Field Trip Weekend
Hessdalen, September 6 - 8, 2024
Conference summary report
In September 2025
we may arrange a Field Trip Week
to do a collective effort and set up equipment all over the valley and to dedicate an entire week to field observations.
Fred Pallesen - CEO of Project Hessdalen
"Thank you to Project Hessdalen and especially Fred Pallesen for an exceptional weekend of sharing knowledge and camaraderie in this hauntingly beautiful valley! I highly recommend visiting Hessdalen and I hope to attend future conferences and field trips."
Susan Demeter - Anomalies Scholar
Read Susan's blog entry here...
"The "2024 Hessdalen Conference" was wholly very well organized. The speakers were well chosen and competent. Accomodation and food were excellent, and the welcome was very friendly. The amount of work that Fred Pallesen and his collaborators did to make us feel at ease was really impressive. Thank you so much, Fred! And the landscape is always unforgettable: for me it was like if I relived the emotions of 30 years ago."
Massimo Teodorani - astrophysicist
this is about half of the attendees
PROGRAM 2024
FRIDAY
Anomaly Detection Systems
by Magnus Holm, Marvin Baral and Carl Crusher
Preparation for the Field Trip
by Erling P. Strand
Field Trip
SATURDAY
High Strangeness and UFO Witnesses
by Susan Demeter
Experience of the Ukrainian scientific research center „Zond” in UAP studying.
by Artem Bilyk
Using Astrophysical Methods to Study the Hessdalen Phenomenon
by Massimo Teodorani
Field Trip
SUNDAY
The Vanishing & Appearing Sources
by Beatriz Villarroel
Could UAP be techno signatures for monitoring purposes?
by Eamonn Ansbro
TIME TO MINGLE
We all enjoyed meeting so many interesting people from 11 countries!
PANEL DISCUSSION
We had a very interesting discussion on Saturday, with locals invited.
GUIDED TOURS
Some wanted to see the BlueBox, others wanted to take the trip to the top of the mountain.
STATEMENT BY THE SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL TEAM OF PROJECT HESSDALEN
This is a statement regarding UAP sightings which were reported during Project Hessdalen’s Field Trip Weekend September 2024. While we as the scientific team of Project Hessdalen do appreciate and respect witness experiences we cannot and do not verify nor validate any of the participants UFO reports. Nor do we provide analysis of data that we as the science team representing Project Hessdalen are not intimately involved with. This includes analysis of photos and videos. We are volunteers and can only work with our own data. Many of the reports that have been shared and are now circulating online including claims of a UFO landing were not witnessed by the scientific team members and may have prosaic explanations such as satellites, space debris and other mundane explanations.
Project Hessdalen Science Team
Chris Lehto attended the Field Trip Weekend.
You can find many videos about Hessdalen on his channel.
"When Chris say: 'Couldn't be a star, couldn't be an airplaine' - I have to disagree.
It was probably a star.
But this demonstrates how difficult is it identify 'the phenomena'.
If we had triangulation we would have known for sure if it was in the valley or not"
- Fred Pallesen
CEO of Project Hessdalen
Carl Crusher attended the Field Trip Weekend.
You can find many videos about Hessdalen on his channel.
"The light below the Big Dipper - when Carl say: 'That is not a satellite'
It was STARLINK-4442.
This one could be identified, but the source of the lights on the ground is more difficult to identify.
It could be flashlights, or cars, because we do not know if there where people in that area. If we had equipment to analyze the light we would have known for sure"
- Fred Pallesen
CEO of Project Hessdalen
"It is important to have good tools available, and some experience in detecting what may be moving on the sky. It is very different when the night is totally dark and you see so many stars and moving objects.
I need to gain this experience myself - and as I learn I will give tutorials on this site to help others gaining experience too. And I will facilitate the development of mobile Anomaly Detection Systems."
- Fred Pallesen
CEO of Project Hessdalen
Ron Schaafsma took a time-lapse (see video) and many frames shows more than one "dot". We need help from people that knows more about time-lapse: is it normal that you see multiple "dots" of fast moving objects in one frame in the time-lapse?
I got help!
One member wrote me an email explaining: "During my stay in Hessdalen there was a lot of cotton grass on the ground and flying around. It`s of white colour".
And more: "Although I cannot provide an answer about the technical aspect "..if it is normal that you see multiple "dots" of fast moving objects in one frame in the time-lapse.." I hope my feedback helps in the investigation/conclusion that the video shows something natural."
So we still need help
Do you know more about single frames in a time-lapse?
What information should I request? I have the original film and I know what kind of hardware/software that was use.
All previous witness observations are available on the old hessdalen site, compiled into one document that you can search and comment on.
This is the document: Observations.
After the Field Trip Weekend & Conference I found two entries:
(Note that the Form contains a lot of fields - I have just extracted some)
Date: 01.09.2024 - Time: 9.25 P.M. - Place: UFO Camp - Observers: 4
We never thought we'd see them. Let alone on our first night in Hessdalen. On our first of four nights at the UFO camp, we saw several lights on the ridge south-south-east of our position for about an hour. Most we're type 1, corner of our eyes, "did I really see that"-type sightings. Some of them were observed directly, appearing while looking directly in that direction, and a subset of those were observed by all four of us. The best one turned on slowly, off and on again and lasted for a few seconds. It even had light reflected on trees and its surroundings on the far left side of the ridge leading into the area where Båttjønna and the other lakes are situated. The road going there is much more towards the right (north) as seen from UFO camp.
We are not "UFO people". We came knowing about the lights without judgment, just enjoying our holiday outdoors like we do every year. We like sitting around the campfire talking, but going to Hessdalen gave us something to do. We liked UFO camp for the simplicity of the dwellings and not having electricity and the glass roofs.
We saw these lights on all four nights, all four of us, from UFO camp at twilight. We also saw them north of Øyungen in all directions near the ridge lines of the surrounding mountains.
Date: 07.09.2024 - Time: 8.45 P.M. - Place: Camp#2 - Observers: 1
Two white lights moving together rise up from the area of the lake to the left of the white box and river and to the right of the science camp building. They rose up together then moved to the left and up again in a zig zag pattern at which point they disappeared or winked out.
We also had some other anomolies reported:
One Battery drainage incident:
Erik Lindqvist reported to have charged his watch just before the Field Trip and it had used all power after one day in Hessdalen. Normally it lasts 14 days.
One GPS incident:
Jacob reported: "This was the most anomalous thing to happen to me on the trip. MyGPS went bananas, for several hours it was flying on its own."