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Hessdalen lights

November 1981 to 1984 (peak), with a field campaign January 21 to February 26, 1984; still monitored
Hessdalen valley, about 90 km southeast of Trondheim, Norway

Unresolved
Representative drawing from the Orbs page, not this specific sighting.
"balls of light," "orbs"The witness's own shape words

What happened

At the peak residents reported lights up to about 20 times a week. Strand groups them into brief white or blue flashes; large yellow lights up to about 10 m across that hover or wander for up to two hours, sometimes lighting the ground; and clusters that move together as if attached. Instruments have linked some events to magnetic disturbances and radar returns, and an automated station has run since 1998.

Witnesses

Unnamed valley residents; investigators Erling Strand and Bjørn Gitle Hauge of Østfold University College

Explanation

Unresolved

Unresolved. Proposed natural causes include an electrically charged "natural battery" in the valley (Jader Monari). Skeptoid argues many photographed lights were aircraft and other distant lights

Sources

  1. presentations.copernicus.orgpresentations.copernicus.org
  2. sciencenorway.nosciencenorway.no
  3. Skeptoidskeptoid.com
  4. arxiv.orgarxiv.org

Strand, EGU 2011 ScienceNorway Skeptoid arXiv review