Group to recover Byrd aircraft from Antarctica

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=195324&thesection=news&thesubsection=general

A project by a Christ church based group to recover the remains of an aircraft which have been lying in a remote area of Antarctica for more than 20 years has been given the backing of the Antarctic Heritage Trust.

The Antarctic Aviation Preservation Society wants to recover the remains of a Fokker Super Universal aircraft damaged by a storm in 1929 while being used on Admiral Richard Byrd's first Antarctic expedition.

The project has now been endorsed by the Antarctic Heritage Trust which administers historic sites within New Zealand's Ross Dependency.

Secretary of the preservation society Chris Rudge said the trust has given its support in principle for the recovery.

It has also offered to provide guidance in identifying professional organisations and individuals for members of the preservation society to contact for technical conservation advice.

Mr Rudge said members of the society saw the letter they had received from the trust as a significant endorsement of the recovery project.

Members of the society also propose to clean up the site by removing leaking fuel drums that were left in the area in the late 1940s by a US Government expedition.

The Fokker Super Universal was wrecked during a storm in the Lake Aquamarine site when it was ripped from its tie-downs by a gust of wind estimated at around 240kmh.

The aircraft flew backwards for almost a kilometre before crashing back on to the surface of the lake.

Admiral Byrd's daughters gifted the aircraft to the people of New Zealand in 1998 as a thank you gesture for all the assistance New Zealanders gave to their father.

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Group to recover Byrd aircraft from Antarctica

16.06.2001 3.48 pm

FromSeven Days North of Tibet:

Page 123: [ Still from 78* 15 of latitude North ] Sunday, October 29th, Peter shot a white fox this morning close in to the ship. For some time lately, we have been seeing fox tracks in the mornings, and one Sunday Mogstad saw the fox itself. It is remarkable that there should be so many foxes on this drift ice so far from land.

Almost a year and a half later, Dr. Nansen came upon further evidence supportive of the existence of an opening, in the way of foxes. Of course, he himself didn't interpret the evidence as such. By his musing he shows that he really didn't know what to think.

From April 26th, 1894:
" I was not a little surprised yesterday morning when I suddenly saw the track of an animal in the snow. It was that of a fox, came about W. S. W. true, and went in an easterly direction. The trail was quite fresh. What in the world was the fox doing up here? There were also unequivocal signs that it had not been without food. Were we in the vicinity of land? I looked around for it, but the weather was thick all day yesterday, and we might have been near it without seeing it. In any case, a warm-blooded mamal in the eighty-fifth parallel. We had not gone far before we came across another fox-track; it went in about the same direction as the other, and followed the trend of the lane which had stopped us and by which we had been obliged to camp. It is incomprehensible what these animals live on up here, but presumably they are able to snap up some crustaceans in the open water ways. But why do they leave the coasts? That is what puzzles me most. Can they have gone astray? There seems little probablity of that."

The question that Hollow Earth logic raises is this: Were they really so far from land? Anomalies in terms of wildlife led Nansen to suspect the existence of uncharted land among the ice all through his journey. It is noteworthy in this regard that a huge and broad land formation was seen by polar explorers Cook, Peary and MacMillan.

Dharma/Dean, aka DD

Members,

In Alien Identities, Dr. Richard Thompson relates how Filiberto experienced an underground abduction experience via the ocean, that the craft entered a cavern world through the ocean. Here is something more along those lines from Mike Mott's book: http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/cartwebtv/af/hm01/index0.html

Here 'tis:

Often, UFOnauts and their henchmen-in-disguise, the MIB, are described by percipients as "wheezing," "gasping for breath," "staggering" as if drunk or unaccustomed to walking, often hairless and web-fingered, and with "bulging" or "frog-like" eyes. Are these symptoms of entities who are out of their accustomed greater pressurization, in the deep earth and sea caverns or ocean depths? Are they, in fact, "out of their element," "fish out of water" or "frogs on hot pavement," and suffering from the dread of all scuba-divers who depressurize too quickly, "the bends?"

Nearly everyone on Earth in this time of global civilization and global media is familiar with the enigma called UFOs. Vast numbers of these sightings and encounters occur over oceans, rivers, and large lakes, like the Great Lakes in the United States. Many reports exist of UFOs plunging into the depths of lakes and oceans, or bursting forth from the watery deep to zip away at alarming speed. Other encounters with gigantic, hovering craft, or dozens of smaller craft in formation, have been reported from seas and lakes around the world.

The Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union, Brazil, Norway, the United Kingdom, and many others nations, have played hours-long or days-long games of cat-and-mouse with these objects as they would travel underwater at alarming speeds which are impossible for human submersibles or missiles. Battleships and submarines have pursued them in vain, and have even collided with them.

Numerous cases of fishermen being abducted from docks and boats by UFOnauts have been reported even in recent years, and the high seas have a long tradition of strange lights, and passengers and crews vanishing from undamaged, eerily-empty ships. Such reports, in fact, go back for hundreds of years. These unknowns are generally termed USOs, or Unidentified Submarine Objects

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