operation high jump commenced in august 1946. it was the largest most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to antarctica leading the mission was admiral richard e byrd one of the most famous naval officers in history the official purpose for the expedition was scientific research and military training but that was just a cover story operation high jump had other goals one was to extend american sovereignty over antarctica something that was denied many times by the us government another was to locate and destroy a secret nazi base and capture the nazi's new secret weapon the flying
saucer ufos were seen all over the area suspected to be nazi test flights admiral byrd was sent to find out did they find flying sources oh they found a lot more than that [Music] in december 1938 aware that he was on the brink of war hitler dedicated considerable resources to searching for mysterious ancient artifacts said to have incredible power one of these expeditions launched on december 17 1938 the ss schwabenland was sent on a secret mission to antarctica on board were scientists and engineers but also members of the thule society a german occultist group the
thule society believed that a highly advanced race of human-like beings called aryans existed somewhere deep inside the earth and the entrance to their world was at the south pole the classified mission of the ss schwabenland was to find a location for a secret underground base and make contact with the aryans living in the hollow earth and once contact was made negotiate for access to their technology the ship reached the antarctic coast a month later for the next three weeks they mapped hundreds of thousands of square miles of the continent about 150 miles inland aerial reconnaissance
found what is described as an arctic oasis an area about 300 square miles that was free of ice filled with warm water and even contained plant life and the ocean beneath the oasis was a geothermal vent that kept the area relatively warm this was the ideal place for a base especially for u-boats this is where the nazis would establish the infamous underground facility known as base 211. over the course of world war ii base 211 became a massive complex as large as a small city initially it was designed as an offensive structure where u-boats and
missiles could be deployed but as the tide of war turned against the axis powers it became clear that the base would be an ideal way to escape in the final months of the war huge amounts of equipment supplies and personnel were transported to antarctica at the same time thousands of nazis escaped justice and were smuggled to south america with most of them hiding in argentina one of the infamous german officers to disappear was hans kamler cameron was in charge of hitler's secret weapons program kamler's engineers had created a prototype long distance supply plane with a
range of over 4 000 miles called the ju390 only two of these were made one of them belonged to kamler and as of april 1945 neither kamlar nor his plane have ever been found and just a few months later thousands of ufo sightings were reported all over south america the american government feared that kamlar and his scientists had escaped to antarctica where they were continuing their work operating out of a secret military base hidden deep underground but these were just rumors there was only one way to find out go to antarctica [Music] okay before we
talk about what admiral byrd saw in antarctica come on just get to the weird stuff i will but it's important that you understand what kind of man richard bird was he was not some pseudo-science conspiracy theorist kook he was a legitimate badass here are the bullet points richard byrd reached the rank of rear admiral by the age of 41 the youngest admiral in navy history now that by itself is impressive but how about this he was a recipient of the medal of honor the navy cross the flying cross and the silver life-saving medal in all
he received 22 citations and commendations including nine for bravery and two for extraordinary heroism he was to this day one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the navy now his resume goes on but i think you get the point if admiral byrd says he wants to be the first man to fly over the north pole he does it and if the united states sends a major expedition to the south pole to conduct a top-secret mission well there's no more qualified person on the face of the earth to lead it than admiral
richard e byrd operation high jump commenced in august 1946. the official purpose of the mission was to train personnel and test equipment in cold temperatures to explore arctic geology study the weather and develop techniques for establishing air bases in frigid climates admiral byrd led a navy task force of almost 5 000 men aboard 13 ships including a brand new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier loaded with dozens of planes bombers and helicopters this task force was armed to the teeth there were two destroyers tankers supply ships icebreakers two heavily armed seaplanes and an attack submarine all fully stocked
with the best weapons in the entire navy that's a lot of firepower for training exercises and studying the weather right that mission was the cover story no personnel training or equipment testing ever took place no practice maneuvers no military exercises no scientific study of any kind was ever done according to eyewitness testimony declassified records and byrd's own journal operation high jump had other purposes one goal was to extend american sovereignty over the antarctic continent something that was denied many times publicly by the us government naturally the other goal was to locate and destroy the secret
nazi military complex known as base 211 and to capture any flying saucers they could the armada arrived on january 15th and immediately started building a base called little america but then the operation high jump story takes a turn originally meant to be a six to eight month mission after just 40 days the base is evacuated and the task force withdraws this massive expensive and important mission is suddenly terminated so what happened and this is where admiral byrd a legend in his own time becomes a legend for all time the navy task force retreated to chile
and as soon as they made port rumors spread about strange findings and disasters that forced the mission to be cut short admiral byrd himself spoke to the media and rather than deny the stories he expressed deep concern about the real possibilities of devastating aerial attacks on the us and this doesn't sound like a guy on a scientific mission it sure doesn't bird warned that it was imperative for the united states to take immediate defensive measures against hostile forces in the arctic and antarctic the admiral went on to say that he wasn't trying to alarm anyone
but the cruel reality is that in case of a new war the united states could be attacked by flying objects that had the ability to move from pole to pole at incredible speeds admiral byrd reiterated this in a few different statements he warned that there was a new enemy that could attack any country at any time anywhere no matter the distance when admiral byrd got back to washington he was immediately debriefed and though he had just spent two weeks making statements in the press after a lengthy interrogation admiral byrd never uttered another word about operation
high jump the mission was immediately classified top secret and any sailor who spoke about the mission would be arrested and imprisoned the navy then published a brief summary of the mission's achievements and admitted some sailors were killed but they didn't say how many and officially all the deaths were accidents and the bodies were buried there not brought home during one of his flights admiral byrd was missing for three hours in an episode of lost time but that was officially blamed on radio failure the official reason for terminating the mission early was poor weather conditions and
that was that however you know how admiral byrd was missing for three hours and experienced lost time well bird was meticulous at documenting everything but when he returned to the states his journals were confiscated and classified but the government didn't get everything he had a secret diary that he gave to his son right before he died and if any of what he claims to have seen is true well it changes everything [Music] according to admiral byrd's diary he fuels up for a flight early in the morning the weather is clear and mechanically the plane checks
out at 8 15 at an altitude of 2 300 feet he checks in 0 8 15 hours radio check with base camp situation at 10 after 9 he notices a color pattern in the snow nothing extreme but he circles the area to get a closer look he makes visual contact with camp and radios in his findings then his instruments start to act strange he writes that both his compasses are gyrating so much that he can't even use them so he uses the sun to navigate and maintains a visual of camp he reports that his controls
are feeling sluggish he's concerned about the wings icing up there's a little ice but no indication of a problem so he continues flying toward what he perceives as a mountain range 0-9 49 hours 29 minutes elapsed flight time from the first sighting of the mountains it is no illusion they are mountains and consisting of a small range that i have never seen before he crosses the mountain range and descends toward what he describes as a green valley with a small river running through it there should be no green valley below something is definitely wrong and
abnormal here we should be over ice and snow to the port side are great forests growing on the mountain slopes our navigation instruments are still spinning the gyroscope is oscillating back and forth he drops down a bit and circles back for a closer look he reports the green as being moss or tight grass the light seems different here he can see the ground easily but he can no longer see the sun now this starts to worry him because he's using the sun to navigate but he gets distracted by something he didn't expect on the green
valley below a large animal is grazing it appears to be an elephant no it looks more like a mammoth this is incredible yet there it is decrease altitude to 1000 feet and take binoculars to better examine the animal it is confirmed it is definitely a mammoth like animal report this to base camp admiral byrd flies over green pastures that stretch for miles and he's so amazed by what he's seeing it takes him almost 30 minutes to realize it's not cold anymore frost on his forward window is gone same with the bits of ice that were
on the wings he removes his gloves the window of the canopy is warm to the touch he records an external air temperature of 74 degrees fahrenheit his instruments are now back online but his radio is out and remember in the official report admiral byrd was out of radio contact for three hours so he flies for another hour over what looks to be a countryside or a pasture on the horizon he sees the impossible a large shining city the plane shutters admiral byrd grabs the controls but they're not responding he notices the plane feels light and
buoyant then on both sides of the plane strange aircraft are rapidly closing in their discs shaped and seem to be radiating light and somehow they're running completely silent now thinking this is now a really good time to head back admiral byrd tries the controls again no luck the plane's engine suddenly cuts out but somehow continues flying controlled by some unseen force the craft are right up alongside his plane now close enough that admiral byrd can see markings in that instant his wonder turns to terror the markings are swastikas [Music] according to documents leaked in 1991
things back at camp little america take a strange turn just two days after arriving bright lights were seen on the horizon the sailors thought it was another ship but they were below the antarctic circle in uncharted waters the lights then ascended at a 45 degree angle into the sky very quickly they tried to make radar contact but were out of range three hours later five more lights appeared in the sky and began flying directly toward the ships anti-aircraft guns and 20-millimeter cannons were fired but had no effect a radio operator stationed on the uss brownson
gave testimony of how strange crafts suddenly appeared from the ocean this is corroborated by lieutenant john sayerson who said objects shot vertically out of the water at tremendous speeds one object flew between the mass of his ship with such force that the radio antenna oscillated back and forth from the turbulence an aircraft from the uss kurutuk took to the sky but was immediately struck by a beam of energy and destroyed about 10 miles away the torpedo boat uss maddox burst into flames and began to sink according to the report this was the first attack of
several that would occur over the next few weeks february 26 would be the last engagement with the unknown craft the navy task force ordered retreat and left the area a full six months before their mission was supposed to end although lieutenant sayerson couldn't identify the lights he wondered if they were what he called german wonder weapons being operated by survivors of the recently defeated third reich operating out of a secret base under antarctica his testimony has fueled speculation that still exists and to this day investigators are trying to determine what really happened during operation high
jump [Music] admiral byrd's radio which hadn't been working for at least an hour suddenly comes back to life though the signal was distorted a voice starts speaking english with a slightly german accent welcome admiral to our domain we shall land you in exactly seven minutes relax admiral you are in good hands the plane gently lands itself an admiral bird is met by several men all tall with blonde hair sounds like it bird joins the strangers on a platform that levitates and rushes them toward the city at great speed he's directed to an elevator that takes
him quickly and silently deep underground he is to have an audience with the master admiral byrd is led into another room where an older man is seated at a long table admiral bird is asked to sit down the master says his people are called the ariani and they've been observing humans for a long time but only now are they choosing to interfere the master says that admiral byrd's race is too immature for atomic energy and are at risk of destroying themselves the master says every time they try to make contact their ships are fired upon
and pursued by fighter planes so instead they chose admiral byrd to carry this message because he's a famous and well-respected figure the master hopes that the world will believe him after the meeting the admiral is escorted back to his plane and after flying for a few minutes a voice comes through the radio that control of the aircraft is now his a voice says alfida sane and disconnects definitely aryans when admiral byrd arrives at the pentagon in march 1947 he is debriefed and interrogated for hours he relays the message from the master and advises the president
he's ordered to remain silent about the operation and indeed admiral richard e byrd never spoke a word about this mission again the final entry in his diary is a number of years later admiral byrd feels what he calls the long night coming but doesn't want this knowledge to die with him just as the long night of the arctic ends the brilliant sunshine of truth shall come again and those who are of darkness shall fall in its light for i have seen that land beyond the pole that center of the great unknown admiral richard e byrd
united states navy 24th of december 1956 an admiral byrd passed away three months later this secret diary was found by his son richard byrd jr and subsequently released as was his father's wish and 18 months after that the antarctic treaty was signed forbidding anyone from going to antarctica without special permission from one of 12 signatory governments and even with special permission you may only go in a few small designated areas antarctica is bigger than europe bigger than australia bigger than the entire united states yet all that land is off limits why was there a secret
nazi base is there a civilization living underground the ufos described by the sailors in 1947 behave an awful lot like ufos we're seeing right now since we can't go to their world they could be trying to come to us with the same warning they gave admiral byrd so maybe instead of trying to destroy these craft and destroy each other we might want to listen to what they have to say and who knows the entire fate of the world may depend on it okay talk about a story having it all ufos nazi bases government cover-ups even
hollow earth and i've done a lot of research on hollow earth so if you want to see that video let me know in the comments anyway i'll tell you right up front there's a lot of the story that can be debunked but not all of it let's start with admiral byrd's secret diary it's not real first of all the flight in the diary takes place in the north pole so we're already off to a rocky start since antarctica is as far south as you can get and some of the log entries are almost identical to
actual published log entries from the admiral the same types of instrument failures engine issues show up in both places for some reason also whole paragraphs of what the master said to admiral byrd seem to be plagiarized from the 1937 film lost horizon where the main character is talking to the dalai lama who issues the same kind of warning in 1964 a book about the hollow earth was released by walter siegmeister under the pen name raymond bernard admiral byrd is mentioned quite a bit in the book bernard went on to write lots of books about ufos
and hollow earth and later when bird's secret diary appeared guess who wrote the foreword yep raymond bernard but the dead giveaway for me the secret diary is full of exclamation points like lots of them if you read any of bird's other logs no matter how excited he gets he doesn't write like he's posting on reddit he writes like a gentleman so what about the nazis here's where it gets tricky the schwaben land did go to antarctica in 1938 but its mission was to secure new ports for whaling to supply germany with its own whale oil
for margarine a nazi mission to the south pole for a delicious buttery spread exactly germany wasn't at war yet but hitler was planning it a lot of oil and fat based products were imported hitler wanted to make sure that these industries could continue and his army could be fed in case foreign supplies were cut off the nazi mission did claim some land for germany and it's widely thought that they did look for a location for a base and maybe even tried to build one but no evidence of a base has been found however nazi artifacts
have been found in the arctic in the north which could be why this story continues to circulate but so far nothing in the south could be underground it could be i'm not saying nothing's there i'm just saying we haven't found it yet but they found it and aren't telling anybody well that's always a possibility the us government did lie about the real purpose of operation high jump and it's true admiral byrd never spoke about it publicly except for those cryptic comments in the chilean newspaper el mercurio el mercurio is a real paper and admiral byrd
did give them an interview obviously the article was released in spanish but when it was translated back to english his words were twisted around to make the story sound more dramatic never let the facts get in the way of a good story right bird never said there are ships that can fly pole to pole at tremendous speeds he said the united states could be attacked by planes coming from the poles and it should be ready for that an operation high jump had a press contingent about a dozen reporters giving daily reports there really wasn't much
going on so rather than send back a three-word story lots of ice the reporters added their own flair for example bird did find a small lake that had uniquely warm temperatures with algae growing in it but it was reported as a land of blue and green lakes and brown hills in an otherwise limitless expanse of ice right in 1991 after the collapse of the soviet union millions of secret documents were released and one of those written in 1947 was a description of operation high jump and in 2006 a russian documentary was released based on that
secret intelligence report the soviets did believe that operation high jump was a mission to find and destroy a nazi base and look with all that firepower i don't think that's a stretch the reports of the battle with ufos comes from the soviet documents but it's iffy on the facts and they got some of the names of the ships wrong but they did get some right and the us military has a history of changing a ship's name and rewriting the ship's story if it serves navy policy always the soviet report said that ufos weren't trying to
destroy the american ships which they easily could have done they just wanted the ships to turn back the mission was cut way short the official reason for that is weather but that's a lot of resources wasted because of weather were there really ufos protecting something down there or is this disinformation deliberately leaked to the soviets by u.s intelligence i don't know i've debunked as much as i can for you even though a lot of the story is false not all of it is and it seems as the only way we'll get answers is to go
to antarctica but if there's one thing that every government in the world agrees on it's that whatever is down there needs to stay there but i'll leave you with these final thoughts just a few months after operation high jump a ufo allegedly crashed in roswell new mexico the location of the crash is only a few miles from the world's first nuclear explosion and admiral byrd did go missing for three hours and arrived back at camp three hours late he was in a small short-range airplane so why didn't he run out of fuel [Music] thanks so
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