Creatures, legends & belief
Antarctic Time Gate
time anomalyEvidence status
Unverified Pravda-derived narrative; no corroborated experiment.
Editorial assessment of this proposition; not a numeric confidence score.
Claim or proposition being examined
A weather balloon entered gray fog and its clock returned showing an earlier date.
Limitations
Source demonstrates circulation of the claim, not its truth; independently authenticated evidence is required.
Catalog review date reported: 2026-10-28. This is inherited catalog metadata, not a new verification of the linked source.
A real weather balloon being released at the South Pole meteorological station in December 1978. Historical instrument context only; not a photograph of the alleged time-gate experiment or a clock changing date.
NOAA Photo Library / Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps, December 1978, image corp 1617. Public domain; source also offers CC BY 2.0. Full frame retained; proportionally resized if needed.
Original NOAA source https://www.flickr.com/photos/51647007@N08/5436912404 . Date differs from alleged narrative; do not imply same event.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
NOAA official-duty photograph, public domain; exact Flickr-origin mirror also carries a historically reviewed CC BY 2.0 license.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- claim documentation and/or assessmenthttps://thelivingmoon.com/47brotherthebig/03files/Antarctic_Time_Warp_Discovery.html
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corp1617_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg
- image reuse conditionshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corp1617_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg#Licensing
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