Observation by Akhtar Issak and Andreas Olsen At 9.15 AM Andreas suddenly saw a strong light slightly to the left of the peak of Morkvollhogda. The light seemed to come from the point where "the mountain met the sky".Both Akhtar and Andreas first assumed that it was the moon coming up over the mountaintop, but they soon realised that they had observed the moon much further to the east earlier in the evening, and this light was much more intense than the light reflected from the moon. Akhtar pointed a hand light with a red filter against the phenomenon, while Andreas alarmed both Alpha and Charlie. See note 1. Akhtar shot a series of pictures when the light started to move up and down "like a yo-yo". See note 2 about the pictures. The light had the shape of a pyramid, emitting an intense light. Each time the "pyramid" went down under the horizon (the mountain top) they could see a beam of light coming up from behind the mountain, from the point where "the pyramid" had disappeared. This repeated itself several times before the light went down for the last time and "went out". The observation lasted for 15 - 30 seconds. The light beam had a wider dispersion than for instance the headlights of a car. The light source was bigger and more intense than any other light that was observed from Bravo. To the observers it looked like the beam of light was directed towards Bravo each time "the pyramid" emerged from behind the mountain, but this is likely to be a subjective illusion since it was observed from this position only, and that a similar illusion would have observed from any other point of view. The crew calculated the distance from Bravo to the light to be one kilometre.No sound was heard during the observation. The map shows no paths and definitely no roads in the area where the light was observed.At 10.35 PM the moon appeared again, still far east of Morkavollhogda. "Neither of us can give a reasonable explanation of what we saw."
Date of observation: October 11th (Saturday) - 1997
Time of observation: 9:15 PM
Place of observation: Morkavollhogda, Hessdalen (Approx. 50 kilometres north of Roros, Norway)
Altitude: Apporox. 900 metres.
Weather conditions: Clouded, visibility good, cold, no wind.
For Team Bravo,
Andreas Olsen
Note 1: It should be mentioned here that the phenomenon unfortunately was observed "outside the Triangle".
Note 2: It turned out later that the film showed no trace of the light. We would like to ad here that we deliberately tried to underexpose the film, rather than overexposing it. Most pictures of the Hessdal-phenomenon suffers from overexposure, it is not possible to analyse what is "inside" the white spot on the film.This time we obviously went to far in the other direction.
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