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The ghost fliers were capable of astounding maneuvers. The airplanes could cut their engines at low altitudes, sometimes only 100 feet or so in the air, and circle not once but three or four times without power. Try this few ann--nnatnne Pateete. 224 een wa te Le in a conventional airplane, and you’ll end up in a box. On April 30, 1934, Major General Reutersward, commanding gen- eral of upper Norrland, Sweden, issued the following statement to the press: Comparison of these reports shows that there can be no doubt about illegal air traffic over our secret military areas. There are many reports from reliable people which describe close observations of the enigmatic fliers. And in every case the same remark has been noted: No insignias or identifying marks were visible on the machine.... It is impossible to explain away the whole thing as imagination. The question is: Who are they? And why have they been invading our air territory? When all of the well-described ghost-flier sightings of 1934 are laid out on a map, their route becomes clear. They seemed to have followed a great arc week after week, circling southward into northern Norway, sweeping across Sweden, and heading north again over Finland. If they were following such an arc, the upper part of the circle had to lie somewhere in the Arctic Ocean, perhaps in the vicinity of the very thinly populated island of Spitsbergen. An alternate route could have brought them from northern Greenland. There have been many interesting sight- ings in Greenland. (In Chapter 1 we discussed a major event in which a formation of objects was picked up on radar as they swept westward over Deonnntnna \ Greenland.) The hundreds of UFO flights seemingly emanating from the Arctic regions and following routes south have helped reinforce the popular theory that flying saucers are coming from a hole in the North Pole. The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization has advanced the theory that the objects enter the earth’s polar regions from space in order to avoid the intense radiation belts that are concentrated in space above the temperate zones. Enigmatic radio signals were widely received throughout Sweden and Norway during the flights of the ghost fliers. These also became a topic of discussion in the press. A widely published dispatch datelined Umea, Sweden, January 11, Unidentified Airplanes / 119 Radio Signals from Nowhere