The Hessdalen Lights

[Mac 5]

By Greg 18 Jan 2012

In December 1981, the Hessdalen Valley suddenly became famous when a remarkable run of anomalous lights in the sky was reported by locals and tourists, sometimes as many as 20 sightings per week. The following documentary gives a good overview of the history of the phenomenon, taking you on location and talking with many of those who have been involved in researching the 'Hessdalen Lights' in the decades since their appearance.

Unusual lights have been reported here since 1940s or earlier. Especially high activity of Hessdalen lights took place from December 1981 until the summer of 1984 when lights were observed 15 to 20 times per week. The frequency of the lights caused a gathering numerous tourists staying there overnight to see the phenomenon. Since then, the activity has decreased and now the lights are observed some 10 - 20 times per year.
The Hessdalen light most often is a bright, white or yellow light of unknown origin standing or floating above the ground level. Sometimes the light can be seen for more than one hour. There are several other types of unexplained lights observed in the Hessdalen valley.
Since 1983 there has been ongoing scientific research often nicknamed "Project Hessdalen", initiated by Dr. Erling Strand. In 1998, the Hessdalen AMS automated scientific research station was built in the valley. It registers and records the appearance of lights.
Later, the EMBLA program was initiated. It brings together established scientists and students into researching these lights. Leading research institutions are Østfold University College (Norway) and the Italian National Research Council.

Video Link:

http://wwwmacsufonews.blogspot.com/2012/01/hessdalen-lights.html

[Carol Nistri]

Oh this is Norway,I was wondering where this place was,Jurgen is this as popular a story as it seems,has there ever been an explanation for those lights?

[NonSmokingman]

Well my take on this Hessdalen thing is that it is a real phenomena and is still ongoing. Hessdalen was referred also in the first episode of "UFO`s over Europe"

What the phenomena is, i don`t know ... maybe somekind of new atmospheric phenomena or maybe even UFO`s. If this phenomena is truly been dormant from 1940 or 1950`s . it makes you wonder, what`s so special about this place.










i also found out there`s 2 live web cams from Hessdalen Valley, From the courtesy of "Project Hessdalen"

Live stream TV from Hessdalen, - cam2
Project Hessdalen - Streaming cam2.


Live stream TV from Hessdalen, - cam3
Project Hessdalen - Streaming cam3.

good hunting!

[ChrisPerridas]

ok, no offense, but they get data from those cameras? I stared at both of these for a few minutes and I started to matrix all kinds of things. The bright lights on camera 3 just overwhelm everything. I may have seen a few stars, but I am not even sure of that.

... I did find this research paper that suggests there may be an anomaly present.

http://www.uapreporting.org/wp-conte...U2012-5186.pdf

[NonSmokingman]

Originally Posted by ChrisPerridas

ok, no offense, but they get data from those cameras? I stared at both of these for a few minutes and I started to matrix all kinds of things. The bright lights on camera 3 just overwhelm everything. I may have seen a few stars, but I am not even sure of that.

... I did find this research paper that suggests there may be an anomaly present.

http://www.uapreporting.org/wp-conte...U2012-5186.pdf

of course , the live webcam tends to do mind tricks yes. But i think its decently clear, i watched both cameras in background last night and i could clearly see: stars, airplanes, the moon, the houses in valley and cars driving by with headlights.

so of course, in my point of view if this abnormal aerial phenomena appears in the sky or actually in the valley area, the camera`s will probably catch it and you can see if any strange aerialphenomena occurs. In Daylight these webcams are useless because the snow is so bright it really hurts eyes to watch it.

Thanks for that document as i thought this most certainly refers to abnormality in atmosphere. Facinating indeed

[ChrisPerridas]

I hope you contribute more thoughts to this phenomenon. You have given it a great deal of thought, so looking forward to hearing more about it. I have not had time to delve any deeper since last night.

[dr wu23]

Some basic background info....

Hessdalen light - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[NonSmokingman]

Thanks dr wu23, also im just gonna link this for all of us to see which instruments were used during the investigation.

Project Hessdalen - Final technical report 1984


Wikilink is good but the mention of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)) really feels irrelevant because obviosly the airplanes have been counted and seen during Project Hessdalen