In 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the
U.S., Britain and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica (Operation
Highjump and follow-up), but encountered heavy resistance from Nazi flying
saucers and had to call off the invasion. A Rear-Admiral who was in that
invasion has retired in Texas, and said he was shocked when he read the
Fire From The Sky material. He knew there were a lot of aircraft and
rocket shoot-downs but did not realize the situation was so bad.
The invasion of ANTARCTICA consisted of three battle groups from Norfolk,
VA, on Dec. 2, 1946. They were led by 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.
On March 5, 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 defence measures
against hostile regions. The admiral further 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. (Earlier he had
recommended defence bases at the North Pole.) Admiral Byrd repeated the
above points of view, resulting from his personal knowledge gathered both
at the north and south poles, before a news conference held for
International News Service."
When Byrd returned to the States, he was hospitalized and was not allowed
to hold any more press conferences. 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, some have suggested
he was murdered, in 1957. UFO researchers are familiar with a diary
purported to be Admiral Byrd's diary which tells of an entrance to a hollow
Earth at the poles and a being called THE MASTER. The diary is generally
considered to be a hoax, but even if it is a hoax, it is an indication that
there was SOMETHING going on upon which to build the hoax.
UFO researchers are also aware of strange sightings of flying saucers with
swastikas or iron crosses on them, "aliens" speaking German, etc. An
example is the American Reinhold Schmidt, whose father was born in Germany,
who tells in his book Incident At Kearney (Nebraska) that he was taken on
a flying saucer on several occasions. He said the crew spoke German and
acted like German soldiers. He said they took him to the Polar region (if
someone were making up a story, why would they claim to be taken, of all
places, to the pole?)
After returning he was subjected to persecution by the U.S. Government. His
description of the flying saucers matched pictures captured from the
Germans. In 1959, three large newspapers in Chile reported front page
articles about UFO encounters where the crew members appeared to be German
soldiers. IN the 1960s there were reports in New York and New Jersey of
flying saucer "aliens" who spoke German, or English with a German accent.
In the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg atomic espionage trials, they spoke of
"warships of space." Since they had access to top secret information, about
what were they talking?