The Hessdalen valley in Norway has been known since the 1800s for an unexplained phenomenon called the "Hessdalen Lights".
A significant increase in sightings occurred between 1981 and 1985, with up to 20 sightings per week.
Our goal is to collect high quality data about the phenomenon and make this available for the public.
All pictures captured by our surveillance cameras on a daily basis can be found in our Google Disk folder.
Do you have equipment that could be useful and placed in our Sensor Station called the Blue Box?
Help us improve our Anomaly Detection System
Contact info:
Fred Pallesen (CEO)
fred@hessdalen.org
+47 94086203
On our old site you will find the first report from 1984 and the Articles and Reports page with a long list of scientific articles.
Check out all the pictures and videos captured from 1998 until 2024.
Do you want to meet the team and help?
The team will meet in September to do a Field Trip for a long week. (Aug 30 through Sep 7)
You are welcome to join us and help us.
Read about our plans here:
https://www.hessdalen.org/field-trips
Sign up to get information on the button below:
A documentary from ARTE.TV
During the Field Trip and Conference last year we had a lot of media attention :-)
You can see other videos from last year on the page: In the media, but this is a documentary from ARTE.TV does give a good description of what it is like - to be on a Field Trip.
Get inspired!
For three years, together with some colleagues from Argentina and Uruguay, we have been preparing the details of today’s UFO Project Southern Cross.
With great joy, we can announce today to the public and the press, the culmination of the Research project and the establishment of the First Fixed Post for capturing the phenomenon in all of Latin America.
An initiative that goes from South America to the World, unlike what we are historically accustomed to.
Har du behov for hjelp til å forenkle og effektivisere din IT-hverdag?
Ren Røros Digital hjelper deg.
Do you want to reach the world?
This site is visited by 1.500 unique visitors every day - sometimes 3.000 a day!
In one month the site is visited by 90 countries.
Join us this September at our Field Trip Week
Check out the plan / program
Why not visit Hessdalen, Norway and join a real UAP/UFO field trip!
The Blue Box was installed In 1998:
the world's first automated Anomaly Detection and Recording System.
New Scientist:
Mysterious Norwegian lights caught on camera
Google Disk:
BlueBox > pictures from YouTube Live
The 1984 report, using instruments like cameras, seismographs, radar, lasers, magnetometers, Geiger counters, and IR viewers, remains a valuable resource.
It recorded 53 sightings of the 'Hessdalen Phenomena' during an 18-day field trip and inspired scientists worldwide to study the phenomenon.
Both residents and visitors who have shared their experiences have faced distrust and ridicule, yet 40 years later, their stories remain consistent, and new sightings continue to be reported.
The Phenomena is still there.
Erling P. Strand:
Why I have studied this phenomena
We need more computer storage - as soon as possible.
Every day every camera stores 45 BG of data.
We have 2 cameras - so we are storing 90 GB every day.
We can store a lot in the cloud,
but finally we need to push some videos to a Hard Disk Drive.
Can you help us?
We need your help to build and test our next Anomaly Detection Systems.
The goal is to test out AT HOME (your home!) the equipment we plan to install during the Field Trip in September.
We have to ensure that the systems are working and sending data to the cloud - before we carry the system up on mountain tops!
If you want to work on a IoT project - contact us!
Our camera system will get the anomaly phenomena (this is a Sprite lighting)
Our MUPAS system is now keeping track of anomalous events (sensors)
Join Us for Our Monthly Status Meetings!
Curious about what we do? Our monthly status meetings are the perfect opportunity to get an insider’s view of our project!
What to Expect:
Updates on our progress and future plans.
Stories and milestones from our journey.
Opportunities to ask questions and share your ideas.
The chance to meet like-minded Citizen Science enthusiasts from around the world—because connecting with so many passionate people is truly inspiring!
Whether you're considering becoming a paying member, a project contributor, or a team member, these meetings are a great way to explore how you can be part of our mission.
Date and time is on:
Project Hessdalen has is working on developing the website, planning a mobile app, building a database for witness reports and data from the cameras and the sensors, adding AI systems to analyze images and videos, and more.
Do you want to learn - and participate?
This Developer Program gives you:
a task to solve and a community to learn from.
"You don’t need to sign up to be a volunteer—just follow our work and jump in whenever you can help!
Join the Conversation: Use our Discord community to ask questions and share your thoughts.
Catch Up: Watch recordings of our meetings on YouTube. We’re passionate about solving this mystery, and your fresh ideas could make a big difference!
Reach Out: Send us an email or give us a call.
We’re not experts—just dedicated individuals doing our best in the time we have after work. Even a small contribution from you could make a big impact!
Got an idea? Share it!
Your suggestion, no matter how simple it seems, could be the missing piece we need.
If it’s been discussed before, that’s okay—good ideas deserve a second look.
Noticed something we missed?
Let us know!
By participating, you'll also have the opportunity to join engaging team and project meetings with citizen science enthusiasts from around the world. It’s a chance to collaborate, share ideas, and learn from others who share the same curiosity and passion for solving this mystery."
- Fred Pallesen, CEO
We now had a chairman, a board, a CEO and a CTO - and a team of volunteers :-)
We got a new webpage. We got Google Workspace for non-profits. Ko-fi enables donations and memberskip and Discord was established as a community server.
During one week many on the team got to meet in person. We had a visit from a German film team (Hochschule Hannover). We had a visit from Isaiah Photo. We had an interesting AMA and the local newspaper interviewed us.
Chris Lehto made many episodes from Hessdalen. We had a group-interview at Christina Gomez.
Mariann Fossheim has put out some interesting videos about anomalies in LIDAR.
We made some recordings ourself and put it on our channel.
Using ko-fi and spleis (a norwegian fundraising site) we managed to collect 50.000 NOK during 2023.
(about 4.500 USD) and we could finally buy 3 camera and a powerful PC that can operate in -40°C
The new computer was prepared during the spring. The Blue Box was prepared during the summer, and finally - the week before the conference - a lot of work was done to remove old equipment and install the new cameras and put them on YouTube Live.
This camera has 8MP (3840 x 2160) at 30 fps, 2.8 mm Fixed Lens and a Ultra Wide Dynamic Range.
The PC is a Windows 11 Pro, Ryzen 9 5950X, Nvidia T1000, 32GB ECC, 1.5TB SSD.
We had more than 50 attendees, from 11 countries. The conference had 9 speakers over 3 days.
The field trip was over 2 long nights - out in the field. We had guided tours to the top of Skarvan mountain and to the Blue Box. We had a very interesting panel discussion, good food and time to mingle and discuss.
We encountered some anomalies, but most importantly, we gained valuable experience on how to improve our recording process for future events like this.
this is about half of the attendees
During this conference we had two YouTubers: Chris Lehto and Carl Crusher - they published some videos just a few days after the event ended.
French TV2 plan to publish their episode before the end of the year 2024.
ARTE.TV@ will broadcast the reportage on April 9th and the YouTube channel LAXAR GANG hope to have their documentary ready some time in February 2025.
We had an interview on Cosmic Road and on That UFO Podcast.
A major American TV channel asked us to gather local witnesses who had observed the phenomena. In response, we reached out to the community and heard their stories firsthand — including some accounts that even our chairman had never heard before!
We don't expect the episode to be available until late next year.
We have been working to secure funding for a research project in collaboration with NTNU, a team of researchers from Portugal, and Project Hessdalen. After nearly a year of preparation, we finally received an answer:
Given the large number of applications received, unfortunately, your project was not selected for funding in this call. Nevertheless, we aim to open a new Grants Program in 2026 and remain at your disposal for a new application by that time.
We have also begun the process of applying for funding from NHIR. As part of this effort, we welcome collaboration with other research institutions and invite interested parties to join us in advancing UAP-related research by leveraging our data, expertise, and facilities.
We had an interview at NIGHT SHIFT.
No conference planned for 2025, but we do plan to meet and set up more equipment. We have had many planning meeting - and we hope to start working on building equipment soon
Do you want to meet the team and help us?
This YouTube video from LAXAR GANG put France on top of the visitor list!
2 days after release we had 5 times as many visitors :-)
We will support and follow Mathias when he is out in the cold on ski with his husky - trying to get close to the light. He did see it in 2023 - two times on the same day. Now he plan to stay out long nights in the snow up on the mountain - to get close to the phenomena.
This is a Google Folder - you can search!
