were in the middle part of Hessdalen, they could see the mountain Finnsåhøgda behind the light. There were some "wires" with light beneath the big light. They got the impression that the light was following the car. When they were at Skogås place, they went through a cloud which smelled like sulfur. They stopped at the local store and went back. Then the cloud and the light were gone. (Source: hessdalen.org; observations 1996).

The question is whether UFOs can be linked to the physical, concrete occurrence of sulfur - such as in Hessdalen, where there is not just one, but several old, abandoned sulfur mines, - OR - is there another, deeper connection?

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An article I found online speculates on this; "UFOs, Do They Smell? The Sulfur Enigma of Paranormal Visitation" (https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/UFOs/ufosulphur.htm) - and makes
moreover, parallels to other paranormal activity:

"UFOs and most paranormal occurrences are often attended with a strong smell of sulfur, and the light produced by them is of a high energy quality, accompanied by a sulfurous complexion."

And worth noting:

"Lightning and thunder are attended with a strong smell of sulfur, and the light produced by them is of a sulfurous complexion."

Is this a clue somehow?

"In Immanuel Velikovsky's unpublished work In the Beginning, there's a chapter called 'The Transmutation of Oxygen into Sulfur' in which he tries to explain the origin of the sulfur smells of lightning. Velikovsky suggests that sulfur is actually made from the air by the passage of an electrical discharge."

- Could these paranormal events be the result of intelligences manifesting matter through dimensions? Certainly this would require a tremendous amount of energy. Then the tell tale sign of sulfur smells could be the effect of this energy 'entering' or 'exiting' our dimension.

Finally, a list of paranormal phenomena associated with the smell of sulfur according to the article:

• The Tricksters: Of the Southwestern United States, Northern Mexico peyote ceremonies. Also in Celtic lore (fairies, gnomes, sylphs etc.)
• The Men in Black
• Sasquatch (Pacific Northwest), Yeti (Asia), The Skunk Ape (Southeastern U.S.), Momo (Missouri Monster)
• The Greek Gods of Mythology
• Succubi, Incubi, and various demonic manifestations during occult workings
• Poltergeist, ghosts, spirits etc.
• UFOs, Aliens, Space Brothers etc.
• The Chupacabra of Puerto Rico and South and Central America

Transitional phenomena

In the extension of the previous posts - on the question of whether two (or more) separate phenomena coexist in Hessdalen - I would like to focus on what the Norwegian author Willy Ustad has written about "transitional phenomena". In the book 'UFO in Norway' (1997), Ustad divides the UFO-phenomenon into three parts: light phenomena, transitional phenomena and technical objects.

Light phenomena can further be divided into several types:

• small moving bright spots in the sky, most often at night or in the dark, but also in daylight
• large fireballs that often move at incredible speed, change course abruptly, etc.
• minor light phenomena near the ground, either stationary or moving

On transitional phenomena, Ustad writes:

"There is no clear distinction between the latter group and the next group - technical objects. Very often the reports give a clear impression of a technical, or at least physical object inside, or surrounded by a strong light. Very often it is described that a physical object has one or more bright spots, or several bright lights that resemble headlamps."

About the last group, Ustad writes:

Descriptions of objects that are clearly physical are the simplest and most tangible form of reports. Here we also meet a huge variety of the strangest shapes and sizes.

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Transitional phenomena are, in my opinion, an indication that light phenomena and objects are different sides of the same phenomenon and by going into the report material we can be find cases that underpins this view:

case 1

[...LARS LILLEVOLD and his family live in Hessdalen. - "On January 18, 1982, my life changed completely," he says. "What amazed me so much that I just have to admit that others can laugh at me and look at me like a curl. But I know what I've seen. "

This evening Lars had an errand outside his house. The time was approx. 19:30.

- Over the house I saw something big, glowing red. It must have been at least 30 ~ 4O meters long. It was like a pinch of bread, completely silent. I waited to hear sounds. I listened, but heard only the rush of the forest. Then "it" moved. The light was dazzling. It looked like "it" was emitting a red, fuzzy smoke that it somehow surrounded itself with. It removed in a northerly direction into the valley. I shouted at the wife who saw the lights before "it" disappeared...]

case 2

[..."There's a fire in the cabin!" Was his first thought. He got this idea when he saw a light
near a cabin. But, he immediately saw something else; a
large illuminated object comparable to a Christmas tree with the top facing
down towards the ground. The object stood about four feet above the ground, but it was
difficult to judge this despite - he had the cabin as a reference.

There was a big red light on the front of the object that flashed, and it was a
irregular wooly coating around the entire object. The light from it was so intense that it
was a pain to watch it for a long time...]

case 3

[...Slowly we saw the UFO rise a few meters above the mountain. Now it stood perfectly still. Around it we saw the snow boil as the wind swirled the snowflakes. In the same position, the UFO descended on the mountain. Was it down? The shape was most reminiscent of a pistol bullet. Did I see right? In the moonlight I thought it glistened in metal. Wasn't there a dark silhouette in the intense light?

Suddenly, the UFO turned to the side. It set in motion and "floated" in between Fjellbekkhøgda and Finnsåhøgda. It could not possibly be more than a few meters above the ground where it disappeared out of sight into the mountain...]

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These reports - which are just three of many - are examples of a smooth transition between light phenomena and crafts and vehicle sightings. Maybe it doesn't make much sense to categorize and make sections?

Phd. in astrophysics, Italian Massimo Teodroani has, as previously mentioned, actively studied Hessdalen, including through three field actions in the 2000s. His conclusion is that the majority of the observed phenomena in Hessdalen have an OUTER plasma signature, but that one cannot "see" what is inside the light (in the same way that one cannot "see" into a star) when available photo equipment is only capable of photographing the outer photo sphere.

In addition, Teodorani states that a smaller - but significant - number of structured solid objects occur in Hessdalen.

As Teodorani says; Light and solid objects can either be the same phenomenon observed in different physical states, or two separate phenomena that coexist.

My examples from the report material on 'transitional phenomena' are, in my view, clear indicators of one and the same phenomenon.

UFO activity; different phenomena or one single phenomenon?

The UFO activity in Hessdalen has a great range, and many have questioned whether there is one single phenomenon present - or if there are two (or more) phenomena that exist side by side.

Project manager Erling Strand has for example. said:

"It's so much different. We get conflicting measurement data. Some point in one direction, while other data point in the opposite direction."

Italian phd. in astrophysics, Teodorani, has said:

"The majority of observed phenomena in Hessdalen have external plasma-like features, while a small number of structured solid objects have been observed. It may be one phenomenon observed under different physical conditions or two separate phenomena coexisting."

Project Hessdalen divides the activity into three categories:

1: Flash. Pointed concentrated flashes of short duration, or powerful flashes that illuminates much of the sky and the surrounding terrain.

2: Yellow and white lights moving around the valley, that can stand still or move at high speeds.

3: Multiple lights together that follow each other as if they were attached to an object. Sometimes something dark / black can be seen between these lights.

From this, one can raise (at least) two hypotheses:

- Flashes and balls of light vs. structured solid objects are separate phenomena where the former must be understood as unknown natural phenomena related to geophysical conditions and combustion processes in the atmosphere - while the latter is a technology - man-made, or related to some form of visitation

Or:

- Flashes, balls of light AND structured solid objects are components of the same technology and constitute a unit.

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My impression and my claim is that there is support for the view that ALL of the activity are components of the same phenomenon - if you look closely at the report material:


Hessdalen: Three illuminated UFOs:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1982, AT 6.20pm, one of the residents in Hessdalen saw an oblong luminous object as it flew low over the crest of Finnsåhøgda to the north. In binoculars he could clearly see that there was a red light in the front of the object.

As this object came in a northerly direction, another dull moon colored light appeared in the northeast. It moved on towards the other elongated object, and flashed several times during this journey. 

At the same time, a third object, spherical, appeared about 70 degrees above the observer. This also pulsated before it finally went out. 

Another person who came driving by car up Hessdalslia hillside saw three luminous objects at the same time as above. (Source: Havik, 87).

Comment: Related to Project Hessdalen's categorisation these are category 2 and 3 together; - balls of light and solid objects (crafts) interact.

Reitan 87;  big flashes, balls of light and a craft:

16 October 1987; 7. 20 pm, three adults and a child were traveling by car between Tydal and Reitan
(some 10-15 km east of Hessdalen). On the road between the mountains they initially saw several star-like balls of light passing overhead at a great speed. 

The sky was all clear and the wind intermittently gusted up to storm. A few minutes later about 7.20pm, they saw a bright flash of light which illuminated the sky towards Ålen (some 10 km to the NW). The light seemed brightly greenish, and they stopped the car and turned off the lights after another flash had appeared. Each flash lasted for about 3- 4 seconds, with a period of 1 minute between them. 

Shortly after the last one, they caught sight of an object which came flying relatively low above the terrain. The object was shaped like a prism, equipped with four legs underneath. 

All details were clearly visible; the object coming downwards in front of the car, flying slowly forward, making a brief halt and then disappearing right up into the sky. The observers stated that the object must have been large. 

The observation lasted some 30 seconds. All four people felt a certain pressure in their heads both during the observation and shortly afterwards. (This symptom has also been felt by some
other witnesses who have observed UFOs in Hessdalen.) The observers were also a bit frightened and none of them had seen anything similar before. (Source: Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1, 1988).

(A drawing made by the witnesses. The surface looked like glass; shining with a greenish clour.)

Comment: Here all of the categories - 1, 2 and 3 appear together.


Arendal, Norway, 1981; i.e. not from Hessdalen - but very similar to HD sightings:

- Suddenly he became aware of a light in the eastern sky blinking and pulsating fast and irregurlarly. The light moved up and down with a blue blinking, sometimes weak and sometimes very. strong,
and after a little while it disappeared towards the east. Now and then the flashes were so powerful that the ground around the house was lit up as if someone was using a big flashgun out in the woods, far from roads and from any electric outdoor light. They also stated that it did not resemble the distinctive flashes of distant lightning as can be seen in the autumn.

The house is situated on a high spot surrounded by low hills and forests. In front of the house grassy fields run down towards Blagestad. To the northeast there are small islands and hills with low pinetrees. The family now turned off all the lights in the house and sat down behind the windows watching the sky. After an hour of patient waiting, the UFOs appeared again.

Suddenly a shivering yellow light appeared over the southern hills. The object rose and fell and the light shifted from yellow to blue. After a little while, it quickly soared to an altitude of 45 degrees and at the same time another object came in from the northeast and stopped at the same altitude.

Then a huge gray object came in from the south and passed within 50 meters of the house and glided silently towards the lake along the edge of the fields. Over the lake it descended slowly, so it was possible to observe it with the island and pinetrees as a background. The distance was then about 200-300 meters. At both ends they could see a very big red light, and on top of that they claimed there was something like a bridge. 

The light from the two red spots was very unfamiliar, and they had difficulties in describing it. (In the southeastern part of the country this cigar-shaped phenomenon had been seen a few years
ago, and then too the witnesses noticed the very odd red lights and eported that there seemed to be something rotating inside them.)

It was a great shock to the family to see this strange, huge UFO with its dark and silent body and clear red lights; They thought for a while that it was an invasion, and turned on the radio for the kind of short message that one would expect to get under such circumstances.

Over the water the cigar changed course and headed slowly towards the northwest, and at the same time the two UFOs on each side of the house started to move; they flew side by side out over the
lake and disappeared behind the islands in the northeast. This led to conclude that the three objects were in contact with each other, moving in a united formation. (Source: Nordic UFO newsletter 2 - 82)

Comment: Again - all three categories are represented at the same time and interact.

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These are just three selected examples taken from the report material. They are not unique, but on the contrary - rather typical of what has been seen.

These examples do not constitute irrefutable evidence of course, but are a strong indication that the three categories of activity outlined by Project Hessdalen; flash, balls of light and solid, structured  objects - must be seen as sub-components within the same overall technology - as part of a unit.

Teodorani interview

An interview from 'Unexplained Mysteries' with Italian Massimo Teodorani, Dr. of Astrophysics - and Head of the EMBLA research team / field actions in Hessdalen in the 2000s:

Interview: Massimo Teodorani

Teodorani's statements diverge a bit across different interviews and different scientific papers, - but essentially it seems that he thinks that UFOs in Hessdalen (and elsewhere in the world) consist of some type of "plasma phenomenon" on the one hand, and some type of structured solid objects on the other side. These can be either (A) two distinct separate phenomena that co-exist, or (B) the same phenomenon observed under different physical states, according to Teodorani.

(Dr. Massimo Teodorani)

Another exciting approach from Teodorani is that a hypothetical alien intelligence - potentially millions of years ahead of us in technological development - may be able to "program" a plasma ball to act as an information-gathering "computer":

- An exogenous probe might not be necessarily something “mechanical” as we expect from our technology, but something much more exotic. Therefore, even if we are not in a condition to extrapolate the future point of a super-civilization starting from ours, we can maybe speculate on what we could see. For instance, we cannot exclude the possibility that such a master civilization is able to instruct a “plasma ball” to acquire the functions of an “intelligent probe” based on a particle neural network that is planned to work both as a multi-sensing device and as a computer. After all, our own technology, which substantially was born only two centuries ago, is starting already now to plan a new generation of computers based both on the DNA and on quantum mechanics and it is already starting to use the very sophisticated science of nanotechnology.” (An alternative method for the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligent life: the local SETI)

I am uncertain of what Teodorani means with "particle-neural network" and" multi-sensing device" - but I assume that it’s about networks capable of sending and receiving information, as well as processing data, something similar to what neurons do in the brain.

In other words; - with Teodorani's approach, there are no contradiction between plasma theories and theories of intelligent control...

Alleged UFO landing in Hessdalen in the late 90s:

This picture is taken from the Hessdalen main road. On the other side of the river, ‘Hesja’, is the now abandoned farm ‘Finnsåvollen’:

(Finnsåvollen farm)

An excerpt from the book ‘Hessdalen Lights’ (2019):

[…according to the old guest book on Project Hessdalen’s website, a Oslo couple in their twenties allegedly saw a UFO landing here when they came driving the Hessdalen main road a winter evening in the late 90s. The craft was supposed to have been as big as the main house on the farm and flashed in all colors like a Christmas tree. The couple made their way to the farm the next day, and apparently found imprints in the snow, - both after the UFO and some kind of "footprints" next to them...]

Observers' own words:

- The next day we headed up to Hessdalen to look more closely at the place we saw the UFO. About 200m from the road, we found tracks in the snow. There were three ‘landing legs’ (with footpads?) that had melted down in the snow, - right down to the ground so that the grass could be seen. In a circumference of approx. 50m there were some strange footprints. There had not been other people there, - then we would have seen (normal) footprints. What we saw the night before must have come from above.

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UPDATE :

A resident of Hessdalen can tell that he was at the scene shortly afterwards. According to him, the tracks were due to moose crossing the lawn, deposited tracks, which had become large rings in the snow due to mild weather and snow melting.