Ufologists know several "windows" in different regions of the planet, where the frequency of UFO sightings is many times higher than the average. One of these "windows" is located in the Norwegian Hessdalen Valley. This place became famous in 1981-1982, when glowing lights were repeatedly observed in the sky there. They also talked about the appearance of an amazing egg-shaped UFO over the valley, as well as about a mysterious source of red light moving above the earth itself.
Invasion
The Hessdalen Valley is located 120 kilometers south of the city of Trondheim and about 30 kilometers northwest of the town of Roros. The valley itself does not exceed 15 kilometers in length, and its width reaches five kilometers. From the west and east, Hessdalen is surrounded by mountains with a height of about one kilometer above sea level, and from the south it is closed by two lakes. In several very tiny settlements, approximately 150-200 people live there. Old-timers recall that they observed a mysterious phenomenon in the sky of Hessdalen even before World War II, but this happened quite rarely. But when the lights in Hessdalen "began to grow fast" since December 1981, people got worried.
Unidentified objects could appear anywhere: right above the rooftops, just above the ground, high in the sky. As a rule, they appeared at night in winter, up to three or four times per night, in summer this was extremely rare. Most often, the lights were shown slightly below the top of one of the nearby mountains. The objects either moved slowly across the sky, or completely stopped and hung over Hessdalen for about an hour, but they could demonstrate prohibitive speeds - once the radar recorded 8,500 meters per second. The shape of a UFO could be very different. Their color varied from white to yellowish-white.
Project "Hessdalen"
Among those who received messages from the inhabitants of the Hessdalen Valley. were ufologists from Sweden and Norway. Three groups of enthusiasts in the fields of ufology and psychobiophysics have developed a program for the study of the phenomenon, calling it "Hessdalen." Among those. who supported the project, there were many serious people and organizations, such as the Norwegian Center for Defense Research, Dr. E. Train and T. Blicke. O. Andreassen from the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. J. Hawskov from the Institute of Solid Earth Physics, Professor Egellan and his team from the Physics Institute at the University of Oslo.
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The project was officially presented at the BUF0RA International Ufological Congress, held in the UK on August 27, 1983. In the fall, the research program was worked out in detail and in November it was introduced to the inhabitants of the valley.
Field studies
Five enthusiasts went to the site and conducted field research in the valley from January 21 to February 26, 1984.
Local residents were sympathetic to the project and willingly provided the researchers with housing and transport, as well as food. Ufologists were lucky: they themselves saw the mysterious lights as many as 53 times. Everything was recorded, many photographs were taken and many graphs and tables were built. In this case, scientific equipment was used: radars, seismograph, magnetometer, spectrum analyzer, Geiger counter, infrared camera and laser.
The ufologists pointed the laser beam at the heavenly lights nine times. In most cases, UFOs did not react to this in any way, but once a light in the sky in response to a signal sent by people blinked and then went out.
All in all, everything was rather strange. It happened that the spectrum analyzer did not record anything, but the people themselves could clearly see the lights. Radars sometimes received double echoes from the signal, and no significant infrared radiation from the lights was detected. And on Monday, February 20, something completely mysterious happened. On that day, the farmer Ore Mo. assisting the researchers, saw a small red beam of light run down his leg, similar to the mark from the laser used by the expedition. It just came, apparently, from somewhere above.
This is not an illusion
Based on the results of field research, ufologists and their scientific advisers have divided the lights into three types:
1) short-term small dense white or blue flashes that can appear in the sky anywhere;
2) yellow or yellowish-white lights that appear above the roofs of houses or above the ground. They are able to hang in place for up to one hour, move slowly around the valley, and sometimes demonstrate high accelerations and speeds. They mostly move from north to south;
3) several lights at a fixed distance from each other. Basically - two white or yellow "headlights" with a red front. Many people who have seen this type of glow have spoken of "objects." These lights mainly moved around the upper part of the nearby mountain from north to south.
In the spring of 1994, a four-day scientific seminar was held on the riddle of the Hessdalen Valley. It was attended by two dozen prominent scientists, including Professor Boris Smirnov from the Institute for High Temperatures in Moscow. All agreed that the lights of the Hessdalen Valley deserve further study.
Blue box
Also in 1994, Italian astrophysicists visited Norway for the first time. And after that they came repeatedly. As a result, a joint Italian-Norwegian project was launched in 1998, which uses new technologies to detect optical and radio-magnetic emissions. A tracking station called Blue Box was set up in the valley. The station is videotaping and taking photographs of lights, and at the same time fixes weather conditions, electromagnetic radiation and measures changes in the Earth's magnetic field. The "Box" also contains such an unusual device as a generator of random events.
Hessdalen is visited almost every year by teams of scientists who install new equipment and conduct field observations. The Embla program has been developed, uniting everyone who is struggling to unravel the phenomenon of the valley. The research program seems promising: the explanation of Hessdalen's light phenomena may lead to the emergence of new concepts in physics, and possibly other sciences.
True, it was not possible to find evidence of visiting Norway by guests from space, but attempts to describe the phenomenon of lights in the language of physics and mathematics showed some similarity of Hessdalen UFOs with such unusual space phenomena as pulsars and neutron stars. Of course. on a much smaller scale.
Pavel Bukin. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" № 49 2010