Skydiver Nearly Struck By Meteorite

“I got the feeling that there was something, but I didn’t register what was happening,” Helstrup explained to NRK.no.

Something that looks like a stone hurtles past Helstrup – clearing him by only a few metres.

Later that day, Helstrup returned to Oslo. But he could not stop thinking about his strange experience, so he took time off from work to go back to the Rena area for a couple of days to look for the stone – but with no luck.

“When we stopped the film, we could clearly see something that looked like a stone. At first it crossed my mind that it had been packed into a parachute, but it’s simply too big for that.”

“The film caused a sensation in the meteorite community. They seemed convinced that this was a meteorite, perhaps I was the one who was the most sceptical.”