STUDY: UFOs at Hessdalen car headlights!

This is one of the more classic cases in UFO lore.

Since the early 1980's, witnesses in the Norwegian valley of Hessdalen reported seeing strange multicolored, blinking lights throughout the area.

This was backed up by photographic and video "evidence" to support eyewitness testimony on the issue.

Then, the UFO claim gained special credence in the late 1990's through early 2000 when a group of Norwegian and Italian scientists concluded that the Hessdale lights were, in fact, a hereto unknown aerial phenomena of plasma balls. To this day, Norwegian scientists continue to study and monitor the lights.

But a little known Italian professor came to his own learned conclusion:

Due to the topography of the valley, the chemical and spectral makeup of the lights, the UFOs were nothing more than distant vehicle headlights wrapped in an optical illusion.

Ooops

Read his report here

Of course, to this day, there are those that insist it's still plasma or intelligent UFOs.....

[edit on 26-9-2006 by behindthescenes]

It's spelled "Hessdalen". How does this new theory of it being headlights explain the objects that have been filmed in daylight, or radar observations? Video of it here:

www.hessdalen.org...

and large version here:

www.hessdalen.org...

Read more about the four categories of phenomenas observed in Hessdalen:

www.hessdalen.org...


[edit on 26-9-2006 by Acharya]

behindthescenes : Due to the topography of the valley, the chemical and spectral makeup of the lights, the UFOs were nothing more than distant vehicle headlights wrapped in an optical illusion.

I think you may have misinterpreted this paper.

It is a rebuttal only to another paper written by Teodorani and Nobili (2002). It is not a rebuttal to the entire Hessdalen Phenomena , but rather one specific event from August 2002 which the Author of the rebuttal (Leone) was present.

The Author clearly states,...

"As discussed above, some allegedly anomalous lights reported in the Hessdalen area turn out to be due to conventional car headlights. This does not mean that the whole set of Hessdalen sightings about unidentified lights are explainable in this way. On the contrary, this is to say that the car headlights can be a source of deception. The EMBLA 2002 optical survey mission proves that even scientific
investigators are not exempt from this mistake." ( Author's emphasis )

Yep, Hessdalen is intriquing. You don't see that many skeptics trying to pull the entire phenomenon down. Potshots are ok, maybe in the hope that it will cast a doubt on everything. Oh well, that is how it goes.