A small clip with an interview of some cottage residents visiting Hessdalen. Interesting story, which includes an observation of a saucer shaped craft. Somewhat unusual in Hessdalen, - most often it is elongated, cigar-shaped - or egg-shaped / spherical crafts which are sighted. The clip is also interesting because the reporter's sarcastic attitude is representative of the public attitude of UFOs and Hessdalen as it was a few years back. Fortunately, things are better now.
Here is a Norwegian documentary about Hessdalen made by some students at Østfold College. The film includes interesting comments from Hessdalen residents. I added English subtitles. Part two will come when I get time.
Today's post is from my
point of view, as the author of this blog, a boring post to write,
but hopefully of interest to my readers. I also believe that it is a
very necessary
post. The content is taken from Arne Wisths book from 1983; “The
UFO mystery in Hessdalen” - entirely from chapter nine of the book,
which covers UFO sightings in the Hessdalen area in 1982 - mostly
daylight sightings.
1981 - 1984 was the most intense period in
Hessdalen where it was made several observations per day - up to
thirty a week. From 1985 to the present day it is made (or notified)
a thirty observations on an annual basis.
Some readers probably
wrinkles on the nose of sightings made back in the eighties, and
believes this is old news. I believe, however, it is important to
know about these early sightings and have them as a backdrop when
you read about, and consider recent observations of the type “lights
in the sky”. Internationally Hessdalen is known under the name
"Hessdalen lights." I want to differentiate and create a
more complete picture of what has been observed, and still is being
observed in Hessdalen.
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Lars Lillevold and his
family live in Hessdalen. - 18 January 1982 changed my life
completely, he says. - What I saw amazed me so that I have to admit
that others may laugh at me and see me as a lunetic. But I know what
I saw.
Illustration; Rune Øverby. "The light was blinding. It looked as if "it" had a red, hairy like smoke that it surrounded itself with."
This evening Lars had an errand outside his
house. The time was approx. 19.30. - Over the outhouse I saw
something big, bright red. It must have been at least 30-40 meters
long. As a loaf of bread it stood there, completely still. I expected
to hear sounds. I listened, but heard only the murmur of the forest.
Then "it" moved. The light was blinding. It looked as if
"it" had a red, hairy like smoke that it surrounded itself
with. It moved in a northerly direction up the valley. He shouted at
his wife who saw the lights before "it" disappeared. -
Since it was a craze for me, I had to see this again. And I have done
many times later. Time and again I asked myself what this might be.
I'm surprised that the authorities do not take this more seriously.
I'm glad that others see, and want as many people as possible to
do.
A man who has seen UFOs both day and night, is Jon Aspås.
In late February, he called his neighbor, Martin Aspås, who lives a
short distance further up the valley. The time was quarter past nine
in the morning. Martin sat and ate breakfast and looked out the
kitchen window when he saw an object in the air just to the south, in
the direction of the houses to Jon Aspås.
Do you see anything
over mount Rogne? Is it the same object that we have seen in the
evening?
Jon ran outside the house. There it was, shiny and
metallic. It was oblong and somewhat flattened below. It looked like
it had a raised platform at the top, says Jon. It went south at an
altitude that could not be more than a few hundred meters.
The
following morning he saw the UFO again. Then it was also observed by
others near Røros. At this second daylight observation, they could
study the object for 42 minutes, as long as it stood quietly in the
valley between Ålen and Hessdalen. Then it went straight east before
it sat up a tremendous speed and disappeared out of sight.
Jon
saw the UFO once again in March. It was passing the valley in
daylight, but very fast. Once it went four times between the valley
and mount Finnsåhøgda, back and forth.
Berit Mary
Kjerrengvold lives in Hessdalen. Tuesday before Easter she was on her
way from Ålen towards Røros in her car. With her she had an
acquaintance, Anita Trygstad from Røros. Approx. at. 13.00 they were
a mile south of Ålen, on a slight incline. On the right side, they
discovered something dark that was not moving over the treetops. The
object appeared elongated and were sort of standing at an angle. It
was metallic silver and quite large. The sun was up, and should
reflect the object's metallic color. It did not, it looked more as if
the metal had its own "glow". They did not stop the car and
saw the object for approx. 20 to 25 seconds. In October, she and her
husband saw a large object with two bright lights in front and a red
at the rear.
"In October, she and her husband saw a large object with two bright lights in front and a red at the rear."
Ingulf Rotan from Ålen have a cabin by Øyungen.
16.03. 1982 approx. at. 19.30 he saw a bright, shiny object coming
through a hole in the clouds. It looked like it came straight from
above, but below the clouds it flattened out after having made a
"spiral movement". It continued to maneuver with strange
turns until it disappeared behind Skarvan.
32 year old Aud
Rønning was 23.03. 1982 approx. at. 22.40 on her way home to
Haltdalen after a trip to Oppdal. Next to the bridge by Gilset she
saw something she thought was the moon. Then she discovered that "the
moon" was elliptical, with a slightly reddish, glow above. It
came from her right over the roadway in front of her. She turned
around. The color was sharp, orange-yellow. Right towards the car the
object came, and Mrs. Rønning was startled for a moment:
Would it drive her
down?
She estimated the
Ufos altitude to be only three or four feet above the ground. She
believed that it may not have been farther than 10-15 feet away when
it suddenly went straight into the air and disappeared. At the same
time, the car engine died out. It lasted just a few seconds, she
says, but the experience is impressed in her mind.
Per Moen
saw "something" in March 1982, at Øyungen. - It was in the
evening, and I saw something I thought was a star among the trees.
It was quiet and it sort of pulsated. Then came a powerful flash that
lit up the whole area, and then it was gone. The object just
disappeared in front of me.
- Another evening, I was at a
similar place to see three of them at once. They came sliding
inwards, two above and one below. Suddenly we saw a fourth object.
Personally, I believe that it came right up from the ground. They
formed a long N-formation. For several minutes I could study them.
Suddenly there was the same as in the first case: they just
disappeared right before my eyes.
During the autumn of 1982, I
have seen similar things several times. One day I drove with my
in-laws north in Hessdalen. They had never seen something, and wanted
to have a look after all the talk about UFOs. Then came a bright
"thing" towards us and turned up the river valley. The
observation lasted for 2-3 minutes. Later, at 23 o'clock, we again
saw it from the "plateau". It came through the clouds,
down sharply at high speed and disappeared behind Finnsåhøgda.
Even
in the bright nights of the summer 1982, there were reports of UFO
sightings. A family from Bærum who were on holiday, have been
unwilling to come forward and tell what they saw in June, when they
were on vacation in Øyungen. But they have revealed to a person that
they saw an enormous flying "thing" that "let out"
three small "things" that flew with tremendous speed. The
family ended their vacation and went home.
8. March 1982
Torbjorn Drag Myrhaug was driving a car into Hessdalen with his wife
Mary and daughter Hallgerd.
The time was 22.50, and suddenly
the family in the car saw an orange colored light to the left of
them. They went out of the car and stood and stared in disbelief at
what played out before them. - The moon reflected in the object, and
we could through the light clearly see that it had a metllic color.
The size was about like a car, and it was pointed in front and
somewhat blunt at the rear. As a ghost plane the object passed
without a sound. In the autumn the whole family was to study a
similar phenomenon from their living room window, and later they have
seen it several times. In August, the daughter Hallgerd with his
grandmother, Ella Hegseth and her friend, Eli Benoa were in a cabin
near Øyungen. Then they saw something that flashed in red, just west
of them. This "red" thing was slowly moving, and they could
observe it for several minutes.
The most remarkable happened
in daylight around 16.30 on 23 October. Tom and Hallgerd was driving
from Hessdalen towards Ålen. The road is very curvy there, and
Torbjorn had to concentrate on driving.
- It was big as an
airplane and silver metallic. No windows I could see where "it"
glided over us, maybe a hundred meters away. It was rather pointed in
front, and right behind I think it sort of was a bump. How long I
saw it, I'm not sure. Maybe a minute. When we finally stopped, it was
gone over the mountain.
Jon Arvid Aspås always spend the
summer on a farm at Hessjøen with his family. It is located on a
hill with good view of the valley. The family consists of his wife
Solfrid, Ole Martin 14 years, Ann Kristin 13, Joar 11 and Sture
10.
Jon Arvid have seen UFOs many times, but only as a light,
except for one occasion when he also claimed to have seen metal and
windows.
The sun was still up at 19.25 o'clock 3 september
1982. The sky was clear, and Jon Arvid and the kids were outside.
Then Solfrid saw something in the sky that came from the south, and
she shouted at the others. - The object was like a fuselage without
wings: Silver - metallic bright in color. (This is confirmed by the
rest of the family). It was probably about. 2 km. Away. - It turned
eastward, and came a bit east of us. It was so close that we could
observe it from underneath. We saw absolutely no wings. It reminded
us of the old airships that we've seen pictures of. No sound was to
hear.
Reconstruction; "The object was like a fuselage without wings: Silver - metallic bright in color."
Jon Arvid ran to fetch his binoculars. As he came back,
the “thing”disappeared into a cloud. - It was not big, says
Solfrid. We wondered that we could not see it coming out of there.
But it was gone.
23. October 1982, ie the same day as Hallgerd
Drag Myrhaug saw "something" from her father's car in broad
daylight, was Edvin Kværnes outside his house in Ålen. It was 16.40
when he over Ålen saw something he thought was an airplane. It went
very slowly on the north course. He studied it carefully. It seemed
much larger than a regular plane, he thought. It was difficult to
judge the height of the craft, but Kværnes son is a pilot, and he
thought it had the same height as his son used to hold over the area.
Maybe around 5000 feet.
Kværnes tried to hear engine sounds from the
plane. He listened. Nothing was to hear. And it went all too slowly.
The plane turned east. But it had no wings! Startled Kværnes studied
the flying object closer. It glistened in a silvery hull, but how
closely he looked, he could not see the wings. As an old-fashioned
airship it slid off. In three - four minutes he observed the object
before it disappeared.
Kværnes was one of those who in
January had seen the UFOs in Hessdalen, the first time north of the
house of Martin Aspås. At that time, they saw it came gliding
silently with two reddish light behind and "some strange light"
in front. They saw the lights in front of the mountain, so it could
not be an airplane. Almost every day after this was Kværnes up on
the "plateau" and from there he made many observations of
unexplained lights.
One autumn day he was at Øyungen along
with seven other people. Then came the UFO he had seen the first time
back - the one with two lights behind. And this time they saw clearly
that it had a light in front. - One of the lights, I think was blue,
says Kværnes. - You could sort of make out a dark mass in the
middle. The UFO moved slowly and disappeared in the north. This
happened at 19.30 o'clock at night, and the weather was fine and
clear. Later, Kværnes saw a UFO once from his car in November.
Ole
O. Baka is from Ålen. Sunday 24 October, he and his son Oddleif were
on a trip in Båttjønndalen along with a colleague, Per Sten Lien.
It was sunny and calm weather. The time could be around 15.45.
Suddenly, they noticed something they thought was a plane on a
northerly course. They saw it glide slowly toward mount
Fjellbekkhøgda, and it shone in the metal as the aircraft turned and
went south in Hessdalen. They saw that it had no wings, and that it
was moving very slowly. The object was shining - and large. The did
not hear any sound.
They agreed that it could not be a plane.
It was more like a helicopter, for it had sort of a thickening in the
middle. But a helicopter is not silent.
Ole Bendheim and his
son Peter was on his way through the valley to Ålen by car on 24.10.
1982. The time was 15.40. They drove around a curve, so Bendheim had
a good grip on the steering wheel. Suddenly he gripped even harder.
What on earth was this? For a moment he thought that what he saw was
a reflection in the window. But no, he saw it through the windshield
and side window. It was a huge object in the sky and it looked like
an aluminum pan in color. It took some time before Peter saw the same
as his father.
Illustration; Rune Øverby. "It must have been twice as big as a truck with a trailer. His son Peter thought it was even bigger. Any plane, it could certainly not be, said Bendheim."
The object was sliding down the mountain and
disappeared for a moment at the forest edge. There it was sort of
hanging over a plantation. It looked as if its length covered the
entire planting area. Bendheim had slowed down, and the car went
forward at snail's pace. Was there no one else nearby who saw this? A
few hours before, there was a swarm of people in the mountains and
valley. Most were hunters, as it was hunting season. Now he saw
none.
- It reminded me of a movie, this that played out over
the treetops in front of us. It seemed so supernatural. Could it be a
mirage? As we could see, was "the thing" only three or four
hundred yards beyond us. It should have been twice as big as a truck
with a trailer. His son Peter thought it was even bigger. Any plane,
it could certainly not be, said Bendheim. The object glided slowly
along. Oblong, silvery, and the front ... there was something that
moved, there?
In front of the object, it looked like it was a
"dent" in the hull. Was it an opening there? Did they see
cross through the object at this point? Was it the woods in the
background they saw? Or was there something inside the vehicle that
moved?
Bendheim've thought and thought about this. - The sight
was so fantastic, so we forgot to study the details, he said. - At
least there were no visible marks on the hull, it was completely
blank. It was just this weird front. No light. No sound to
hear.
Bendheim also believe that it was something that
resembled rods moving in front of the vehicle. They were suddenly
gone. - If we had a camera with us, we would have plenty of time to
shoot. We saw this in seven to eight minutes. Afterwards, I thought
that the word camera was not in our thoughts. Maybe we would not have
taken a picture even if we had been able to. The visual impression
overwhelmed us. We forgot everything.
"Oblong, silvery..."
The object disappeared
behind a hill, and we saw it again. - Had not Peter been with me, I
would not have mentioned this to anyone, said Bendheim. - What should
one really believe? I have no idea what it might have been. Mirage or
... well, I do not know what. The military has been here and asked me
out. I could only say that this was what we saw.
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This collection of daylight
sightings reports represent only a small excerpt of what was observed in
Hessdalen during the great flap in the 80s. The total number of
observations are enough to fill books - and of a nature (close
range, with the terrain in the background, etc.) that natural
explanations, - like planes etc. can be excluded.
Still it is
done daylight sightings of solid, metallic objects in Hessdalen and
the surrounding area. As previously mentioned in this blog, the
researchers estimate the percentage of solid objects to be somewhere
between 5% (Teodorani) and 15% (Strand). The remaining percentage of
observations are “lights in the sky”.
We do not know if
“lights” and solid objects are two very different phenomena, or
whether in fact the same phenomenon is observed under different
physical stages. One can for example speculate that these objects are
surrounded by ionized gas (plasma) as part of the propulsion (?) and
that what appears to be lights in the sky, in reality are solid,
metallic objects surrounded by ionized air (plasma)?
In some
cases, it seems to be a gradual transition from solid objects, to
"plasma lights". (“...it was surrounded with red
smoke”, “...the metal had its own "glow"”, “... a
slightly reddish, glow above”, “... you could sort of make out a
dark mass in the middle” etc.
Other cases indicate that
these are two different things:
If the "plasma lights"
is a kind of unknown natural phenomenon (related to the geophysical
conditions in Hessdalen?) it is tempting to speculate whether
Hessdalen is selected as the venue for the testing of exotic
technology (“anti-gravity” aircrafts, etc.) precisely because of
the presence of unknown natural phenomena which can serve as an
alibi, cover and camouflage.
Or is the "plasma lights"
artificial manufactured technology being tested - eg. electromagnetic
weapons? In that case, one can speculate that the solid objects with
silvery, metallic hulls, etc., are supervising the technology and
manages / controls it?
