...PBM pilot Lieutenant Commander David E. Bunger lifted from the bay and headed south for the continent some hundred miles distant. At this time the USS Currituck was off the Shackleton Ice Shelf on the Queen Mary Coast of Wilkes Land. Reaching the coastline, Bunger flew west with cameras humming. Suddenly the men in the cockpit saw a dark spot come up over the barren white horizon and as they drew closer, they couldn't believe their eyes.
Byrd later described it as a "land of blue and green lakes and brown hills in an otherwise limitless expanse of ice."
Bunger and his men carefully inspected the region and then raced back to the ship to tell the others of their discovery. Several days later Bunger and his flight crew returned for another look, finding one of the lakes big enough to land on. Bunger carefully landed the "flying boat" and slowly came to a stop. The water was actually quite warm for Antarctica, about 30°, as the men dipped their hands in to the elbow. The lake was filled with red, blue, and green algae, which gave the lakes their distinctive color. The fly boys "seemed to have dropped out of the twentieth century into a landscape of thousands of years ago when land was just starting to emerge from one of the great ice ages," Byrd later wrote. Byrd called the discovery "by far the most important, so far as the public interest was concerned of the expedition." More
(Wiki) U.S. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (Oct. 25, 1888–March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer [1], pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.
Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. He is also known for discovering Mount Sidley, the largest dormant volcano in Antarctica.
Admiral Byrd claimed to be the first to reach both the North and South Poles by air....He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the U.S. Armed Forces' highest military decoration, and the Navy Cross, the second highest honor for valor given by the U.S. Navy. More
(UNITY) Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. wrote a diary that was replaced by the CIA (or its predecessor organization OSS) then hidden away until, possibly, his son released the real, unredacted original version after his father's passing. It recounts what Byrd found -- a very advanced civilization living in Agartha (our Hollow Earth) as spoken of in Hindu and Buddhist texts. The momentous mission was Operation Highjump (about The Secret Land)
(Optic Expedition) Feb. 21, 2026: In 1982, a U.S. Navy flight engineer made an emergency landing on a ridge in Antarctica and saw something in the ice that was not supposed to be there.
It was geometric, angular, massive, made of a material that was neither ice nor rock. He was ordered never to speak of it. He signed papers that silenced him. He kept the secret for almost 20 years. Then, dying, he picked up the phone and called one person — Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe (earthfiles.com).
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She recorded every word he said. Then she waited because over the next 25 years, more witnesses called: Navy personnel, scientists, U.S. contractors, NORAD officers, all of them describing pieces of the same thing buried beneath Antarctic ice.
All of them had been silenced, all of them. One by one, deciding before they died that she was the only person they trusted to tell the world. Now, at age 81, Linda Moulton Howe has finally compiled every testimony, every coordinate, every classified detail — and she is talking.
She has said, "Before I die, I must tell the truth — because the people who told me these things are dying. And if I do not share what they revealed, this knowledge dies with us." This is what they found.
Hitler and the Nazis knew what was in Antarctica(protected by an unprecedented universal treaty agreement when the world can universally agree about nothing else), so they claimed it and named it Neuschwabenland ("New Swabia") with access to extraterrestrial intelligences with high technology that gave them UFOs (vimanas) and Die Glocke ("The Bell," a means of accessing time travel).
Karl Bushby (born March 30, 1969), 55, is a walking adventurer, former British paratrooper, and author, currently attempting to be the first and only person in the history of the world to completely WALK an unbroken path around the world [which seems to be a circular flat earth]. Bushby's trek is known as The Goliath Expedition.
[Has he become a Buddhist with all this walking meditation?]
Group kinhin in Zen practice
Walking meditation (Chinese 經行, Pinyin jīngxíng, Romaji kinhin or kyōgyō, Korean gyeonghyaeng, Vietnamese kinh hành) is a Buddhist meditative practice done while walking. It can be done as a standalone practice or as a break between long periods of static sitting meditation [1]. In different forms, the practice is common in various Buddhist traditions of both Theravada and in Mahayana Buddhism. The Zen term kinhin consists of the Chinese words 經, meaning "to go through (like the thread in a loom)," with "sutra" as a secondary meaning, and 行, meaning "walk." Taken literally, the phrase means "to walk straight back and forth." More
Bushby was born in Hull, England. He attended a local comprehensive school and joined the British Army at the age of 16. Bushby served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 11 years.
The Goliath Expedition is Bushby's attempt to walk around the world "with unbroken footsteps," from Punta Arenas, Chile, to his home in Hull, England.
He began his journey on November 1, 1998, and originally expected to finish the trek of 36,000-mile (58,000 km) in eight years; however, due to numerous delays, it is still in progress as of September 8, 2025 [1], having made it through the impossible Darién Gap, the barrier between South and North America. More
'Monkey-barring' is the latest dating trend wreaking havoc on relationships
Without letting go of one, you grab the next.
(FOX 32 Chicago) Sept. 2, 2025: Certified counselor Love McPherson breaks down why some people jump from one relationship to the next [like a monkey grabbing bars, not letting go of one and already grabbing the next or like a frog waiting for a new pad to jump on instead of getting into the water of singlehood and swimming to find a better pad like a decent person] and offers steps for healing and forming healthier connections. "Fear of abandonment" anyone?
The term "monkey mind" originates from Chinese xīnyuán or Sino-Japanese shin'en (心猿), which literally means "heart-mind monkey."
It is a Buddhist concept that describes a state of restlessness, capriciousness, and lack of control of one's thoughts and emotions, the inability to find soothing stillness, calm, equanimity, poise, or maintain mindfulness.
Others suffer from it, too?
Attempts to suppress tend not to work. It is spurred by caffeine, stimulants, excitotoxins (chemicals), and is frequently followed by a crash, exhaustion, and cyclical dysfunction:
This "mind monkey" metaphor is found in Buddhist writings in Zen, Chan, Mind-only, Pure Land, and Shingon and has also been adopted by Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, Chinese poetry, theater, and literature.
Perfectionism is a mental illness.
The expression "monkey mind" commonly appears in two reversible four-character idioms paired with yima or iba (意馬), which means "idea horse."
Chinese xinyuanyima (心猿意馬) and Japanese ibashin'en (意馬心猿) illustrate the interconnectedness of a restless mind and wandering (discursive) thoughts.
The "Monkey King" Sun Wukong in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West is an iconic personification of feeling indecisive and unsettled. More
My most brutal wingsuit flight ever | Täschhorn (4491 meters)
(Swiss JoHannes | Wingsuit) After years of dreaming, we finally did the highest possible wingsuit base jump in the Alps, from the top of Täschhorn, Switzerland.
Big hug to Mario for joining me on this mission. I couldn't have done it without him. Thanks, Bro! In total, we climbed for about 9 hours and spent one night at the Mischabeljoch bivouac. It was challenging leaving nothing behind and flying down with all of our equipment.
On the top we have to scramble five pitches to the exit point, belayed gear up. I jumped around 10:30 am during perfect conditions, without thermals (rising heat columns).
But after 40 seconds of flying, my arms were really tired, so I couldn't hold the glide and had to fly more steeply. Unfortunately, it is not getting much better. It is becoming a serious problem as I can hardly feel my fingers holding on.
Now if I could just learn to "fly" on land
Antonia was waiting at the LZ with a cold one. Mario and I landed safely. I don't know what happened to my weak arms... Was it the altitude or the heavy bag? I was exhausted AF and glad we got down safely. What a mission, what a mountain! Source
Meanwhile, madman, convinced he can fly a magic carpet off a cliff, jumps to his death (with a parachute just in case) but ends up flying the carpet down for two minutes at a tremendous speed, safely deploying his parachute and making it safely to the ground, having filmed the entire experience from his POV. One has to see it to believe it and never read stories about Aladdin in the same way: French man leaps off mountainside on a magic carpet and flies thousands of feet down to safety through midair (MSN)
Ancient Aliens: 5 SHOCKING Mysteries Beneath Polar Ice
(HISTORY) March 21, 2024: These mysteries will blow your mind. Check them out in this compilation from Ancient Aliens.
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(Tim Binnall, Coast to Coast, 6/9/23) Police officers in Las Vegas, Nevada, were left scratching their heads when they responded to a call from a family who claimed that there were a pair of tall space aliens in their backyard.
The bizarre incident, which came to light this week, reportedly began shortly before midnight on April 30th, 2023, when a bright object was seen falling from the sky.
Captured on a police officer's body camera, the curious event became even weirder about an hour later when a family in the city phoned 911 and relayed an astounding story.
According to the 911 caller, something landed in their backyard and two beings who appeared to be space aliens exited the object.
"There’s like an 8-foot person beside it and another one is inside," he said, "and it’s looking at us." Sensing that the dispatcher might not take the call seriously, the bewildered witness declared: "I swear to God this is not a joke" and indicated the family was "terrified" by what they were seeing.
He went on to muse that "they look like [space] aliens to us" and described the beings as having large, shiny eyes.
Despite the strangeness of the situation, authorities took the matter seriously and dispatched officers to the home to investigate.
Body camera audio-video footage from one of the cops has him marveling, "Everyone saw a shooting star then these people say there’s aliens in their backyard."
When police arrived on the scene around a half hour later, the beings and their craft had apparently departed, though the family were unwavering in their account of what had happened.
A separate witness told cops that he had seen a "creature" that stood about 10 feet tall. Officers even went so far as to stop a car that was driving down the road to ask the driver if he had seen an object fall from the sky.
"I would normally discount it as probably not real," he explained. "However, seeing as one of my partners said they saw it, too, [is] the only reason I’m investigating it further."
Ultimately, police departed the home without any answers about what happened, though they seemed to believe that the family's account was genuine.
"You guys seem like legit scared, so I don’t blame you," one officer told them and, as they were leaving the property, joked with them: "If those 9-foot beings come back, don’t call us, alright?"
Although the family says that authorities returned to the home multiple times over the next few days to investigate the matter, what exactly unfolded that night remains a mystery. Source
Video Shorts; Base Jumping X Team Wannabees, Wisdom Quarterly
It's fun to watch in first class (of a car)
There's an extreme sport called "base jumping," taking a parachute in hand and throwing it into the wind when jumping off things -- buildings, cliffs, any platform will do really. What becomes possible when the wings/glider or flexible parachute can be maneuvered and aimed at landing spots? Here one daredevil goes from sky to rooftop of a skyscraper on the beach, probably a resort hotel, where he's not welcome by its security agent posted their to guard some VIP or other. They tell him to get off, but rather than the steps or elevator, he decides to jump off the edge. They helplessly run after him and watch him commit suicide, only he has other plans. A backflip into the wind then the descent of a raptor, skimming the surf and softly alighting on the sand. Success! How in the world it was filmed, we have to wonder. AI-controlled GoPro? How did the cam know to turn around for the backflip? No wonder China and TikTok will one day rule the world.
Watching this clip on a car video screen, I may want to parachute to the ground.
When do those George Jetson flying cars get here already? They exist. Let's go. Sky tickets!
(Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie) From 1962 to 1972, the U.S. government ran a top-secret program that teleported child spies through space and time (holographically and physically). At least, that's the claim of lawyer Andrew D. Basiago, former time traveler and holder of the hotly contested title of "Strangest 2016 Presidential Candidate."
Join Sean and Carrie for a tour through Basiago's meeting with Pres. George Washington, his own failed presidential bid [which on some timeline does occur before 2028, just maybe not this one], his childhood teleportation experiments (being sent by his father, a member of the military), and his journeys to Mars with a teenaged Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro).
Andy Basiago (center left in big shoes) proof of time travel to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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"Aryan" Nordics, tall whites, or Titans (asuras) offered Nazis help in exchange for power.
Operation Highjump | Mission: Find and Destroy the Secret Underground Nazi UFO Base in Antarctica
Maria Orsitch was the Vril Society oracle.
(The Why Files) Premiered July 7, 2022. OPERATION: HIGHJUMP: Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed US naval task force ever sent to Antarctica.
Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E. Byrd, one of the most famous naval officers in American history.
The official purpose for the expedition was scientific research and military training. But that was just a cover story.
Operation Highjump had other goals.
One was to try to extend imperial American sovereignty over Antarctica, something denied many times by the US government.
Another was to locate and destroy a secret NAZI base and capture the NAZI's new secret weapon: the flying saucer.
The Vril Society of Austria came to Germany and offered Thule and Nazis psychic help.
UFOs were seen all over the area, suspected to be NAZI test flights of a new weapon based on alien technology. Admiral Byrd was sent to find out.
When he finally arrived in Antarctica, he found a lot more than that.
Let's find out why.
Ancient alien city discovered under Antarctica is made of crystal
(LAB 360) Sept. 24, 2022. Crystal city of aliens (from space or underground) discovered under Antarctica is home to ancient beings who claim to have been here much longer than earthling-humans on the surface. Operation High Jump succeeded.
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