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EDITORIAL
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11 WiIlenhalI Wat chers
13 Remote Ove rvie\t
Hello Everyone, 15 Artifact or What ?
18 What' s Your Opinion ?
Firstly, a big'Thank You'to Brian James for 2A Points from the pres s
phriosd utecinngu reth ea sB UEdFiOtoMr. TBUhLeL EpToTsNit' iodnusri nogf 23 A Twin pupils update
Chairman and Editor are each time- 2'7 Book Reviews
consuming and challengjng on their own, and 28 U fo rum
to have taken on both was a really tough task. 30 The Death of fo logy
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Brian has also had to stand down as
Chairman ahead of the AGM. This is for
personal reasons but he remains a member
of Bufora and we hope he will continue to
help out behind the scenes.
I am assuming the role I last filled between
1976 and 1981. I know there are members
from that period who will recollect my'stint'
and be aware of my own approach to our ,CnIg[nieqrql!\sdus$"'
subject. For more rec€nt members I feel I can
do no better than reproduce selected
paragraphs from earlier editorials. Bear in
mind, though, that whilst my personat
prerfoe€ncclievsities remaainre u nalterceodns, idseervaebrlayl This may well involve such varied
dated........................So.......... representatives of opinion as BUFOM, The
Aetherius Sociely, The Ministry of Defence,
From the Autumn 1973 issue....... Awuonbtbyl iAngg gaieb,o wuth. oA'sn ju 'setx pseeretn' wah fou ntneyll sli guhst
"omclitcg ahisst iob noe f Irt hehaanvt esm uwegodgniaed seittreeemdd ,s m/aayrnstiedcllf e,' snw dfheeeaetthuder inro gnit w'aseaeruo'rdceye nrisan'm cjimca nma'tni nede xnaits dts acbhneogcoaelurb sooey f twhahe oyM 'rtaehr itninakonst
UFOS are biased against the serious invasionl
Research Associations: are poking fun or are
'out to get us', but is this really so? Small wonder that in the midst of this set-up
we're a small voice crying in the wilderness,
We must remember that we - not unnaturally but, in my opinion, it is NOT a deliberate
-pa rrotihcglareav miesm waer itivtsee nps.ut eTt doo uitnth;t eeth rpeers owtd auinyc e itrnh oewr hwfeicaahtyu ar ena aplaotttseelm.: tpwoto h t-oo leodtetre nrwsig hraaraetetn iUts dF erOleivs erpereosdne:sa irtbhclehey.?. . .a.Ar.trfhifveeer
writer, BUFOM or any other Society is just considerable thought my conclusion is - The
one tacet of the UFO scene. A TV producer Post Office! You'll lind the percentage of mail
needs lo obtain what he or she regards as 'a to ufologists going astray is near enough the
balanced programme'. same as that sent to everyone elsel
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Let us slop imagining and complaining of 'UFO Believef tag immediately suggests not
being singled out for 'anti-Us' treatment by just a'belief in UFOs, but also recognition
THEM, whoever THEM may be and instead they are extra-terrestrial vehicles, which does
exert our energies into channels that will not necessarily follow. Certainly I admit I
show the authorities and media we are a would LIKE this to be so, but we must always
body to be consulted and respected in the .emember that if the answer to the UFO
field of Ufology. enigma were known and accepted there
would be no need for us to research anylvayl
From July/August 1 976...... Hypotheses abound and, to give just one
example, neither should we neglect
"One of BUFORA'S aims is to encourage and implications raised by the not-inconsiderable
promote unbiased scientific research into number of cases evincing psychic effects of
UFO phenomena. Few will quibble at this - associations. Do YOU believe in UFOs?
certainly I have no such quibble myself. But -
a point made on one of the 'INTO THE Back to the presenl. As we all know,
UNKNOWN' TV programmes some months researchers generally - and that includes ME,
ago sticks in my mind. lt was said it is rare for will tell you that the vast majority of UFOS
those with apparent psychic or telepathic reporled - between 90% and 97% according
abilities to be able to produce these or their lo the researcher, ARE explainable. However,
results under controlled scientiflc conditions, that still leaves one heck of a lot of
and the suggestion was put forward that such 'unexplainables', and many display
phenomena may not be susceptible to characteristics of solid craft - whether
scientific investigation, or perhaps even the spacecrafl or otheMise! so far as contacts,
scientific method itself - Could this also be abductions, time lapses etc. are concerned,
the case with UFOs?...and, if scientific let me jusl say I have at least a dozen friends
method be abandoned, how then to proceed? here and in the USA who lay claim to at least
ONE such experience and I have no reason
Stemming from the Latin scire - to know or to believe they're fabricating.
discern, the word 'scientist' literally means
'one who seeks to know'. lts origins give no Perhaps the only thing I do NOT believe in -
indication of how to pursue this - we have despite a current nod of approval from the
formulated our own methods. lf - and it's a O.E.D. is - splitting infinitives. One
big 'lF such methods do NoT apply in certain exception, though --' To boldly go where
cases, including UFOS, then what method of no-one has gone before'!
enquiry should replace them? Any
suggestions? ln a 'Farewell' message after editing 30
Journal issues I wrote in the first ever
From Jan/Feb 1979...... BUFORA BULLETIN of September
1981........
Are you a UFO 'Believer'. Well, are you? Do
you? These questions a.e frequently put to "......Maybe at a future date when problems
me when lecturing or being interviewed, and of time and finance are resolved I may once
my answer is 'No'. But before anyone, not to again have the pleasure - for despite the time
put too fine a point on it, demands my guts for involved it has been a pleasure - ot again
garters, let me elaborate.'No', lsay,'l'm not editing the BUFORA Journal in a format
a UFO Believer - using the word in that similar to the one it has hitherto maintained
sense implies an act of faith and I don't take since its inception in '1964....'
them on faith. Rather I consider there is
sufficient evidence to show UFOS DO exist. Well, twenty years on that'future date'has
lndeed, such evidence in only ONE case is arrived. I've taken the liberty of changing
enough not to have to bring Faith into it! The 'Bulletin'back to'Journal', but with a'NEW
. lir ,'/)ry'in,/trri ttrr/ ../.t.yu,t .'/f inq 2t,tt2t/hun {; r/irt?,n
addition.'Bu,letin' was, I know, generally
regarded as being somewhat ephemeral and UFOS AIIO THE PSI INTEN,FACE
understaling, but no-one came up with
a
satisfactory substitute other than 'Jou.nal,. So By Manfred Cassirer, Stephen Gamble,
- the. l h r .'/)rf, to,//t,u i rlr / it shal be. Elsie Oakensen and John
One last point. Since I last held the editorial ln this publication, four contributors - all of
rerns. ll.e productton side of lhings has whom have diffe.ent backgrounds and
apletersreodn adl ra'Imhaanlicka lYly oaun'dto t wBooubl dD tiigkbey t of osra yth ea vcieuwrproeinntst inidtoe thaes s ubojenc t - hthavee asspeomssbilbelde
amounl of assistance he has given, and is still interaction/crossover between UFO reports
giving in this area. and PSI experiences.
NORI\,1AN OLIVER Manfred Cassirer presents a
research paper - UFOS and the
-o0o- PSI lnterface - in which examines
the main lheories revolving around
the subjects.
Publication
ew
! Stephen Gamble (who has carried
out many roles for BUFORA)
compares UFO and psychic
Entities.
. Elsie Oakensen (a
fellow
experjencer) describes Life After a
UFO Close Encounter - and this
includes ljfe-changing events.
.
John Spencer (Renowned author,
and BUFORA'S Director of
Research) examines and discusses
UFOS and the paranormal
lnterface.
AJI members will have received a copy of thjs
book, but further copies are avajlable at €7.50
inc p&p.
Send cheques, postal
orders or lMCs
(payable to "BUFORA Ltd")
to
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PROJECT HESSDALEN The First Aopearance
ln December 1981, unknown lights suddenly
started to appear in the skies above
Science v The UFO Hessdalen. These lights could sometimes
stand still for more than an hour. They were
By also seen to move around slowly before
slopping, and sometimes they were observed
Philip Mantle
travelling at a fast rate of speed. At one time
the lights were tracked on radar and were
estimated io be travelling at approximately
8,500 meters per second.
These Tiqhts were
abserved just about
everywhere... . .
These lights were observed just about
everywhere and more often than not they
were below the horizon down in the valley
Wn',. ,r,.. of atien abduction and iahnadt ntohte h ivgah sutp m ina jtohreit ys koyf. ltth hea sli gtoh tbse w searide
government cover-ups are rife, little is heard reported to be below the tops of nearby
of the most common of UFO sightings, that of mountains. No one in Hessdalen could offer
the'light-in-the-sky'(LITS). lt is true that most an explanation for these strange lights.
LITS reports can be easily explained away,
usually as aircraft lights, but also The Shapes of the Liohts
astronomical bodies such as bright stars and
panets. But there is a small residue of such The lights themselves appeared to have
LITS reports that are not so easily explained. several different shapes. This was something
These often haunt certain geographical areas that became quite apparent when the lights
such as the Pennine Hills of Northern were photographed. The main shapes were;
England, Marfa, Texas in the USA, and bullet shaped, with the sharp end down, a
Hessdalen in central Norway. lt was the LITS round football shape, and an upside down
in Hessdalen thal attracted the attention of Christmas tree shape. There were other
UFO researchers from Norway and Sweden shapes bul lhe above three were lhe main
in the early 1980's, and since then many ones.
others from around the world. The Hessdalen
LITS were the first to be subjected to The colours of the lights were mostly white or
scientific scrutiny using a whole host of hi a yellow/white. Sometimes a small red light
tech equipment. Hessdalen really was the could be seen amongst the while- On a few
scene of'Science v The UFO. occasions the lights were made up of every
colour in the rainbow. The lights could be
Hessdalen is a valley in central Norway. lt lies observed several times a day, but they were
southeast of Trondheim and about 30 seen more during the night. At the most they
kilometres northwest of the town of Roros. were observed four times a day. There were
The whole valley stretches 12 kilometres in more reports of the lights in the winte. rather
length and has only around 200 inhabitants. than the summer. One reason for this might
The valley is special for one very unusual be the fect that in summer Hessdalen has
thing; mysterious lights. almost perpetual daylight.
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As no official inst[ute with governmental
tshupepsoret ins tNraornwgaye steiegmhetds ,t of ibvee in lerested in
indjvidual
researchers began their own
research
project: Project Hessdalen. Their aim was
simple, to discover what the liqhts
in
Hessdalen were. The project conslsigd of a
working committee which had
the
responsibility of running the project, and an
advisory committee to help the working
committee in the theoretical pan of th;
projecl. The adviso.s were also there to act
as an 'exped'group to answer questions from
Photo taken by Arne Thomassen on 25th Oct 1982 others lnvolved in the proiect.
Proiect Hessdalen Beqins
The Colours of the Liqhts
Project Hessdalen managed to obtain good
The lights could be sptit into three groups: contacts in a number of institutions in NoMay
including the Norwegian Defence Research
'1. Small and strong white or blue flashes Establishment, The University of Osto, the
which could show up everywhere in the sky. University of Bergen and also the University
of Trondheim. Some of the project s team
2. Yellow or yellowwhite lights. These lights had made contact wilh these eslablishments
were, more oflen than not, observed in the in the past in the course of other research.
valley and below the horizon. Sometimes they
were just above the rooftops and even down The UFO research groups of both UFO
on lhe ground. They could appear stationary NoMay and UFO Sweden along with many
for more than an hour before slowly moving volunteers began their fietd studies of lh;
off around lhe valley, and sometimes thet Hessdalen lights in January 1984. A wide
could show extremely fast acceleration and variety of sophisticated instrumentation was
very fast speeds. to be used in order to try and get to grips with
the unknown lights. Such inslrumentation
3. Several lights together at a fixed distance included a battery of cameras, radar,
from each other. Mos y these were vellow or spectrum analyser, geiger counter, and much
yellowwhite lights with a red light at ihe front. more.
These lights could move slowly around the
tops of the mountains. No sooner had the field study began in snow-
bound Hessdalen valley than the project
Continued Siqhtinqs began to obtain some positive results. On
January 27, 1984, the tights were seen by
The reports of the strange tights canied on project members and on radar. At S.32 pm an
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the summer of 1983 there were no reports of mountains and out of sight. The light had a
lhe lights at all. However, in the autumn and white and red colour to it which blinked at
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changed somewhat in the autumn of 1984 ts was seen with the naked eye. On January 20
the sightings began once more to increase. there was again an echo on the radar but
again nothing was seen by the eyes of the
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gathered observers. On the Feb.uary 1st, UFO Laboratorv
numerous radar relurns were made but agarn
the lights remained elusive to the ground A similar exercise was attempted again in the
observers. Later that night an oblong-shaped winter of 1985, but due to extremely bad
light was observed by 11 people and il was weather conditions it was not possible to
also photographed- Throughout the repeat the success of the 1984 project.
remainder ol the project numerous American UFO researcher, the late Dr J.
observations of the lights would be made and Allen Hynek, who was at one time a
they were photographed on many occasions. consultant to the official United States Air
Force UFO study, Project Blue Book, visited
lnstrumentation the 1985 Hessdalen project. lt was to be one
of his last field trips before he died later that
The instruments used for the project were same year. Dr. Hynek described the project
many and varied. They included:- as "a UFO laboratory" and was extremely
impressed by the results of the 1984 project
A camera with a special filter which could be and ofthe efforts of all those involved.
used to analyse the light speckum. A
seismograph was used to measure any Since that t'me Project Hessdalen has been
movements in the Earth's crust, just in case discussed and debated in many countries
the lights were related to small earthquakes. around the world. The lights, although still
None were registered. Radar recordings there, aae not in such profusion as they were
totalled 36, three of which coincided with in 1984. Some equipment still monitors the
observations made by the projects observers. area and the researchers involved still hope
Two photos of the radar screen were taken to sel up camp in the Hessdalen valley once
depicting the returns. The project also used a again should the lights return in large
spectrum analyser connected to an antenna numbers.
so that all radio signals could be monitored on
a screen. At no time did this instrument pick It has been speculated that the strange lights
up anything unusual. A magnetometer was could be related to some kind of weather
used to measure any variations in the Earth's phenomenon, or to lights produced by faults
magnetic field. There were none. A laser was in the earth's crust termed 'earthlights'. Some
pointed at the lights a total of nine times. believe that a solid structure lies behind the
Eight oui of the nine times the lights seemed lights, but no one knows for sure what they
to respond to the laser by altering the way are. They remain truly unidentified.
they were flashing. Geiger counters were
used to measure any radiation but nothing Still Unidentified
unusual was recorded. An infrared viewer
was also used but on the two occasions when
the lights were observed using this instrument ln the spring of 1994 a group of 20 scientists
there was no infrared radiation visible. attended a workshop in Hessdalen which
lasted for four days. These included
The camera was probably the most effective Professor Boris Smirnov from the lnstitute of
of all the instruments used. Dozens ol colour High Temperatures in Moscow. Russia,
photographs were taken. Those taken by Professor David Fryberge. from the Stanfod
using a long exposure showed the round or Linear Accelerator in the USA, and Professor
oval lights. All the cameras were tripod Yoshi Othsuki from Waseda University in
mounted to reduce blurring. The lights were Japan. All agreed that the Hessdalen lights
photographed in the sky, just above the were teal' and not illusions of any kind and
mountain tops and of course down in the that they were worthy of further scientific
Hessdalen valley itself. Computer analysis of study. UFOS had been promoted into the
some of the photographs was inconclusive. scientific premier league.
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team and was at the four day workshop i; yet achieved the desjred result: to solve the
1994, conlinues to work closei with project Hessdalen Phenomena Further plans for
Hessdalen leader Erling Skand Both have Project Hessdalen include.
ventured far and wide to research similar
types of light phenomenon in olher oarts of Expanding the Automatic Measurement
the worl.l
Station.
Today, 17 years after project Hessdalen, iDnteevrfealcoep. and run a database, with a web
where UFO Norway and UFO Sweden joined Analyse data and begin the necessary
forces to complete one of, if not the most activities to find the answers to the Hessdalen
complete scjentitic study of UFO's conducted Phenomena.
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regularly report sightrngs direct lo UFO
Norway. Local peopte have reported both Become a sponsor of proiect Hessdalen
lights-rn{he-sky and apparenl structured,
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Aobpsriel r1v3e. dln aa vfaalslety mwoevsitn ogf Hljgehsst dfaoler no vhresr s2o0n tthheeir pouwznz lteim oe fa tnhde m Hoensesyd taot etrny taignhdt sre. sWolviteh
mcoinntuinlueesd. Ttoh rcohuagnhgeo uct otlhouer saisg hil tminogv ethde a btioguhlt prersoopluetrjo lnu ntdor nthgi ss pou zmzluec cho muldo rbee afnodu nedv. eTnh ea
the sky. Earlier in the year, on March 2g Mr AMS requires furlher equipment and wilhout
Tor Gaserud was driving towards the town of funding it is unlikely to be up-graded in the
Roros when he observed a blue-green lighl neat future-
close to the mountain rjdge Th; tight was
observed for around 20 seconds. Right at the Financial assistance is required lo purchase
bheisg ingnrainngd soof nt hBej ayrenaer MLilrl epveodlde r wGerroen adsr ivainngd wthoer kr. igMhotn eeyq uiisp malseon t,r eqinusirteadll tiot apanyd pseeotp liet ttoo
towards Hessdalen when they observed a work on the project which rn turn will speed
bright light just above the mountain. Whatever things up rather than waiting for volunteers all
these LITS are, they continue to be observed the time
in and around the Hessdalen region as these
few sightings clearly show. Project Hessdalen, the 'UFO LABOMTORY"
as termed by the late DR Hynek, needs your
Automatic Measurement Station support. Donations and sponsorship both
large and smali are more than welcome lf
Equipment still monitoring the Hessdalen you would like to become a sponsor you can
valley includes an Automatic Measurement contact l\rr. Erling Skand on: telephone +47
Station (AMS). This is a video camera tinked 41425 411, or fax: 0047 69t6BOt8. Or you
to a video recorder and a computer system. can write to him c/o:
brhuet cita mise raa ltsaok etsri gpgheorteosd aitf raeg utilgarh tin steoruvracles UBoFrgOh eNimO, RNWorAwYay, .PO BOX 124, N-31363
appears. An improved AMS is on the drawing
board but funds are required to upgrade the More information on Project
equipment akeady there. When such plans
can be accomplished is solely dependent on Hessdalen can be found on the
how much money can be raised from web site: wvvw. h essd ale n. oro
sponsors. The main sponsor today has been
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ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL to be of any use. The resulls of these pictures
RESEARCH were inconclusive.
ln August 2000 and 2OO1 ttatian Seismooraph.
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equipment was used as part of this study earth movements and the seismograph was
including radio spectrum analysers, cameras, lsed to check to see if there was any
voPidfh etDoh e,c aalmtanehdraa nsa siaetnraodmp sh pyiessc ictlrvioslast scsofirpmoeoms . T TeCohodeno shraiegnaliid,o mcmooarvrneeimfleaestinloatsnt r obwneestrw eo enfeo ntte hde eain r tLchIo TnmSnoe.vc teNiomnoe wnsteitshis amthn,dec
NItaazliiaonna lCe odmelmlej tRteicee rfcoher iPn rBoojelgcnta ,H letasslyd.a Tlehne LITS.
financed his project. ln a full interview wilh
US researcher Linda lvtoulton Howe
Teodorani concluded that the Hessdalen
lights are "Thermal plasmas of unknown
origin" This full interview can be located on
the web site
al: t
http://earthfi les.com/earth30 1 htm
The mysterious lights in and around the
Hessdalen Valley continue to amaze and
mystify. Attempts to pin them down Radar.
scientifically have not yet fully succeeded, but
lnformation of a wide variety has already Atlas 2000 radar was used as part of the
been obtained. With the right sponsorshjp it is project. lt had a maximum distance of 33
hoped that an answer will be found. Until that kilometres and at times did make recordjngs.
time, the Hessdalen lights do remain truly A total of 36 radar recordings were made.
!nidentified'.
Spectrum Analvser.
THE INSTRUMENTATION USED DURING This piece of equipment was used to check
PROJECT HESSDALEN and see if theae was any electrical
interference caused by the LITS. A Hewlett
Camera with oratino. Packard spectaum analyser was used which
swept from 150 kHz to '1250
NrHz
continuously. Nothing was recorded in
connection with the LITS.
Maonelometer.
Special gratings were used in order to try and
establish what kind of light source was There were some suggestions that the LITS
present. Ordjnary 35 mm cameras were also may be associated with a magnetic field.
used to great effect. The cameras fitted with Could the LITS be caused by magnetic
the special grat'ng were used to try and storms for example? A Fluxgate
obtain spectral analysis of the LITS. Only four l\,4agnetometer, model FM100. serial 73 was
photos taken usjng the special grating proved used. No correlation was found with the L|TS