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VIDEO OBSERVATION OF THE AUGUST
7, 2002 HESSDALEN LIGHT |
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IEA President, Marsha Adams was located at the
Aspåskjolen
viewing area while she took this video recording that
begins 2100 UT. Although timecodes are part of
the original tape, timecodes are not visible on .avi
files that have been converted for Internet viewing.
During the taping, Adams was in contact by two way radio
with Project Hessdalen leader, Professor Erling Strand.
Strand was located 2.1 km away to the southeast in the
automated monitoring station (AMS). Strand had observed
a vehicle coming down the road a few minutes earlier.
Strand was inside the AMS at the time of the sighting.
ABSTRACT:
The nature and position
of a recurring light observed on August 6 and 7, 2002, south
of the Aspåskjolen
viewing area in the Hessdalen Valley, Norway, has been the
subject of controversy. One observer,
Leone1, maintained that the light was a vehicle
headlight while another observer, Teodorani2,
claimed the light was other than a vehicle.
A recent review of a videotape taken
during the August 7, 2002 sighting, shows that both
observers were correct. Two lights
occurred within 19 seconds of each other near the same
azimuth but clearly at different locations.
Vehicle headlights appeared first, which Leone
correctly identified with his telescope.
Seconds later, the recurring light appeared to the west of
the headlights. Apparently, while Leone
viewed the first lights through the telescope, Teodorani
photographed and obtained a spectrum of the second light.
From the telescopic observation, it was
proposed that Teodorani’s light was a vehicle traveling on a
country road that might allow headlights to shine briefly
towards the Aspåskjolen
vista.
This paper suggests the light may not be a
vehicle on a road. Further confirmation
of the light’s position was determined by triangulation
several nights later on August 15, 2002.
The light occurred at a bearing of 184.7 degrees magnetic
from WAAS enabled GPS determined coordinates of an
observation camera at Aspåskjolen.
A second bearing taken from an
observation site on Heggsethødga hill, indicated the light
appeared south of the Heggsethødga observer.
By triangulation the distance of the light was
estimated to be about, 6.1 km (3.8 miles) south of Aspåskjolen
and 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south of the Heggsethødga observer.
This position indicates that the
position is too distant for the first and closest
proposed road, and falls short of the
10.3-11.3 km distance to the second proposed road.
The position by triangulation lies possibly over the
old school house on the
Hessdalen Valley
floor. An alternative hypothesis is
presented which may provide insights regarding the location
and nature of this controversial light.
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[1]
Leone, M. (2003a, April). A rebuttal of the EMBLA 2002 report
on the optical survey in Hessdalen. http://www.itacomm.net/ph/rebuttal.pdf.
[2]
Teodorani, M. (2002) EMBLA 2002, An Optical and
Ground Survey in Hessdalen, http://www.hessdalen.org/reports/EMBLA_2002_2.pdf
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