Hessdalen as a portal:

In essence, there are three hypotheses that apply when there is talk of Hessdalen:

• a hitherto unknown natural phenomenon related to the particular geophysical conditions in and around the valley.
• secret military experiments with exotic technology, possibly under the auspices of NATO
• some form of 'visitation'.

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 exist in parallel with structured, solid objects, ie ‘classic’ UFOs.

As for hypothesis number 2, there are military bases in the immediate vicinity of Hessdalen. But the counter arguments for a military explanation for the observed phenomena are that it is illogical with secret experiments in the valley since the 80s considering the attention – both from the media and from scientists – Hessdalen has been devoted to, both in Norway and abroad. Wouldn't it be natural to move the experiments to a more quiet and undisturbed location?

So, if the natural phenomenon is insufficient, and the military theory is illogical, we have only one option left; namely some form of visitation. Here as well, there are several alternatives; some have suggested that the visitors can be ourselves from our own future. Time travelers? Others believe that "they" may not come from afar. Maybe we share the globe with one or more other advanced technological civilizations? They can e.g. be sub-terrestrial? However, the most widespread theory and notion is that the visitors are extra-terrestrial, perhaps thousands of years ahead of us in development. Well, they must necessarily have come a long way in technological development, because the distances in space are gigantic.

J. Allen Hynek has a good illustration in that way:

“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 will need over thirty-two kilometers of playing cards."

But maybe there are shortcuts, and maybe that is exactly what Hessdalen is an example of?

Already in the 80's, some speculated that Hessdalen represented a portal that connected worlds. In the book (page 66) I quote a reader post in Adresseavisen (Trondheim newspaper):

"A "philosopher" suggests in a reader's letter the 21st or December the idea that many of the electromagnetic fields in quartz deposits - which can be found in Hessdalen - can be" site "for vessels that materialize. Can Hessdalen serve as a kind of "portal" into our time and our world?"

There is a lot of quartz in the Hessdalen mountains. All in all, the mountains in and around Hessdalen have a complex geology with long traditions for mining. There are many old, abandoned mines around the valley and just south of Hessdalen lies Norway's largest occurrence of ore - untouched. Iron, copper and zinc.

Large deposits of ore cause strong magnetic fields...

Recently I came across a book that, among other things, is about portals: "Demon Haunted: True stories from the John Zaffis Vault".

Under the section "Geophysical signatures" I read:

"Portals have one or more certain geophysical characteristics. One is marked magnetic anomalies. Many of the portal areas have high concentrations of magnetic or diamagnetic content to the soil, such as iron, magnetite, and quartz.

Other characteristics are underground water, especially if it comes to the surface; natural caves; mining tunnels; large bodies of water, especially running; and swampy areas.”

This is almost a description of Hessdalen! Everything listed above exists in Hessdalen, including natural caves; mining tunnels; large bodies with water and swampy areas.

Now I do not know which sources the book operates with, and what scientific basis it is for the author's claims. BUT I have difficulty accepting that the descriptions should overlap that much based on pure coincidence.

(Quartz in Hessdalen)

Finally; what if Hessdalen represents something even more exotic?

More and more physicists assume that our physical world is only one plan or dimension in a possible multidimensional universe. The UFO phenomenon can be caused by interactions between our own and one or more of these dimensions. Maybe we live side by side with multidimensional creatures? Just that we don't see or hear anything about them?

We know that infrared and ultraviolet light exist. We can use it, but we cannot see it. Just as we have limitations in hearing, where we only perceive fluctuations between 20 and 20,000 Herz, we may have similar problems with the vision? What about the animals that at least have better hearing than us (eg a dog whistle), do they have better vision too? Is it about thin boundaries? So there are small "accidents" that cause these events?

Already during the first field action of Project Hessdalen in 1984, UFO phenomena were registered on radar. They made registrations under visual observation, but there were also examples of radar records where no visual observation was made. One could clearly follow an object from A to B through the valley on radar, but one could not see anything with the naked eye ... Was the phenomenon on another frequency? Lower or higher in the electromagnetic spectrum than visible light?

I’ve seen phenomena appear out of nowhere, be visible in minutes, then just disappear as suddenly as they appeared myself. "Where did they come from, and where did they go", asked Leif Havik in connection with some of his observations in Hessdalen…

Do we need to revolutionize our understanding of the physical world in order to understand the phenomena in Hessdalen - in order to understand the UFO phenomenon?