1:30:41 There are other problems with Bird though, because he was supposed to be on this naval expedition Operation High Jump in 1947 which went down to Antarctica and explored. But at the same time while the expedition was down there, he was attending events. He attended one event, this was discovered by Dennis Crenshaw Who has a Holoworth site and who is a long-time Holoworther, and who wrote an article about it. He has the newspaper clipping. Bird was up in New York attending some public function. So – now that's not impossible because they had a…
1:31:23 couple of aircraft carriers involved in that expedition and there was one aircraft carrier further down and another aircraft carrier halfway to Melbourne. And I imagine they had supply ships going back and forth, and I don't think it would have been impossible for him too you know as they were making their way down for him to go back to the States and spend a week or two there getting instructions And maybe he attended some event too and then he went back down when they were approaching the continent, you know. But these things are contradictions and they haven't been explained very well so... What did his expedition find? Were there any interesting details about the inner world or anything? I can tell you the only things I've heard and… You're not…I mean, I didn't tell this before but the one that got this from was my father
1:32:23 Oh, wow. Yeah my father was he joined the Navy in 1936 He's an original plank owner original member of the cruiser Brooklyn and after World War II course he was still in the Navy he stayed in until 56 And he was on that expedition and the way this came to my attention Is that during the Barry Goldwater campaign, I was just a little boy and Johnson was running these ads against him where it showed this big nuclear mushroom cloud. And it depicted Goldwater as being irresponsible or something like that. And I remember my mother and father were talking about Armageddon and what could destroy the world? He brought up this expedition
1:33:16 And she always got on, and she got on him. This was the first time I was really about eight years old. I remember the house we were living in then and She got on him about how you know there you go again with that stuff that you were on the Bennington but when you got back to Australia or something like that You wrote me a letter and you said you were on the Philippine Sea And they always said that you were on the Philippine Sea and later on you did a tour of Bennington. He was swearing, no I only served in Bennington twice. She would say well I wish I had kept that letter. I don't know why you keep saying that? I don't know why but he didn't want to say that he was on the Philippine Sea which is the one that went down there
1:34:05 But he told her at this time when we were watching this commercial on television, it was in the afternoon. I remember everything that happened that day and he told her that the pilots they went down there and they Investigated and they flew because there were reports of Nazi UFOs down there or flying saucers or some weird contraptions like that. And they got jumped, and we lost a few aircraft. They came limping home and they landed on the deck and we had to hightail it out of there
1:34:51 And he, I remember him telling her she was trying to ask what was it you know what did they find and he was saying well it was sort of a depression that there in there in the depression there. And that's where they were staying. And he just, he didn't have any exact information because come on, he was a chief petty officer. They didn't tell him about it you know? But there was scuttlebutt on the ships and that's all anybody knows about these aircraft went down there and – a lot of aircraft. And they were encountered by UFOs, they were treated abruptly. They opened fire or something like that – there were exchanges and they really got whipped. Lost aircraft.