Secret bunker

I was surprised to learn about the alleged underground facility in Norway “designed to accommodate two million people in the event of a cataclysmic event” [ FT356:73]. Norway has a small, widely dispersed population, and the logistics involved in herding two million of us together in a single location (in 1967 as well as today) would seem daunting. Apart from the practical difficulties, it would hardly be a smart move to collect all those people in one place anyway – except if the ‘cataclysmic event’ turned out to be famine, but then there wouldn’t be much point in accommodating them underground. I don’t know anything about this of course, and it may conceivably have been a topsecret project known to a select few; but in that case they would have had even more trouble gathering those two million people on short notice, wouldn’t they?

Like other countries during the Cold War, Norway did in fact construct a large number of bomb shelters, nuclear bunkers and military command centres. Some of these installations were secret, some not. None of them would be large enough to accommodate more than a few hundred people (a few thousand at the very most).

I haven’t seen Nick Redfern’s book, so it would be interesting to know if the letter from “an unnamed Norwegian politician” was shown in facsimile or merely alluded to. In any case, I think the writer must have been fantasising, or misinterpreting information about existing installations.

Even assuming that the facility actually existed... why would Betty Andreasson’s abductors take her to a Norwegian bomb shelter, of all places? I’m told these aliens have any number of secret underground cities of their own. Nils Erik Grande Oslo, Norway