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( "E"A2= :?.=0?60. Conspiracy Theorists: UFO Over Antarctica? By Benjamin Radford A video taken of the Antarctic research station Neumayer-Station III appears to show what some are calling a UFO over the South Pole. The video posted to YouTube seems to show a round, blurry object floating above the station on Aug. 10. Speculation has run rampant, with conspiracy theorists and UFO buffs swapping explanations ranging from government collaboration with aliens to a top- secret test of some new cutting-edge secret weapon. While a definitive explanation has not been found, several elements suggest a prosaic answer. The supposed UFO appears more or less directly over the research station; it also appears to be nearly perfectly round and about the right size for a balloon. Neumayer-Station global UFO censors? an important shipping route. German vessels III, a scientific research station, carries out tests Conspiracy-minded people will always carried many goods important for the war effort and experiments in a wide variety of areas, search for, and often find, anomalies, things that during the war, and Soviet submarines sneaking including geophysics, meteorology and they don't understand or believe to be odd or from the Gulf of Finland into the Baltic Sea atmospheric chemistry. Weather balloons are unusual for some reason. For some people any targeted them. used extensively to study and sample the ambiguous light or object in the sky they don't If the theory is true, the trap may be an atmosphere at different times and altitudes recognize can be turned into a possible UFO important historical find, but there is evidence above Antarctica. sighting. against it too. The 60-meter object studied by One UFO buff admitted that most of the Ocean X is way larger than what Germans and evidence suggested it was indeed a balloon, ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Benjamin Radford some other warring nations deployed during the except for one mysterious fact: "none could is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science World War II. Peter Lindberg, another member explain why the object appeared in just a few magazine and author of Scientific Paranormal of the team, says he still believes the object is a frames." It's true that the object appears in only Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained natural formation. a few frames of the footage. However this Mysteries. His website is The “Baltic UFO” was discovered in becomes much less mysterious when you www.BenjaminRadford.com. May last year through sonar imaging realize that the original video has been sped up. technology. Its unusual shape provoked a good That's what happens in time-lapse photography: ‘Baltic UFO’ may be deal of speculation, with some people objects that are not stationary for long periods comparing it to the Millennium Falcon ship of time (people, vehicles, animals, clouds, etc.) secret Nazi sub-trap from the movie Star Wars. Skeptics say the only appear in a few frames — depending of peculiar images may have resulted from course on the frame rate of the video and how improper adjustment of the sonar and the fast they move. There's nothing mysterious limitations of the technology. about it Ocean X, professional wreck-hunters, If it were a balloon that had been put have returned to the site with better and more aloft for hours, it would have been visible for a sophisticated equipment after receiving funding longer duration than seen in the video. On the from an undisclosed sponsor. 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