The Project Hessdalen-related material from Odd-Gunnar Røed has been combined with another Hessdalen file, previously kept at AFU, mostly with materials received from Swedish ufologists who took part in the early stages of the project (1983-1985), or who have since regularly traveled to the  Norwegian valley for spotting out the situation there.  The archive on Hessdalen is arranged chronologically (just like our archive on the Swedish Project U.R.D.).

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Incoming correspondence where Odd-Gunnar Røed acts as a representative of the boards of Norsk UFO Center   and UFO-Norway.   Includes correspondence with Hans Aass, Per Andersen, Jørgen Bengtvig, Mark Ian Birdsall, Håkan Ekstrand, Hilary Evans, Timothy Good, Richard Haines, Peter A Hansen, Leif Havik, Mentz Kaarbø, Finn W Kalvik, Rauni Leena Luukanen and Kim Lykkegaard. Mostly no copies of outgoing letters and faxes.

Correspondence where Odd-Gunnar Røed acts as a representative of the boards of Norsk UFO Center   and UFO-Norway.   Includes correspondence with Philip Mantle (many letters from), Michi Nakamura, Christer Nordin, Semic, Norske Shell, Leif Norman Solhaug, Kolbjørn Stenødegård, Torfrid Urdal, Leif G Åstrand and a number of UFO-Norway internal communications. Mostly no copies of outgoing letters and faxes.  

Letters, protocols, pamphlets, instructions, questionnaires, address listings, sighting reports, clippings, magazine articles, maps, project economy, Project Hessdalen Newsletters, all related to the project. The first inaugurating executive committee meeting of Project Hessdalen's was on August 31, 1983.

Letters, protocols, pamphlets, instructions, questionnaires, address listings, sighting reports, clippings, magazine articles, maps, project economy related to the project. Includes reports from the first active phase of the project in January-February 1984.

Letters, protocols, pamphlets, instructions, questionnaires, address listings, sighting reports, clippings, magazine articles, maps, project economy related to the project. Includes reports of the second active phase of the project in early 1985 and later developments.

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Description

1

Trondheim UFO-förening 1967-1972.

File came sorted in a folder with 10 flaps: 1) SUFOI (Denmark), 2) Lionel Beer / Spacelink, 3) BUFORA, 4) other non-Norwegian contacts, 5) material from Trondheim UFO-förening; 6) Populaervitenskapelig Forening, 7) Contact (Norway) / UFO-Infomasjon (Oslo) / Sverre Wiseth, 8) UFO-societies in Bergen, Tromsö, Stavanger and Oslo, 9) International addresses, 10) general correspondence within Norway. Original order has been kept.

2

Finn Kalvik was elected chairman of the UFO-Bergen society in 1969. Vice chairman Asle Overholdt published fortean journal Fakta? (1969-1973) (which was not a membership publication). On Jan. 1, 1974 UFO-Bergen changed name into Norsk UFO Center (NUFOC) - Bergen.

File was ordered in two main parts:

a) Organizational papers (chronological): rules, summons for general annual meetings, member & board meetings; annual lists of board members; internal correspondence; Finn Kalvik’s talk Aug 29, 1967 before a Bergen society of industrialists (22 pages), member lists.

b) Correspondence (alphabetical): correspondence with Norwegian and international UFO researchers; sightings; subscriptions; administrative matters.

3

Norwegian UFO societies and ufologists from Trondheim, Bergen, Oslo and other areas formed this national group in 1973 with Kolbjørn Stenødegård as chairman and adminstrative leader. A very formalised organisational structure was built. The Bergen society became the report center and Finn Kalvik edited the centre’s publication Rapportnytt.

The volume has two main parts:

a) Chronological archive of internal NUFOC correspondence to / from Kalvik; rules, organisational schemes, flowcharts, summons & protocols; also a 9 page history of Norwegian ufology by Stenødegård; activities as Spielberg’s CEIII movie appeared on Norwegian cinema theaters in 1978; press releases.

b) Memberships catalogue (60+ members) with special skills, catalogued through a questionnaire to members.

4

In Jan 1981 Stenödegård stepped down as chairman and the previous formalised structure was partly dissolved. From 1982 the organisation took the name UFO-Norge (UFO-Norway) while merging with other societies previously not within the national structure.

Volume includes internal correspondence (mostly with Kalvik as sender or recipient; memos; summons for meetings; a 7 page summary of the 2^nd International UFO Congress in London (May 1981); economy papers.

5

A close collegial friendship grew between Finn Kalvik and Kolbjørn Stenødegård, resulting in a lively UFO-related correspondence for a decade, especially throughout the years 1974- 1980.

This thick volume is central to the collection, detailing the (generally) weekly contacts - by letter - between the two. Letters were sometimes very detailed (6-7 pages), especially from Stenødegård. Unfortunately, the Stenødegård collection was lost, after his death, on a garbage dump.

The volume ends with Stenødegård’s attempt to recruit (1981) Kalvik for his new skeptical society NIVFO (Norsk Institutt for Videnskapelig Forskning og Opplysning), which became Norwegian affiliate of the American CSICOP.

6

In 1972 Finn Kalvik became a member of the board of representatives for the Danish Skandinavisk UFO Information (SUFOI), being it’s representative for Norway. The board met semi-annually in Denmark and Kalvik often took the ferry to Copenhagen to take part in the meetings, delivering written semi-annual reports about his work for SUFOI, which included recruiting new subscribers in Norway and reporting Norwegian UFO sightings. Kalvik maintained a lively correspondence with X.P. Madsen   (leader of the SUFOI report centre), Peter A. Hansen, Erling Jensen, Ole Henningsen, C.H. Pedersen, Jørgen Bengtvig and other SUFOI board members.

7

A binder with Finn Kalvik’s correspondence with UFO researchers, UFO observers and journalists as a representative for NUFOC (1973-1981) and UFO-Norge (1982-1996). Some letters are also private. File also includes Norwegian translations of UFO articles, e.g. John Keel’s article in the January 1968 issue of Saga (23 p. translation by Eva Erichsen).

8

Includes: "SUFOI Månedsnytt" (internal newsletter); leaflets; Danish translation of the Allen Hynek letter to Science 1966; Danish report lists 1967-1969; materials from "the lecture department" of SUFOI; SUFOI rules; protocols from board meetings ("Representantskab", "Forretningsutvalg") 1973-1974; protocols from the meetings of the SUFOI information group; press releases.

9

Includes: protocols from board meetings ("Representantskab", "Forretningsutvalg") 1975-1977; protocols from the meetings of other SUFOI work groups; press releases; organisation plan (1977).

10

Includes: protocols from board meetings ("Representantskab", "Forretningsutvalg") 1977-1979; press releases; membership statistics; Project "UFO-movie" (1978); semi-annual reports from SUFOI sections; labels of Norwegian members of SUFOI; organization plan (1978); UFO congress, October 15,1978; a few documents from the 1980s.