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It was a day in September 1980, a day that August Holen will forever remember with awe.
Holen, together with two hunting companions, had gone into the mountains from the cabin at lake Elgsjøen, in the direction
of Dalsbygda. The weather was brilliantly beautiful with blue skies and clear, fine autumn air. All he had to do was
wait for the grouse to come within shooting range. Holen suddenly felt a suffocating sensation. The air became dense
around him, as if the oxygen had disappeared. He felt "something" behind him at the same time as a shadow slowly slid
in front of him in the heather. Holen turned sideways, and there, just a few meters from him, three magnificent objects
stood still in the air.
They looked like large lumps of candy sugar with an indescribably beautiful red color that sparkled in the sun.
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The shape was like a hat with a brim, it had a small elevation on top that Holen believed had the same mission as the periscope on a submarine.
Each of the objects had an antenna-like protrusion on the right side of the dome.
The brim, or the supporting wings, as Holen describes them, rotated at very high speed.
The material in it resembled corrugated iron. It was tightly packed with holes on the outer edge of the wing
as if two sheets of beech tin had been laid against each other. The appearance of the wings was also compared to organ pipes.
Under each of the objects there were two holes, one on each side. Given the air tightness around the Hole,
he believed the objects used oxygen as a driving force and that the holes acted as suction holes. The material
in the dome was very difficult to describe. It was not hammered, but it seemed to be composed of some kind of stone or glass.
The structure itself resembled candy sugar and the work seemed uneven and roughly done.
The objects were about 4 meters in diameter. During the entire observation, a faint humming sound like a bumblebee in a matchbox was heard.
Suddenly, as if on command, all three objects simultaneously turned sideways with the dome facing Holen.
They accelerated sharply, with the broadside (the underside) facing the direction of travel. In the same beautiful formation and at low altitude
they disappeared in a few seconds as small red dots over the mountain to the north.
Holen had not felt any air pressure as the objects accelerated away from him. He had also not registered any form of smell during the observation. Holen felt no fear, but wonder during the incident. The reactions only came later.
It was a sleepless night of wondering what it could be. The following three last days of vacation,
Holen stayed near the cabin without firing a shot. In the time since the observation, he has not hunted again.
He has sold the rifles.
The objects were real enough for Holen, so real that he had concluded that they must have been made by human hands and that they belonged here on Earth.
He believed that if he were in the same situation again, he would be scared. He is willing to go to Hessdalen
and point out the area where the incident took place. He feels certain that they are up there somewhere.
It can be added that UFOs have never been of interest to Holen.
The report was written 7 June 1982.
Comments
- Thorvaldsen (one of the other two hunters) stood in front to the right and Lömo (the third hunter)
on a height in the terrain approximately directly in front of Holen.
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A flock of grouse took off and came towards them. One came straight towards Holen. It went down behind a rock before
it was within shooting range. Thorvaldsen confirmed in a conversation that a flock of grouse had come. He thought it
was strange that they had not become aware of the objects, but as he said, they were silent and we stood with our backs
turned to Holen. Besides, we were busy with the grouse. Thorvaldsen also said that Holen had been very scared after the incident,
and that he stayed down in the forest for the last few days of the hunt.
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Holen waited for the grouse to take off. Shadow in the terrain, Holen turned sideways, his entire attention focused on
the three objects.
Their appearance must have been etched into Holen's memory, judging by his description.
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Holen's first thought after the observation was whether Lömo and Thorvaldsen had seen the objects.
Despite the relatively short distance between them and Holen, they had, as previously stated, not noticed anything.
Holen was also joked about after the incident, which was described as a particularly good hunting story.
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