Research & investigation
Erling Strand
Project Hessdalen investigator and report author
Who they are
Erling Strand helped lead Project Hessdalen’s 1984 field campaign and wrote its technical report. The team attempted to record recurring unusual lights in Norway using cameras and other instruments. His account includes both observations and practical limits, making it a record of a particular investigation rather than a settled explanation.
He represents organized field observation within the UFO research tradition.
Selected contributions
- Served on the shared leadership team and authored the campaign’s technical report.Source ↗
Selected works
Report · 1985
Project Hessdalen 1984: Final Technical Report
Strand describes the 1984 Hessdalen field campaign, its observations and the limits of instrument coverage and correlations. It is the investigators’ technical account, not an independent replication of a particular explanation.
Describes the 1984 campaign; report signed January 5, 1985. Original public-release date not established.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review
In the timeline
- Jan 21, 1984 – Feb 26, 1984Project Hessdalen conducts an instrumented field campaign
Biography sources
- Project Hessdalen 1984: Final Technical Report ↗Erling Strand / Project Hessdalen