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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