The blog about things that should not be forgotten
~ Tuesday, October 8, 2019 ~
There are currently five competing physical explanations for the Hessdalen lights, all with peer-reviewed literature behind them, none of which accounts for the complete observational record. This is not a failure of science. It is a description of where the science stands. I am going to set out each model, note what it explains well, and note where it runs out.
~ Saturday, June 22, 2019 ~
In the winter of 1984, a team from Østfold University College arrived in Hessdalen with radar equipment, magnetometers, and a spectrum analyser. They were there for five weeks. In the first week they recorded fifty-three observations, several confirmed simultaneously by both visual sighting and radar return. What the instruments showed over the following decades is worth setting out carefully, because the data is more specific — and more strange — than most popular accounts suggest.
~ Friday, March 15, 2019 ~
In central Norway, roughly 120 kilometres south of Trondheim, there is a farming valley twelve kilometres long with a permanent population of around 150 people. The river Hesja runs through it north to south. For most of the twentieth century, no one outside Holtålen municipality had heard of it. Since the early 1980s, it has been the site of the most sustained scientific investigation of anomalous luminous phenomena in the world.
~ Monday, February 18, 2019 ~
Paul is the most prolific author in the New Testament. He is also the apostle who devoted the largest portion of his writing to defending his right to write it. The defense in Galatians is not rhetorical modesty. It is a response to a specific charge, addressed to a specific audience, and its existence tells us something about the apostolic category that the canonical narrative does not state directly.