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public is out of the question. Why, then, do we print this story? Because it is a relief to us to get it onto paper. It means we are no longer totally alone with our experience, and at the same time it could help and support other persons who may have observed something similar. If I had observed this alone, I would have questioned my own sanity. But luckily, there were two of us sharing the same experience.

What my wife and I observed during half-an-hour in late July, near our cottage in Tydal, we did really see! Tydal is a valley in the county of Sor-Trondelag, some 60 km southeast of Trondheim, in central-Norway. It was fairly cloudy and the weather was nice in the mountains when we left the cottage at about 10.30 pm in order to make our customary 10 to 15 minute evening walk. We had walked only a few meters, when we caught sight of a blinding, blue-white light below the cloud cover to the northeast. We stood observing the light. Was it a plane? No, it didn't move. Slowly, it began to move towards us, then passed overhead, still looking like a shining star high above in the sky. Then the "star" came to a halt to the south. It remained in this position for a long while before beginning to descend in large circles. It became stationary some 100 meters above a mountain ridge at a distance of almost 1 km. Due to the blinding light, we couldn't possibly see the contours of the object, although we were almost certain that it was a helicopter. A helicopter searching for missing persons? - Yes, it had to be! Or it could also be some sort of a military exercise. Strangely, we couldn't hear the customary "flop-flops" from the rotor blades, nor any engine roar. The silence was almost total in this part of the mountains in the beautiful summer evening.

The ground beneath the helicopter was illuminated as if it was a clear, sunny day. - Yes, they had to be in search for missing persons. We sat down on a little rock to follow the act.

Suddenly, the blue-white light turned into red, then in the next moment returned to the blue-white hue again. The helicopter raced at an enormous speed towards north, then came back again. This time it made an abrupt halt, somewhat closer than the previous time. We stared open-mouthed at each other. This couldn't be any sort of a helicopter! Again the red light came by and blended with the blue-white in the same way as the northern lights. The light went to and fro in a wavy fashion and the "craft" descended towards a small marsh area. There it made a halt just a few meters above the ground. Still, it was impossible for us to glimpse anything through the enormously powerful light. The shining object held this position for several minutes. Our eyes got sore and ran with tears, but we had to watch! Then suddenly the colors surrounding the object began to flicker, and the light slowly faded. When the light brilliance gradually got dimmer, we glimpsed the contours of an object. It hurt our eyes to look directly onto it. Its shape resembled that of a flat bail or a mushroom. What kind of material this "mushroom" consisted of, or what color it had was impossible to determine against the blinding light. Neither of us was able to say anything. We sat there, totally stunned and just stared at the strange object, very confused and incredulous.

The oblong object seemed enormous. The underside was flat and the top was curved. We looked at each other before we once more concentrated on observing the color-sparkling mirage being presented, soundless and totally motionless. Suddenly the entire object ascended some meters and stood edgewise! In this position it moved slowly towards some small rocks in the outskirts of the marsh. There it stayed closely to the ground, still in an upright position. The color shimmering increased and grew to enormous power; then the light suddenly faded. The strange object appeared like a whale standing in an upright position, with an "ocean of light" underneath and beside. We both had a feeling of hearing a weak "metallic" whistling when the object suddenly tilted top to bottom, at the same time the intense blue-white light increased in strength once more and surrounded the craft.

What happened in the next moment, happened enormously fast. The craft approached us like a projectile. It passed overhead and we lost our breath when we plunged to the earth at our observing site. At the same time we lost our hearing.