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tumnal air. They were just waiting for the grouse to come within range. The time was between 12 and 12.30 pm. Suddenly, Holen got a sense of tension. The atmosphere around him became very dense, as if all the oxygen was leaking away. He felt that "something" was behind him; at the same moment a shadow came slowly gliding on the heather beside and in front of him. He quickly turned, and saw, just a few metres away, three beautiful objects hovering stationary in the air. They resembled large rocks of candy with an indescribably beautiful red colour which twinkled in the sun. Their shape was like a hat with a brim; on top was a protrusion which Holen thought had the same purpose as that of a periscope on a submarine. Each object also had an antenna-like protrusion on the right hand side of the dome. The "brim", or carrying-wing as Mr. Holen described it, was rotating at a great speed. The material of which it was made resembled corrugated iron. The edge of the wing looked as if two sheets of corrugated iron had been put together, forming a series of holes. The appearance of the assembly was also compared to organ pipes. Underneath each object there were two large holes, one at each side. While Mr. Holen had a sensation of oxygen deficiency in the air around him, he thought perhaps the objects used oxygen as a sort of fuel and that the holes acted as inlet manifolds. The material in the dome was very hard to describe with words, -it was not hammered, it did not look like crystal, but it seemed to be composed of some sort of stone or glass. The very construction resembled that of rock candy, and the finish appeared somewhat uneven and coarse. The objects were all of the same dimensions .e. some 4 m in diameter. During the entire observation a soft humming was heard, as from a bumble-bee in a match box.

Suddenly, as if at a word of command, all three objects tilted on edge with the domes pointed towards Mr. Holen. Then they accelerated swiftly with the broad side (underside) turned towards the direction of flight. In the same beautiful formation and at a low altitude they disappeared in a few seconds as small red points above the mountains to the north.

Holen did not feel any kind of air pressure when the objects started to fly away from him, nor did he have any sensation of smell during the observation. He was not afraid at all, but was only astonished during the incident. The reaction came afterwards, with a sleepless night, wondering what the phenomenon could have been. The subsequent last three days of his holidays, Holen stayed in the vicinity of the hut without using his gun. Since the observation, he has not been hunting and has sold his guns.

To him the objects were quite real -so real that he has come to the conclusion that they must have been man-made and belonged to somebody on this earth.

He believes that if he should experience the same thing again, then he would be afraid. However, at the time of investigation, the witness was willing to travel to Hessdalen and point out the site of observation. He is also certain that "they" are up there some place.

It should be added that Mr. Holen has never taken any interest in the UFO enigma.

Additional information:

1. As stated earlier, Mr. Holen was together with two hunting-mates; one of them, Mr. Thorvaldsen, stood in front and to the right of Holen. The other one, Mr. Somo, stood at a small hill in the terrain right in front of Holen. The distance between the three could have been 60-100 m. However, they did not see a thing.
2. A flight of grouse took off and flew towards them; one came right towards Holen and hid itself behind a stone before it came within range of fire. Mr. Thorvaldsen confirmed during an interview that a flight of grouse had been flying in front of them. He thought it was strange that they didn.t see the objects, but as he stated, the craft were soundless and we had our backs turned towards Holen, in addition we were busy with the grouse.
3. Mr. Holen waited for the grouse to fly. In the same moment he became aware of the shadow in the heather and turned swiftly around. According to his description of the three objects, he must have been deeply impressed by the sight.