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. 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… truncated (53,745 more characters in archive)
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