In 1946-47, the United States conducted the Highjump Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer and retired Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. In connection with this expedition, there are conspiracy theories that it was carried out in order to eliminate Nazi bases, fight aliens - the occult allies of the Nazis, etc. In particular, it is worth mentioning the words of the expedition members, who stated that they were attacked by disk-shaped objects that emitted certain rays, which caused the ships and planes of the Americans to simply light up.
Operation High Jump was disguised as an ordinary research expedition, and not everyone guessed that a powerful naval squadron was heading to the shores of Antarctica. An aircraft carrier, 13 ships of various types, 25 aircraft and helicopters, more than four thousand people, a six-month supply of food - these data speak for themselves.
It would seem that everything went according to plan: 49 thousand photographs were taken in a month. And suddenly something happened that official authorities The US is still silent. On March 3, 1947, the expedition that had just begun was urgently turned off, and the ships hurriedly headed home. In May 1948, some details surfaced on the pages of the European magazine Brizant. It was reported that the expedition met stiff resistance from the enemy. Were lost: at least one ship, dozens of people, four combat aircraft, nine more aircraft had to be left as unusable. What exactly happened can only be guessed at. According to the press, the crew members who dared to reminisce spoke of “flying discs” that “surfaced from under the water” and attacked them, about strange atmospheric phenomena that caused psychiatric disorders. Journalists cite an excerpt from a report by Richard Byrd, allegedly made at a secret meeting of a special commission:
The US needs to take defensive actions against enemy fighters flying out of the polar regions. When new war America could be attacked by an enemy that has the ability to fly from one pole to the other at incredible speed!
Almost ten years later, Admiral Byrd led a new polar expedition, in which he died under mysterious circumstances. After his death, information appeared in the press allegedly from the diary of the admiral himself. It follows from them that during the 1947 expedition, the plane on which he flew out for reconnaissance was forced to land by strange aircraft, "similar to British soldiers' helmets." A tall blue-eyed blond man approached the admiral and, in broken English language sent an appeal to the US government demanding an end to nuclear testing. Some of the sources claim that after this meeting, an agreement was signed between the Nazi colony in Antarctica and the American government to exchange German advanced technologies for American raw materials.
Indirect confirmation of the existence of the base is called the repeated sightings of UFOs in the area of the South Pole. Often they see “plates” and “cigars” hanging in the air. And in 1976, Japanese researchers, using the latest equipment, simultaneously spotted nineteen round objects that “dipped” from space to Antarctica and disappeared from the screens.
The history of "Baza-211" originates from the German expedition of 1938/39 on the ship "Schwabenland" under the command of an experienced pilot, polar explorer Captain Alfred Ritscher. Arriving at the shores of Queen Maud Land in January 1939, previously declared by the Norwegians as their possessions, the expedition began systematically photographing the territory using two Dornier seaplanes that were on board the ship. Within a month, the Müliga-Hoffman mountains, the Schirmacher Oasis, and others were discovered. geographic features. The territory surveyed, no less than a lot, amounted to 250,000 square meters. km. (almost half the area of Germany).
At that time, the expedition did not create any secret base like the Vinnitsa "Werwolf" or the Smolensk "Berenhalle" - for this it had neither the strength, nor the necessary building materials, nor the personnel. But this expedition marked the beginning of the development of Antarctica by the Third Reich. The territory filmed and staked out with pennants with a swastika was called New Swabia and declared the possessions of the Third Reich.
Map of New Swabia (clickable)
Ships of the submarine fleet of Grand Admiral K. Dönitz, specially equipped for navigation in the polar latitudes, began to go to Antarctica. Continuing research in the Schirmacher Oasis area, German scientists discovered a system of caves with warm air. “My submariners have discovered a true earthly paradise,” Dönitz said at the time. For several years, the Germans carried out carefully concealed work to create a base under the code name "Baza-211". Mining equipment, railroads, trolleys and huge cutters for tunneling were sent to the polar continent. At least 8 "thick" cargo submarines of type XIV "Milchkuh" were built for the delivery of goods. This allowed the same Grand Admiral to throw out the phrase: “Die deutsche U-Boot Flotte ist stolz darauf, daß sie fur den Fuhrer in einem anderen Teil der Welt ein Shangri-La gebaut hat, eine uneinnehmbare Festung” (“The German submarine fleet is proud the fact that on the other side of the world he created for the Fuhrer the impregnable fortress of Shangri-La”).
The "thickest" in the German submarine fleet were the Type XIV "Milchkuh" ("Cash Cows") submarines, which served as supply boats in the Atlantic. They provided combat submarines with fuel, spare parts, ammunition, medicines, food. A total of 10 Type XIV submarines were built. All of them were sunk, and the coordinates of the death of each are known. They could not be those "large cargo submarines", but boats like these, secretly built, could be used for flights to "Base-211".
There were no fundamental obstacles to the creation of such an underground base. Many of Germany's largest factories, such as the Junkers factory in the Nordhausen mountain, were located underground, in salt mines and dug tunnels and adits. Such plants successfully withstood any bombardment and usually stopped working only when enemy ground forces approached.
Since 1942, thousands of concentration camp prisoners were transferred to Baza-211 as labor force, as well as service personnel, scientists and members of the Hitler Youth - the gene pool of the future "pure" race.
According to some reports, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun did not commit suicide, but lived to old age under the ice of the South Pole, and according to other sources - in a secluded refuge in South America.
Relatively recently, it became known that during the Second World War there was a top-secret connection of German submarines, called the Fuhrer's Convoy. It included 35 submarines that were engaged in the delivery of secret cargo to Antarctica and other hidden places. At the very end of the war in Kiel, the weapons were removed from the submarines and containers were loaded with some things, documents. In April 1945, the last flights of submarines to Base-211 were made. Where they then went is still unknown. Only two of them, U-977 and U-530, found themselves in July - August 1945 in Argentina. In July 1945, Lieutenant Otto Wermuth's U-530 showed up off the coast of Argentina and surrendered to the Argentine authorities on July 10 in Mar del Plata. On August 17, U-977 of Lieutenant Heinz Schaeffer surrendered there. Later, Stefner will write a book of memoirs about the last campaign. But there is not a single hint of a mission to Antarctica in it.
The crews were arrested. The submarine commanders were interrogated by the Americans. “One of the main reasons for the decision to sail to Argentina was German propaganda,” Heinz Schaeffer said during interrogation. “We were told that American and British newspapers were writing that after the war all German men should be enslaved and sterilized. Another reason was the mistreatment of German prisoners of war who were kept in France after the end of the First World War, the long delay in sending them home. And, of course, we hoped for better living conditions in Argentina.”
There is no other information about Hitler. It can be added that the piece of Hitler's skull, carefully kept in the KGB archives, turned out not to be his at all, but someone else, possibly a doppelgänger.
This theory largely explains the facts of numerous contacts with German-speaking flying saucer teams that have taken place since then and are still happening today. The first UFO encounters of people like George Adamski (one of the most famous UFO contactors in the US, observed numerous UFOs during the war years, died in 1965) were described as encounters with tall, blond, Nordic (and in some cases speaking German!) people. It is possible that these were contacts with the Germans, and not with aliens like us. It is also possible that a secret Antarctic base exists to this day.
Rumors about a German Antarctic base have been circulating for years, and not one group of explorers has disappeared into the area without leaving a trace. Historian and publicist Vladimir Terzitsky tells the details about the German colony at the South Pole:
The Germans began exploration of the South Pole with huge aircraft carrier cruisers in 1937. The Schwabenland ship was sent to Queen Maud Land, south of South Africa, where the Germans immediately dropped their swastika flags from the planes and claimed the rights of the Third Reich to these lands, the area of \u200b\u200bwhich is comparable to the area Western Europe. They named this country New Schwabenland (New Swabia). In 1942, a massive covert operation to transfer people and materials to a secret underground base was carried out with the participation of the German marines. This base was to be the last bastion of the Reich. Several hundred thousand concentration camp prisoners, as well as scientists and members of the Hitler Youth, were transferred to the South Pole (using submarines) and to actively colonized lands in South America to continue the Nazi experiment in creating a pure race of supermen - "supermen". It is said that today there is a huge underground city with a population of two million people under the South Pole, called - yes, you guessed it - New Berlin. The main occupation of its inhabitants today is genetic engineering and space flights. Admiral Byrd is rumored to have secretly met with the leaders of the German Antarctic colony in 1947 after his inglorious defeat and signed a treaty of peaceful coexistence between the Nazi colony of Germans under the South Pole and the US government and the exchange of German advanced technology for ... American raw materials.
For more on the Nazi base at the South Pole and their spaceflight-capable vehicles, see Man-Made UFOs: 1944-1994 by Renato Vesco and David Hatcher Childress. It analyzes in the most detailed way the features of the first years of research on disc-shaped flying vehicles.
Some sources claim that towards the end of World War II, the Germans managed to develop interplanetary aircraft without moving parts that could fly to the Moon and even Mars. Some scientists cite videos and print articles to prove that the Germans did indeed fly there either at the end of the war or immediately after it, and the flights were made from their Antarctic base.
A number of military historians, such as Colonel Howard Bucher, author of "The Secrets of Hitler's Holy Spear and Ashes", insist that the Germans had already established bases in Queen Maud Land during the war. Subsequently, German U-class submarines (according to some reports there were at least 100 of them) took on board outstanding scientists, pilots and politicians and delivered them to the last fortress of Nazi Germany. Presumably, there were other Nazi bases in remote areas of South America, possibly in the mountain jungle and in the fjord region in southern Chile. According to the book by the German journalist Carl Brugger, The Chronicles of Akakora, one German battalion nevertheless found refuge in an underground city on the border of Brazil and Peru. Karl lived in Manaos and was killed in Ipanema, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, in 1981.
US Navy Expedition
The expedition was conceived by the leadership of the US Navy based, most likely, on the political and economic situation that prevailed in the country after the end of World War II. Before the war, the country was unable to fully recover from the Great Depression. The war slowed down this process. At the same time, Lend-Lease supplies (which were not free of charge), participation in hostilities (the second front, the Pacific theater of operations) kept the economy afloat due to military government orders. But now the war is over. The USSR still seems to be an ally of the USA, Churchill's speech in Fulton has not yet been made, the arms race has not yet begun. There is no need for a state order for armaments, and there are no worthy tasks for army units, in particular, for the US Navy. Most warships are idle. The morale of the Marines, sailors and officers is falling. And here, probably, the command of the Navy came up with a good idea - to equip an expedition to Antarctica.
The Chief of Naval Operations of the US Navy (Chief of Naval Operations, CNO), Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (Chester W. Nimitz, pictured) instructed the development of "The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, and his Deputy Vice Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey gave the appropriate directives to the Commanders-in-Chief of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. The implementation of the expedition was entrusted to the Task Force 68 of the Special Tasks of the Atlantic Fleet. The group was assigned several ships of the Pacific Fleet. The project was given the code name "Operation Highjump" (Operation High Jump). The operation was led by the commander of Task Force 68, Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen. And at the head of the expedition itself was retired Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, an experienced polar explorer, a legendary person in the United States and not only.
So, the American expedition of the US Navy in 1946-47 is really very unusual because of its scale - it was and remains the largest ever to work on the Sixth Continent. The expedition was attended by 13 US warships with a total tonnage of almost 174 thousand tons, 19 aircraft, including seaplanes and flying boats, helicopters, not to mention sled dogs. In total, about 4,700 people participated in the expedition. The main scientific goal was the establishment of the Antarctic research station"Little America IV".
The official composition of the expeditionary squadron was divided into 4 groups, and the deceased destroyer Murdoch was removed from its composition:
Western Group (Task Force 68.1)
Leader: Captain 1st Rank C. Bond.
Currituck Seaplane Base - U.S.S Seaplane tender Currituck (AV-7)
Displacement 14,000 tons. Commissioned June 26, 1944. Captain 1st Rank John E. Clark
USS Henderson - U.S.S. Henderson (DD-785)
Displacement 3,460 tons. Commissioned November 17, 1945. Captain 1st Rank C. Bailey (C.F. Bailey)
Tanker Kakapon - U.S.S. Cacapon (AO-52)
Displacement 25,500 tons. Commissioned September 21, 1943. Captain 1st Rank R. Mitchell (R.A. Mitchell)
Central Group (Task Force 68.2)
Leader: Rear Admiral R. Kruzen.
Highjump flagship, Mount Olympus command and control landing ship - U.S.S. Mount Olimpus (AGC-8)
Displacement 12 142 tons. Commissioned October 3, 1943. Captain 1st Rank R. Moore (R.R. Moore)
Landing craft Yancy - U.S.S. Yancey (AKA-93)
Displacement 13,910 tons. Commissioned October 11, 1944. Captain 1st Rank J. E. Cohn
Landing craft Merrick - U.S.S. Merrick (AKA-97)
Same type as AKA-93. Captain 1st Rank John J. Hourihan
Submarine Sennet - U.S.S. Submarine Sennet (SS-408)
Displacement 2 391 tons. Commissioned 22 August 1944
Captain 2nd Rank J. Eisenhower (Joseph B. Icenhower)
Icebreaker Barton Island - U.S.S. Burton Island (AG-88)
Displacement 6 515 tons. Commissioned April 30, 1946. Captain 2nd Rank J. Ketchum (Gerald L. Ketchum)
Icebreaker Northwind - USCGC Northwind (WAG-282)
Displacement 6 515 tons. Commissioned on July 28, 1945. Captain 1st Rank C. Thomas
Eastern Group (Task Force 68.3)
Leader: Captain 1st Rank J. Dufek.
USS Brownson - U.S.S. Brownson (DD-868)
Displacement 9,090 tons. Commissioned 7 July 1945. Captain 2nd Rank G. Gimber (H.M.S. Gimber)
Pine Island Seaplane Base - U.S.S. Pine Island (AV-12)
The USS Currituck (AV-7) is of the same type. Commissioned April 26, 1945. Captain 1st Rank G. Caldwell
Tanker "Canisteo" - U.S.S. Canisteo (AO-99)
Displacement 25,440 tons. Commissioned 6 July 1945. Captain 1st Rank E. Walker (Edward K. Walker)
Carrier Group (Task Force 68.4)
Leader: Retired Rear Admiral R. Byrd.
Escort aircraft carrier Philippine Sea - U.S.S. Philippine Sea (CV-47)
Displacement: 27,100 tons. Length 271 meters. Commissioned May 11, 1946. Captain 1st Rank D. Cornwell
Takes on board up to 100 aircraft, went on an expedition with 6 R4D Skytrains aircraft
Photo taken aboard the U.S.S. Philippine Sea in the Panama Canal, en route to Antarctica
Base Group (Task Force 68.5)
Leader: Captain 1st Rank K. Campbell.
Base Little America IV.
Footage of the construction of the Little America IV base.
Below are the sleeve patches of the members of the expedition. The first patch was used by members of the Special Task Force (Task Force 68). The second patch was used by members of the amphibious assault ship Yancey and contained the inscription "The whole world is our foothold" - a very revealing motto for the US military.
According to a US Navy report, the purpose of the expedition was:
- Personnel training and equipment testing in the Antarctic cold.
- Declaration of US sovereignty over the practically achievable territories of Antarctica (this goal was officially denied even after the end of the expedition).
- Finding out the feasibility of founding, maintaining and using Antarctic stations and exploring areas suitable for this.
- Development of technologies for the establishment, maintenance and use of Antarctic stations on the ice sheet with special attention further application of these technologies in the interior of Greenland.
- Expansion of knowledge in the field of hydrography, geography, geology, meteorology, propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Antarctic.
- Continuation of the research started by the Nanook expedition in Greenland.
Some Matten and Friedrich published materials in 1975, where the additional goal of the expedition was indicated: “To break the last desperate attempt of resistance by Adolf Hitler. If we find him and his henchmen in the New Berchenstag, inside New Swabia, in the area of Queen Maud Land, we will destroy them."
Be that as it may, but on December 12, 1946, the Western Group reached the Marquesas Islands, where the destroyer Henderson and the tanker Kakapon established meteorological stations. On December 24, air reconnaissance aircraft began to take off from the Kurritak seaplane base. At the end of December 1946, the Eastern Group reached Peter I Island. On January 1, 1947, Captain 3rd Rank Thompmon and Senior Warrant Officer Dixon, using Jack Brown masks and oxygen apparatus, made the first dive in Antarctic waters in US history.
William Menster, who served as the expedition's chaplain, became the first priest to visit Antarctica. During a service held in 1947, he consecrated this continent.
On January 15, 1947, the Central Group arrived in the Bay of Whales, where they built a temporary airstrip on the glacier and established the Little America IV station.
According to Richard Byrd and many members of the expedition, the Americans were attacked by devices resembling "flying saucers". One of the expedition members, John Syerson, recalled:
They jumped out of the water like crazy and literally slipped between the masts of the ships at such a speed that the radio antennas were torn by streams of disturbed air. Several "corsairs" managed to take off, but compared to these strange aircraft they looked like hobbled ones.
I didn’t even have time to blink an eye, as two “corsairs”, struck by some unknown rays that splashed from the bows of these “flying saucers”, dug into the water near the ships ... These objects did not make a single sound, they silently rushed between the ships, like some kind of satanic, blue-black swallows with blood-red beaks, and continuously spitting deadly fire.
Suddenly, the Murdoch, which was ten cables from us (about two kilometers), blazed with a bright flame and began to sink.
From other ships, despite the danger, lifeboats and boats were immediately sent to the crash site. When our "pancakes" (XF-5U "Skimmer"), shortly before that, relocated to the coastal airfield, flew into the battle area, they could not do anything either. The whole nightmare lasted about twenty minutes. When the "flying saucers" again dived under the water, we began to count the losses. They were horrendous...
According to Admiral Byrd himself, these amazing aircraft must have been produced at the Nazi aircraft factories camouflaged in the thickness of the Antarctic ice, the designers of which mastered some unknown energy used in the engines of these vehicles.
Few people know, but there were Russian-speaking witnesses in this story. One of the participants in the events was Konstantin Yalyarashkovsky, and this is how he explained his stay on the expedition:
During the years of the Great Patriotic War I, like all boys, dreamed of going to the front. He even “added” almost two years to himself, and by the beginning of 1945 he managed to finish an accelerated course for junior naval signal officers in Kronstadt. However, he almost did not participate in serious hostilities - the war ended. The command drew attention to my knowledge of languages (thanks to my parents-teachers, I spoke English, German and French) and sent me to the allies - to the coordination group at the main headquarters of the US Navy. At the end of 1946, the Americans included us with Colonel Yuri Popovich in the squadron of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd.
The story of Konstantin Yalyarashkovsky about what happened during the attack on the ships of the expedition:
Officially, we went on a "research expedition" to Antarctica to evaluate and explore its minerals. But what struck us was that the squadron included: an aircraft carrier with combat aircraft (fighters, bombers, attack aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft), destroyers, minesweepers, a couple of submarines, tankers, marines. The voyage was long, and Yuri and I simply languished with longing and idleness. Only in the evenings did the officers gather in the cabin of the aircraft carrier and take their souls away: they played cards, smoked, drank, and talked. Moreover, as we have seen, none of them really understood where and why we were going.
Once, the captain of the destroyer Murdoch, Cyrus Lafargue, with whom we became friends, mentioned over a glass that he accidentally heard the phrase of Admiral Richard Byrd that the crews of two German submarines that arrived from Antarctica had surrendered to the Allied forces in Argentina. Our tipsy company immediately put forward a version with a laugh: they say, we are going to look for fascist bases at the South Pole. Complete nonsense. Although there were many myths then. They said that the escaped fascists built themselves huge cities in South America, settled in ... space, live underground somewhere in the Alps.
More recently, a film about the attack on Byrd's squadron was shown on television, but it is largely inaccurate, and the directors fantasized something. They attacked us, if my memory serves me, on January 27th. Yuri and I stood on the bridge - talking, smoking. Then they heard the cry of the observer: “Air! To starboard!" And immediately the alarm sounded. About a dozen unknown aircraft were rapidly approaching us literally above the water itself (and not emerging from it, as the TV reporters claimed!) About a dozen unknown aircraft. In a few seconds they were already above the squadron and went on the attack!
They were strange disc-shaped cars with … fascist crosses on their sides. And this is almost two years after the victory over Germany!
The speed and maneuverability of the vehicles were simply amazing! They fired some kind of red beams. Maybe it was some kind of prototype of a modern laser weapon? The beams easily pierced thick ship armor, while the enemy "disks" could unthinkably sharply change their course, moving away from the hurricane fire of our anti-aircraft guns, and even ... hover over us! Several F-4 fighters slowly rose from the deck of the aircraft carrier, but they did not have time to join the battle. They were burned right there! The Americans tried several more times to lift a couple of air units into the air, but this was also unsuccessful. I had to shoot back only with anti-aircraft guns.
Yura and I brought cartridges to heavy machine guns. Before our eyes, a red beam tore off the black gunner's hand and burned the deck. The aircraft carrier received significant damage, but then the enemy for some reason "lagged behind" us and transferred the entire attack force to the destroyer "Murdoch". A terrible picture - they literally burned it! Fire, explosions, screams, shooting, sailors began to lower lifeboats ...
By the way, the film claimed that the "discs" allegedly used some kind of psychic weapon in that battle - "the sailors clutched their heads in pain with their hands." It wasn't! It's just that the roar of the "saucer" engines above our heads was so powerful that it caused severe pain in the ears. I experienced something similar when a modern jet combat aircraft took off nearby.
The fight lasted ten minutes. As soon as the destroyer sank, the “disks”, without touching other ships, boats and lifeboats, just as quickly rushed low above the water beyond the horizon.
We were all stunned by what happened! The losses of the Americans amounted to the sunk destroyer "Murdoch", about ten fighters and several hundred dead sailors. There were even more wounded. "Disks" damaged the ships, especially our aircraft carrier. For a couple of days we were repairing at an emergency pace. At this time, the number of observers was significantly increased, the surviving aircraft continuously conducted long-range aerial reconnaissance, and there were duty officers near the anti-aircraft guns around the clock. Fortunately, everything was calm.
In early March, we headed to the place where the ships are based in the United States. After the return of the aircraft carrier put on a major overhaul. As far as I know, none of the American sailors gave any "non-disclosure agreement". Rear Admiral Richard Byrd reported the incident to the command and congressmen. Yuri and I returned to Moscow and personally reported on the American expedition to Rear Admiral Ivan Papanin and Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces Nikolai Kuznetsov. They listened to us attentively, talked to each other, and… that was the end of it. Whether they reported to Stalin, whether they sent Soviet ships to Antarctica - I don’t know ...
In this fleeting battle, the US Navy lost one ship, thirteen aircraft (4 shot down, nine disabled, including three Skimmers) and more than forty people (according to other sources, up to 68 people were killed) personnel . Basically, they were sailors from the sunken destroyer. The rest of the ships were not subjected to fire from "flying saucers", to the considerable surprise of the sailors.
The next day, as Syerson said further, Richard Byrd went on reconnaissance in a twin-engine Tigercat fighter and disappeared along with his pilot and navigator. When the news of this reached Washington, Admiral Stark, Bird's deputy, was ordered to immediately turn off the expedition and, observing complete radio silence, head back to the States without any calls to intermediate naval bases. Some time later, Richard Bird returned and again led the command of the expedition. What exactly happened to him - then he did not tell anyone, and we can judge what happened only from his diary, written years later.
The results of the expedition were in fact immediately classified, and all its participants were forced to sign a wide variety of non-disclosure documents. And, nevertheless, something leaked to the press even then, which can be judged at least from articles in the Savannah newspaper Adventure or Chicago publications.
Return of the expedition
The expedition returned to the United States at the end of February 1947 due to the early onset of the Antarctic winter and deteriorating weather conditions.
While still aboard Mount Olympus, Byrd was interviewed by Lee van Atta of the International News Service, where he talked about the lessons of the expedition. The interview was published on March 5, 1947 in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. In it, he, in particular, said that the United States should make efforts to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft from the polar regions. The speed with which distances in the world are shrinking is one of the lessons of this polar expedition.
When the American squadron finally reached its shores and the fate of the expedition was reported to the command, all its members - both officers and sailors - were isolated. Only Admiral Byrd remained at large. However, he was forbidden to meet with journalists.
The United States government categorically denies the admiral's revelations, and he himself was declared mentally ill and subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment. Byrd was interrogated in the presence of a doctor, everything said was transferred to the American president. The admiral was ordered to "keep silent about everything he learned, in the name of humanity." Regarding the information leaked from the team, it was publicly said that it was all the result of a nervous breakdown. Officials took care of the misinformation of the press and the public. The names of the persons participating in the expedition have been changed. Information about human losses and losses of equipment was refuted. We paid attention to the fact that thanks to the expedition, maps of 1,390,000 km² of the coast of Antarctica were compiled. Several statements were also issued by the authorities about those events, saying that only one person died, whose plane had an accident. Everyone participating in the expedition, under the threat of sanctions, had to keep a secret.
Then Bird began to write memoirs about this period of his life. It was not possible to publish the manuscript, but it ended up in " high spheres". Byrd was dismissed, moreover, declared insane. In recent years, the admiral lived practically under house arrest, did not communicate with anyone, could not even see his former colleagues.
Shortly after the end of the operation, the next expedition was organized under the name "Operation Windmill" (1948), which conducted aerial photography of the same territories of Antarctica. Finn Ronne financed this private expedition.
The Secret of Richard Byrd's Diary
Although there is no proof of the authenticity of the diary, the information on its pages is shocking. Richard Bird wrote: "This is amazing, it might seem crazy if it had not actually happened."
The flight, which began on February 19, 1947 at 6:10 local time, did not portend anything unusual, and for the first four hours everything went according to plan. At some point, however, the on-board equipment stopped working, and in the place where the icy desert should have been, the pilot saw valleys overgrown with trees. Animals like mammoths grazed in the valley, something resembling a city could be seen not far away! It was light, although there was no sun in the sky. Bird tried to contact the base, but was unsuccessful.
Suddenly, strange disc-shaped aircraft appeared next to the plane. The Dakota aircraft stopped responding to control, the test equipment was useless. A voice came over the radio, speaking in English with a German accent, barely audible: “Welcome Mr. Admiral to our kingdom. Please relax, you are in good hands."
Bird's plane was brought to the ground in such a way that the pilot suffered only a slight shaking during landing. Several people came to greet him. They were tall and blond. Byrd was taken to inside one of the buildings, and one of the men said, "Don't be afraid Admiral, you will have an audience with the Master." In the diary, this "Master" is described as a person with delicate features, touched by the passage of time.
Further discussion, during which the Master raised all the main questions concerning our civilization, passed in a friendly atmosphere. The Master said goodbye to Byrd, ordering him to return to his world to spread the message given to him. The last words that Bird heard when he took off were: "We will leave you here, Admiral, your equipment is working, Auf Wiedersehen." And again the admiral flew over the icy desert.
What happened during the expedition? Until now, the general public does not know what happened then in the ice. But we know that in 1954 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued an order for the next expedition to Antarctica. Admiral Bird was declared mentally healthy by order of Eisenhower and was appointed commander of the expedition. The operation was codenamed Deep Freeze. This time, the Americans did not hide the fact that this expedition was military, and even the use of nuclear weapons was possible.
The operation was completed in 1957. In the same year, Admiral Richard Byrd died. Nobody remembered the famous polar hero then.
The article uses materials from a blogger under the nickname ecolimp and from websites
Skeptics believe that there was no base 211. The Germans were unlikely to be able to swim to its location. Even if Hitler's submarine had advanced to the base in Antarctica in April 1945, then at that time speed it would have reached the continent only by summer.
New Swabia is an area of Antarctica in Dronning Maud Land. Before the start of the Great World War, the German ship "Schwabia" went to this place. The main goal of the New Swabia expedition was to explore the icy continent and secure these territories for Germany. Some researchers say that in 1941 the Germans could actually land in Antarctica on Norwegian territory, which is Queen Maud Land, and establish the Oasis station there. This area is now known as Bunger Oasis. Of course, in those days it was quite difficult to deliver to such a remote base the colossal amount of fuel needed to generate electricity. But if the Germans could create Kohler's converters, then their need for fuel was minimal. In Antarctica, German researchers could spend about a month. When the war broke out, this project was briefly forgotten, but the history of New Swabia did not end there.
Some historians are convinced that the Germans were able to establish a secret military base in Antarctica 211. According to some assumptions, it may be located under the ice. All the same, the necessary equipment and her personnel were brought to the place by German submarines. Among other things, occult relics of the Third Reich, as well as Hitler himself, could be transported to New Swabia. It is believed that in Antarctica, Hitler and his associates intended to found the Fourth Reich in order to try to conquer the world once again. According to rumors, since the late 30s of the last century, a whole colony has developed here. And the underground city "New Berlin" with a population of more than 2,000,000 people could be built! In addition to factories and laboratories, under the ice crust of Antarctica, animal husbandry and Agriculture. The main occupation of the inhabitants of the underground city, according to experts, could be genetic engineering and the breeding of a race of pure Aryans, as well as space flights.
By the way, in 1961, uranium deposits were discovered in Antarctica precisely on Queen Maud Land, where New Swabia was supposed to be located. According to some data, the percentage of uranium in Antarctic ore is at least 30%. But the Nazis really needed uranium, trying to create nuclear weapons. It is quite possible that German scientists managed to create alternative energy sources and construct incredible electrodynamic machines. The most fantastic versions say that UFOs observed over the South Pole are nothing more than German flying saucers that change the structure of time around them and do not obey the laws of gravity.
Skeptics believe that there was no base 211. The Germans were unlikely to be able to swim to its location. Even if Hitler's submarine had advanced to the base in Antarctica in April 1945, then at that time speed it would have reached the continent only by summer. But we know that our summer is winter at the South Pole. At this time in Antarctica, the thickness of the ice cover becomes maximum. With the submarines of those times, it would hardly have been possible to get to Antarctica in conditions of incredible cold. The project of the expedition "New Swabia" ended in 1939 upon the return of its participants to Germany. Numerous diaries of the campaign to New Swabia have long been published even in Russian. There is no mention of secret missions of scientists there. No facts regarding the creation of base 211 are also mentioned. Nazi Germany was a bureaucratic country. Everything that happened, the Germans liked to write down on paper. But official documents on scientific research on the territory of New Swabia during the Second World War were not found.
To date, there are unexplored areas in Antarctica. But the existence of any civilization under the ice cap is impossible. The thickness of the ice in the center of Antarctica is more than 3 km. A average temperature air on the surface reaches -55 degrees Celsius. It's hard to survive there. Moreover, the version about the move of Hitler and his associates to Antarctica is possibly a fiction. There is official and verified evidence that the Fuhrer's body was burned and identified. Why would a group of Nazis go to Antarctica without their leader? They had the opportunity to hide in South America.
Who first spread the rumors about base 211 in New Swabia? Since the 1950s, stories about New Swabia have been associated with the name of Wilhelm Landig. He wrote a three-book novel called Thule, based on real facts, which he painted with all the colors of the rainbow and embellished with fantastic images. According to his version, after the fall of Nazi Germany, a squadron of the latest German submarines, equipped with self-loading electric motors, imperceptibly covered a huge distance under water to Antarctica, accompanied by flying saucers and a group of SS men. Their crew landed at base 211 in New Swabia. Along the way, they destroyed an American squadron.
It is still said that Nazi Germany was not completely destroyed in 1945. Part of Hitler's adherents managed to escape to the end of the world, to Antarctica, where a secret base 211 called "New Swabia" was created in the system of underground karst tunnels and caves of the sixth continent. It was possible to get into the new German state only by submarine. From the side of the land, reconnaissance aircraft and surface ships saw and still see only a thick ice shell and black coastal rocks ...
The fact that there may be a secret Nazi facility at the southernmost point of the Earth was told to us by the son of the Nizhny Novgorod scientist Arkady Nikolaev, the first in the world to reach the Pole of Inaccessibility of Antarctica in 1958.
Do you think my father was sent to the Pole to erect a bust of Lenin there? - Andrei Nikolaev voiced his version. - It's hard to believe. Thirteen years after the war, when the country was still half in ruins, for some reason colossal funds were suddenly invested in my father's expedition. He led his team into the center of Antarctica in all-terrain vehicles at a speed of 5 km / h, risking falling into ice cracks several kilometers deep. Behind them they dragged a sleigh with diesel fuel weighing thirty tons. Two people died from lung burns because they jumped out of the cabs of all-terrain vehicles without special masks on monkey fur. Two planes were washed into the ocean near the shore. Why such sacrifices? I do not rule out that the expedition to the Pole was a cover, but in fact the USSR, like our other allies in World War II, was looking for traces of a Nazi base there.
As it turned out, this version has serious grounds ...
An oasis in the ice.
The German Hans-Ulrich von Krantz was the first to speak about the secret Nazi base. He managed to track down the former SS officer, scientist Olaf Weizsacker: this man, it turns out, saw the base with his own eyes! In 1938, Weizsacker got there as a research scientist, and in 1945 already as a refugee, escaping along with other members of the SS order.
Von Krantz found Weizsäcker in Argentina. The result of this meeting, as well as many years of independent research, was Kranz's sensational book entitled "The Swastika in the Ice".
... The Germans began to explore Antarctica in 1938, when German reconnaissance aircraft flew over the continent. Photographing the area from the air, German scientists, among whom was Olaf Weizsacker, discovered among the eternal snows oases with warm lakes, free from snow and covered with vegetation. There they found the ruins of two ancient cities, the inscriptions on the walls of which resembled runic ones. These stunning discoveries, which were immediately classified by the secret services of the Third Reich, turned the world view of Antarctica as a dead country of eternal ice and terrible cold.
But the most interesting was not outside, but inside.
According to Weizsacker, the water in the Amundsen Sea turned out to be several degrees warmer than in other surrounding waters - moreover, warm springs spouted from the shore. To study this phenomenon, on Hitler's personal order, five of the newest submarines were sent. Arriving in Antarctica, one of them dived under a rock and ended up in a system of caves connected to each other by deep freshwater lakes - so warm that you could even swim in them. Above the underground lakes, another tier of caves was discovered, but completely dry and suitable for habitation. Many of them contained traces of ancient human activity- reliefs on the walls, obelisks and steps carved into the rocks. It was a vast, habitable underworld.
It must be said that Adolf Hitler believed in ancient theory hollow earth, which lies in the fact that inside the globe, like a nesting doll in a nesting doll, contains several lands and civilizations that, perhaps, significantly surpass us in development. Such an idea completely contradicted the orthodox science that the earth consists of a continuous layer of crust, mantle and core.
Hitler took the report on the underground kingdom of Antarctica as a confirmation of his theory and decided to build a system of secret cities there, later called New Swabia.
To Antarctica - food, to Germany - ore.
And now huge transport submarines crawled across the entire Atlantic Ocean, transporting food supplies, clothing, medicines, weapons and ammunition, mining equipment, rails, sleepers, trolleys, cutters for tunneling to New Swabia. The boats went back to Germany loaded with minerals.
“In 1940, the richest deposits of rare earth metals were discovered on the territory of Ellsworth Land. From that moment on, New Swabia ceased to be an exclusively costly project for Germany and began to bring tangible benefits, writes von Krantz. - The situation with rare earth metals in Germany still surprises many historians. The Reich did not have its own deposits, the reserves accumulated by 1939 should have been enough for a maximum of two years. By all accounts, German tank production was to come to a complete halt in the summer of 1941. However, this did not happen. Where did the Germans get the most important raw materials from? The answer is obvious: from the Ice Continent!”
According to von Krantz, by 1941 the population of the underground city had reached ten thousand people. He was already fully self-sufficient in food - a huge oasis with a fertile layer of soil covering an area of five thousand kilometers, which was called the "Garden of Eden", was discovered a hundred kilometers from the coast. By the end of 1943, the construction of a shipyard for the repair of submarines was completed in the karst caves. "The scale of the enterprise was such that mass production of submarines could be easily arranged there." Several metallurgical and machine-building enterprises were already operating in New Swabia.
And in 1945, the base became the last refuge for the Nazis.
Entire factories have disappeared.
After the surrender of Germany, it turned out that many submarines had disappeared in an unknown direction. The victorious side did not find them anywhere - neither on the ocean floor, nor in ports. Most likely, they sailed far to the south ...
“In total, about 150 submarines were prepared for the great exodus,” writes von Krantz. - A third of them were transport vehicles, with a fairly large capacity. In total, more than 10 thousand people could be accommodated on board the submarine fleet. In addition, relics and valuable technologies were sent overseas.”
According to him, the submarines of the dying empire took with them its "brains" - biologists, specialists in rocket technology, nuclear physics and aircraft construction. The winners never got the cutting-edge achievements in the field of high technologies. Meanwhile, on the eve of the defeat in Germany, atomic bombs, jet aircraft, ballistic missiles V-1, V-2 and V-3 were developed. The latter was able to reach a height that is considered outer space.
It is now reliably known that “by the end of the war in Germany there were nine research enterprises where projects of flying discs were being developed,” that is, flying saucers or aircraft with a circular wing. Where did these developments go?
Working in the archives, von Krantz discovered the names of several factories that produced high-tech products and which, after the war, disappeared into obscurity. “All of them were evacuated on the personal orders of Martin Bormann in January-April 1945 to the north of Germany,” he writes. -Obviously, then their path lay across the entire Atlantic Ocean to the country eternal ice».
It turns out that valuable trophies never went to the victorious allies.
Impenetrable Antarctica..
Mankind tried three times to find base 211. And all three times these attempts ended tragically in the death and disappearance of people. Von Krantz describes them in detail in the book The Swastika in the Ice.
In 1947, an impressive American squadron of 14 ships set off to the shores of Antarctica in search of a Nazi base. In addition to the flagship aircraft carrier, it included thirteen destroyers, more than twenty aircraft and helicopters, and five thousand personnel. The operation was called "High Jump", which in reality turned out to be not high at all.
Flying over the coast, one of his American pilots spotted a quarry for mining. A detachment of five hundred people went to this place in heavy all-terrain vehicles with air support from several aircraft. Suddenly, fighters with crosses on their wings appeared in the sky, and the landing force was destroyed in a few minutes: burning planes and all-terrain vehicles - that's all that was left of it. Then one of the US ships was blown up - a column of water rose in its place. And then the course went ... flying saucers!
“They silently rushed between the ships, like some kind of satanic blue-black swallows with blood-red beaks, and continuously spat deadly fire,” recalled expedition member John Syerson many years later. The whole nightmare lasted something like twenty minutes. When the flying saucers again dived under the water, we began to count the losses. They were horrendous."
The torn squadron returned to America ...
The next victims were members of the Jacques-Yves Cousteau expedition. On the Calypso ship in 1973, its crew went to Queen Maud Land with an unofficial assignment from the French intelligence services to find traces of base 211. Cousteau's scuba divers discovered an underwater entrance to underground caves and made their way there. But all five people perished in one of the tunnels. The expedition had to be canceled immediately.
The Russians paid the third for their curiosity. We have already mentioned the 1958 expedition - it did not find anything. Novaya went in search in the late 70s, when aerial photographs appeared that showed large, snow-free and inhabited oases in Antarctica. A group of researchers was sent to one of them. Ours set up camp in the oasis, and then tried to get into the mine leading into the earth. At that moment, a powerful explosion was heard, and three people died.
And a few days later, all the other members of the expedition disappeared without a trace ...
Since then, the world powers have ceased to disturb the mysterious inhabitants of the Ice Continent. A logical question arises - does the base of the Third Reich exist now?
“There is no unequivocal answer even today, but indirect ones are more than enough,” says our historian Vadim Telitsyn in his book Hitler in Antarctica. - Radar stations of the US Air Force, Argentina and Chile very often fix "flying discs", "cylinders" and other " geometric figures", plying from one tip of Antarctica to another."
So, it is possible that the Third Reich is still thriving in the dungeons of Antarctica ...
Subglacial lakes, rivers - life?
It would seem, well, what mysteries and secrets can be found on the continent, where over 99 percent of the territory is covered with a layer of ice up to four kilometers thick, the average temperature is even summer months ranges from -30 to -50 degrees, vegetation is practically absent, and animal world Is it represented only by penguins and seals living on the coast? In addition, Antarctica has been under the supervision of scientific men for almost a hundred years, more than a dozen scientific stations operate here, and the inhabitants of Chile and Argentina live with their families in the villages. However, Antarctica hides many secrets. But it can be quite difficult to open them, sometimes it takes decades.
There are a number of giant subglacial lakes in Antarctica. For example, at a distance of 480 kilometers from the South Pole, Lake Vostok is located. In terms of area, it is not inferior to such a lake as Onega. The thickness of the ice over the lake is from 3.5 to 4.5 kilometers, its greatest depth is 1200 meters, and in the area of the Russian Antarctic station "Vostok" located just above it - 680 meters. Scientists around the world consider the study of this unique lake one of the most interesting and intractable scientific problems. early XXI century.
During a satellite scan of the sixth continent, researchers discovered strange changes in the size of giant subglacial lakes. Thus, the water level in one of them increased by three meters, while in the other two it decreased noticeably. It would be quite simple to explain this phenomenon if the distance between the reservoirs hidden in the thickness of the ice did not exceed 290 kilometers. Trying to unravel this mystery of nature, scientists came to the conclusion that under Antarctica there may be a whole system of subglacial rivers that connect huge lakes hidden from human eyes. Moreover, these rivers must be large enough to "transfer" almost two cubic kilometers of water from two reservoirs to the third over a distance of 290 kilometers in just 16 months.
Scientists have long been "hunting" for microorganisms that could theoretically live in the subglacial lakes of Antarctica. These reservoirs are also called "time capsules", because possible life they should have been preserved in isolation since the surface of the sixth continent began to be covered with ice. Ice from Lake Vostok can turn many scientific ideas of mankind upside down.
The study of ice, as well as the forthcoming study of the waters of Lake Vostok, will play a huge role in building a scenario for natural climate change in the coming millennia and studying life on the planet.
Two types of bacteria unknown to science have already been found in columns of ice, raised from a distance of several hundred meters from the surface of the reservoir. Some biologists believe that living creatures from the time of giant ferns and dinosaurs are still found in Lake Vostok, since the water temperature there can reach +18 degrees.
It is interesting that the data obtained from American orbiting satellites showed that there is a cavity 800 meters high covered with an ice dome above the water surface of the lake, and the instruments recorded high magnetic activity there.
Recently, at the Vostok station, biologists from the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics analyzed a core taken from the deep layers of ice covering the lake. A bacterium capable of living at a temperature of +55 degrees was found in it. It turns out that the lake once had such a temperature. Or maybe there is today. So the hypothesis that the water under the ice is somehow heated by, say, geysers, does not look so fantastic?
Mysterious East.
According to the head of the station "Vostok" Valery Lukin, for last years drilled into the ice ultradeep well, and up to water surface lake remains about 130 meters. But they are afraid to drill further: if the drill “plunges” into the water, then there is a high probability that ordinary earthly dirt will enter this giant “flask”, sealed millions of years ago. Where this will lead, no one knows. Maybe some terrestrial bacteria will destroy all life in the lake - fish, mollusks ... And so far there is no sterile drill. And it is also unknown what will “escape” from the lake to the surface and what consequences it will cause. After all, there is no guarantee that creatures or microbes that people on Earth have never encountered will not appear from Lake Vostok!
NASA has tested a special robot for ultra-deep ice drilling at the South Pole. It was created to study glaciers on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Europa is also covered with many kilometers of ice, under it is water, and the temperature on the planet's surface is below -70 degrees. Almost Lake Vostok, only in space. Similar to the East and the ice caps of Mars. And, perhaps, there is life under the thickness of ice on Europa and Mars too?
The author of the article "The cryorobot explores Antarctica", published in the American magazine "Space", claims that this robot has already dived several times in the thickness of the glacier at the South Pole and reached a depth of 1226 meters.
In general, there are very different rumors about Lake Vostok, even among polar explorers. Rumor has it that there is an alien ship in it, that waterfowl lizards that have long disappeared from the surface of the Earth and some other ancient monsters are found in the lake.
Scientists call all these arguments philistine conjectures. But many questions are still unanswered.
- Lake Vostok is interesting, - says Al Sutherland, head of the American expedition at the McMurdo Antarctic station, - that any discovery associated with it will raise much more questions than it will answer. Lukin and Sutherland meet often and always start the conversation by discussing the problems of Lake Vostok, but they are spoken of very sparingly to those around them. Different countries more and more classified work related to the penetration into the secrets of this unique formation, "lurking" under the ice of Antarctica.
Until 2000, an international team of scientists was engaged in the research of the lake from the American side, but then the US National Security Administration took over the reins. NASA media relations spokeswoman Deborah Schingteller said the replacement was dictated by national security concerns. Immediately after these words, one of the NASA leaders took a seat in front of the microphone, specifying that "research is interrupted to ensure environmental safety. environment". Since then, none of the journalists has been able to contact Deborah Schingteller and find out what kind of security she had in mind ...
So what, under the ice shell of Antarctica, can attract US government circles, as well as Russia, so much that they send one after another scientific expeditions equipped with expensive and even classified equipment to the Vostok Lake region?
According to information published in foreign sources, in February 2000, two groups of scientists, who were carrying out a joint research program funded by the US and British governments, intended to lower special probes equipped with various sensors into the waters of the lake. But suddenly they were instructed to stop all work on the program. No explanation followed.
In connection with the above, some researchers of the mysterious phenomena of nature and the mysteries of history are discussing the possibility of the existence in Antarctica - on its surface or under the ice cover - of a secret base of UFOs or German Nazis (!), And some believe that one does not exclude the other.
As for the last two assumptions, even with the most skeptical attitude towards UFOs, the idea of the existence of a fascist base in Antarctica seems even more fantastic, if not frankly absurd. But perhaps one should not rush to such conclusions ...
Uranus in Queen Maud Land.
In 1961, in the official history of Antarctica, there was significant event- uranium deposits were officially discovered in its bowels. And not just deposits, but entire deposits, comparable in their importance to reserves throughout the world, with the richest ores located on Queen Maud Land, which the Nazis wanted to colonize. Many years have passed since then, and the development of minerals in Antarctica is prohibited by the provisions of the famous Treaty of 1959. According to some reports, the percentage of uranium in Antarctic ore is at least 30 percent - a full third more than in the world's richest deposits in the Congo, from which the United States has for many years scooped "explosives" for its atomic and nuclear arsenals. In 1938, the problem with enriched uranium was not yet as acute as in post-war years, but exploration of uranium deposits was still carried out. There were practically no such sources in Europe and America.
The Germans, despite Hitler's frank disregard for the new type of weapon, it became clear before many that European uranium sources were not suitable for the mass production of an atomic bomb, since the uranium content in the available ore was too negligible, even the emergency construction of enrichment plants could not solve the problem. On the eve of a major European war, it would be unreasonable to rely on African deposits, and that's when it was decided to probe the "no man's continent" - Antarctica.
Having rummaged through the collection of rock samples brought from Antarctica by the German polar explorer Wilhelm Filchner in 1912, the head of the Nazi "atomic project" Dr. Werner Heisenberg quite reasonably suggested that the richest reserves of high-quality uranium could be in the bowels of Queen Maud Land. Intoxicated by his victories in Europe, Hitler easily allowed Himmler, Goering and Raeder to persuade himself to agree to send an equipped expedition to distant Antarctica in search of mythical "roots". At a celebration marking the completion of the building of the new Reich Chancellery, Hitler smugly said: “Well, okay! If in this divided, redistributed Europe, a couple of states can be annexed to the Reich in a few days, then no problems are foreseen with Antarctica, and even more so ...” (In (Stanss, "I Heard Hitler", 1989)
The decision to annex Queen Maud Land - the Norwegian possessions in eastern Antarctica - was made by the German command back in May 1940, shortly after the capitulation of Norway. For this purpose, a special military unit was formed under the command of General Alfred Richter. There is evidence that the Germans had been hatching plans for a landing on Queen Maud Land since 1938 and even came up with their own name for this territory in advance: New Swabia. Allegedly, even then, Richter flew over it in a small plane and dropped several dozen pennants with a swastika down, demonstrating complete disregard for international agreements on the division of Antarctica. And in 1941, the Germans actually landed in Antarctica, in the former, as they believed, Norwegian possessions, and founded their station "Oasis" there in the area now known as the "Banger Oasis", after the name of the American pilot who discovered him in 1946. "Oases" are areas of land free of ice.
The Germans settled here thoroughly. In 1943, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz dropped a very remarkable phrase: "The German submarine fleet is proud to have created an impregnable fortress for the Fuhrer on the other side of the world." Most likely, this means that from 1938 to 1943, the Nazis built a secret base in Antarctica. For the transportation of goods, mainly submarines from the secret formation "Fuhrer's Convoy" were used.
High Jump Expedition
Indirect confirmation of the above assumption can serve as events related to the "Antarctic activities" of Richard Baird, an American admiral, polar explorer, pilot, leader of four Antarctic expeditions. The fourth of them, held in 1946-1947, was the most grandiose and mysterious.
The scale of this expedition, codenamed "High Jump", was more like a military invasion operation. It involved 13 ships of the US Navy, including an aircraft carrier, icebreakers, a tanker and a submarine. Air vehicles included 15 heavy-lift aircraft, long-range reconnaissance aircraft, helicopters and flying boats. The staff of this "scientific" expedition is curious. It included 25 scientists and... 4100 marines, soldiers and officers! The expedition was approved by the US Congress and financed by the government of the country, and it was led by the naval department.
Official American propaganda did not get tired of repeating that the expedition pursued exclusively scientific goals. But then why, as Chilean and Argentine journalists claimed, did the Americans "have serious problems landing on the coast of Antarctica"? And why did the "scientists" under the command of Admiral Byrd undertake a 200-kilometer forced march across the entire eastern part of the continent? What (or whom) were they looking for there? Perhaps, at the Oasis base station in New Swabia, as well as on the Baltic coast of Poland, the Germans created and tested their super-secret weapon of retaliation V-7 - supersonic diskettes driven by rocket, and possibly nuclear engines, and it was them, or at least signs of such activity, that the American admiral was trying to find? And, perhaps, it was no coincidence that the operation he led was called "High Jump" - after all, V-7 diskettes took off and landed vertically ...
In this regard, Byrd's statement, made by him upon his return from this strange scientific expedition. And he literally said the following: "The United States must prepare to defend against an enemy who has flying objects that can threaten us from the poles of our planet."
Returning to the personality of Richard Baird, this American Papanin, it should be added that in 1928 he was the first to fly by plane over Antarctica, and in November 1929 he reached the South Pole by plane. In total, he flew over Antarctica for a total of about 180,000 kilometers. The 67-year-old Baird made his last flight over it in 1955, two years before his death. It was his last flight that gave rise to a lot of mysterious rumors and assumptions.
There are still persistent rumors about the amazing discovery allegedly made by him during this flight. A book written by Amadeo Giannini and published in 1959, two years after the admiral's death, claims that in Antarctica Byrd discovered the entrance to... the underworld! He visited this world, saw rich vegetation there, lakes with warm water and, most surprisingly, animals very similar to dinosaurs roaming along their shores. The admiral allegedly filmed all this and described it in detail in his secret diaries, which will certainly be found and published someday. (What can I say here? Fantasts Jules Verne and Obruchev are resting).
Ice tower and unknown virus.
Another mystery of Antarctica: in the issue of the American magazine "Weekly World News" dated April 24, 2001, a message was published that Norwegian scientists based at the South Pole Station "Amundsen - Scott" discovered deep in the Antarctic continent, at a distance of about 160 kilometers from Mount McClintock, a tower of mysterious origin and incomprehensible purpose. The tower, 28 meters high, is built from hundreds of ice blocks and resembles, in their words, "the watchtower of a medieval castle."
Until very recently, this structure was hidden inside giant snowdrifts, it appeared to the eyes of astounding explorers only after recent hurricane winds cleared it of snow drifts.
- We have no idea who could have built this tower and how long it has been standing here. It could be a hundred or a thousand years old, says Kjell Nergaard, one of the participants in the expedition deep into the continent that made this amazing discovery.
Why is it vital to study the sixth continent? And here's at least why: in 1999, one significant event took place, to which, however, almost no one, with the exception of perhaps specialists, did not pay due attention. And the following happened: according to Internet publications, a US research expedition discovered a virus in Antarctica to which neither humans nor animals have immunity. But, in the end, Antarctica is far away, and there seems to be nothing to worry about, especially since the dangerous virus is in the permafrost. However, according to scientists, if we consider that the Earth is threatened by global warming, then an unknown infection can threaten humanity with a terrible catastrophe. Here is an expert from New York University, Tom Starmeryu, shares the gloomy forecasts of his colleagues. "We do not know what humanity will face at the South Pole in the near future due to global warming, - he said, - perhaps an unprecedented epidemic will begin. Viruses protected by a protein coat, retaining their viability in the permafrost, will begin to multiply as soon as the ambient temperature rises ... "Where did this infection come from? Perhaps it is a prehistoric form of life. Or maybe the result of testing the bacteriological weapons of the Nazis?
Russian scientists continue to take an active part in revealing the secrets of Antarctica. The state again had the means to finance the study of a distant mainland. In December last year, the ship of the polar marine exploration expedition "Akademik Alexander Karpinsky" set out on a new voyage from St. Petersburg. It conducts a geophysical study of the structure of sedimentary rocks of the bottom of the eastern part of the Mawson Sea. It is assumed that members of the expedition will also study the mysteries of Lake Vostok.
Directly related to the mysterious continent is our Murmansk Shipping Company, whose sailors for more than forty years on ice-class ships have repeatedly delivered supplies to Antarctica for our polar explorers.
What interested the top officials of Germany so much? Why did they need to build submarines on the eve of the war? These questions are still on the minds of the public...
Journey south... City of the gods.
When British intelligence officers discovered incomprehensible activity from Germany, directed towards the South Pole, they seriously thought: why would the Germans need permafrost?
It all started in 1938, when Germany equipped two large-scale expeditions to the south with the goal of ... which the scouts learned about a year later former USSR. Throughout the year, German aircraft surveyed an area of more than 8,000 square meters. kilometers, marked it with a swastika and successfully reported to the commander. Research by Germany had a single goal - the search for the "city of the gods", which, according to some sources, was under the ice of Antarctica and was a warm oasis where people could calmly exist.
According to German scientists, researchers, the planet Earth has in its depths the so-called huge hollow spaces. It was precisely such voids in the lands of Antarctica that the Germans were looking for. According to scientists, these voids were huge areas with continents, seas, mountains and ... the sun. Whether the Germans found it or not is still unknown. But the fact that since 1940 Hitler ordered the construction of underground bases is a fact. But the purpose of the construction of the Arctic bases was quite prosaic at that time - the study and design of supernova weapons.
Target - New Swabia
According to verified data, starting in 1942, an active transfer of the elite and outstanding geniuses of Germany to the ice dungeons of Antarctica began. Why was there such a rush? And what did Hitler really know? There are two versions of this.
First- The Third Reich foresaw a possible failure in the war and provided for itself a safe place where the entire top of the priceless Aryans could sit out for many years without the risk of being found.
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Second version includes the first, but on a larger scale. German scientists, armed with new knowledge, in the relative calm of the ice planned to search for alternative energy sources, new developments in the field of mechanical engineering. As the found records of scientists who worked on Nazi Germany, the Germans quite succeeded in creating incredible machines.
So the electrodynamic apparatus, during rotation, created a gravitational field around itself, bending time. If German scientists managed to create this in the second half of the 40s of the last century, what could they create in absolute peace over the past decades?
Also, some sources claim that Hitler did not actually die in the bunker, as many people think. And he safely got on a submarine to the "paradise" under Antarctica and took a direct part in the life of several bases. Is this true or fiction?
Fake maneuver succeeded
No less surprising is the following observation. A decade after the Second World War, in 1950, the weather stations of Antarctica spotted an amazing object. According to eyewitnesses, he had a cigar-shaped shape, moved absolutely silently and zigzag, several times just hovering in the air ...
Six years later, two more such devices were recorded, while their radiation background exceeds the permissible norm by more than 40 times. According to witnesses, helicopter pilots, two large metal objects quickly approached them, then one abruptly changed direction towards the ground, while its surface changed color. Five years later, Brazilian researchers noticed such devices.
UFO or German developments? Where did the Nazis go in Antarctica.
So what is it? UFO or German developments? According to some researchers, after the capture of Germany, the allied forces missed 250 thousand people. But where could they have gone? Another fact! More than 150 German submarines simply evaporated in the waters of the world's oceans. At the same time, the maximum number that could be blown up by underwater mines does not exceed 30 objects. Then where is everyone else?