TV Crew Disappears in Antarctica
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AMP) VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA (AMP) — @lantisTV is reporting that a TV crew in search of a secret U.S. archeological dig in East Antarctica has disappeared.
"Our primary concern is for the health and welfare of our people," said an @lantisTV spokeswoman, refusing to comment on the nature of the production team’s mission in Antarctica or what, if anything, has already been captured on video.
The TV crew was last seen departing the Russian-run Vostok Station, about 300 miles from the alleged crash site of the C-130 transport believed to be carrying archeologist Dr. Conrad Yeats.
Ironically, say Russian scientists at Vostok , the @lantisTV crew sought to retrace the steps of a missing United Nations Antarctica Commission (UNACOM) rescue team that itself disappeared some months ago in search of the same wreckage.
Col. Ali Zawas, commander of UNACOM, called on the U.S. to assist in the search and rescue of the @lantisTV production crew. "It is in the United States’ interest to inform us if they are aware of the whereabouts of the TV crew or are holding them at an undisclosed location," Zawas said.
Australian environmentalist Dr. Serena Serghetti, speaking from an undisclosed location near Vostok, insists that the TV crew has done nothing illegal. "Access to and inspection of all facilities in Antarctica is open to anybody under the terms of the international Antarctic Treaty," Serghetti said. "Of course, when it comes to the American, first you have to find their installations."
The American military expedition in Antarctica, under the command of U.S.A.F. Gen. Griffen Yeats, claims it is salvaging an old Mars module lost during Yeats’ ill-fated NASA training mission in the 1960s.
Other international observers, however, point to the presence of Doctor Yeats, General Yeats’ foster son, and suggest that the Americans have discovered the legendary lost city of Atlantis two miles beneath the ice and are conducting an archeological excavation at 81:52:05S and 111:18:10W.
Remains at the crash site – or footage shot by @lantisTV — could provide UNACOM with tangible evidence that the Americans are violating the international Antarctic Treaty. But as the Antarctic winter bears down in several weeks and the snow mounts, the window for finding any remains of either the plane or the TV crew will get smaller.
The Pentagon, while denying the existence of a secret military installation in the interior or any archeological dig, has dispatched the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, to conduct a search-and-rescue operation.
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