Case description
The Torpo report concerns three schoolgirls walking home through snowy Norwegian woodland on November 23, 1954: Anne Storedal, ten, and Tora Storedal and Tora Moy Hauge, both nine. A later account by Oddvar Larsen, published in SIR! in March 1957, describes their afternoon observation of a small, round aerial object near the treetops.
They reportedly compared its lower portion to a black stone ball, approximately ten feet across, marked with yellow spots and red irregularities. The upper part appeared transparent. Inside, they described a humanlike or partly humanlike pilot dressed in black, with very large red spectacles covering the eye area. This specific description differs from later shorthand references to an unspecified small humanoid.
The object allegedly descended close above them, disturbed snow on the trees, and rose with a droning sound. As it encountered overhead wires, they reported sparks and an odor likened to frying sausages. They ran away. A disturbed strip in the snow was subsequently photographed and attributed to the object, although the girls had turned away during part of its movement.
A copy of Larsen’s retrospective report survives among Project Blue Book paperwork, marked as insufficient data rather than an investigated, confirmed landing. Its archival presence establishes preservation of the claim, not military validation of the pilot, object or proposed snow trace.
