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"Admiral Byrd, according to sources quoted by Dr. Bernard, led a Navy team into the polar opening and came upon this underground region. It is free of ice and snow, has mountains covered with forests; lakes, rivers and strange animals. But the news of his discovery was suppressed by the U.S. Government in order to prevent other nations from exploring the inner world and claiming it." (From an advertisement for The Hollow Earth, Fieldcrest Publishing Company.) Although the forbidden knowledge claimed to be revealed by Dr. Bernard's book might stretch the bounds of credulity possessed by most people, after last summer's flurry of UFO activity in the polar regions - especially Antarctica - military personnel stationed in the earth's "deepfreeze" are almost willing to accept even such a tale of an "underground world of supermen" to account for the phenomena which they observed. The value of sightings that occur in the Antarctic lies in the fact that the only people there to make the observations are trained scientific personnel. Not only have the scientific outposts seen the objects, but they have attempted to photograph them. The secretary of the Argentine navy made the following statement to the press, which was reprinted in Buenos Aires newspapers. "The Navy garrison in the Argentine Antarctica (Deception Island) observed, on July 3, at 19:40 hours (local tune) a giant lens-shaped flying object, solid in appearance, color mostly red and green, changing occasionally, with yellow, blue, white, and orange shades. The object was moving on a zigzagging trajectory toward the east but several times it changed course to the west and north with varied speeds and no sound. It passed at an elevation of 45 degrees over the horizon, distance estimated at about 10 to 15 kilometers from the base. "During the maneuvers performed by the object the witnesses were able to register its tremendous speeds and also the fact that it hovered motionless for about 15 minutes at an estimated altitude of about 5,000 meters (3.10 miles). The meteorological conditions for the area of the sighting can be considered as very good for this time of the year: clear sky, some strato-cumulus, moon in the last quarter and perfect visibility. "The object was witnessed by the meteorologist together with 13 members of the garrison and three Chilean sub-officers visiting the base. The observation lasted for 20 minutes and photographs of the object were taken.