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April 30, 2004
Branson, Missouri - Nearly thirty years ago, Ted Phillips was working closely with astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Ph.D., who consulted for the U. S. Air Force on Project Blue Book and later founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Dr. Hynek was also a professor in the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University and director of its Dearborn Observatory.
In 1970, Ted and Dr. Hynek met and talked with an engineer from Slovakia named Antonin Horak. The engineer showed Ted and Dr. Hynek a diary he had kept in October 1944 during World War II when he and two other wounded soldiers hid in a cave in the Tatra Mountains south of Krakow, Poland. Desperate for food, Tony Horak began exploring one of the cave's long passages. He came upon what he called an astonishing manmade cylindrical object that had a "black mirror" surface. Below the object, he could hear machinery sounds and felt mild heat.
Dr. Hynek thought that an expedition should be mounted to the Tatra Mountains and asked the young Ted Phillips to go seek out the cave and try to find the object so that it could be studied scientifically. Money was raised, but the Russian struggles with Czechoslovakia after the 1968 invasion interfered with Ted's traveling in 1970.
Then 29 years later in 1999, Ted finally made his first trip to Slovakia with a research grant provided by Joe Firmage, then CEO of a California computer company. Incredibly, Ted could not find the small cave entrance!
But after he returned to the United States, a Slovak contact sent him a pre-World War II map that matched more closely the map that Tony Horak had originally shown Ted and Dr. Hynek. So, Ted returned to Slovakia in 2001 and finally found the entrance by nearly falling into it. Ted asked his Slovak guides to hang him upside down through the narrow entrance. Then Ted was able to see a long passageway as Tony Horak had described. But there had been a landslide that prevented Ted from getting further into the cave. Now, Ted Phillips is determined to go back with mine engineers who can shore up the cave entrance in the Tatra mountain and search for the cylinder with the black mirror surface described in detail on the pages of Antonin Horak's 1944 diary.
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