Thanks for posting this good stuff! Star and flag!
I've heard of Will-o'-the-wisps before, but not this particular one, the "hessdalen phenomena".
I was fascinated to learn it has had a dedicated research station set up since 1998.
www.hessdalen.org...
They even have a webcam setup so you can watch the site live, here (It updates once per second): www.hessdalen.org... That's nice!
One possible cause of this is purported to be the infamous "swamp gas" that everyone laughs at now when they read a project bluebook explanation of a UFO, or more specifically:
The oxidation of phosphine and methane, produced by organic decay, can cause glowing light.
So it seems to me like maybe that "Project Hessdalen - Automatic Measurement Station (AMS)" should have some methane detectors setup to confirm if it has anything to do with methane but I don't see anything about that on their website.
If this is the cause, then it would seem to me that "a laser pointing on the phenomenom itself" as you put it could increase the oxidation rate of the methane if the laser is powerful enough. You may have seen powerful lasers burn through steel, but if the methane spontaneously oxidizes and produces light, then why couldn't a less powerful laser increase the oxidation? If that's what is happening then it's a sign of an increase in the chemical reaction of oxidation and not a sign of intelligence.
Another theory for the lights is possibly something like a piezoelectric effect from tectonic strain, but if that's the case, then shining a laser might not have any effect on the source of the light.
Here's another interesting photo of the phenomenon:
www.hessdalen.org...
Photo taken by Kurt Anderssen in 1982. It is taken close to the main road in Hessdalen, towards a flashing light above the mountain Finnsåhøgda. Kurt used a camera standing on a tripod, equipped with a 2000 mm lens
Great photo. There are more here: www.hessdalen.org...
Is it alien or otherwise intelligently controlled? Probably not, but undoubtedly some lights like this have been the source of some UFO reports, though maybe not as many as project Bluebook claimed in their infamous "swamp gas" explanation category.
There really are some fascinating mysteries still left to be solved, apparently this may be one of them.
[edit on 24-11-2009 by Arbitrageur]



