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reported today that the search for the four along the Norwegian border had been fruitless. The three missing men turned up suddenly at the New Styl Station on January 12. The newspapers did not explain their overlong period of absence. No published interviews with them have been located. Lieutenant Wanberg’s tent was found on January 17, and his frozen body was discovered two or three miles from the campsite. Although fierce blizzards had been raging in the area, he had left his skis and all of his equipment in his tent and had gone into the mountains on foot to meet his death. There were no further published reports or explanations of this nanennnn AL Aeennen sequence of events. What impelled an experienced skier and outdoorsman to abandon his equipment and head into the mountains on foot? We’ll never know. While Lieutenant Wanberg was wandering around the mountains of northern Norway, the ghost flier was busying himself over three coun- tries. Approximately one-third of all the published reports of January- February 1934 were of sightings made on Sundays. The Swedish officials openly referred to the ghost flier as ‘the Sunday flier.” Several landings were reported in scattered areas. These all took place on Wednesdays. Traces were found in the snow at some of these landing sites, suggesting that the mystery planes were equipped with skis. There were many mass sightings involving the populations of whole villages and cities. The planes frequently flew over during snowstorms, sometimes circling low over villages and projecting powerful searchlights aeabe --4---4 at the ground. Let’s run down some of the many correlative factors in these incidents (compiled from the previously named newspapers): 1. Sunday, December 31, 1933. Mr. Olof Hedlund, ‘‘a reliable man with a good reputation,” saw “‘a large gray airplane, bigger than any Army plane”’ circle the Sorsele railway station three times at 3:45 A.M. . “Tt was single-winged and enclosed, like a passenger plane, and was equipped with pontoons or some sort of skis... No marks or insignia were visible.”’ (It was a night of the full moon. Clear skies.) ‘The engine stopped during the turns over the village.” 2. Wednesday, January 10, 1934. At 6 P.M. people in Tarna saw a brilliant object at an altitude of 1,000 feet. Turned and headed toward Arjeplog. Fifteen minutes later people in Arjeplog heard airplane engines and left their homes to watch it pass. 116 / Operation Trojan Horse