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pilot who crashed at the North Pole during World War II, and a tribe of wandering Eskimos who told a Canadian reporter in 1956 that they had found “a green land at the top of the world”. Leif Erickson and other Norse sea explorers claimed to have found a “lush green land" near the Arctic circle. Later mapmakers thought they were talking about Greenland, but Greenland is hardly green, much less lush, says Bork. Impressive evidence came with a radio transmission from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the great American polar explorer, as he flew over the North Pole in 1926. He said he saw faqa rather unusual encounter which I screwed up my eyes, unable to below him a land of mountains, forests, he wrote up in his book "The Lonely _ believe them, and twisted the seaplane green vegetation, lakes and rivers, Sea and the Sky”. this way and that, thinking that the air- am iak, Te eee a pick up the story just after ship must be hidden by a blind spot. snow and ice, and the Jan d he described 3.00pm on June 10th 1931, when Sir Dazzling flashes continued in four or belonged somewhere dn the theaparte Francis decided to fly north to avoid an five different places, but I still could =n6, ES ms Bertie & sounded oncoming storm in his path. Not pick out any planes. Then, out of a lot like what the Norsemen described wpound the storm we flew into calm some clouds to my right front, I saw and what we rediscovered. air under a weak lazy sun. I took out nother, or the same, airship advancing. (Source: "The Sun" 25 Feb.'92[USA]) the sextant and got two shots. It took I watched it intently, determined not to WAR BY THE NUMBERS? The following information was published in the Courier Mail, Brisbane, January 9th, 1934. The Zulu War began in 1880; it lasted one year, making 1881. Add the separate figures 1,8,8,1, to 1881 and you get 1899 - the date of the Boer War. It lasted three years, making 1902. To 1902 add the separate figures 1,9,0,2, and you get 1914 - the date of the Great War [WWI]. That lasted four full years, making 1918, Add the separate figures 1,9,1,8, to 1918 and you get 1937. Whatis going to happen then? (We know what happened after 1937: World War II, which lasted until 1945. Add the numbers 1,9,4,5 to 1945 and you get 1964 -the date of the Vietnam War, which lasted to 1973. Again, add 19.73 wo 1973 and you get 19931) (Sent in by “No Limit” Publications, Box 38167, Winnellie, NT 0821) DID SIR FRANCIS = thirty aay to rr them out, for = = ~ a ar ™ the engine kept back-firing, and my what happen is One, CHICHEST + SEE A attention wandered every time it did. had to chase it. It drew steadily closer, UFO? until perhaps a mile away, when sud- Suddenly, ahead and thirty degrees to . : : The late Sir Francis Chichester, while the left, there were bright flashes in “nly it vanished. Then it reappeared, making his historic solo plane flight several places, like the dazzle of a heli- “!0S¢ to where it had vanished. We pick up the story just after 3.00pm on June 10th 1931, when Sir Francis decided to fly north to avoid an oncoming storm in his path. "Round the storm we flew into calm air under a weak lazy sun. I took out the sextant and got two shots. It took me thirty minutes to work them out, for the engine kept back-firing, and my attention wandered every time it did. Suddenly, ahead and thirty degrees to the left, there were bright flashes in several places, like the dazzle of a heli- ograph. ee oe UFO? The late Sir Francis Chichester, while making his historic solo plane flight across the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand in 1931, I watched with angry intentness. It drew closer, and I could see the dull gleam of light on its nose and back. It came on, but instead of increasing in size, it diminished as it approached. When quite near, it suddenly became its own ghost - one second I could see through it, and the next it had vanished. I decided that it could only be a diminu- tive cloud, perfectly shaped like an air- ship and then dissolving, but it was uncanny that it should exactly resume the same shape after it once vanished. I turned towards the flashes, but those too had vanished. All this was many years before anyone spoke of flying saucers. Whatever it was I saw, it seems to have been very much like what people have since claimed to be flying saucers.” I saw a dull grey- white airship com- ing towards me. It seemed impossible, but I could have sworn that it was an airship, nosing towards me like an oblong pearl. ACID smauts!) Except for a cloud or two, there was nothing else in the sky. I looked around, sometimes catching a flash or a glint, and turning again to look at the airship I found that it had disappeared. ee 2a 56¢NEXUS JUNE-JULY 1992 (Source: "The Sun" 25 Feb. 92 [USA]) DID SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER SEE A