PARADIGMA, a publication that shares important news in the scientific field, published an excellent article on September 22, 2026, featuring the opinions of a group of relevant scientists seeking to explain the UAP in light of the phenomena occurring in the Hessdalen Valley, Norway.
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EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say these Norwegian “lights” could hold clues to Trump UFO files mystery
One scientist revealed that the U.S. Air Force approached him in Brazil in 2007 to propose a research collaboration
Ben Schreckinger
HESSDALEN LIGHTS
A September 2007 spectral photo of the Hessdalen lights. Scientists say the lights could help explain recent UFO incidents disclosed by the War Department. (Project Hessdalen)
Scientists who have studied a rare aerial phenomenon in Norway tell PARADIGM it could shed light on two of the most notable cases revealed by the Trump administration’s ongoing UFO disclosures.
Both UFO cases involve recent eyewitness reports by U.S. officials of luminous orbs behaving in ways that have defied explanation.
Experts on the Hessdalen lights, a luminous phenomenon observed for decades over a Norwegian valley, said that similarities with the UFO cases could point to a shared underlying mechanism. Some further suggested that the local geology at the sites of these incidents could play a role in the formation of the orbs.(*1)
FIRST UFO INCIDENT
The first incident occurred over the course of two days in October 2023 in the Western U.S. and was initially disclosed in the first tranche of UFO files, released in May. In the course of that incident, six federal law enforcement agents observed luminous orbs around dusk near a sensitive national security site, according to documents released by the War Department, which describe the setting as a mountain valley.
A memo about the incident prepared by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) reports that the most distinctive feature of that incident was a “luminous orange ‘mother orb’ [that] appeared to produce smaller red ‘orbs,’ one after another, multiple times over a period of several hours.”
SECOND UFO INCIDENT
The second incident occurred late last year and was disclosed in the second tranche of UFO files. During the incident, an unnamed senior U.S. intelligence official reported observing luminous orbs from a helicopter. Ground teams reportedly tracked a hot, low, fast-moving object that “split into two and changed direction.”
HESSDALEN LIGHTS
Since at least the 1930s, mysterious lights of various shapes, colors and movement patterns have been periodically observed in the sky above the Hessdalen valley in rural Norway. The nature of the lights remains a subject of debate, but scientists have proposed they could be composed of plasma. Others have proposed that unusual local geology could be responsible for creating a charged electric field over the valley that fosters the formation of the lights.
Notably, a 2004 study of the lights by Massimo Teodorani, an Italian astrophysicist, documents “ejection of mini light balls” from a larger ball of light — behavior similar to that of the “mother orb” observed in the October 2023 UFO incident.
