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8 PROJECT HESSDALEN PROJECT HESSDALEN 8 PM: What part did you play in the Project Hessdalen team. OGR: My title was Project Co-ordinator. Mostly I was responsible for the distributing the results of our research being distributed to people in Norway and around the world. I prepared a bulletin which was distributed to selected scientists and large UFO groups. PM: Have you witnessed the Hessdalen lights yourself. OGR: Yes. I have. In l984 during the project in January, everyone attending could see the lights; you could almost set your watch to the phenomena. For several weeks the lights appeared almost every 2 hours around the clock. I saw the typical orange-red light travel through the valley from south to north and I also observed a rare sight which appeared like a dozen flash bulbs going off with one and half seconds and then nothing and then the same thing happened a little further to the north. PM: What do you believe causes the Hessdalen lights. OGR: Well that is almost an impossible question to answer. First these lights appear intelligent then on the other hand they don't appear to be that intelligent Photo taken by Arne P. Thomassen in October 1982. It is taken from the mountain Finnsåhøgda south, as they are travelling through this remote valley towards east. ARne used a Minolta XG-2 with a Vivitar 400mm/5,6 lens. The camera was mounted on a Slik doing absolutely nothing. We never witnessed Master Standard tripod, and a Fujichrome 400 dias film was used. Exposuretime: between 5 and 10 anything of a structured nature, only lights. However, seconds. the local people have reported close encounter type Continued from Page 8 and at times did make recordings. A total of 36 radar cases and close-up UFO sightings of cigar shaped recordings were made. objects. We have had the lights react to us, for ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL Spectrum Analyser. example, we decided to turn off our instrumentation ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH This piece of equipment was used to check and the sightings increased, when we decided to turn RESEARCH and see if there was any electrical interference caused it back on again the sightings decreased. This was In August 2000 and 2001 Italian by the LITS. A Hewlett Packard spectrum analyser when we decided to do this not when we actually hit astrophysicists joined their Norwegian counterparts was used which swept from 150 kHz to 1250 MHz the switch. So you can see, it if very difficult to in a joint study of the phenomenon. Again a whole continuously. Nothing was recorded in connection answer this question but I would go as far to call battery of equipment was used as part of this study with the LITS. these lights an intelligent natural phenomena. including radio spectrum analysers, cameras, video Magnetometer. PM: Do you think that science will find an answer to cameras and spectroscopes. The head of the Italian There were some suggestions that the LITS the Hessdalen lights or will they remain unidentified. team is Massimo Teodorani, PhD, and astrophysicist may be associated with a magnetic field. Could the OGR: I think that science will find an answer. The from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bolgna, LITS be caused by magnetic storms for example? A question comes down to money. If we remove the Italy. The Italian Committee for Project Hessdalen Fluxgate Magnetometer, model FM100, serial 73 was term UFO and go down the route of trying to locate financed his project. In a full interview with US used. No correlation was found with the LITS. a new form of energy then companies from around researcher Linda Moulton Howe Teodorani Laser. the world will undoubtedly come on board. These concluded that the Hessdalen lights are "Thermal A 633nm laser from Spectra-Physics Inc. lights could open up a new avenue of physics and we plasmas of unknown origin". was used to see if the LITS would react to a strong have had scientists from the USA and Russia The mysterious lights in and around the light source was aimed at them. The laser was aimed comment on the lights and have ruled out Hessdalen Valley continue to amaze and mystify. at the LITS on nine separate occasions. Eight out of conventional explanations such as ball lightning. The Attempts to pin them down scientifically have not nine times the LITS reacted as a result, usually world of science must continue to study these lights yet fully succeeded, but information of a wide changing the pattern of their flashing. without a doubt. variety has already been obtained. With the right Geiger counter. PM: Do you believe that Project Hessdalen has sponsorship it is hoped that an answer will be found. Used to measure background radiation they obtained enough evidence to prove the existence of Until that time, the Hessdalen lights do remain truly were also used to check for any increase in radiation such an anomalous phenomena to the scientific 'unidentified'. readings in locations where the LITS had been seen community. close to the ground. None were recorded. OGR: Yes and No. We have several hundred THE INSTRUMENTATION USED Infrared Viewer. photographs that baffle scientists to begin with. A THE INSTRUMENTATION USED DURING PROJECT HESSDALEN Two FJM, model 80045 IR - viewers were number of these have been computer analysed and DURING PROJECT HESSDALEN used to check for any IR radiation from the LITS. some of these showed that the lights illuminated the None was detected. landscape beneath and we have regular photos taken Camera with grating. by automatic field station there. Erling Strand of Special gratings were used in order to try INTERVIEW WITH ODD-GUNNAR ROED Project Hessdalen is the brain behind this and it and establish what kind of light source was present. really is worth a visit to our web site to see all these Ordinary 35 mm cameras were also used to great One of the leading researchers for UFO photos and more. So I am convinced that we have effect. The cameras fitted with the special grating Norway and Project Hessdalen is Mr Odd-Gunnar enough evidence to prove to scientists that these were used to try and obtain spectral analysis of the Roed from Tonsberg in southern Norway. I recently lights do exist and that they remain unidentified. LITS. Only four photo's taken using the special caught up with Mr Roed in Norway and what follows grating proved to be of any use. The results of these is an extract from a much longer interview I Continued on Page 9 pictures were inconclusive. conducted with him in August 2001. Seismograph. THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER A MEQ-800 portable seismic system was Philip Mantle (PM). IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD used in Project Hessdalen. It has been suggested that Odd-Gunnar Roed (OGR). ON THE WEB! the LITS were the result of earth movements and the seismograph was used to check to see if there was PM: When did you first become interested in UFO's. Simply go to any correlation between earth movements and OGR: AS far back as I can remember, when I was manifestations of the LITS. No seismic movements about 4-5 years old, I can remember being the www.xzone-radio.com/xonline.htm were noted in connection with the LITS. potatoes cellar with my Granddad, I can remember Make your payment using MasterCard, VISA Radar. asking him about the universe and the possibility of and Amex, and we’ll send you your access Atlas 2000 radar was used as part of the life in space, and luckily he was interested in the project. It had a maximum distance of 33 kilometres subject and he did not put me off, so sometimes I feel code. as if I'm born with this interest in a way.