- In 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops
from the U.S., Britain and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica called
"Operation Highjump", and at least one follow-up expedition.
That is fact. It is undeniable. But... the part of the story that is seldom
told, at least in "official" circles, is that Byrd and his forces encountered
heavy resistance to their Antarctic venture from "flying
saucers" and had to call off the invasion. This aspect of the story
was pushed forward, again, a few years ago, when a retired Rear
Admiral, allegedly living in Texas, who had been involved
in the "invasion" said he was "shocked" when he
read material from a documentary, entitled "Fire From The Sky".
He allegedly claimed that he knew there had been "a lot
of aircraft and rocket shoot-downs", but did not realize the situation
was as serious as the documenta ry presented it.
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- Operation "High Jump", which was, basically
an invasion of the Antarctic, consisted of three Naval battle groups, which
departed Norfolk, VA, on 2 December, 1946. They were led by Admiral
Richard E. Byrd's command ship, the ice-breaker "Northwind,"
and consisted of the catapult ship "Pine Island," the destroyer
"Brownsen," the aircraft-carrier "Phillipines Sea,"
the U.S. submarine "Sennet," two support vessels "Yankee"
and "Merrick," and two tankers "Canisted" and "Capacan,"
the destroyer "Henderson" and a floatplane ship "Currituck."
A British-Norwegian force and a Russian force, and I believe some Australian
and Canadian forces were also involved.
-
- Interestingly, the Pine Island (AV-12) , one of the seaplane
tenders involved in the expedition, has a rather colorful history. The
USS Pine Island, a Currituck Class Seaplane Tender, was laid down,
16 November 1942, at Todd Shipyard Corporation, in San Pedro, California.
It was launched, 26 February 1944, and given the commissioned name,
"USS Pine Island" on 26 April 1945. The ship served through the
final months of the Second World War, and the immediate post-war period,
but was decommissioned on 1 May 1950 When the Korean War broke out, the
ship was recommissioned, on 7 October 1950, at Alameda, California.
She was finally decommissioned, for good, on 16 June 1967 and laid
up in the Reserve Fleet.
- But... here's where the story gets interesting... The
USS Pine Island was struck from the Naval Register, on an unknown date...
Her title was transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in
the National Defense Reserve Fleet... on an unknown date... and...
the ship's final disposition is unknown...
- Now... how does one go about "losing" a major
surface ship, over 640 feet long, almost seventy feet wide, with a displacement
of over 15,000 tons?
- The story, of course, gets stranger, still. The Pine
Island is not the only ship involved in "Antarctic Research"
or "exploration" to have disappeared. There were numerous others.
The question is not so much "how many", that is fairly well established.
The question is "how and why"... particularly "why"...
- On 5 March, 1947 the "El Mercurio" newspaper
of Santiago, Chile, had a headline article "On Board the Mount Olympus
on the High Seas" which quoted Byrd in an interview with Lee van Atta:
"Adm. Byrd declared today that it was imperative for the United States
to initiate immediate defense measures against hostile regions. Furthermore,
Byrd stated that he "didn't want to frighten anyone unduly" but
that it was "a bitter reality that in case of a new war the continental
United States would be attacked by flying objects which could fly from
pole to pole at incredible speeds". Interestingly, not long before
he made these comments, the Admiral had recommended defense bases
AT the North Pole. These were not "isolated" remarks...
Admiral Byrd later repeated the each of these points of view, resulting
from he described as his "personal knowledge" gathered both at
the north and south poles, before a news conference held for International
News Service.
- So... who was the enemy that owned or flew these
flying objects? Germany was apparently defeated, and there was no evidence
that the new emerging enemy, Russia, certainly had such superior technologies.
They were, like the United States, only on the verge of the "rocket
age", and totally dependent upon technology, and expertise captured
from Germany at the end of the War. There was no other known
threat could that could account for the United States' invasion of
Antarctica nor for the development of any craft that could fly "fly
from Pole to pole with incredible speeds." Of course, the Roswell
Incident had been in the news the past summer, but.. it had been "officially"
explained, and hushed up by the time Highjump began.
- Rumors began to circulate that even though Germany
had been defeated, a selection of military personnel and scientists had
fled the fatherland as Allied troops swept across mainland Europe and established
themselves at a base on Antarctica from where they continued to develop
advanced aircraft based on extraterrestrial technologies. It is interesting
to note that at the end of the war the Allies determined that there were
250,000 Germans unaccounted for, even taking into account casualties and
deaths. This would be quite a population base for a fledgling colony, and
provide the essential degree of skill, expertise, and pure manpower for
an industrial base of any sort, let alone the production of, even by today's
standards, extremely high technology
-
- Not surprisingly, when Byrd returned to the States, he
was hospitalized and was not allowed to hold any more press conferences.
Still, in March 1955, he was placed in charge of Operation Deepfreeze which
was part of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958, exploration
of the Antarctic. He died, shortly thereafter... in 1957... many have
suggested he was murdered...
-
- Of course, it would not be the first time that a person
involved in the Unidentified Flying Object cover-up had been murdered,
died under "mysterious" circumstances or of a "sudden"
illness. The death of Byrd's old boss. Secretary of Defense James Forrestall
comes instantly to mind... Forrestall, a man of unquestioned ability, was
hospitalized, suddenly, in the mental wing of Bethesda Naval Hospital,
and leapt to his death through a barred window... committing "suicide"
in one of the most closely supervised and secure places on earth...
-
- All Unidentified Flying Object researchers are,
of course, aware of the multitude of reports concerning sightings
of 'flying saucers' with swastikas or iron crosses on them, 'aliens' speaking
German, etc. Most have also heard of abductees who have been taken
to underground bases with swastika emblems on the walls, or as in the case
of noted abductee Alex Christopher, have seen "Reptiloids" and
"Nazis" working together aboard antigravity craft or within underground
bases. Barney Hill was apparently, not the ONLY one to describe the
so-called "Nazi" connection to Unidentified Flying Object abductions.
However, reports such as Christopher's and Hill's must be taken with a
rather large grain of salt... There is a far more plausible explanation
than the so-called "reptiloids".
-
- Another noted example is the American Reinhold Schmidt, a
man whose father was born in Germany, and who tells in his book "Incident
At Kearney", that he was taken on a 'flying saucer' on several
occasions. Schmidt states that "the crew spoke German and acted
like German soldiers". He also stated that they took him to the "Polar"
region. Now, one must admit that if a person were making up such a story,
why would they claim to be taken, of all places, to the pole? Of course,
one must also realize that at the time of Schmidt's comments, the
rumors of "secret Nazi bases" at the poles were already fairly
common... After returning he was allegedly subjected to persecution
by the U.S. Government. In his defense, it must be noted that his description
of the aerial discs, as he called them, matched pictures captured
from the Germans in the final days of the Second World War.
-
- In 1959, three large newspapers in CHILE reported front
page articles about Unidentified Flying Object encounters in
which the crew members appeared to be German soldiers. In the early
1960s there were reports in New York, and New Jersey, of flying saucer
'aliens' who spoke German, or English with a German accent. Nor, can it
be neglected to mention that in one of the most spectacular legal cases
of the Twentieth Century... the "atomic espionage" trials...
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spoke of "warships of space."
Since they had access to top secret information, and, at that point, no
reason to lie, what was it, exactly, that they meant?
-
- So... now we get to the point... In late 1947, only months
after the famous Roswell Incident, then Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal (see above) sent a naval task force to Antarctic including Admiral
Nimitz, Admiral Krusen and Admiral Byrd, called "Operation Highjump".
It was touted to be an expedition to find "coal deposits" and
other valuable resources, but... the facts indicate otherwise... In actuality
they were apparently trying to locate an immense underground
base constructed by the Germans, before, during and immediately after the
Second World War, with the aid of Alien Entities which were described as "Aryans". This
base was allegedly located in Neuschwabenlandt, an area of Antarctica
which Germany explored, and claimed, before the outbreak of the Second
World War... In fact, Germany had done a very detailed study
of Antarctic and were alle ged to have built a small underground
base there before the War.
-
- At this point, one must ask why, exactly, the United
States, and, in fact, her allies, suspected that German activity at the
pole was continuing, after the conclusion of the Second World War... The
answer, quite honestly, has nothing at all to do with Unidentified Flying
Objects... That part of the story came to light from a completely different
set of sources... The fact is that there was plenty of evidence, at the
time, to indicate that as late as 1947, elements of the Kriegsmarine, or
German Navy, were still very much active in the South Atlantic, operating
either out of South America, or some base, previously unsuspected, in the
Antarctic. Many stories were circulating at the time... One of which
even has a German U-boat stopping an Icelandic whaler named Juliana in
Antarctic waters, in 1947 and insisting that its captain, named Hekla,
sell the U-boat crew supplies from her available stores. In exchange f
or the supplies (which had been paid for in U.S. dollars, along with a
ten dollar bonus to each member of Juliana's crew... ) the U-boat commander
told the whaler where a large school of whales were to be found. Hekla
and his crew, later found the whales in the exact position claimed
by the U-boat commander.
-
- The presence of such boats, all late construction Type
XXI and Type XXIII U-Boats, with the "snorkel" that
allowed them to make the entire passage from Germany submerged... was no
secret. Many were thought to be operating out of Argentina, possibly under
the Argentine flag, but crewed by German crew as... The fact that in the
dying moments of the Second World War, ten U-Boats, based in Oslofjord,
Hamburg and Flensburg, were made available to transport several hundred
German officers and officials to Argentina to found a new Reich is widely
accepted. These officers, mostly involved in "secret" projects,
and many of whom were members of the SS and Kriegsmarine, itself, sought
to escape the "vengeance" of the Allies, and continue their work,
abroad. The U-boats were filled with their luggage, documents and, more
than likely, gold bullion, to finance their efforts. All the U-boats
departed their home ports between 3 and 8 May 1945. They were to proceed
to Argentina where they would be welcomed by the friendly regime of Juan
Peron and his charismatic wife Eva Peron. Seven of the ten of the
U-Boats, based on the German/Danish border, set off for Argentina through
the Kattegat and Skagerrak. None were ever seen again... "officially".
It has been, however, documented that three of the boats did, in fact,
arrive in Argentina... These were U-530, U-977 and U-1238. U-530 and U-977
surrendered to the Argentine Navy at Mar del Plata in early July and August,
1945... U-1238 was scuttled, by her crew, in the waters of San Matias Gulf,
off Northern Patagonia. Seven boats are as yet unaccounted for... and...
Kriegsmarine archives, recently discovered, indicate that a total of more
than forty boats are completely unaccounted for... all of which were late
construction, state-of-the-art craft, and could have made either Argentina
or Antarcti ca, completely submerged... and completely unnoticed by existing
"allied" technology of the time... for the entire duration
of their crossing.
-
- The question arises, of course, why these men would make
such a perilous crossing. It must surely be seen as a act of either desperation
or fanaticism, or both... and such men as crewed U-Boats were neither.
Nor, were the scientists and military officers who were their passengers.
The fact is, it would seem that most of those who fled the ruin of Germany
to the far South, were scientists and engineers, and their dedication sprang
from the project on which they were working... To understand this dedication,
it is necessary to go back, before the outbreak of the Second World War,
to an isolated section of the Bavarian Alps, It was there, in the summer
of 1938, that an Unidentified Flying Object, crewed by a distinctly human,
and Aryan appearing race, made a forced landing, very similar to the one
which was to occur, some ten years later, in the desert, near Roswell,
New Mexico, in the United States. While the occupants of the two craft
were completely unrelated, the technology involved, seems to have been
strikingly similar. Also, the outcome of the recovery effort, undertaken
by Germany, just as a similar recovery effort was undertaken by the United
States, had strikingly different results.
-
- The Bavarian crash of 1938, seems to have yielded an
functioning, or almost functioning and repairable (with the technology
of the time) power plant, and a nearly completely destroyed, or unrepairable
airframe. The Roswell crash resulted in exactly the opposite... a nearly
intact airframe and a ruined power plant. Because of this, the German research,
which was to follow, took a vastly different turn from that which was undertaken
in the United States, some ten years later... Germany needed an airframe
which was capable of supporting the "engine" (for lack of a better
term), while the United States would eventually need an "engine"
capable of giving maximum performance to the airframe.
-
- This, of course, would explain the vast array of "experimental"
aircraft... of extremely "unique" design... to literally pour
out of the design bureaus of Messerschmidt, Foke Wulf, Fokker and a multitude
of smaller firms in the period between 1939 and 1945. The most notable,
of course, is the Sanger "Flying Wing" which was later copied
by the United States, and is, of course, the ancestor of today's "stealth"
bomber and fighter designs... notably, the B-2 Heavy Bomber.
-
- It is also beyond doubt that both Unidentified Flying
Object recoveries are the initial impetus for the long standing and ongoing
research in "anti-gravity" propulsion seen in work of current
aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing and Lockheed in the United States,
and PanAvia in Europe.
-
- In any case, it was the work on "reverse engineering"
the downed Bavarian Unidentified Flying Object that was the catalyst for
the "exodus" to the South in the final days of the Second World
War. Germany was in ruins, and the research was viewed, by those conducting
it, as vital... vital enough to risk packing up all that they had and risking
a perilous submerged crossing of the Atlantic.. to an isolated experimental
and research base on a frozen continent... Granted, by modern standards...
even by the standards of the day... U-Boats were small and cramped. They
had very little cargo capacity. Still, a tiny fleet of them... ten to twelve
boats... could easily transport the essential equipment, making several
"runs", and serve to supply and, later re-supply the Antarctic
bastion of the research.
-
- Speculation exists, with much to support it, that at
least one of the boats in the valiant little fleet contained the biggest
prize of all... at least one living survivor of the 1938 crash... an Extraterrestrial...
a literal Human Being... not a "Grey"... born on a distant planet.
The best evidence indicates that there were several survivors of the crash,
and that they worked, and are most likely still working, with the original
German scientists and engineers, or their descendants, in an effort to
construct a viable "flying disc".
-
- These are not the "Gray Aliens" of Roswell.
These beings, biologically, completely human, are described as "Aryan"
in appearance, and completely human, although at least two to three generations
more advanced, technologically than Earth born Human Beings. While their
technology is similar to that of the Grays in general theory, it is somewhat
different, apparently, in application. This would tend to indicate that
Earth technology and science is, at most, only one "major breakthrough"
away from parity with the extraterrestrial cultures in question, and also
explain the "urgency" of the project, as viewed by the German
(and undoubtedly United States, as well...) scientists and engineers involved
in such research.
-
- In any case, Operation Highjump, began... The task force
of OVER 40 SHIPS, included the flagship "Mount Olympus", the
aircraft carrier "Philippine Sea", the seaplane tender "Pine
Sea" (see above), the submarine "Senate", the destroyer
"Bronson", the ice breaker "Northwind", and other tanker
and supply ships. An armed contingent of 1400 sailors, and three dog sled
teams were also on board. The expedition was filmed by the Navy and brought
to Hollywood to be made into a commercial film called "The Secret
Land". It was narrated by Hollywood actor Robert Montgomery, father
of "Bewitched" star, Elizabeth Montgomery, who was, himself,
an officer in the Naval Reserve.
-
- It seems incredible that so shortly after a war that
had decimated most of Europe and crippled global economies, an expedition
to Antarctica was undertaken with so much haste (it took advantage of the
first available Antarctic summer after the war), at such cost, and with
so much military hardware - unless the operation was absolutely essential
to the security of the United States.
-
- At the time of the operation, the US Navy itself was
being taken apart piece by piece as the battle-tested fleet was decommissioned
with its mostly civilian crew bidding farewell to the seas forever. The
Navy was even reduced to further recruitment to man the few remaining ships
in service.
-
- Tensions across the globe were also mounting as Russia
and America edged into a Cold War, possibly a Third World War that the
US would have to fight with "tragically few ships and tragically half
trained men." This made the sending of nearly 5,000 residual Navy
personnel to a remote part of the planet where so much danger lurked in
the form of icebergs, blizzards and sub-zero temperatures even more of
a puzzle. The operation was also launched with incredible speed, "a
matter of weeks." Perhaps it would not be uncharitable to conclude
that the Americans had some unfinished business connected with the war
in the polar region. Indeed this was later confirmed by other events and
the operationbs leader, Admiral Richard Byrd, himself.
-
- The official instructions issued by the then Chief of
Naval Operations, Chester W. Nimitz were: to (a) train personnel and test
material in the frigid zones; (b) consolidate and extend American sovereignty
over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent; (c) to determine
the feasibility of establishing and maintaining bases in the Antarctic
and to investigate possible base sites; (d) to develop techniques for establishing
and maintaining air bases on the ice, (with particular attention to the
later applicability of such techniques to Greenland) and (e) amplify existing
knowledge of hydrographic, geographic, geological, meteorological and electromagnetic
conditions in the area.
-
- Little other information was released to the media about
the mission, although most journalists were suspicious of its true purpose
given the huge amount of military hardware involved. The US Navy also strongly
emphasized that Operation Highjump was going to be a navy show; Admiral
Ramseybs preliminary orders of 26th August 1946 stated that "the Chief
of Naval Operations only will deal with other governmental agencies"
and that "no diplomatic negotiations are required. No foreign observers
will be accepted." Not exactly an invitation to scrutiny, even from
other arms of the government.
-
- Some facts, however, are well known... There were three
divisions of Operation High Jump: one land group with tractors, explosives,
and plenty of equipment to refurbish "Little America", and make
an airstrip to land the six R-4D's (DC-3's), and two seaplane groups. The
R4-D's were fitted with jet-assist takeoff bottles (JATO) in order to takeoff
from the short runway of the aircraft carrier "Philippine Sea".
They also were fitted with large skis for landing on the ice field prepared
for them. The skis were specially fitted at three inches above the surface
of the carrier deck. When landing on the ice at "Little America"
the three inches of tire in contact with the snow and ice provided just
enough and not too much drag for a smooth landing.
-
- Following its arrival at Antarctica, the force began
a reconnaissance of the continent. Byrd himself was onboard the first of
the planes to take off on 29 January 1947. Rocket propulsion tubes (JATO
bottles) had been attached to the side of the aircraft and the carrier
was maneuvered for a 35mph run to help get the planes airborne. "From
the vibration of the great carrier", Byrd later wrote, "I knew
when the captain had got the ship up to about 30 knots (35 mph... maximum,
full emergency speed for such a vessel). We seemed to creep along the deck
at first and it looked as if we would never make it b& But when our
four JATO bottles went off along the sides of the plane with a terrific,
deafening noise I could see the deck fall away. I knew we had made it
-
- Admiral Byrd's team of six R4-D's were fitted with the,
then, super secret
- "Trimetricon" spy cameras and each plane was
trailing a magnetometer. The aircraft flew over as much of the continent
as they could in the short three month "summer" period, mapping
and recording magnetic data. They also carried magnetometers show anomalies
in the Earth's magnetism, i.e. if there is a "hollow" place under
the surface ice or ground, it will show up on the meter. On the last of
many "mapping" flights where all six planes went
- out, each on certain pre-ordained paths to film and "measure"
with
- magnetometers, Admiral Byrd's plane returned three hours
late...
-
- "Officially", it was stated that he had "lost
an engine" and had had to throw
- everything overboard except the films themselves and
the results of
- magnetometer readings in order to maintain altitude long
enough to return to Little America. If we are to believe the published
and private accounts of what actually took place, this is almost certainly
the time when he met with representatives of the "Aryan" Extraterrestrials,
and a contingent of the German scientists working on the reverse engineering
and construction of "flying discs"...
-
- Over the next four weeks the planes spent 220 hours in
the air, flying a total of 22,700 miles and taking some 70,000 aerial photographs.
Then the mission that had been expected to last for between six to eight
months, came to an early and faltering end. The Chilean press reported
that the mission had "run into trouble" and that there had been
"many fatalities". (However... the official record, states
that one plane crashed killing three men; a fourth man had perished on
the ice; two helicopters had gone down although their crews had been rescued
and a task force commander was nearly lost.) It is an indisputable fact that
the Central Group of Operation Highjump were evacuated by the Burton Island
ice-breaker from the Bay of Whales (above) on 22 February 1947; the Western
Group headed home on 1st of March 1947 and the Eastern Group did likewise
on 4 March, a mere eight weeks after arrival.
-
- In the end, the task force came steaming back to
the United Sates with their data, which then, immediately became
classified "top secret". Secretary of the Navy (by this time,
Secretary of Defense) James Forrestal retired... and started to "talk"....
not only about Highjump, but about other things, as well... He was
put in Bethesda Naval Hospital psychiatric ward where he was prevented
from seeing or talking to anyone, including his wife... and... after
a short while he was thrown out the window while trying to hang himself
with a bedsheet. So the story goes... It was, of course, ruled a
suicide, case closed. However, some of what he knew... about Highjump...
about Roswell... and other things... did manage to "leak"...
How much is truth, how much is speculation is difficult to tell. However,
in every "myth" there is a grain of truth...
-
- This much is certain... As incredible as it may sound,
there is considerable supporting evidence for these claims about a German
base in Antarctica... On the very eve of the Second World War, the Germans
themselves had invaded part of Antarctica and claimed it for the Third
Reich.
-
- In fact Hitler had authorized several expeditions to
the poles shortly before WWII. Their stated objective was to either to
rebuild and enlarge Germany's whaling fleet or test out weaponry in severely
hostile conditions. Yet, if true, all of this could have been achieved
at the North Pole rather than at both poles and been much closer to home.
For some reason, however, the Germans had long held an interest in the
South Polar region of Antarctica with the first Germanic research of that
area being undertaken in 1873 when Sir Eduard Dallman (1830-1896) discovered
new Antarctic routes with his ship bGrC6nlandb during his expedition for
the German polar Navigation Company of Hamburg. The GrC6nland also achieved
the distinction of being the first steamer to operate in the southern ocean.
-
- A further expedition took place in the early years of
the twentieth century in the ship the Gauss (which became embedded in the
ice for 12 months b above), and then a further expedition took place in
1911 under the command of Wilhelm Filchner (left) with his ship the bDeutchlandb.
-
- Between the wars, the Germans made a further voyage in
1925 with a specially designed ship for the Polar Regions, the bMeteorb
under the command of Dr. Albert Merz.
-
- Then, in the years directly preceding the Second World
War, the Germans laid claim to parts of Antarctica in order to set up a
permanent base there. Given that no country actually bownedb the continent
and it couldnbt exactly be conquered as no-one lived there during the winter
months at least, it appeared to the Germans that the most effective way
to bconquerb part of the continent was to physically travel there, claim
it, let others know of their actions and await any disagreements.
-
- Captain Alfred Ritscher was chosen to lead the proposed
strike. He had already led expeditions to the North Pole and had proved
himself in adverse and critical situations. For the mission Ritscher was
given the bSchwabenlandb (below); a German aircraft carrier that had been
used for transatlantic mail deliveries by special flightboats, the famous
10 ton Dornier Super bWalsb since 1934.
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- These bWalsb were launched by catapult from the Schwabenland
and had to be accelerated to 93mph before they could become airborne. At
the end of each flight a crane on the ship lifted the aircraft back on
board after they landed in the sea.
-
- The ship was refitted for the expedition in the shipyards
of Hamburg, and around one million Reichmark b nearly a third of the entire
expedition budget - was spent on this refit alone.
-
- The crew was prepared for the mission by the German Society
of Polar Research and as these preparations neared completion, the organization
invited Admiral Byrd to address them, which he did.
-
- The Schwabenland left the port of Hamburg on 17 December
1938 and followed a precisely planned and determined route towards the
southern continent. In little over a month the ship arrived at the ice
covered Antarctica, dropping anchor at 4B0 30B" W and 69B0 14B"
S on January 201939..
-
- The expedition then spent three weeks off Princess Astrid
Coast and Princess Martha Coast off Queen Maud Land. During these weeks,
the two Schwabenland aircraft, the bPassatb and bBoreasb, flew 15 missions
across some 600,000 square kilometers of Antarctica, taking more than 11,000
pictures of the area with their specially designed bZeiss Reihenmess-bildkameras
RMK 38b.
-
- Nearly one fifth of Antarctica was reconnoitered in this
way and, for the first time, ice-free areas with lakes and signs of vegetation
were discovered. This area was then declared to be under the control of
the German expedition, renamed bNeu-Schwabenlandb and hundreds of small
stakes, carrying the swastika, were dumped on the snow-covered ground from
the bWalsb to signal the new ownership. Ritscher and the Schwabenland left
their newly claimed territory in the middle of February 1939 and returned
to Hamburg two months later, complete with photographs and maps of the
new German acquisition.
-
- Now bear in mind that all of this took place before the
recovery of the Unidentified Flying Object, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1938...
There is no conceivable reason, at least on the surface, for such an intense
interest in the South Polar regions... unless something else had already
transpired to make such an investigation worthwhile... The true purpose
of this expedition has never been satisfactorily explained; there
is merely a series of puzzles, related reports and snippets of information
that are no longer open to verification. What is not open to doubt however,
is that in the decade preceding the Second World War, the Germans did almost
nothing that did not put the entire structure of the country on a war footing.
-
- This activity affected all aspects of German life; military,
civilian, economic, social and foreign policies, engineering, industry
etc. Given that the seizing of Neu-Schwabenland occurred on the very eve
of the war, it can only be concluded that that the polar expedition was
of major importance and significance to the goals and development of the
German nation.
-
- Nor did activity end with the outbreak of the war...
In fact, it intensified... The South Atlantic, including South Polar waters
became quite active...
-
- Between 1939 and 1941, well after the outbreak of
war in Europe, Captain Bernhard Rogge of the commerce raider bAtlantisb
made an extended voyage in the South Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific
Oceans, and visited the Iles Kerguelen between December 1940 to January
1941.
-
- The Atlantis is known to have been visited by an RFC-2
(the bUFOb style craft which had served as a reconnaissance aircraft since
late 1940.) The ship then adopted a new disguise as Tamesis before being
sunk by HMS Devonshire near Ascension Island, on 22 November 1941.
-
- Although the activities of the German ship Erlangen,
under the captaincy of Alfred Grams, do not appear to be of consequence
during 1939-40, the same cannot be said of the Komet which was commanded
by Captain Robert Eyssen. Following her passage along the Northern Sea
Route in 1940, this commerce raider operated in the Pacific and Indian
oceans, including a voyage along the Antarctic coastline from Cape Adare
to the Shackleton Ice Shelf in search of whaling vessels during February
1941. There she met the Pinguin and supply vessels Alstertor and Adjutant.
(Komet was sunk off Cherbourg in 1942.)
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- The Pinguin itself under the command of Captain Ernst-Felix
Kruder was a commerce raider that operated chiefly in the Indian Ocean.
In January 1941 she captured a Norwegian whaling fleet (factory ships Ole
Wegger and Pelagos, supply ship Solglimt and eleven whale catchers) in
about 59B0 S, 02B0 30W. One of these catchers (renamed Adjutant) remained
as a tender and the rest were sent to France. This ship also made anchorages
at the Iles Kerguelen and may have landed a party on Marion Island. (Pinguin
was sunk off the Persian Gulf by HMS Cornwall0 on 8 May 1941 after she
had captured 136,550 tons of British and allied shipping.
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- This island of Kerguelen (named the bMost Useless Island
In the Worldb in 1995) continued to feature prominently in Nazi plans.
For example, in 1942 the German Navy planned to establish a meteorological
station there. In May of that year the ship Michel transferred a meteorologist
and two radio operators with full equipment to a supply vessel Charlotte
Schlieman that went on to the island, however the orders for the station
were later counter-manned. It is interesting to note that Kerguelen Island
was also the center of a mid 19th Century mystery. Then entirely uninhabited,
except for seals and seabirds, British Captain Sir James Clark Ross landed
there in May 1840. He found in the snow unidentifiable "traces b&
of the singular footprints of a pony, or ass, being 3 inches in length
and 2B= inches in breadth, having a small deeper depression in either side,
and shaped like a horseshoe." Si milar markings appeared overnight
in the Devon area of England fifteen years later and have also defied adequate
explanation.
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- Then in 1942 Captain Gerlach in his ship the bStierb
investigated nearby Gough Island as a possible temporary base for raiders
and a camp for prisoners.
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- This ship activity does not appear considerable, however
the level of U-boat activity in the South Atlantic was much higher. The
exact nature and extent of how high will probably never be known, however
some insight might be gleaned from the fact that between October 1942 and
September 1944 16 German U-boats were sunk in the South Atlantic area.
And... some of these submarines did appear to be engaged in covert activities.
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- A fine example of this would be that of U-859 which,
on 4 April 1944 at 04.40hrs, left on a mission carrying 67 men and 33 tons
of mercury sealed in glass bottles in watertight tin crates. The submarine
was later sunk on 23 September by a British submarine (HMS Trenchant) in
the Straits of Malacca and although 47 of the crew died, 20 survived. Some
30 years later one of these survivors spoke openly about the cargo and
divers later confirmed the story on rediscovering the mercury. The significance
being that mercury is usable as a fuel source for certain types of aerospace
propulsion. Why would a German submarine be transporting such a cargo so
far from home? It is not odd, at all, if one considers the fact that aviation/avionics
construction is what the Polar Base seems to be all about...
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- Although Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies,
on 8 May, 1945, events after that date suggested something was happening
that did not form a part of recognized world history. Something fuelled
by a statement made by German Grand Admiral Karl DC6nitz... DC6nitz (16
September 1891 b 24 December 1980) had become Commander of the German Kriegsmarine
(Navy), on 31 January 1943 and he led the German U-Boat fleet until the
end of the Second World War. He also has the distinction of briefly
becoming head of the German state for 20 days after Hitlerbs death until
his own capture by the Allies on 23 May 1945. His contribution to
the mystery of post-war Antarctic activity came in a statement he made
in 1943 when he declared that a substantial portion of the German submarine
fleet had rebuilt "in another part of the world a Shangri-La land...
an impregnable fortress." Could he have been referring to the alleged
base in Antarctica?
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- Certainly there are records of continued German naval
activity in the area after the war had apparently ended. For example, on
10 July 1945, more than two months after the cessation of known hostilities,
the German submarine U-530 surrendered to Argentine authorities. The background
to this event is puzzling. It is known that the boat had left Lorient in
France on 22nd May 1944 under the captaincy of Otto Wermuth for operations
in the Trinidad area, and after successfully rendezvousing with the incoming
Japanese submarine I-52, it headed for Trinidad before finally returning
to base after 133 days at sea.
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- The boatbs official record states that between October
1944 and May 1945 it formed part of the 33rd Flotilla and on Germanybs
surrender Otto Wermuthbs captaincy and the submarinebs career came to an
end. Yet two months later it arrived in Rio de la Plata in Argentina and
surrendered to the authorities there on 10 July 1945.
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- The future may well reveal that fate of more of these
submarines, however given the French and South American reports, and the
number of missing U-boats, it may not be unreasonable to conclude that
at least some of them relocated to the South Polar area.
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- History also gives us further clues as to a German-Antarctica
connection, for it records that Hans-Ulrich Rudel of the German Luftwaffe
was being groomed by Hitler to be his successor. It is known that Rudel
made frequent trips to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America nearest
Antarctica. And... one of Martin Bormannbs last messages from the
bunker in Berlin to DC6nitz also mentioned Tierra del Fuego.
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- Then there are also claims about Rudolph Hess, Hitlerbs
best friend who went to England and was arrested as a war criminal on 10
May 1941. Following his arrest, Hess was held in Spandau Prison in isolation
until his death. Such unique treatment is suggestive that he had information
that the Allies considered dangerous. Indeed, in his book bSecret Nazi
Polar Expeditionsb Christof Friedrich states Hess "was entrusted with
the all-important Antarctic file b& Hess, himself, kept the Polar fileb&"
Now, granted, such information as Hess possessed, if any, would have been
complete only to the time that he took off on his solo flight to England...
but... that period... prior to 1941... would have covered the initial recovery
of the Bavarian "flying disc", and at the very least, the early
stages of any project or projects arising from such a recovery. It would
also contain any information with regard to any surv ivors of the crash,
and their eventual fate(s). Many believe that Hess, who had no part in
any of the so-called "war crimes" was deliberately kept in Spandau
Prison, for life, in an attempt to keep him quiet. It has also been speculated
that the man who died, in Spandau Prison, was, in fact, not Hess at all...
that Hess had been murdered, years before, in an effort to keep the truth...
on several highly embarassing matters... from getting out.
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- For the moment, however, let's return to Operation
Highjump... which seems to have been an attempt to ferret out a remaining German
base on the Antarctic continent, and perhaps, to determine where,
exactly the sudden rash of Unidentified Flying Object activity of the
past eighteen months, had originated, and, exactly who/what was
behind it... There would have, of necessity, been two prerequisites for
a mission of this type. Firstly, Operation Highjump would have to provide
evidence that the mission included a reconnaissance of Neu-Swabenland and
secondly, there would have to be an area of the frozen continent that could
allow such a base to exist throughout the year.
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- Both of these criteria were met...
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- Both the Eastern and Western Groups of Operation Highjump
had been active around Neu-Schwabenland. So was a Russian boat that "proved
to be unfriendly".The Eastern group were frustrated in their efforts
to make a reconnaissance of the area, despite incredible efforts to secure
photographs for later examination. However by then "it was very late
in the season ... The sun had only been briefly glimpsed in the past few
weeks, but everyone could tell that the continually grey skies and clouds
were darkening daily. In another month all light would be gone from Antarcticab&.
The waters girdling the continent would begin to freeze rapidly, binding
unwary ships in a crushing embrace b& Dufek [the commander] was loath
to surrender. He ordered his ships northwards away from the pack. Perhaps
one or two more flights might be possible. But on the morning of 3 March
b& virgin ice was seen to be forming on the waterbs surface [and th
e] Eastern group steamed out of Antarctica."
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- The Western Group, however, were to make a remarkable
discovery. At the end of January 1947 a PBM piloted by Lieutenant Commander
David Bunger of Coronado, California, flew from his ship, the Currituck
and headed towards the continentbs Queen Mary Coast. On reaching land,
Bunger flew west for a time, then, coming up over the featureless, white
horizon, he saw a dark, bare area which Byrd later described as "a
land of blue and green lakes and brown hills in an otherwise limitless
expanse of ice".
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- Bunger and his men carefully reconnoitred the area before
racing back to the Currituck with news of their find. The boasisb they
had discovered covered an area of some three hundred square miles of the
continent and contained three large, open water lakes along with a number
of smaller lakes. These lakes were separated by masses of barren, reddish-brown
rocks possibly indicating the presence of iron ore.
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- Several days later, Bunger returned to the area, and
found that the water was warm to the touch and the lake itself was filled
with red, blue and green algae giving it a distinctive colour. Bunger filled
a bottle with the water which later "turned out to be brackish, a
clue to the fact that the blakeb was actually an arm of the open sea".
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- This is important for two reasons; warm, inland lakes
connected to the surrounding oceans would be perfect for submarines to
hide within, and similar lakes have been noted in Neu-Schwabenland, the
site of the alleged German (and suspected Alien) base.
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- While there is, still, no conclusive evidence of
a German/Alien base on Antarctica, It is beyond doubt that something
highly unusual was happening on, or around, the frozen continent.
In general, it appears that the probabilitiy for such a base
to have existed... and perhaps continue to exist, to this day, are rather
high... The evidence, a large volume of it, is there for all
to see...
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- 1. The Germans explored and claimed part of Antarctica
on the very eve of the war when the vast majority of their activity
was geared towards the rebuilding of the German economy and military infrastructure.This
activity began shortly before the recovery of the Bavarian "flying
disc", in 1938, but picked up pace immediately afterward.
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- 2. There was ongoing ship and submarine activity
in the South Atlantic and polar regions throughout and after the war had
apparently ended. This activity continued well into the 1950s., and if
some accounts are to be believed, continues to this day, with what can
only be considered U-Boat sightings, and a very high incidence of Unidentified
Flying Object sightings in the South Atlantic and South Polar regions,
including the Southern portions of South America.
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- 3. The US literally invaded the continent of Antarctica, itself,
with considerable naval resources leaving mainland America exposed
and vulnerable as the world edged into the Cold War. The task force limped
home as if defeated only weeks later, and the local South American press
wrote of such a defeat. This coincided with a substantial increase in Unidentified
Flying Object activity... generally attributed to the first major "wave"
of such activity in modern times, with an inordinate amount of this activity
taking place in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in South America.
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- 4. Admiral Byrd spoke of objects that could fly
from pole to pole at incredible speeds being based on Antarctica.
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- 5. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and a
minimum of forty (40) U-boats were missing at the end of the war.
Documentation and eye-witness accounts prove that at least a portion of
these craft made it as far as South America, in some cases, several months
after the end of the war in Europe.
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- The connection between Antarctica and the UFO phenomenon
was sealed with claims made by one Albert K. Bender who stated that he
"went into the fantastic and came up with an answer b& I know
what the saucers are."
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- Bender ran an organization called the bInternational
Flying Saucer Bureaub a small UFO organization based in Connecticut, USA
and he also edited a publication known as the bSpace Reviewb which was
committed to the dissemination of news about UFOs. In truth, the organization
had only a small membership and the publication circulated amongst hundreds
rather than thousands, but that its members and readers valued it was in
little doubt. The publication itself advocated that flying saucers were
spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin.
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- However... in the October 1953 edition of bSpace
Reviewb, there were two major announcements. The first was headed bLate
Bulletinb and stated "A source which the IFSB considers very reliable
has informed us that the investigation of the flying saucer mystery and
the solution is approaching final stages. This same source to whom we had
referred data, which had come into our possession, suggested that it was
not the proper method and time to publish the data in Space Review."
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- The second announcement read "Statement of Importance:
The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is
already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order
from a higher source. We would like to print the full story in Space Review,
but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we
have been advised in the negative." The statement ended in the sentence
"We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious."
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- These announcements were of little significance in and
of themselves. Bender's publication was considered "fringe",
at best, even at the time... However... what gained them wider attention
was the fact that immediately after publishing this October 1953 issue,
Bender suspended further publication of the magazine and closed the IFSB
down without any further explanation. This is completely consistent with
the "prudent" approach, shown by many who have been "gently"
warned to "cease operations" by the Majestic 12 Group and other
agencies involved in "keeping a lid" on any real investigation
into the Unidentified Flying Object phenomenon.
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- Bender might very well have known "what the flying
saucers" were, at least a portion of them... but he later revealed
in a local newspaper interview that he was keeping his knowledge a secret
following a visit by three men who apparently confirmed he was right about
his Unidentified Flying Object theory, but put him in sufficient fear to
immediately close down his organization and cease publication of the journal.
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- It has been argued that the story of being visited by
three strangers and being bwarned offb was a front to close a publication
that was losing money, however the fact that Bender had been "scared
to death" and "actually couldnbt eat for a couple of days"
was verified by his friends and associates. It is also widely known that
such "stories" are often spread by the United States, and other
governments to discredit those who might just have the truth, or at least
a portion of it.
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- In 1963, a full decade after his visit from the three
strangers, Bender was seemingly prepared to reveal more of his story in
a largely unreadable book entitled bFlying Saucers and the Three Men in
Black.b The book was scant on facts, however, it described extraterrestrial
spacecraft that had bases in Antarctica. This was apparently the truth
Bender was terrorized into not revealing. Bender also provided images of
the saucers he was aware of. He produced drawings of Unidentified
Flying Objects that he was aware of... Not saucers, as were the common
depictions of the time, but rather "flying wings" which showed
three bubble-like protrusions on the underside, reminiscent of the German
designed Haunebu II (which was allegedly only in the "design
stage" at the end of the Second World War) alongside a cylindrical,
cigar shaped object.
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- Ernst Zundel, a German scientist turned author (known
for his internet "ZGrams") who had entered the US under
Operation Paperclip (a United States Army/CIA program to bring German scientific
talent into the United States in spite of any so-called "war
crimes" which they were alleged to have committed.. at the end
of the war and who worked at Wright Field (later Wright Patterson AFB where
the Roswell debris were eventually housed), also made claims about
the nature of the activity in Antarctica.
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- In the 1970s Zundel's book bUFOs: Nazi Secret Weapons?b
made the claim that at least some Unidentified Flying Objects were
German secret Weapons which were developed during the Second World
War, and that some of them had been shipped out towards the end of the
war and hidden at the poles. Publication of the book coincided with a tidal
wave of renewed interest in all things paranormal... coming on the heel
of what was to be the last major Unidentified Flying Object "wave"
of the Twentieth Century, and Zundel was a guest on to countless
talk shows where he shared his views on spaceships, free energies, electromagnetism,
emergent technologies and some of the positive contributions made by the
Germans in these fields.
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- Zundel, who was one of the first of the "revisionist"
historians of the Second World War, was actually only really interested
in promoting his holocaust theory, described in his book bDid Six Million
Really Die?b However, he found that his Unidentified Flying Object and
bHollow Earthb ideas proved a greater attraction to television producers.
The idea seized hold of the popular imagination and took
on a life of its own. Zundelbs publishing company, bSamisdatb, started
to make a name for itself by issuing newsletters and books on the subject.
An expedition to Antarctica itself was even proposed to seek out bHitlerbs
UFO basesb there.
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- The fact is, that such claims would have died out
had they not been based on at least some real events...
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- Now, keep in mind that South America has always been
a "hotbed" of Unidentified Flying Object activity. Many of the
reports coming out of the area are unverified, and unverifiable... However,
many have credence. The claims that something extremely unusual was
taking place around the foreboding reaches of the frozen continent
took a major leap forward in the 1960s when the Argentine Navy was charged
with the official investigation into strange sightings in the sky.
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- A 1965 official report prepared by Captain Sanchez Moreno
of the Naval Air Station Comandante Espora in Bahia Blanca stated that
"Between 1950 and 1965, personnel of Argentinabs Navy alone made 22
sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects that were not airplanes, satellites,
weather balloons or any type of known (aerial) vehicles. These 22 cases
served as precedents for intensifying that investigation of the subject
by the Navy." Following a series of sightings at Argentine and Chilean
meteorological stations on Deception Island, Antarctica, in June and July
1965, Captain Engineer Omar Pagani disclosed at a press conference that
"Unidentified Flying Objects do exist. Their presence in Argentine
airspace is proven". The report went on to state, however, that
"their nature and origin are unknown and no judgment is made about
them".
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- More details of these UFO sightings were given in a report
in the Brazilian newspaper bO Estado de Sao Paulob in its 8th July 1965
edition. "For the first time in history, an official communiquC) has
been published by a government about the flying saucers. It is a document
from the Argentine Navy, based on the statements of a large number of Argentine,
Chilean and British sailors stationed in the naval base in Antarctica.
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- The communiquC) declared that the personnel of Deception
Island (left) naval base saw, at nineteen hours forty minutes on 3 July,
a flying object of lenticular shape, with a solid appearance and a colouring
in which red and green prevailed and, for a few moments, yellow. The machine
was flying in a zig-zag fashion, and in a generally western direction,
but it changed course several times and changed speed, having an inclination
of about forty-five degrees above the horizon. The craft also remained
stationary for about twenty minutes at a height of approximately 5,000
meters, producing no sound.
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- The communiquC) states moreover that the prevailing meteorological
conditions when the phenomenon was observed can be considered excellent
for the region in question and the time of year. The sky was clear and
quite a lot of stars were visible. The Secretariat of the Argentine Navy
also states in its communiquC) that the occurrence was witnessed by scientists
of the three naval bases and that the facts described by these people agree
completely."
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- Practically everyone in the "UFO Community"
is aware taht in March 1950 Commodore Augusto Vars Orrego of the Chilean
Navy shot still pictures and 8mm movie footage of a very large cigar shaped
flying object that hovered over and manoeuvred about in the frigid skies
above the Chilean Antarctic. The photos and the report of Orrego's sighting
have, quite literally, been seen by millions over the half century since
he saw, and photographed the objects. Orrego stated "during the bright
Antarctic night, we saw flying saucers, one above the other, turning at
tremendous speeds. We have photographs to prove what we saw ." There
have, of course, been numerous other Chilean sightings.
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- During January 1956 another major Unidentified Flying
Object "event" was witnessed by a group of Chilean scientists
who had been flown by helicopter to Robertson Island in the Wendell Sea
to study geology, fauna and other features. This experience was the subject
of a later article entitled bA Cigar-Shaped UFO over Antarctica.b "At
the beginning of January 1956, during a period of stormy weather, the party
suddenly became aware of something which, in other circumstances, could
have been very grave for them. This was that their radio had mysteriously
ceased to function. This was not too worrying a disaster in so much as
it was firmly settled that the helicopter would return to take them off
again on January 20."
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- One of the scientists, a doctor, was in the habit of
getting up in the night to observe anything of meteorological interest,
but another of the group, a professor, did not like to be disturbed. However
on the night of 8 January 1956, the Doctor decided to wake the professor.
He "pointed upwards, almost overhead. Still in a bad temper due
to being disturbed, the professor looked as directed, and beheld two
"metallic, cigar-shaped objects in verticular positions, perfectly
still and silent, and flashing vividly the reflected rays of the sun". Just
after 7.00am, two other members of the party, an assistant and a
medical orderly joined the two men. The group watched the two craft. "At
about 9.00am object No. 1 (the nearest to the zenith) suddenly assumed
a horizontal posture and shot away like a flash towards the west. It had
now lost its metallic brightness and had taken on the whole gam ut of visible
colors of the spectrum, from infrared to ultra-violet.
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- The report of the sighting went on to say... "Without
slowing down it performed an incredible acute-angle change of direction,
shot off across another section of the sky and then did another sharp turn
as before. These vertiginous maneuvers, the zig-zagging, abrupt stopping,
instantaneous accelerating, went on for some time right overhead, the object
always following tangential trajectories in respect to the Earth and all
in the most absolute silence".
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- The demonstration lasted about five minutes. Then, according
to the witnesses, the object returned and took up position beside its companion
in almost the same area of the sky as before. Then, it was the turn
of No. 2 to show its paces and do a convoluted, zigzagging dance
across the sky. Shooting off towards the east, it performed a series of
ten dispointed bursts of flight, broken by abrupt changes of direction,
and marked by the pronounced color changes when accelerating or stopping.
After about three minutes, object No. 2 was observed to resume its
station near its companion, and return to its original solid and metallic
appearance.
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- Due to the nature of their mission, the group had
with them two Geiger-Miller counters of high sensitivity, one of the auditory
and the other of the flash-type. When the two objects had finished their
dance and reassumed their stations in the sky, someone discovered that
the flash-type Geiger counter now showed that radioactivity around them
had suddenly increased 40 times... far more than enough to kill any organism
subjected long enough to it. The discovery greatly increased the anxiety
felt by the four men b&
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- Although they had no telescopic lens, they did have cameras
with them, and managed to take numerous photographs of the objects, both
in color and black and white. The report does not state what became
of these photographs, but it is safe to assume that they are in the possession
of the Chilean Government, and there is no reason to assume that they
have not been shared with that of the United States, as well as others.
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- Of course... no names are given in this report, but...
it has the ring of truth, and is consistent with any number of similar
sightings... Would that we knew their names! It is one of the exasperating
facts of Unidentified Flying Object research that so many of the South
American and South Atlantic sightings are attributed to "anonymous
sources" or the names of the witnesses involved, have been expunged
from the "official" records. So many of the witnesses being
cited would be, with reference to their stated credentials, credible sources,
but because of the practice of expunging names from records which might
fall into "public hands" are practically impossible to trace.
The absence of names... in many, if not most cases deliberately expunged
from official reports... simply lends to an aura of "unblievability",
even though it is a common practice, especially in most countries.
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- Yet another documented account of a UFO sighting over
Antarctica is by Rubens Junqueira Villela, a meteorologist and the first
Brazilian scientist to participate in an expedition to the South Polar
region, and now, a veteran of eleven expeditions to Antarctica (two with
the US Navy, eight with the Brazilian Antarctic Programme and another on
the sailing ship Rapa Nui). While on board the US Navy icebreaker Glacier,
which had set sail from New Zealand at the end of January 1961, Villela
claims that he witnessed a UFO event in the skies over Antarctica which
he immediately recorded in his diary, even including the emotions felt
by all those involved. On 16 March 1961, after a fierce storm had forced
the expedition to retreat to Admiralty Bay in the King George Isles, "a
strange light suddenly crossed the sky, and everyone started to shout".
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- Speculation went wild. Some thought the object to be
an incoming missile. Others thought it to be a meteor. The excitement was
wide-spread and growing. "Trying to describe the light which appeared
over Almirantado Bay" he told interviewers, later, "wasnbt easy
b& I wrote in my diary: bPositively the colors, the configuration and
contours of the object, as a bodied light, with geometric forms, did
not seem to be from this world, and I did not know what could possibly
reproduce it".
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- The object, he went on to report, was "multi-colored",
and had a luminous, oval-shaped body. It left, behind it, a "long
tube-like orange/red trail". Allegedly, it split into two pieces,
as if it had exploded. Then, each part shone even more intensively, with
white, blue and red colors projecting bVb shaped rays behind it. They
quickly moved away and could be seen 200 meters above the ground b&
According to the witnesses, the entire display was completely silent.
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- The US Navy officially registered the incident as "a
meteor or some other natural luminous phenomenon" according to the
report submitted by the Glacierbs captain, Captain Porter. However, this
is a common practice, and has been, ever since the inception of the Unidentified
Flying Object cover-up, under the auspices of the Majestic 12 group. This
policy of "official denial" and "logical explanation"
no matter how far fetched, would seem, has been followed by all branches
of the United States Government since the first days after the Roswell
Incident, in July, 1947. It certainly applies to any sightings or alleged
sightings in and around Antarctica...
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- Villela, on the other hand, easily dismissed the
official line. "How could they mistake a meteor with an object carrying
antennae, completely symmetrical and followed by a tail without any sight
of atmospheric disturbance?"
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- According to most "official" sources... and
certainly according to world renowned skeptic and self-styled debunker,
Phillip Klaus, this particular episode is a classic example of bplasmab,
however the late meteorologist, James McDonald argued that the highly structured
nature of the object and the low cloud overcast present at about 1500 feet
were not compatible with Klassbs hypothesis.
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- The list of sightings in the South Atlantic area
is practically endless. It is, and has been, particularly since the end
of the Second World War, one of the most active areas on earth with respect
to Unidentified Flying Object activity. Another classic sighting took
place on 16 January 1958 when the Brazilian naval vessel Almirante Salddanha
was escorting a team of scientists to a weather station on Trindade Island.
As the ship approach the island (or rather an outcrop of rock) an Unidentified
Flying Object reportedly flew low, over the water, past the ship,
circled the island, then flew off in front of dozens of witnesses.
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- One of the witnesses to this particular event, the expedition
photographer, took a number of photographs of the object. Later, the film
was handed over to the military by the Captain. Amazingly, after the initial
analysis, the Brazilian government released the film stating that they
were unable to account for the images.
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- Why did the United States Government, in late 1947,
only months after the famous Roswell Incident, send a naval task force
to Antarctic including Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Krusen and Admiral Byrd,
called "Operation Highjump". As we observed earlier, the
operation was said to be an expedition to find "coal
deposits" and other valuable resources, but... the facts indicate
otherwise... In actuality, there seems to be no doubt that they were
trying to locate an immense underground base constructed by the
Germans, before, during and immediately after the Second World War, with
the aid of Alien Entities which were described as "Aryans". This
base, allegedly located in an area that the Germans called "Neuschwabenlandt"...
an area of Antarctica which Germany explored, and claimed, before the outbreak
of the Second World War... & nbsp;was thought to hold "flying
objects which could fly from Pole to Pole in a matter of minutes"...
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- For years, rumors have circulated as to why German submarines...
U-Boats... would operate in South American and Antarctic waters long after
the end of the Second World War, in Europe. Some have said that the boats
spirited away such notables as Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormannn... both
of whom can be demonstrated to have died in Berlin at the end of the
war. the death... and physical remains of both men have been verified beyond
doubt, the latter with very recent DNA testing. Thus neither of them escaped
via U-boats to South America. The fact is, Wolfgang Eisenmenger, a forensic
science professor at Munich University, conducted the DNA testing of Bormann's
remains. He seems to have done the work for the Frankfurt justice officials.
He also had Bormann's dental, medical, and fingerprint records. Bormann's
children (or a distant family member, details a bit fuzzy) provided the
blood for the DNA match which was pro ven conclusive, i.e. that the body
was of Martin Bormann. The cause of death was deemed to be self inflicted
poisoning. Adolf Hitler, of course, died in his bunker in Berlin, of poison...
and a self inflicted gunshot.
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- Everyone has heard stories of vast amounts of gold or
other valuables being "smuggled" out of Germany in the last days
of the war... secreted away to South America... to support so-called "criminals"
abroad. So far, none of those stories has shown any sign of merit. If they
were so, then men such as Eichman would not have worked on the assembly
line in a Volkswagen plant. Meuller would not have run a chicken farm,
and Mengele would not have been dependent upon the generosity of his wealthy
family.
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- There is a story floating around that this said U-boat
commander worked on some highly classified US National Secrets after the
war, and that his boat was operating in the far South... He was reported
to have been a commander of a VIIC or IXC U-boat in the Atlantic during
the war, named Otto Schneider. This theory is also easy to disprove...
There simply was no U-Boat commander by that name in the Kriegsmarine
(German Navy). Only two commanders with that last name
saw service in the war; Herbert Schneider who died while in command of
U-522, and Manfred Schneider only commander the small XXIII boat U-4706
for the last 3 months of the war, and never left his home port.
This story is just that, a story.
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- The fact is, Unidentified Flying Obkect researchers are
well aware of strange sightings of 'flying saucers' with swastikas or iron
crosses displayed on them. They are also well aware of 'aliens'
speaking German, and have also heard of abductees who have been taken to
underground bases with swastika emblems on the walls, or as in the case
of one abductee... Alex Christopher... who claims to have seen "Reptiloids"
and Germans working together aboard antigravity craft or within underground
bases.
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- It has been, however, documented that over forty
U-Boats are unaccounted for, and that at least ten departed their ports,
allegedly for South America, in the final days of the war... It is a documented
fact that three of the boats did, in fact, arrive in Argentina... These
were U-530, U-977 and U-1238. U-530 and U-977 surrendered to the Argentine
Navy at Mar del Plata in early July and August, 1945... U-1238 was scuttled,
by her crew, in the waters of San Matias Gulf, off Northern Patagonia.
There is no reason to assume that at least seven other boats, as yet
"officially" unaccounted for, made the crossing to either
Argentina or Antarctica, completely submerged... and completely unnoticed
by existing "allied" technology of the time...
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- Why, then, would these men would make such a perilous
crossing? It must surely be seen as a act of either desperation or
fanaticism, or both... and such men as crewed U-Boats were neither. Nor,
were the scientists and military officers who were their passengers. The
fact is, it would seem that most of those who fled the ruin of Germany
to the far South, were scientists and engineers, and their dedication sprang
from the project on which they were working... To understand this dedication,
it is necessary to go back, before the outbreak of the Second World War,
to an isolated section of the Bavarian Alps, It was there, in the summer
of 1938, that an Unidentified Flying Object, crewed by a distinctly human,
and Aryan appearing race, made a forced landing, very similar to the one
which was to occur, some ten years later, in the desert, near Roswell,
New Mexico, in the United States. While the occupants of the two craft
were complet ely unrelated, the technology involved, seems to have been
strikingly similar. Also, the outcome of the recovery effort, undertaken
by Germany, just as a similar recovery effort was undertaken by the United
States, had strikingly different results.
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- The Bavarian crash of 1938, seems to have yielded an
functioning, or almost functioning and repairable (with the technology
of the time) power plant, and a nearly completely destroyed, or unrepairable
airframe. The Roswell crash resulted in exactly the opposite... a nearly
intact airframe and a ruined power plant. Because of this, the German research,
which was to follow, took a vastly different turn from that which was undertaken
in the United States, some ten years later... Germany needed an airframe
which was capable of supporting the "engine" (for lack of a better
term), while the United States would eventually need an "engine"
capable of giving maximum performance to the airframe.
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- This, of course, would explain the vast array of "experimental"
aircraft... of extremely "unique" design... to literally pour
out of the design bureaus of Messerschmidt, Foke Wulf, Fokker and a multitude
of smaller firms in the period between 1939 and 1945. The most notable,
of course, is the Sanger "Flying Wing" which was later copied
by the United States, and is, of course, the ancestor of today's "stealth"
bomber and fighter designs... notably, the B-2 Heavy Bomber.
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- It is also beyond doubt that both Unidentified Flying
Object recoveries are the initial impetus for the long standing and ongoing
research in "anti-gravity" propulsion seen in work of current
aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing and Lockheed in the United States,
and PanAvia in Europe.
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- In any case, it seems to have been the work on "reverse
engineering" the downed Bavarian Unidentified Flying Object that was
the catalyst for the "exodous" to the South in the final days
of the Second World War. Germany was in ruins, and the research was viewed,
by those conducting it, as vital... vital enough to risk packing up all
that they had and risking a perilous submerged crossing of the Atlantic..
to an isolated experimental and research base on a frozen continent...
Granted, by modern standards... even by the standards of the day... U-Boats
were small and cramped. They had very little cargo capacity. Still, a tiny
fleet of them... ten to twelve boats... could easily transport the essential
equipment, making several "runs", and serve to supply and, later
re-supply the Antarctic bastion of the research.
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