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Spring 1870, Aalen, Sor-Trondelag, Norway, a woman:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Lars Lillevold is one of the first witnesses of the strange luminous phenomena in the valley of Hessdalen in Norway in the years 1980 and following.

He also informed that his grandmother, in the spring of the year 1870, had seen in Alen (Ålen, Aalen), not far in this country, something which she later described as being a flying object, and she also said that somebody on board this object had beckoned her.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. ob1:] OLE JONNY BRAENNE:

The Norwegian ufologist indicates that in the Spring of 1870, in Alen, Lars Lillevold's grandmother saw something she later described as a flying object, and also stated that somebody in this object beckoned to her.

The ufologist comments that this may be the first CE-3 incident in Norway.

He indicates that the sources are Krogh, Hessdalsrapporten, 1984, page 11; Krogh, The Hessdalen Report, 1985, page 7; Krogh, The Hessdalen Report, 1990, page 7.

[Ref. go1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:

The Belgian ufologist indicates that in spring 1870 in Alen, Hesdallen, Norway, the grandmother of Lars Lillevold saw something strange that she later described as a flying object. She also observed somebody in this object, who made sign at her with the hand.

She indicates that the sources are HESSDALSRAPPORTEN., 1984, 11., THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1985, 7. and THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1971, 7, listing by Ole Jonny Braenne.

[Ref. jb1:] JEROME BEAU:

Jerome Beau indicates that in spring of 1870, in Ålen, Norway, the grandmother of Lars Lillevold saw something that she will describe later as a flying object. She also stated that somebody made signs at her from this object.

Jérôme Beau indicates that his sources are Krogh: Hessdalesrapporten, 1984, 11 The Hessdalen Report, 1985, 7 The Hessdalen Report, 1971.

[Ref. sd1:] SEBASTIEN DENIS:

The author notes that there was a sighting by Lars Lillevold's grandmother in 1870 in Alen, a locality close to the valley of Hessdalen. He specifies that Lars Lillevold was one of the first to report the presence of luminous balls in Hessdalen in 1981, and testified of this phenomenon many times in the years that followed.

[Ref. js1:] JEAN SIDER:

Jean Sider indicates that in the spring of 1870 in Alen in Norway a close encounter of the third kind occurred in which an old woman saw "some unspecified type" of flying machine moving at low altitude. There was a human form on this machine, who made a hand gesture at the witness, and there are no other quoted details.

Jean Sider indicates that the source is Albert Rosales, citing "Pre-1947 UFO-Type Incidents in Norway" by Norwegian ufologist Ole Jonny Braenne, 1992.

Jean Sider comments that ufologist Ole Jonny Braenne is known as a researcher of very good reputation.

Points to consider:

Albert Rosales does not list the case in his catalogue. Nothing tells that the woman was already an old person at the time of the sighting.

The lady speaks of no extraterrestrial beings neither of some weird creatures, she rather evokes a normal person making some probably conventional, human, beckoning.

Although the story is very old and probably not first hand, one can however note that the only human machines which could have flown there in 1870 would have been montgolfiers, from where a person can be indeed beckon someone on the ground.

Below: Balloons on Saint-Pierre square in Paris in September 1870.

It so happens that for example among the hot air manned balloons used by besieged in Paris in 1870, one of them flew 800 miles to land... in the middle of Norway!

"The balloon flights persisted through October and into November, as the Prussian vise on Paris gradually tightened. Prussian artillery continued to pound the city. French authorities, alarmed by reports of a new enemy antiballoon gun, which was mounted on a swivel, decreed in late November that all subsequent balloon ascensions would take place under cover of night. Two aeronauts, flying in darkness and uncertain of their location, went on a 15-hour, 800-mile voyage across the North Sea; when they finally landed they found themselves, to their astonishment, in the snow-carpeted wilds of central Norway. The men were bearing a vital communiqué informing Gambetta and his commanders of a plan to break through the siege."

Source: "Paris Siege Balloon Information", web page at www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/Paris-Siege-Balloon/info/info.htm

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Possible montgolfier.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] * "Hessdalsrapporten - Betraktninger av rapporterte atmosfaeriske lysafaenomener og andre observerte objekter i Holtålen kommune og omkringliggende områder 1870-1984, by Jan S. Krogh, Norway, page 11, 1984.
• [---] * "Hessdalsrapporten - Betraktninger av rapporterte atmosfaeriske lysafaenomener og andre observerte objekter i Holtålen kommune og omkringliggende områder 1870-1984, by Jan S. Krogh, Norway, page 7, 1985.
• [---] * "The Hessdalen Report, by Jan S. Krogh, Norway, page 7, 1990.
• [ob1] * "Pre-1947 UFO-type incidents in Norway", compiled by Ole Jonny Braenne, Norway, 1992.
• [ob1] * "Some Pre-1947 UFO-type incidents in Norway", compiled by Ole Jonny Braenne, available at the UFO Norge ufology website, Norway, circa 2006, at www.ufo.no/?q=metaparser.php&aar=english
• [ob1] * "UFO-Observasjoner i Norge 1563-1946", compiled by Ole Jonny Braenne, available at the UFO Norge ufology website, Norway, circa 2006, at www.ufo.no/index.php?q=metaparser.php&aar=1993spesial
• [go1] * "Chronologie OVNI", web page compiled by Godelieve van Overmeire, Belgium, circa 1999, at users.skynet.be/sky84985/chron4.html
• [jb1] * "1870", web page compiled by Jérôme Beau, France, circa 2003, at rr0.org/data/1/8/7/0/index.html
• [sd1] * "L'ufologie en Norvège", article by Sébastien Denis, in the ufology bulletin C'est Vrai, Belgium, #2, December 2004.
• [js1] * "Les 'Extraterrestres' Avant Les Soucoupes Volantes - Catalogue Mondial de 370 Cas de Rencontres des 3e et 4 Types Avant 1947, book by Jean Sider, Jean-Michel Grandsire publisher (JMG), France, page 62, 2007.

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