Expedition by Richard Byrd

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Regarding the secrets that allegedly surround the Antarctic expedition of Richard Byrd in 1946-1947, there is also a very skeptical opinion, the essence of which is that no extraordinary events were observed during its course. It's just that people love everything mysterious, enigmatic, and therefore strive to find "conspiracy theories" even where they do not exist.

It would be quite possible to agree with this approach, if not for a number of very strange moments

Perhaps the most embarrassing is the very fragment of Byrd's diary, given in the fourth part of "Battle for Antarctica", which wanders both in the Russian-speaking and foreign-language Internet. This embarrassment lies in the fact that until now - and since the completion of the Fourth Antarctic Expedition of the United States more than 60 years have passed! - the origin of the notorious fragment of the diary is still unclear.

In Runet, you can find links to the testimonies of the wife of the famous Rear Admiral, who seemed to have read his logbook. From these records of Byrd, about which it became known, as it were, from the words of his wife, it follows that during the Antarctic expedition of 1946-1947 he came into contact with representatives of a certain civilization, which was much ahead of the earth in its development. The inhabitants of the Antarctic country have mastered new types of energy that allow them to start the engines of vehicles, get food, electricity and heat from literally nothing. Representatives of the Antarctic world told Byrd that they tried to make contact with humanity, but people were extremely hostile towards them. However, "fellows in mind" are still ready to help humanity, but only if the world is on the verge of self-destruction.

When Richard Byrd reported on what he had seen and heard, in Washington he was ordered not to elaborate on these topics. The Rear Admiral was not distributed. According to Mrs. Bird, the events of the last trip (it is not clear, however, which one: 1946-1947, or 1955-1957? - Consp.) he filmed on film and photographic film and described in detail in his secret diaries, the location of which is not known to this day.

In his book The Last Battalion: The German Arctic, Antarctic and Andean Bases, American explorer Henry Stevens (The Last Battalion and German Arctic, Antarctic and Andean Bases; Gorman, California: The German Research Project, 1997) rightly notices: “Instead of eight months, the expedition(1946-1947 years - Consp.) lasted only eight weeks. There was no official explanation for such a hasty termination of work. .

Moreover, foreign researchers - in particular, Joseph Farrell - note the fact that after Byrd's return to the United States and his report in Washington, all expedition logs and the rear admiral's personal diaries were seized and classified. They remain classified to this day, which, of course, gives food to an endless stream of rumors and speculation. It's clear why: if Richard Byrd's diaries have remained classified for over 60 years, then there is something to hide.

Eyewitness accounts

However, there are also quite direct eyewitness accounts of what happened during the Fourth Antarctic Expedition of the United States in 1946-1947. Henry Stevens in the above study cites the following data. In order to give credibility to the version of the exclusively scientific purposes of this expedition by Richard Byrd, a small group of journalists from different countries was included in its composition. Among them was Lee Van Atta, a reporter for the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio in Santiago. In the issue of March 5, 1947, signed by van Att, a small article was published in which the words of the rear admiral were quoted.

In the very first paragraphs of the article, its author wrote: “Today, Admiral Bird told me that the United States must take effective measures to defend against enemy aircraft coming from the polar regions. He went on to explain that he had no intention of scaring anyone, but the bitter reality was that in the event of a new war, the United States would be attacked by aircraft flying at fantastic speed from one pole to the other.

Regarding the recent termination of the expedition, Bird said: the most important result is the identification of the potential effect that the observations and discoveries made during its course of observations and discoveries will have on the security of the United States

Russian authors in recent years have repeatedly expressed the opinion that the country that could pose a potential threat to the United States was the Soviet Union (the reality of this hypothesis will be examined in the final articles of the "Antarctic" cycle).

However, a number of Western researchers believe that in the mid-1940s there was only one country in the world that conducted serious and large-scale research on the southern polar continent: Nazi Germany. It must be said that there are very reasonable grounds for this kind of hypothesis.

… In 2008, the Moscow publishing house "Eksmo" published a book by the American author Joseph P. Farrell "The Black Sun of the Third Reich. Battle for the weapon of retaliation "(" Reich of the Black Sun. Nazi secret weapons & the cold war allied legend "), which I highly recommend to all those who are interested in the" Antarctic "theme and developments of the Third Reich in the field of the latest technologies. In the foreword, Joseph Farrell, from the very first lines, takes, as they say, the bull by the horns: “As a teenager, I was fascinated by the history of World War II, especially the European theater of operations and the race to possess the atomic bomb. Then I was seriously interested in physics, and after reading the history textbooks, another thought that haunts me stuck in my head: the United States has never tested a uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Something was wrong here …

Then, in 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the two post-war Germany rushed to reunite. I remember that day well, because I was then driving with a friend in a car in Manhattan. My friend was from Russia, and among his relatives were veterans of the fierce battles on the Eastern Front. Our protracted debate over World War II convinced us that there is much in this war that defies explanation, even if we take into account the bloodthirsty persecution mania that both Hitler and Stalin suffered

Gradually and, it must be added, quite predictably, the Germans themselves began to open the previously inaccessible archives of East Germany and the Soviet Union. Eyewitnesses spoke, and German writers attempted to explore yet another aspect of the darkest period in their country's history. These works have remained largely unnoticed in the United States, both by representatives of the traditional school of history and by those looking for alternative views of history."

However, we will return to the studies of Joseph Farrell below. In the meantime, let us make the necessary incidental remark.

US Expedition to Antarctica - "Weapons of Retribution" of the Third Reich - "Epidemic" UFO

From a traditional point of view, the following fact is generally recognized: Nazi Germany was actively developing new technologies, including in the field of nuclear weapons. But the German scientists and the German economy did not have enough time and resources to bring the initiated research to their practical implementation by May 1945. And what was discovered by the Allies in the spring and summer of 1945 in defeated Germany is curious, but, so to speak, demonstration samples of Nazi developments in the field of missile weapons, aircraft of a new type, etc.

Strange, but very few researchers (including Joseph Farrell) pay attention to the fact that lies literally on the surface. Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica was hastily ended on March 3, 1947. And already from the middle of May 1947, unidentified flying objects - UFOs - began to be observed in the sky of the United States almost en masse.

In June 1947, flying over the Cascade Mountains during the day, American Kenneth Arnold noticed how his plane was overtaken at supersonic speed by nine disc-shaped objects, several photographs of which the pilot managed to take. Telling the media about this incident, Kenneth called the objects "pans", but journalists picked up the term "plates", which has survived to this day.

The apotheosis of the "epidemic" of UFOs over the United States was the so-called incident near the town of Roswell in New Mexico: in early July, not far from the city, it is believed, an alien UFO crashed (there were probably two flying objects) with aliens on board. The historical issue of the local newspaper "Roswell Daily Record" (by the way, the publication continues to be published to this day), published on July 8, 1947, in fact, marked the beginning of the "UFO era".

Almost immediately, the United States sent three more expeditions to the shores of Antarctica: in 1947-1948, as well as in 1955-1956 ("Deep Freeze-1") and in 1956-1957 ("Deep Freeze-2"), which formally were also exclusively scientific in nature.

In 1997, Pocket Books, New York, published The Day After Roswell by Philip J. Corso and William J. Birns. The book summarizes the considerations of retired Colonel Philippe Corso, who, analyzing the Roswell incident in early July 1947, notes: “What's worse is the fact that this apparatus, like other flying saucers, was engaged in observing our defense systems, and, moreover, it demonstrated technologies that we saw from the Nazis, and this made the military assume that these flying saucers have hostile intentions. and perhaps even intervened in human affairs during the war.

At least, Twining suggested. (Lieutenant General Nathan Twining, Chief of Logistics, United States Air Force, author of the secret report to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force on the Roswell incident on September 23, 1947 - Consp.) , this crescent-shaped aircraft was suspiciously similar to the German rigid wings that our pilots observed at the end of the war, and this led him to believe that the Germans had stumbled upon something that we are completely unaware of. This is confirmed by Twining's conversations with Werner von Braun and Willie Lei at Alamogordo shortly after the crash. German scientists did not want to seem crazy, but in a confidential conversation they admitted that the history of German secret research is much deeper than it seems at first glance. .

Research into the UFO phenomenon is, of course, a separate area that has occupied the hearts and minds of tens and hundreds of thousands of people all over the world for more than 60 years. Starting from the second half of the 1980s, when more and more once secret data that were previously contained in closed archives of various countries began to be put into circulation, numerous researchers, paradoxically, began to have even more questions.

Moreover, researchers from different countries, independently of each other (and - especially since the 1990s), began to come to similar conclusions: that technological and other studies of the Third Reich, the secrets of Antarctic expeditions, the "epidemic" of UFOs are all links in one chain. Answering the question - what could the US Government hide in connection with research in Antarctica? - it is necessary to simultaneously answer another question: what technologies could the American military discover (or receive in return) in defeated Germany in 1945?

Cover operation

The documents of a secret memorandum called "Majestic-12" are well known in UFO circles. It is believed that we are talking about top secret materials of the American military department, dedicated to the study of the disaster at Roswell in 1947 and its consequences. For a number of years in the media, and especially in the UFO circles, dosed information from the package of "secret documents" of the "Majestic-12" project has been carefully thrown in. At the same time, among ufologists there is no consensus regarding the authenticity and reliability of these documents. And it's clear why.

Project Majestic 12 X-Files were thrown onto the public agenda by two parties. Moreover, decades after the Roswell incident. In December 1984, an undeveloped 35mm film cassette was mailed to the home of American director and producer Jamie Shander. The sender was not identified, and the postmark stamp showed that the shipment was made in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When the film was developed, it contained 8 documents from the materials of the so-called secret project "Majestic-12".

Ten years later, in March 1994, through the ufologists Don Berliner and Timothy Cooper, under similar circumstances, a second batch of photocopies of "top secret" documents of the Majestic-12 project was thrown in.

The well-known and respected US ufologist Stanton Friedman, who in 1996 published a book entitled Top Secret / Majic in the New York publishing house "Marlowe and Company", was involved in the study of the obtained documents from the very beginning. Friedman very carefully approached the question of the authenticity of the documents that appeared, as could be understood from their content, from the depths of some secret departments. As a result, this ufologist put forward three possible versions of the authenticity of the materials received.

The first: the documents are completely and unconditionally authentic.

The second: the documents are authentic in the sense that they may contain partial truth mixed with knowingly false material.

The third: the documents are absolutely authentic in the sense that they, in fact, were born in the bowels of the military-intelligence community, however, they are intended to explicitly misinform public opinion in order to carry out some kind of confusing psychological operation.

Many articles have been written on the topic of secret documents of the Majestic-12 project, many books have been published and more than one film has been shot. As a result, public opinion firmly entrenched the idea that on July 2, 1947, near Roswell, in fact, an alien ship with aliens on board crashed. Naturally, all the remains were seized by the American special services and are strictly classified, but as a result of a coincidence of circumstances, some of the secret documents became public.

Analyzing these materials in his book "The Black Sun of the Third Reich", Joseph Farrell comes to a completely natural conclusion: the version of the American special services about the alien origin of the flying saucer that crashed near Roswell does not stand up to criticism upon careful consideration.

Around the same time (late 1980s - mid 1990s), another curious event takes place. Fragments of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's secret diary are beginning to appear in the media, as well as through the increasingly widespread Internet communications. In this text, its author (if, of course, Bird is indeed the author) speaks completely unequivocally about his meetings in Antarctica in February 1947 with representatives of some other civilizations.

… In general, the picture is becoming clearer and clearer. Here are some considerations on this score, which eight years ago were expressed by a very competent author in his field.

In 2001, a book by the English journalist Nick Cook was published in the UK, which in the original is called The Hunt for Zero Point. In Russian translation, it was published as a result of the joint efforts of the capital publishing houses "Yauza" and "Eksmo" in 2005 under the title "The Hunt for the Zero Point". America's biggest secret since the atomic bomb. " Born in 1960, Nicholas Julian Cook had worked for the world famous aviation magazine Jane's Defense Weekly for 15 years at the time of the book's release in the UK.

To understand that Cook, due to the specifics of the magazine where he worked, was not inclined to ufological fantasies, we will quote a short quote from his book, which describes the principle of operation of Jane's Defense Weekly: “ The DDU, as we called it for short, was one large portfolio of documents reporting on the machinations of the global aerospace science and defense industry. If you needed to know the thrust-to-weight ratio of the engine of a Chinese military aircraft or the pulsation rate of an air-jet engine, or the peculiarities of the radar system, there was a publication with the answer in the archives of "Jane's". In short, Jane's has always been interested only in facts. His motto was and remains: "Authority, accuracy, impartiality." It was a large-scale commercial data collection system, and with the money, anyone could look into its gigantic database. ".

Having begun an investigation into what actually happened in early July 1947 in the vicinity of the American town of Roswell, Nick Cook quickly came to the obvious conclusion: “If you link Germany and the flying saucers, it will be possible not only to solve the riddle of anti-gravity propulsion devices, but in the process, it will probably reveal one of the incomprehensible mysteries of the 20th century: the origin of UFOs. […] … Apparently, the flying disc demonstrated capabilities so ahead of their time that the entire program was top secret, and then, for almost 60 years, was hidden in plain sight - behind the UFO myth. "

According to one version, the same principle was implemented by them in the late 1960s, when the first US astronauts landed on the moon. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration was not eager to tell the general public about what, in fact, was discovered on the Earth satellite during the implementation of the lunar science program. Therefore, NASA itself organized the second fake flight, which gave reason to believe that American astronauts had never been on the moon: all photographs and filming of the US lunar expeditions of the late 1960s-1970s are falsification and editing. Thus, public interest for another 40 years was switched to the discussion of completely different issues.

But what, in this case, were the scientific and technical developments of the Third Reich in reality? And what, in fact, was the finale of the Second World War?