027 The Unsolved Mystery of the Hessdalen Lights

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In a remote valley in Norway, mysterious glowing orbs have been appearing for decades. Charles and Sophia dive into the baffling case of the Hessdalen Lights, exploring the latest scientific theories—from strange dust plasmas to electrical charges in rocks—that attempt to explain one of the world's most enduring mysteries.

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00:00Truth and trends I'm Charles and with me in the studio is Sophia today we're taking a trip to a

00:14remote valley in Norway where something truly bizarre has been happening for decades the

00:18Hestalen lights that's right Charles these are glowing mysterious orbs of light that appear in

00:24the sky sometimes for just a few seconds sometimes for over an hour they can be white yellow or even

00:31red and despite decades of scientific investigation we still don't know what they are it's a real life

00:36X-file so what are the theories well the most popular scientific theory right now involves

00:40something called a dust plasma the valley is rich in certain minerals like scandium and radon and

00:45some researchers believe that the ionization of air and dust particles by alpha particles creates

00:50a glowing orb of plasma so it's like a scientific version of a ghost I have a very limited knowledge

00:55of physics but that sounds plausible it's a very elegant theory because it explains a lot of the

01:00characteristics of the lights like their temperature and their movement but there's

01:04another theory right something about stressed out rocks yes it's called the piezoelectricity

01:09hypothesis the valley is full of crystal rich rocks and when they're under mechanical stress from

01:13seismic activity they can generate an electrical charge so the rocks are literally glowing that's

01:18incredible it is and for decades scientists have had a permanent observatory in the valley to

01:24monitor the lights they've used radar geiger counters magnetometers you name it they're trying

01:30to figure out what's causing them but there's no consensus yet so it's not a UFO the extraterrestrial

01:35hypothesis lacks scientific evidence and is generally seen as a last resort but given the lack of a

01:39definitive explanation it's not hard to see why people jump to that conclusion so we're talking

01:43about a natural phenomenon that we just don't understand yet yes that's the most likely explanation

01:48but the fact that we're still trying to figure it out is what makes it so fascinating it's a great

01:53example of how much we still have to learn about our own planet so Charles it feels like we've covered

01:57the most interesting aspects of this mystery we have it's a great mystery so thank you for being with

02:03us today until next time

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