cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3211816

> ‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say::Authorities announced their theory after visiting the isolated Indigenous community where the attacks took place.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/science/t/332388

> A new finding boosts Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth originated in deep space.

I've been killing a lot of time lately with this website.

> Sixty-seven years ago, an eighteen-year-old Mennonite farm boy from a tiny Kansas town had a lake monster in his sights. Albert “Bert” Neufeld fired two shots from his hunting rifle in a vain attempt to bag Sinkhole Sam, the greatest monster legend Kansas has ever known. > > There are multiple reports of a massive, snakelike creature swimming in the Big Sinkhole—that’s the official name according to the Kansas State Department of Transportation—a few miles outside of Inman, a tiny town northwest of Wichita. The legend began surfacing in the summer of 1952, the year before Neufeld took his shot. The creature was described as being between fifteen and thirty feet long, a wormy beast as big around as the tire from a 1951 REO Speedwagon. > > [...]

The actual scale of 9/11 was much smaller than projected, with the footprint of the main event being restricted to the World Trade Center area of New York. Given such a small scale, the event could have been easily “performed” by a much smaller (but talented) group.

Aliens reporting to HQ: We're sorry, but there's no evidence of intelligent life on this planet. Just some slightly evolved slime molds.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/1416858

> It is with a heavy heart and a determined spirit that I stand, under oath, before you today, having made the decision based on the data I collected, and reported, to provide this information to the committee. I am driven in this duty by a conviction to expose what I viewed as a grave congressional oversight issue and a potential abuse of executive branch authorities. > > This endeavor was not born out of malice or dissatisfaction, but from an unwavering commitment to truth and transparency, an endeavor rooted in our inherent duty to uphold the United States Constitution, protect the American People, and seek insights into this matter that have the potential to redefine our understanding of the world. > > In an era, fraught with division and discord, our exploration into the UAP subject seems to resonate with an urgency and fascination that transcends political, social, and geographical boundaries. A democratic process must be adhered to when evaluating the data and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that public involvement is encouraged and respected. > > Indeed, the future of our civilization and our comprehension of humanity’s place on earth and in the cosmos depends on the success of this very process. > > It is my hope that the revelations we unearth through investigations of the Non-Human Reverse Engineering Programs I have reported will act as an ontological (earth-shattering) shock, a catalyst for a global reassessment of our priorities. > > As we move forward on this path, we might be poised to enable extraordinary technological progress in a future where our civilization surpasses the current state-of-the-art in propulsion, material science, energy production and storage. > > The knowledge we stand to gain should spur us toward a more enlightened and sustainable future, one where collective curiosity is ignited, and global cooperation becomes the norm, rather than the exception. > > Thank You

>Cult leaders use fear tactics to persuade naive people that they are under attack from the outside world and that only the cult and its charismatic leader can protect them. Ironically, their yearning for comfort, stability, approval, community and a twisted quest of 'meeting God' or 'attaining salvation' leads them to mental and physical torture and ultimately to their tragic end. > >The term “cult” most commonly refers to a group of individuals who live in a state of solitude from the rest of the world and have unusual beliefs. They tend to center on a charismatic figure—the cult leader—who orders the beliefs, behaviors, and customs of all members. The cult followers are influenced to such an extent that they feel incapable of living a free life outside the belief system of their cult. > >History has witnessed many such doomsday cults emerge, thrive, and end. Let’s take a look at some notorious cults that have caused widespread deaths and pain.

I'm in the mood for some cryptid movies. Anybody have any favorites or recommendations? Fiction or non-fiction, dramatic or comedic. All suggestions are welcome.

Cabin In The Woods is one of my all time favorite movies, although that might be a bit of a stretch to call a cryptid movie. Willow Creek is another decent movie.

>Kathy Griffin addressed wild conspiracy theories that have followed her in the years since her controversial Donald Trump photo scandal. > >"At least millions of people think this ... they think I'm a lizard person and that the real lizard Kathy Griffin is in Gitmo where I belong and there's someone playing me right now in a Kathy Griffin suit," the comedian said with a chuckle during an appearance on the Slandertown podcast hosted by Dan Novack, Ari Cohn, and Tanvi Valsangikar.

I've been listening to old episodes of Coast to Coast on Spotify quite a bit lately.

Even if you don't believe most of the content it's definitely fun theater of mind.

See the face of the 'Hobbit,' an extinct human relative

By Jennifer Nalewicki

In 2003, archaeologists discovered human-like skeletal remains inside a cave in Indonesia. Upon closer inspection, they determined that the individual — most likely female — had an abnormally small head and was of short stature, standing only 3 feet, 6 inches (106 centimeters). Due to the individual's hobbit-like characteristics, which differed from those of known hominins, researchers classified the individual as Homo floresiensis, a smaller offshoot of Homo erectus, an extinct human ancestor.

Now, a new facial approximation offers a glimpse of what this individual, nicknamed "the hobbit," may have looked like when it lived on the Indonesian island of Flores approximately 18,000 years ago.

When creating facial approximations, forensic artists often rely on a blend of scans of the individual skull and data points collected from human donor skulls to conduct a process known as "positioning of soft tissue thickness markers," which involves placing a series of small pins that correspond to the topography of the skin on the skull. This provides an idea of a face's general structure, according to a study published online on June 6.

However, because the specimen is of H. floresiensis and not of a modern human (Homo sapiens), there are not many comparable skulls to choose from. So researchers compared computed tomography (CT) scans of the well-preserved hobbit skull with scans of a male H. sapiens skull and scans of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) skull.

"We deformed [both] to adapt them to the structure of the skull of H. floresiensis and interpolated the data to get an idea of what [the hobbit's] face could look like," study co-researcher Cícero Moraes, a Brazilian graphics expert, told Live Science in an email. "The [hobbit] skull is almost complete, missing small parts in the region of the glabella (the part of the forehead directly between the eyebrows) and nasal bone, but fortunately it was possible to design them with the help of anatomical deformation."

Because the specimen's skull was virtually deformed and then was combined with another species — the chimps — the sex from the human database was no longer important, Moraes said.

The researchers created two final facial approximations. The first is a neutral black-and-white image of an ape-like individual with a broad nose, and the second is a more stylized version with facial hair.

"Roughly speaking, H. floresiensis probably had a less protruding nose than modern men, the mouth region was a little more projected than ours and the brain volume was significantly smaller," Moraes said. "The final appearance surprised us a lot, because when looking at the face, we can see a series of compatibility with modern men, but not enough to consider her as one of the group."

Gregory Forth, a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta who was not involved in the new research, thinks the facial approximation is a good way to help the public better understand an ancient human relative.

"As described, techniques of anatomical deformation appear to offer benefits for ongoing studies of Homo floresiensis," Forth, author of "Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid" (Pegasus Books, 2022), a book about H. floresiensis, told Live Science in an email. "Not only do they provide a method for creating more lifelike images of the morphologically primitive hominin to engage the general public; they potentially reveal new information about the species and its relationship to other hominids."

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Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and more. She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture. Prior to freelancing, Jennifer held an Editor role at Time Inc. Jennifer has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.

Long-Lost City of Drunkenness, Wealth and Impiety Hidden Under the Sea

Jess Thomson

The long-lost city of Rungholt, said to have been buried beneath the waves as punishment for its hedonistic ways, has now been mapped by archaeologists.

The ancient city, sometimes called the "Atlantis of the North Sea," was found off the north coast of Germany by researchers, having been submerged around the year A.D. 1362.

So the legend goes, Rungholt was notorious for its abundance of pleasures, leading its inhabitants to sinful ways, including drunkenness, impiety, and the flaunting of wealth, the Times reports. These sins came to a head one Christmas, when a group of drunk youths tried to make a priest give a pig the last sacrament at a local inn. The priest prayed to God, asking for the youths to be punished, and per the stories, the very next day, a storm arrived and wiped Rungholt from the map.

The existence of Rungholt has long been debated, but researchers from Kiel University, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, the Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State Archaeology Department of Schleswig-Holstein, recently found remains of a church—thought to have been originally in the center of the lost city—within mudflats in the North Frisian Wadden Sea.

"We discovered the church during one week of fieldwork this May, when we were following a row of terps (hidden beneath recent tidal flat sediments) by geophysical prospection," Hannah Hadler, an archaeologist with the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz's Institute of Geography and part of the Rungholt research team, told Newsweek.

A terp is an artificial dwelling mound found in northern Europe and used to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and flooding.

"The church was on one of the newly discovered terps, but there were no other buildings around it," Hadler said. "This is not surprising, as other churches in North Frisia are also placed on a terp of their own. We knew that we found the remains of a church by its characteristic foundation with an angular structure in the west, where the tower was probably located, and a round structure in the east (the apse)."

"Compared to other large churches in the region, we saw that our remains were also of the right dimension. We then confirmed our assumption by coring and small excavations that—among others—revealed brick fragments," she said.

Prior to this discovery, there was no solid evidence that previous findings in the area were related to Rungholt. Now, the church and other discoveries point strongly towards this area being the location of the lost hedonistic city.

"What we can say is that all so far known settlement remains—terps, dikes, tidal gates—are of enormous size and the archaeological finds from the tidal flats show a wealthy and certainly important settlement involved in international maritime trade," Hadler previously told Newsweek.

She said: "Our new results—the new 2-kilometer [1.2-mile] row of terps and the central large church—further emphasize the importance but certainly also [the] wealth of the settlement. So, from our point of view, it is highly likely that the settlement is Rungholt."

As with many traces of the past, there are a number of threats facing the preservation of the remains.

"So far, the remains are covered by tidal flat sediment and protected against further erosion," Hadler said. "However, the geophysical image of the terp already shows strong signs of erosion and it is probably sheer luck that this site actually survived more than 600 years in the tidal flats."

"From nearby sites we see that everyday tidal dynamics, i.e. waves, tides, storms, meandering tidal inlets, may cause severe erosion within a few decades or even years. It is thus nearly impossible to prevent the remains from long-term erosion, which increases the need for a detailed investigation of the site."

Iraq has successfully recovered over 23,000 archaeological pieces during the past three years, with many of them being distributed between the US and Britain, according to Ahmed Al-Alyawi, who heads the House of Manuscripts body.

Al-Alyawi, who is also a spokesperson of Iraq’s Culture Ministry, also revealed the presence of 25 archaeological missions currently operating in Iraq, in collaboration with Iraqi experts, spanning German and Italian institutes and universities.

Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Alyawi affirmed that the ministry continues its relentless efforts to recover Iraqi antiquities from abroad.

The ongoing efforts have resulted in the recovery of 17,338 archaeological pieces from the US and various other countries.

Additionally, Iraqi authorities have successfully retrieved the Kish tablet, which bears the inscription of the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as the Sumerian ram artifact.

Al-Alyawi added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has handed over all these pieces to the General Authority for Antiquities in the Ministry of Culture, where they have been stored in an Iraqi museum.

Meanwhile, the Kish tablet and the Sumerian ram artifact have been put on display.

Regarding the methods used for the theft and smuggling of this vast number of archaeological pieces, Al-Alyawi mentioned that “the looting has been occurring for many years, affecting artifacts from various Iraqi civilizations such as Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and others.”

Most of these artifacts were extracted through random digging by organized thieves, within the framework of what is known as the antiquities trade, which is both unfortunate and catastrophic.

“Excavated pieces were smuggled to a Gulf country and from there, further smuggled to the US,” revealed Al-Alyawi.

“However, through persistent efforts by Iraq, with the assistance of certain US entities, particularly the Department of Justice, we have managed to recover them,” he said.

Mysterious Island: THE CLEMENTE MONSTER

By Jim Watson - June 28, 2013

“Mystery of waters, never slumbering Sea!” — James Montgomery

Ask the average person on the street to name a few of the most legendary, elusive and mythical(?) beasts in the history of humanity and far and away the survey would say “Bigfoot” and “the Loch Ness Monster.”

“Mystery of waters, never slumbering Sea!”

— James Montgomery

Ask the average person on the street to name a few of the most legendary, elusive and mythical(?) beasts in the history of humanity and far and away the survey would say “Bigfoot” and “the Loch Ness Monster.”

No other criptids have captured the world’s imagination, at least in Western cultures, to a greater extent than these two big lugs and at one point in our history anyway, the waters around Catalina were the location of a number of sightings of our very own “Nessie.”

The sightings occurred many years ago and all of the principals involved have long since passed from this early plane. But the number of sightings and the distinction and prestige of those involved make for a fascinating bit of local lore.

Named not for the town of San Clemente, but for the Island of the same name, the Clemente Monster was first reported in the early 20th century. “It had a great columnar neck or body,” claimed author and attorney Ralph Bandini on a fateful fishing trip off Catalina in 1916. “Surmount this neck or body with a flat-topped, blunt reptilian head.”

Bandini went on to describe the eyes as “two huge, round, bulging” ones—features that would be common to subsequent sightings.

“Two things stood out above all others,” continued Bandini. “Those enormous eyes and its unbelievably huge bulk. I never want to look at such eyes again.”

In the June 1991 issue of National Fisherman magazine, Bandini elaborated on his sighting. “It was as big as a submarine, like something out of prehistoric times.” In this 1991 version, he also claims to have fired a number of shots at the beast with his 30-30 rifle; an act which had the desired effect of sending the critter scurrying into the depths.

Most of the sightings of the Clemente Monster occurred during the 1920s, including a close encounter in 1920 or 1921 by none other than George Farnsworth, after whom Farnsworth Bank off Catalina’s windward side is named. “Whatever it was,” said Farnsworth, “(it) stood 15 to 20 feet out of the water…I seized the glasses and had a perfect view because we were running towards it.”

“Its eyes were 12 inches in diameter, not set on the side like an ordinary fish, but more central. It had a big mange of hair, about two feet long,” he said. “I saw it afterwards several times,” he continued. “Lots of people said it was a sea elephant. Well, I know a sea elephant … This was no sea elephant.”

Was this Mr. Farnsworth’s sneaky way of keeping others out of his fishing grounds? If so, he apparently enlisted the help of several others over the years.

One of the Tuna Club’s most famous early members, George C. Thomas III, described as “not given to tall tales or exaggeration” reported a sighting in the mid-1920s; an encounter that appears in the book “History of the Tuna Club.”

“What the hell was that?,” asked Thomas of his fishing partner upon seeing “a big black form, like the sail of a Japanese albacore boat.” As they approached the creature, it submerged out of sight. The last recorded sighting of the Clemente Monster (that I could find anyway) took place in 1927 off the Orange County shore. Howard Wilson, the Orange County editor of the Los Angeles Times in those days, claimed to have seen our seafaring friend about 400 yards off Laguna Beach He claimed the “brownish” monster had a camel-like head and neck, along with “eyes like dinner plates and a neck that extended some ten feet above the surface of the sea.”

Now, in the 21st Century—whether from our waters or from our minds—the Clemente Monster has apparently moved on.

Jim Watson is the author of “Mysterious Island: Catalina,” available on Amazon, Kindle and in stores all over Avalon.

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> SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A member of South Dakota’s House of Representatives District 1 went on a podcast recently and claimed that Mount Rushmore is a “freemason shrine” and a portal for demonic entities to enter and spread communism throughout the country. > > A clip from a Now Is The Time podcast episode with Joe Donnell, from Sisseton, went viral on Twitter recently. As of Tuesday, June 27, the tweet reached 558,8000 people and had over 500 comments, 968 retweets and 1,378 likes. > > “What the Lord has revealed to me is that Mount Rushmore has a direct ley line to Washington, DC.,” Donnell said in the podcast clip that was tweeted. “In order to understand the spiritual realm of what we’re facing, we have to realize that in order for the enemy to do anything, it needs the agreement of human beings. In order to be empowered to do more damage he needs the agreement of human beings and oftentimes that comes in the form of an altar that acts as a portal for other demonic things. What we’re really dealing with in that portal is communism.That witchcraft, altar, those things that are happening in the Black Hills, what we’re dealing with is communism. It’s the ideology and all the demonic entities and spirits behind that.” > > The Mount Rushmore National Memorial said it would not respond to Donnell’s comments. > > Donnell is also a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe. The land that Mount Rushmore was built on is considered sacred to Native Americans. > > The podcast, titled “State Representative Joe Donnell From South Dakota Sharing Vital Info About Heavens Opening” was published to promote a religious event called “Open the Heavens: Let God Arise” in Rapid City. Donnell was listed as a guest speaker for the event. > > The organizer of the conference, Meri Crouley, is also the host of Now Is The Time podcast and interviewed with Donnell. Crouley’s podcast covers theories like the deep state, COVID-19 vaccines and former President Donald Trump’s indictment. > > An executive proclamation was signed by Gov. Kristi Noem that proclaimed June 3, 2023 as “Open the Heavens Day.” > > KELOLAND News reached out to Donnell for a comment and will update the story once we receive one. > > The South Dakota Democratic Party Chair Jennifer Slaight-Hansen sent a letter asking Gov. Noem to renounce the statements by Donnell. > > “I have two questions: 1) is Governor Noem in agreement with Rep. Donnell’s statement that Mt. Rushmore is a portal that is spreading communism throughout America, and 2) if not, will she publicly repudiate him?,” Slaight-Hansen said in the letter. > > Donnell was elected during the general election in November 2022. He also ran for the District 1 Senate seat and lost in the Republican primary. The South Dakota Republican Party chose Donnell to replace Logan Manhart on the 2022 general election ballot for District 1 House after Manhart withdrew from the race. > > Donnell’s comments come to life after the National Park Services denied Gov. Noem’s request for fireworks at the memorial for a third year in a row due to objections from Native Americans who recognize the land as sacred to the Lakota Sioux tribe. > > Lakota people refer to the area in the Black Hills as “Paha Sapa,” or “the heart of everything that is.” > > In 2022, The chairman of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, Harold Frazier spoke with KELOLAND News about tribal councils’ objections to fireworks at Mount Rushmore and mentioned the importance of the land. > > “It shouldn’t be disturbed in any way, you know, we love the peace and the tranquility of the Hills,” Frazier said. “I mean, many times we go out there for our prayers and for our medicines and things like that,” Frazier said.

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Soviet Claims Discovery Of Part Of Lost Continent

IGY Exploration Report Translated

By RAY BRUNER Blade Science Editor

Soviet scientists today have reported the discovery of a remnant of the lost continent of Lemuria, Believed by some 19th Century scientists to have sunk under the Indian ocean more than a million years ago.

The discovery was reported to have been made during the seven-month voyage of the Russian exploration ship Vityaz, as part of Soviet participation in the third International Geophysical Year.

It is possible the announcement may reopen an argument which was thought to have ended by the beginning of the 20th Century. The argument was started by the noted German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. He contended there must have been a vast land area continuous over the present Indian Ocean, Africa and the Malayan Archipelago.

Lemur Distribution

Its existence, he said, was the only way to explain the present geographical distribution of lemurs and other forms of life. Lemurs are primates lower on the scale than apes and monkeys.

After he had started the argument, fossil remains of lemurs were found in localities to discredit the German zoologist's contention, It was generally thought that this would settle the matter.

The Russian announcement, which has been translated in a report issued today by the U.S. Department of Commerce, stated that the Vityaz crossed the equator six times in voyages over the western portion of the Indian Ocean.

"Here, close to the shores of Africa, is an area of an enormous number of sunken islands," the Russians said. "They are remnants of the lost Lemuria."

Sunken Islands

The scientists probed the ocean bottom at a depth of about three miles. They found sand under a layer of ordinary ocean silt about six feet thick. This, apparently was the surface of the lost continent.

Further investigation disclosed the existence of sunken islands surrounded by coral reefs.

"The system of winds and currents in this region, the presence of submarine mountains and the island archipelagos create conditions favorable to live," the Russians stated.

They also reported discovering new deep currents and "approximately 100 types of previously unknown mammals and fish."

Extensive Elevations

They said many areas studied, which appear on maps as deep blue spots indicating great depths, revealed extensive elevations and individual mountains.

It is possible that the report of the discovery of Lemuria can be substantiated during the forthcoming intensive exploration of the Indian Ocean by 11 nations, including the U.S. and the USSR. This cooperative effort is being organized by the International council of Scientific Unions, which has its headquarters at The Hague.

The floor of the Indian Ocean is less known than the visible surface of the moon. Explorations of the floors of the world's deep water is at about the same stage as the exploration of the new world at the time of John Cabot in the 15th Century when he made his historic voyages to North America.

Myths On Atlantis

Controversies over the lost continent of Lemuria are less well known than the myths of the lost Atlantis, which is still subject of considerable speculation. Since Plato, in ancient Greece, first popularized the Atlantis legend, it is estimated that more than 5,000 books have been written about it.

While Lemuria was supposed to have sunk below the depths of the ocean before the dawn of man, the sinking of Atlantis was believed to have occurred in much more recent times.

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W. Glenn Dennis Interview, 11/19/1990

Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Office of the Secretary. Office of the Administrative Assistant. Office of the Deputy for Security and Special Investigative Programs. Research Declassification Team. (1987 - ) (Most Recent)

Series : Moving Images Relating to "The Roswell Reports" Source Data Research Files, compiled 1946 - 1996 Record Group 341: Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force (Air Staff), 1934 - 2004

Production Date: 11/19/1990

Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted Use Restriction(s): Restricted - Possibly Note: Some or all of this material may be restricted by copyright or other intellectual property rights restrictions.

Scope & Content: This video recording contains an interview with mortician W. Glenn Dennis, alleged firsthand witness to events at Roswell Army Air Force Hospital concerning recovered alien bodies.

Downed 'Object' Aim Of Pennsylvania Hunt

PITTSBURGH (UPI) -U.S. Army officials and the Pennsylvania State Police Thursday night sealed off an area in southwesters Pennsylvania explaining there "is an unidentified flying object in the woods."

A spokesman for a team of radar experts from the Army's 662 Radar Squadron here said, "We don't know what we have yet."

After sealing off a wooded, isolated area at Kecksburg, Pa., about 20 miles south of here, officers said Army engineers were being called to the scene.

The object was found after a flash of orange fire streaking across the sky was reported by airplane pilots and residents in seven states.

Pentagon sources indicated the flash could have been a meteorite.

State police went to the Kecksburg, Pa., area after a woman reported seeing a "round, smoldering object crash to the earth."

No Rockets Fired

Earlier reports said the flash could have been a high altitude test rocket fired over Lake Erie but National Guard and Air Force officials denied any rockets had been fired.

9 NOV 1946

Big Navy Antarctic Force Poised With Planes and 5,000 Experts

North American Newspaper Alliance

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8--One of the largest polar task forces ever assembled by the United States Navy is poised to make a 10,000 mile jump to the Antarctic, it was learned tonight.

In a race to gain "strategic" control of what suddenly has become a vital part of the world, the Navy is preparing to send more than a score of planes, a dozen icebreakers and airplane tenders and as many as 5,000 technicians and trained polar experts to explore the subcontinental South Pole.

The mission, described officially as a "top secret" Navy project, is planning to get under way about Dec, 2, it was disclosed, with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, polar hero and veteran explorer, in charge.

Trained men are being drawn from as far as Alaska and the Aleutians to help man the flotilla of small ice-breakers and dog-sled teams for the project. Personnel transferred to the United States now is being assembled at East and West Coast ports.

Called "Operation High Jump" by Navy planners, the project is expected to head directly for the "Little America" site formerly occupied by Admiral Byrd and to spend at least two months photographing the icy wilderness and exploring the ice cap for evidence of uranium and other sources of atomic energy.

Admiral Byrd, now polar adviser to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, will be assisted by Capt. Richard H. Cruzen, task force commander, who has direct charge of assembling the men, ships, and materials for the expedition.

Latest Navy reports indicated that if Admiral Byrd--who now is in semi-retirement--is not able to make the trip, Captain Cruzen will head the expedition. If Admiral Byrd goes, however, it will mark his fourth to the South Pole area and his sixth expedition into polar regions.

Officers connected with the expedition declined to state specifically what would be the main object of the trip, but a high-ranking officer emphasized privately that is was of a "highly strategic" nature.

To Test Personnel, Weapons

The expedition not only is part of an international race to find new sources of atomic energy, he indicated, but also is intended to test personnel and new weapons under Antarctic conditions and to map the South Pole area into an operational weather weapon in the event of another war.

The South Polar region, it was pointed out, is the breeding place of cyclones and the "Pandora box" from which weather for all parts of the world originates. Data of winds, currents and ice-flow here would provide the whole backlog on weather in Europe and America.

An officer supervising the expedition's personnel said the project had no connection with another private expedition to the antarctic sponsored by the American Antarctic Association and the New York Geographical Society.

The latter expedition is headed by Naval Comdr. Finn Ronne and Capt. Carl R. Eklund of the Army Air Forces and includes eighteen scientists. It is not scheduled to leave until Jan. 15.

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

BERLIN, Dec. 19. --The wartime logbook of a german submarine was offered today in support of the contention that sea monsters such as that recently reported seen in Loch Ness, Scotland, exist.

Baron von Forstner, commander of the U-28 during the war, and five of his crew say they saw such a monster in the Atlantic on July 30, 1915. They believe it was killed by the explosion of the British steamer Iberian, which was torpedoed by the submarine.

After the Iberian had sunk almost vertically stern first, there was an explosion at what Baron von Forstner judged to be a depth of about 3,300 feet. Shortly afterward, he and the members of the crew declare, a gigantic animal wriggling violently, came to the surface with pieces of the wreckage and was cast fifty feet in the air, but it disappeared ten or fifteen seconds before a picture could be taken.

Baron von Forstner and the chief engineer evolved a drawing of the monster and added it to the submarine's logbook. The monster was said to be about sixty-five feet long, had two legs in front and behind, all strongly webbed, and resembled a crocodile, so the crew named it "the . submarine crocodile." The Baron believes that the explosion that threw the animal out of the water must have killed it.

In addition to the commander and the chief engineer, the two officers of the watch, the helmsman and another member of the crew were standing on the conning tower. All six men say they saw the monster plainly and agreed in their descriptions of it, which correspond completely with the descriptions of those who reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, except that no fins were visible.

Baron von Forstner believes that it is fully possible for the extreme depths of the see to conceal such animals as yet unknown and that it is possible one could have found its way into the shallower waters of Loch Ness gradually, thus accustoming itself to the altered pressure.

https://www.nytimes.com/1933/12/20/archives/uboat-crew-tell-of-a-sea-monster-wartime-commander-and-men-say-they.html?smid=url-share

MADRID, Sept. 6 (UPI)-- The Spanish Air Force said today an "unidentified flying object" had eluded one of its supersonic jet fighter-bombers as a rash of flying saucer reports spread from Latin America to Europe.

The sighting of a bright object in the night sky yesterday over Madrid caused a traffic jam and sent the United States-built F-104 jet scrambling to find out what it was.

An official air force announcement said the pilot climbed to an altitude of more that 50,000 feet and reported the object was still above him when he had to return to base for fuel. The pilot of another plane flying at 36,000 feet reported seeing the same object.

Air force radar screens picked up the object and said it was flying at 90,000 feet and moving slowly.

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/07/archives/ufo-in-sky-over-madrid-eludes-spanish-air-force.html?smid=url-share

A 590‐foot cargo ship with a crew of 37 has been missing since early Friday and is feared sunk in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle, the Coast Guard reported yesterday.

After being directed to the scene 140 miles due west of Bermuda by a United States Navy P‐3, an Argentine freighter recovered an overturned lifeboat froth the vessel, the Sylvia L. Ossa, and detected an oil slick. The missing ship had been bound from Brazil to Philadelphia with a cargo of iron ore.

Hours later, a British ship, the Portland Glenn, picked up a life preserver from the missing vessel with burn marks on it.

“They're picking up quite a bit of debris in the area now,” said a spokesman for the Coast Guard's rescue coordination center, Atlantic division, on Governors Island.

The search was called off two hours after dark last night and will resume at daylight today, the spokesman announced.

Thus far, he said, two long‐range Coast Guard planes, one from Elizabeth City, S.C., and the other from St. Peterburgh, Fla., as well as a Navy plane from Bermuda have searched 8,200 square miles, beginning at a point where the ship was last heard from.

Ships in the area have also been alerted.

“It's not easy to miss a 590‐foot‐long ship on a day with visibility of more than 40 miles and calm seas, so it doesn't seem too hopeful that it's still afloat,” the Coast Guard spokesman said.

Triangle a ‘Mysterious Area’

The Bermuda Triangle, an area connecting Norfolk, Va., Puerto Rico and Bermuda, has been the subject of considerable speculation in books and articles because of its reputation as a mysterious graveyard where hundreds of men, ships and planes have supposedly disappeared without any natural explanation.

“We don't recognize the triangle as having any special qualities over other areas,” the Coast Guard spokesman said, “but it's in that area where the ship was last heard from.”

The Coast Guard was notified that the ship was missing at 9:30 A.M. Friday by the owner, the Omnium Shipping Company of 42 Broadway. This was 41/, hours after the vessel was due in Philadelphia.

The 15,028‐gross‐ton ship, which has a Panamian registry, was built in 1943 and extensively overhauled in 1962.

The owner of the ship could not be reached for comment.

According to the Coast Guard, the owner said when he called Friday that he had last heard from the ship early Wednesday. The report was that the vessel had run into gale‐force winds and high seas and would be late in its scheduled arrival because of reduced speed.

The ship's position was given as 340 miles due west of Bermuda, roughly 600 miles out of Philadelphia, in the Wednesday message. This was the last message from the ship.

The Coast Guard spokesman said that, following standard procedure, the service had waited more than 24 hours to see the ship would be heard from or would appear in port. Then a search was started.

The spokesman said a ship in serious trouble was invariably able to get off “mayday” or emergency distress message, which would result in an immediate search and. rescue operation.

Water temperatures in the area were reported last night to be a relatively warm 79 degrees Farenheit. Waves, however, averaged 6 to 12 feet, with strong gusts up to 30 knots.

MOSCOW, May 20 — Plato, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and all you science fiction writers who have puzzled over the riddle of the lost continent of Atlantis, move over for Prof. Andrei Arkadyevich Ak.syconov.

Soviet science may maintain that the so‐called Bermuda Triangle, an area in the Atlantic where mysterious disappearances of ships and planes are said to have occurred, is nothing but water and that flying saucers are optical illusions. But Professor Aksyonov says he has photographic evidence of manmade stone walls and staircases at a depth of 200 feet in the Atlantic Ocean, about 275 miles southwest of the Portuguese coast. Maybe.

“It's possible that .it's part of Atlantis, maybe not the whole thing, but part,” Dr. Aksyonov said. He is a man of established scientific reputation, deputy director of the Institute of Oceanology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

His evidence, he concedes, is limited: two pictures showing 11 stones that he believes bear the mark of human handiwork.

The photographs were taken two years ago, not by Dr. Aksyonov but by a colleague, Vladimir I. Marakuyev,

The New York Times/May 21, 1979

A Soviet scientist says he found ruins on Ampere Seamount. with a submersible camera on the submerged summit of the Ampere Seamount, a dormant underwater volcano about midway between Lisbon and the Madeira archipelago. The ocean floor around the seamount is more than 10,000 feet below the surface.

In his office at the institute, Dr. Aksyonov said recently that he was sorry but he could not show the pictures. “They belong to Marakuyev, and he is very sick with a heart condition in hospital,” he said. “I think they'll be published in one of our scientific journals sometime soon.”

Mr. Marakuyev apparently did not realize what he had until late last year, when he got around to developing film from a 1977 exploration of the seamount that he had made in the Soviet research vessel Moskovsky Universitet. “I don't know why it took him so long to get to them,” Dr. Aksyonov said.

An Offer of Directions

He will not say he has discovered Atlantis, but he offers free directions to anybody else who wants to. “All you would have to do is take a ship with the right equipment to the Ampere Seamount, go down 60 meters, find the stones and bring them up to see if they are man‐made or not,” he said. “It's my personal opinion that they are.”

Accounts of the discovery were published in Europe earlier this spring, and Dr. AksyOnov says they brought amused smiles from oceanographer ‘colleagues in Denmark.

“I asked them, ‘Did any of you believe this?’ They said ‘No,’ and they said they laughed a lot.”

As he describes the pictures, of total of eight only two are really interesting.

‘Typical Wall From Antiquity’

“One of them shows eight stones —four 'square ones and four'. rounded ones, in a line about three and a half or four feet long,” he said. “Specialists who've looked at it say it's a typical wall from antiquity. The second photo shows three equally spaced stones at the left‐hand edge, and it appears to be part of a staircase.”

Dr. Aksyonov just returned from an unrelated oceanographic cruise in his research ship, the Vityaz.

“Heinrich Schliemann, the great 19th‐century German archeologist, found the ruins of Troy in Turkey by studying the poetry of Homer very attentively,” he said. Mr. Schliemann, too, got a skeptical reception at first.

Atlantis was described by Plato in two of his dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias. “Plato says that it was located in the Atlantic Ocean and on an island and [tat the tribes living on it took part in wars in southern Europe and in North Africa before one day the island sank between walls of water,” Dr: Aksyonov said. “I believe that the objects in the pictures once stood on the surface too, though specialists say it's difficult to believe the seamount could have sunk so far.” he said.

Cites Lisbon Earthquake

He says that the catastrophic earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 caused a tidal wave and a flood that left part of the city forever beneath the sea. Something similar, he surmises, may have happened to an island of which the Ampere Seamount would be the submarine remnant.

The legends around Atlantis have been nourished over the centuries. It has been variously located in America, Scandinavia, the Middle East and the Canary Islands, 500 miles south of the Ampere Seamount.

“The ocean is full of mysteries,” Dr. Aksyonov says, “and our investigations are the beginning of our understanding.”

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