Admiral Byrd - Operation High Jump & Hollow Earth

Admiral Byrd - Operation High Jump & Hollow Earth

1) Documentary

The Secret Land (1948)

This film documents the largest expedition ever undertaken to
explore Antarctica. The expedition, code named "Operation
High Jump," was made by the U.S. Navy and involved 13
ships (including one submarine), 23 aircraft, and about 4700
men. The film was shot by photographers from all branches of
the U.S. military. One purpose of the expedition was to explore
and photograph several thousand square miles of inland and
coastal areas that had not been previously mapped.
Additionally, military planners wanted to evaluate whether
military troops could successfully perform against an
adversary in such an environment.

In the summer of 1946 Secretary of the Navy James V.
Forrestal approved the largest naval task force, 13 ships and
4,700 men, since the end of the Second World War to sail from
Norfolk Virginia to the cold and ice capped seas of the
Antarctic to map that unknown and frozen continent as well as
monitor the vast and untapped natural resources hidden under
it's frozen surface.

The film "The Secret Land" is a documentary narrated by
actors Robert Montgomery Robert Taylor and Van Haflin
about that fabled expedition call Operation Highjump and the
men who were on it. Who suffered through it's deadly cold
winds ice flows and the dreaded coming of the Antarctic
winter that may well have spelled doom to all of those sailors
and merchant marines on that perilous expedition.

Led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Rear Admiral Richard H.
Cruzen Operation Highjump did what it set out to do, by
mapping some 1.3 million square miles of the unknown
Antarctic continent. There also was a number casualties among
the ships and men on that voyage. The most noted was the
USS Sennet a submarine that was crushed in the ice off the US
base Little America.

Leaving from the US port in Norfolk to the southern most part
of the Pacific Ocean to Scotts Island and Little America on the
Antarctic land mass. Aircraft carrier USS Philipine Sea the
flag ship of task force 63, Operation Highjump, had on it's
deck six giant RD4 supply planes who, with Admiral Byrd
aboard, flew over the frozen wastes of that continent and
photograph it.

In the end the expedition was considered to be a major success
but over the years it has all but been forgotten by the American
public but It's good to see that the movie "The Secret Land" is
still around and is being broadcast periodically on TCM to
rekindle interest in that major post WWII event.

Even though Operation Highjump was conducted over fifty
years ago many of the photographs and documents on that
expedition are still classified and there's the strange
explanation of Admiral Byrd's missing three hours, when he
flew over the South Pole in February 1947. Having the
American public told that Byrd's RD4 had to jettison most of
it's equipment to avoid losing altitude and slamming into the
dangerously high Antarctic mountain ranges, that in some
places are as high as 20,000 feet, that had communications cut
off between him and the US base on frozen Antarctic coast.
That explanation didn't wash with a lot of the people who
listened to the Admirals radio broadcast as he flew over the
pole.

The broadcast by Admiral Byrd suddenly went dead for a
number of minutes and there are those who think that it was
done on purpose, by the US Navy, to keep the American public
from knowing just what he saw there.

There was one fantastic discovery by the Byrd task force that
didn't escape the attention of the American media and public
as well as the lens of the movie camera. That was the
discovery, off the Shacklenton Ice Shelf in Wilkes land, of a
place later named the Bunger Oasis.

Flying over the ice and snow US Navy Let. Commander David
E. Bunger spotted filmed and landed on this 300 square mile
patch of land with tricolor fresh water lakes that were totally
ice-free right in the middle of the blistering cold and freezing
Antarctic! The lakes in the Bunger Oasis were the colors, red
blue & green, of the vast amount of colored algae in them and
even now, over a half century after the Bunger Oasis'
discovery, nothing in the world of science has been able to
explain it.

2) Video-clip

Byrd's Flight - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The Ohio State University's Library web site notes 'As a navigational aviator, Byrd pioneered in the technology that would be the foundation for modern polar exploration and investigation. As a decorated and much celebrated hero, Byrd drew popular attention to areas of the world that became focal points of scientific investigation in numerous disciplines.'

Note: Flying along Richard Byrds flight path using RADARSAT data from the Antarctic Mapping Mission. Animator: Tom Biddlecome (Raytheon), Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST), Marte Newcombe (GST). Scientist: Ken Jezek (Ohio State University). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: RADARSAT-1/SAR.

3) Audio

Adventures of Admiral Byrd - Mail Coming

Also known as "Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Adventures" this show was sponsored by Grape Nuts Flakes and ran on the CBS Network in the early 1930s. The show was recorded material that was short waved from Antarctica up to Beunos Aires and then on to New York.

Sourced: Adventures of Admiral Byrd

4) Four Books: see file list

Comment:

What a strange bird this admiral Byrd. One book "Admiral Byrd's Secret Diary (1956)" is in German, but there are some great pictures in it. In one book "Schön - Mythos Neu-Schwabenland" you will find a map of hollow earth with Agharta and the city of Shamballah. Some say that Shamballah can be found in the depth of our souls. That may be true in a sense, but the Dalai Lama has confirmed that the legendary city truly exists. I think the film "The Secret Land" is pure disinformation. What they show is true, but what makes it untrue is what they won't show you. Therefore the overall picture gets distorted. What did they use 4700 men and 13 ships for? They neither mention UFOs nor Neuschwabenland. We didn't really expect that from a public film, did we? Video number two is just absurd. Remember: If it comes from NASA, then it's a lie.