An extraordinary 2006 Russian documentary was very recently translated into English revealing new information about a US Navy Antarctica expedition in 1946/47. Originally scheduled for a six month period, the “scientific” expedition was officially called “The United States Navy Antarctic Development Program,” and given the operational name Highjump. The naval component of Operation Highjump was known as Task Force 68 and comprised 4700 military personnel, one aircraft carrier (the USS Philippine Sea among the largest of all carriers of the time), and number of naval support ships and aircraft. The Naval expedition was headed by famed polar explore Admiral Richard Byrd, who had been ordered to: “to consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent.” Byrd’s expedition ended after only 8 weeks with “many fatalities” according to initial news reports based on interviews with crew members who spoke to the press while passing through Chilean ports. Rather than deny the heavy casualty reports, Admiral Byrd revealed in a press interview that Task Force 68 had encountered a new enemy that “could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds.”

Admiral Byrd’s statements were published in the Chilean Press but never publicly confirmed by US authorities. Indeed Byrd did not speak again to the Press about Operation Highjump, leaving it for researchers to speculate for decades over what really happened, and why Byrd was silenced. After the Soviet collapse in 1991, the KGB released previously classified files that cast light on the mysterious Byrd led Naval expedition to Antarctica. A 2006 Russian documentary, recently translated, made public for the first time a 1947 secret Soviet intelligence report commissioned by Joseph Stalin of Task 68’s mission to Antarctica. The intelligence report, gathered from Soviet spies embedded in the US, revealed that the US Navy had sent the military expedition to find and destroy a hidden Nazi base. On the way, they encountered a mysterious UFO force that attacked the military expedition destroying several ships and a significant number of planes. Indeed, Operation Highjump had suffered “many casualties” as stated in initial press reports from Chile. While there is a possibility the report resulted from US disinformation fed to a known Soviet mole, the more likely explanation is that the report exposes the first known historical incident involving a battle between US naval forces and an unknown UFO force stationed near Antarctica.

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ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD’S “OPERATION HIGH JUMP”:

"On January of 1946 around 7:00 A.M In the darkness, aboard the USS Brownson (DD868) Naval Destroyer, we observed the following: ON THE HORIZON, A BRIGHT COLORLESS LIGHT. WE THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER SHIP. WE WERE BELOW ANTARTIC CIRCLE IN UNCHARTED WATERS. OUR RADAR WAS ACTIVATED TO NO AVAIL. I AND MY SHIPMATES IN THE PILOT HOUSE PORT SIDE OBSERVED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES, THE BRIGHT LIGHTS THAT ASCENDED ABOUT 45 DEGREES INTO THE SKY VERY QUICKLY. WE COULDN’T ID THE LIGHTS BECAUSE OUR RADAR WAS LIMITED TO 250 MILES IN A STRAIGHT LINE. OUR QUARTER MASTER JOHN DRISCOLL RECORDED THIS IN OUR LOG. RADIOMAN JOHN P. SZELWACH. (ON WEDDLE SEA, CHARCOT ISLAND, BELOW THE ANTARTIC CIRCLE)."