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Hessdalen Valley Lights — Norwegian Government Scientific Study
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UNCLASSIFIEDSTATE-009 · 1984-01-21
Hessdalen Valley Lights — Norwegian Government Scientific Study
◎Hessdalen Valley, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
Beginning in 1981, persistent glowing orbs of various colors appeared nightly in Hessdalen Valley, Norway. At peak in 1984 the phenomena occurred 15–20 times per week. The Norwegian government funded Project Hessdalen, a scientific monitoring program staffed by engineers and physicists. Instrumented measurements recorded radar returns, mass spectrometry readings, and photographic evidence that remained unexplained after decades of analysis.
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