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lieved that it was from the launching of light-rockets from the Torpemoen military camp. In the next moment, however, I experienced something else. First I thought that it was a helicopter which landed on the field. But then I began to wonder. The object was flat and circular, with a height of about one and a half meter and a diameter of eight to nine meters. In the center it was intense red, while the color grew more and more green towards the side. This was also green.

I rushed down the barn bridge and around a stack of timber which obstructed the view. I was not afraid, only surprised and I walked towards it. When I was 25 meters away the whole object flared up in a light explosion, which blinded me totally. But there was no crack. The object was completely soundless, says Ola S. Roen on the farm Sorbon in the Hallingdal Valley.

Monday January 26, 1981 is a day both he and his wife Borghild will hardly forget. -If I had seen this thing being alone I would have told no one. Nobody would have believed me. In this case, however, we were four adults watching the UFO, he says.

The cowshed is made ready for the night. Now Borghild and Ola will go in and watch the evening news on TV, together with Ola's father-in-law who celebrates his 85-year birthday there. Borghild goes in first. It is a clear, calm evening. Walking over the country courtyard she takes a glimpse southwards. The Moon is not up yet, but suddenly she sees a bright light on the other side of the valley.

At first she thinks it is a star, then a helicopter, because it twinkles red and green. A couple of minutes later Ola bursts into