Hessdalen lights

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As Hessdalen lights or lights of Hessdalen is a since December 1981 documented phenomenon in Norway referred to that observed up to the present time again and filmed and / or photographed. The lights are sometimes referred to as UFOs and are very well known in ufology because they have similarities with luminous phenomena such as the Marfa lights .

description

The so-called Hessdalen lights appear in the vicinity of the high valley Hessdalen , which is near the villages of Holtålen and Trondheim in the province of Trøndelag . The phenomenon includes round, triangular, or irregularly shaped lights that move across the sky at different speeds and sometimes remain in one place for up to an hour.

exploration

history

The Hessdalen AMS project was founded in 1983 . In 1998 the Østfold University set up an automatic measuring station in Hessdalen. The station is equipped with several cameras with night vision functions as well as infrared cameras, a magnetometer , a weather station and sensors for electromagnetic radiation .

2004 special were low frequency - antennas and more modern cameras installed. Many of the observed light phenomena could be assigned to flares , airplanes , meteors , planets or the lights of far away car headlights . Much of it, however, remained unidentified.

In 2007 students and teachers at Tindlund Junior High School set up a research camp in Hessdalen to investigate the phenomenon. Chemical and spectral analysis measurements showed that most of the "real" Hessdalen lights consist of oxygen , nitrogen , sodium and scandium .

Theories on the origin of lights

Some research suggests that these are electrically charged plasma waves that are associated with seismic activity. However, it is still unclear how they come about, where they get their energy from and how their often surprising movements come about. Hessdalen is described as a geological special case, as the rock on the slopes on one side is noticeably rich in copper and the rock on the opposite slopes contains excessive zinc and iron . The water of the Hesja , a river that flows through the valley, contains high amounts of sulphurous minerals from the washout of closed mines . The Italian researchers Jader Monari and Romano Serra presented in 2013 a thesis on what the valley like a battery might work: With two boulders on both sides of the valley of Hesja they could prove that the sulfur-containing river water generates electric tensions between the two rocks. The electromagnetic field lines could explain the movement of lights in plasma bubbles. However, researchers like Björn Gitle Hauge object that many of the Hessdalen lights also appear in the plateaus around Sør Trøndelag, far away from the Hesja. Therefore this assumption does not explain all light phenomena either.

See also

literature

  • Paul Sagan: Ball Lightning: Theory of Everything, Defying Gravity, Flatwoods . iUniverse, New York 2004, ISBN 0595313949 , pages 94-95.
  • Jerome Clark: Unexplained !: strange sightings, incredible occurrences & puzzling physical phenomena . Visible Ink Press, Detroit 1999, ISBN 1578590701
  • J. Val Blain: Progress in dark matter research . Nova Publishers, New York 2005, ISBN 1594542430 , pages 19 & 20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Nowak: Strange Lights in the Winter Sky. In: FAZ.NET. January 29, 2003, accessed June 11, 2015 .