Laser experiment during Project Hessdalen's first field action:

A post about the, perhaps, most spectacular event during the very first field action in Hessdalen, 1984.

Link to the full report: http://www.hessdalen.org/reports/hpreport84.shtml

Several witnesses had reported that the UFOs (in Hessdalen) had responded if a strong light source was aimed at them (eg, a powerful flashlight, or a car headlight).

Project Hessdalen wanted to test these claims, so they got a laser for the purpose.

(Project Hessdalens headquarter during the field action.)

Excerpt from 'Hessdalen lights' (2019) page 96, chapter 11:

“ We used the laser, and pointed it towards a flashing light, in two different cases, totally 9 times. 8 of these times, there was a reaction. In the first case, there was a regular flashing light, slowly moving towards north, on Sunday 12 February at 7.35 pm. The flashing had been regular all the time we had seen the light. The light moved slowly. From the first time we saw it in the south, until it disappeared in the north, it took about 15 minutes. When this light was in the northern part of mount Finnsåhøgda, we pointed the laser towards it for the first time. At once, it changed the flashing sequence: From a regular flashing light, it became a regular double-flashing light:

Flash.Flash.......Flash.Flash.......Flash.Flash......

After about 10 seconds, we put the laser down, at once it became a regular single-flashing light again:

Flash......Flash......Flash...... 

After about 10 seconds we repeated this again. It was repeated totally 4 times before it went out of sight. All the times, we got this double-flashing, when the laser was pointing at it.

The second case, the same type of light came from the north and moved towards south. It was the same day, Sunday 12 February at 8.41 pm. When the light was in the west, we pointed the laser towards it. The same thing happened now; it changed to a double-flashing light when the laser pointed towards it. This time we did it 5 times. Only the last of these times did we not get any double-flashing. But 4 of these 5 times, we got it.

The test was done like this: Kurt Persson used binoculars looking at the light. He told what he was seeing all the time; he said: "flash...flash...flash..." . I (Erling Strand) used the laser. He could not see where I was pointing with the laser. When I raised the laser, pointing at the light, he said: "flash.flash.....flash.flash.....flash.flash......"

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As if this wasn't enough - about a week later, what follows happened:

“ Leif Havik was alone in the caravan. He was taking on a survival suit. Åge Moe (farmer in Hessdalen) and Edvin Kværnes (from Ålen village), had just arrived at the caravan. They waited outside; Moe stood on the north side of the door to the carriage, and Kværnes waited on the south side. They were all going to the Øyungnesset, to observe from there. 

When Leif went out of the caravan, a red light swirled around his legs before it disappeared. Moe said, "Look at the reflex". That was the only explanation he could find at that time. Leif saw at once that the light was of the same kind as the laser we used. At this time, this laser was in Oslo.

To make sure it really was the same type of light, as from our laser, we brought the laser up again on February 25th. Moe had never seen a laser before. We took him to the caravan and it was about the same time of day. When I illuminated the snow at our feet, Moe said, “It was just what I saw! But it was a little weaker." Then I illuminated the floor of the caravan, and he said, "It was a little stronger than that". 

We haven't found any explanation for this light, and I don't think we will either. During a conversation, Leif said, "If only I had put my palm over it, then maybe I could  have seen where it came from. But I didn't think about it a that time." 

Seconds after the light was gone, they looked straight up, but nothing was seen. It was cloudy weather, but just above the caravan there was an opening in the cloud cover, and the stars could be seen through this opening.”