Light fantastic

• Autores: Caroline Williams
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2968, 2014, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bjorn Gitle Hauge, an electrical engineer at Ostfold University College in Halden Norway, is recalling his first encounter, seven years ago, with the Hessdalen phenomenon: strange, hovering, flashing balls of light that have been appearing in a valley in central Norway for at least a century. Sometimes the lights are as big as cars and can float around for up to two hours. Other times they zip down the valley before suddenly fading away. Then there are the blue and white flashes that come and go in the blink of an eye, and daytime sightings that look like metallic objects in the sky. It is little wonder that when they started appearing up to 20 times a week in the early 19805, UFOlogists hailed the Hessdalen valley as a portal to other worlds and flocked there to celebrate. Here, Williams examines what makes these mysterious glowing orbs appear over the Norwegian valley