Folks, here is a brief excerpt from Admiral Byrd's book "Alone".... It makes me wonder exactly what it was that he saw here, it most certainly wasn't an ordinary star. Gary
(excerpt)
. . . I again saw in the southeast, touching the horizon, a star so bright as to be startling. The first time I saw it several weeks ago I yielded for an instant to the fantastic notion that somebody was trying to signal me; that thought came to me again this afternoon. It's a queer sort of star, which appears and disappears irregularly, like the winking of a light....
What was this that Admiral Byrd saw? Which he describes in his own words. Gary
(another excerpt)
. . . I have just seen (at 9 p.m.) a curious phenomenon. At first it appeared to be a ball of fire,
which was smaller and redder than the sun. It bore about 205 degrees true. I couldn't identify it.
Going below, I got the field glasses and kept watching it. It changed from deep red to silver, and
every now and then blanked out. It was astonishing how big it looked at first...
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