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00:01:14Conventional wisdom suggests that the Earth
00:01:17is essentially a solid spherical mass
00:01:20with an inner core of solid iron
00:01:22encased in a layer of molten iron,
00:01:24followed by stiffer mantle and the crust,
00:01:27before heading to the surface on which we all live.
00:01:31However, although this theory
00:01:33is almost universally accepted as absolute fact,
00:01:36it is only an educated guess,
00:01:39with no solid proof to back it up.
00:01:42The fact is that we have never been
00:01:44anywhere near to the center of the Earth.
00:01:47So, with that in mind,
00:01:48theories that state the Earth is, in fact, hollow
00:01:52and even able to support life,
00:01:54should be treated the same way
00:01:56as the widely accepted aforementioned theory.
00:01:59As you might suspect, though,
00:02:01most scoff at this notion and dismiss it entirely
00:02:04without any further investigation.
00:02:07However, throughout history,
00:02:09many prominent and respected minds, thinkers,
00:02:12and even military veterans
00:02:14have presented detailed theories
00:02:16as to what lies deep within our planet.
00:02:19When these theories are combined
00:02:21with the numerous reports and texts
00:02:24that make reference to living beings
00:02:26and entire civilizations
00:02:28that live and sometimes come up from inside the Earth,
00:02:31not only appear to warrant further study,
00:02:34but when viewed with an unbiased mind,
00:02:37suggest there may be more evidence
00:02:39to support the hollow Earth theory than not.
00:02:42Both sides of the spectrum seem to agree
00:02:45that the moment of inertia of the Earth
00:02:48indicates that there's a concentration of mass
00:02:51around the very center of the planet,
00:02:53with further research, along with seismic data,
00:02:56appearing to show that this mass
00:02:59to be a solid sphere.
00:03:01Hollow Earth theories vary on exactly what the mass is,
00:03:05with some stating that it could be a magnetic core,
00:03:08while others suggest that it is a central sun.
00:03:12This is particularly interesting
00:03:14as modern science seems to suggest
00:03:16that the center of the Earth
00:03:18could indeed be as hot as our sun.
00:03:21In ancient times, Buddhists believed
00:03:24that the Earth was hollow
00:03:26and that it housed a race of supermen and women
00:03:29who would venture to the surface via tunnels.
00:03:32Buddhists even kept guards
00:03:34at the entrances to these tunnels to the inner Earth,
00:03:37said to be in Tibet.
00:03:40In other Tibetan, Indian, and Hindu texts,
00:03:43an ancient kingdom called Shambhala is described,
00:03:47said to be located deep within Inner Asia,
00:03:50while other texts from India, such as the Ramayana,
00:03:54speak of the Avatar Rama,
00:03:56a great blue being from deep within the Earth.
00:04:00In the 1600s, as Western cultures
00:04:03were beginning to come out of the Dark Ages,
00:04:05where science and free thought
00:04:07was frowned upon by the Catholic Church,
00:04:10many scientists and philosophers
00:04:12murdered by the Church's heretics,
00:04:14there were prominent and influential figures
00:04:17who had come to their own conclusions about the Earth
00:04:20and if it was hollow or not.
00:04:22It should also perhaps be noted
00:04:24that although these thinkers
00:04:26were no longer forced to operate in secrecy
00:04:28under the threat of death,
00:04:30they were still kept a very close eye on
00:04:33by society's elites.
00:04:35Edmund Halley, perhaps best known
00:04:37for his discovery of Halley's Comet,
00:04:39was just one who theorised
00:04:41that the Earth was indeed hollow during this time.
00:04:44Using much of Isaac Newton's work on gravity
00:04:47to prove his theories,
00:04:49he claimed that the Earth was hollow
00:04:51and had a shell around 500 miles thick,
00:04:54had an innermost core
00:04:56and was capable of supporting life.
00:04:58He went on to state
00:05:00that an atmosphere filled the space inside the Earth
00:05:03and that the outer shell and the inner core
00:05:06both had their own magnetic poles
00:05:08that caused them to rotate at different speeds.
00:05:11Leonid Euler, a Swiss physicist,
00:05:14also proposed that the Earth was hollow
00:05:17during his time in the 1700s.
00:05:19Like Halley, he claimed that the Earth
00:05:22had a very thick outer shell
00:05:24but at its core was a central sun.
00:05:27The sun, he claimed, provided heat and light
00:05:29for the inhabitants of the inner Earth.
00:05:32Interestingly, Euler went on to claim
00:05:35that the inner Earth could be accessed
00:05:37through huge entrances
00:05:39both at the north and south poles.
00:05:42It's claimed by some people today
00:05:44that such applications as Google Earth
00:05:46have purposely attempted to hide these entrances,
00:05:49although there are some photographs
00:05:51that appear to show the opening that Euler claimed.
00:05:54As recently as the 1940s,
00:05:56there have been claims of an inhabited inner world,
00:05:59perhaps none more high-profile
00:06:02than those made by Admiral Richard Byrd
00:06:04following Operation High Jump in 1947.
00:06:08Operation High Jump was a multinational effort
00:06:11led by the United States
00:06:13to establish a base at the North Pole.
00:06:16On the 19th of February, 1947,
00:06:19Admiral Boyd led a squadron of planes
00:06:21over the North Pole.
00:06:23He claimed that he could see vegetation and animals
00:06:26that shouldn't have been there
00:06:28and ultimately that he saw a huge opening
00:06:31that led inside the Earth.
00:06:33However, perhaps even stranger,
00:06:35Byrd stated that out of nowhere
00:06:37there were strange flying crafts
00:06:39that got so close to them
00:06:41that they could see what looked like
00:06:43very similar to swastika markings on them.
00:06:46His airplane would not respond
00:06:48and he was essentially in an invisible vice grip of some kind.
00:06:52Byrd went on to say
00:06:54that he was taken inside the Earth
00:06:56where he noticed great lakes and vegetation
00:06:59and that the inner Earth had an inner sun.
00:07:02He was greeted by the beings that resided there.
00:07:05They were, he claimed, concerned about humans in general
00:07:09but particularly about nuclear weapons
00:07:11that were building up around the planet.
00:07:14Interestingly, there have been numerous UFO sightings
00:07:17in and around both nuclear power plants
00:07:19and on grounds where nuclear weapons are housed.
00:07:22It may be worth noting
00:07:24that there have been long rumours
00:07:26that Hitler himself had a keen interest
00:07:28in establishing a base at the North Pole
00:07:30with the objective being to find the entrance to the inner world
00:07:34believing that extraterrestrials
00:07:36or an advanced race would be found there.
00:07:39On the 5th of May 1947
00:07:42the El Mercurio newspaper of Santiago, Chile
00:07:45appeared with a headline article
00:07:47on board the Mount Olympus on the high seas
00:07:51in which it quoted Byrd saying
00:07:53Admiral Byrd declared today
00:07:55that it was imperative for the United States
00:07:58to initiate immediate defence measures
00:08:00against hostile regions.
00:08:02Furthermore, Byrd stated
00:08:04that he didn't want to frighten anyone unduly
00:08:07but it was a bitter reality
00:08:09that in the case of a new war
00:08:11the continental United States
00:08:13would be attacked by flying objects
00:08:15which could fly from pole to pole
00:08:17at incredible speeds.
00:08:19Like Euler 200 years earlier
00:08:22he also claimed that there were huge entrances
00:08:24to the inner earth
00:08:26at both the North and South Poles.
00:08:28He repeated these views several times
00:08:31including at a press conference
00:08:33in front of the world's media
00:08:35before he was hospitalised
00:08:37and ultimately forbidden from holding press conferences
00:08:39on the subject again.
00:08:41Byrd died in his sleep in 1957
00:08:45maybe predictably, maybe not
00:08:47there were quiet claims of foul play
00:08:50although his official cause of death
00:08:52was a heart ailment.
00:08:54Perhaps also worth checking out
00:08:56is Byrd's son, Richard Byrd Jr.
00:08:58who was six years old in 1947
00:09:01and had accompanied and witnessed
00:09:03his father's claims.
00:09:05He was found dead mysteriously
00:09:07in a New York warehouse
00:09:09and had by all accounts
00:09:11had various trying times during his life.
00:09:16Perhaps the most interesting
00:09:18of all the Hollow Earth claims
00:09:20was made by the Native American Hopi tribe
00:09:22who have lived upon the plains
00:09:24of Northern Arizona for thousands of years.
00:09:26According to their ancient writings
00:09:28it was here that their gods
00:09:30instructed them to settle
00:09:32and build up villages in the rock
00:09:34which look very similar
00:09:36to modern apartment blocks.
00:09:38Here they were taught to grow corn
00:09:40beans and squash
00:09:42and thrived as a civilisation.
00:09:44Key to the Hopi's existence
00:09:46was the Ant People
00:09:48who led the tribe safely
00:09:50during two cataclysmic events.
00:09:52In the first world
00:09:54which was destroyed by fire
00:09:56and the second world which was destroyed by ice
00:09:58the tribe had each time
00:10:00been guided by a strange cloud
00:10:02during the day
00:10:04and a moving star during the night
00:10:06until they came to the god named
00:10:08Satu'knang
00:10:10who in turn led the Hopi to the Ant People.
00:10:12The Ant People had lived
00:10:14on Earth since the first time
00:10:16and now house themselves deep within the planet.
00:10:18They offered the Hopi
00:10:20safety until it was safe to return
00:10:22to the surface of the Earth
00:10:24and also taught them skills such as
00:10:26food storage, rationing
00:10:28and how to sprout beans inside
00:10:30the cavern under the ground.
00:10:32Not only is this another
00:10:34reference to the Hollow Earth theory
00:10:36but it also lends a certain amount
00:10:38of support to the ancient astronaut
00:10:40theory and the Anunnaki.
00:10:42The Hopi word for Ant
00:10:44is Anu. Anu was a
00:10:46Babylonian sky god, the Anunnaki.
00:10:48Not only this
00:10:50but Naki in Hopi
00:10:52means friend. Ant friend.
00:10:54Anunnaki.
00:10:56Coincidence? Or evidence?
00:10:58We should perhaps stress
00:11:00that not everyone agrees with that
00:11:02interpretation.
00:11:08Is the Earth spherical?
00:11:10Well, no, it's geoid.
00:11:12Really, which means Earth form.
00:11:14Because it's not a sphere
00:11:16and because it's somewhat flattened at the poles
00:11:18we also have oceans,
00:11:20mountains, plains and other geographical
00:11:22features that give it a unique shape
00:11:24which is called a geoid.
00:11:26But it turns out that there is
00:11:28certain data and some stories that give us
00:11:30the idea of a Hollow Earth.
00:11:32That is, a land that
00:11:34is like a ball that has air in the middle.
00:11:36That is, a shell of hundreds
00:11:38of kilometers thick but hollow
00:11:40in the centre.
00:11:42Here we will tell one of the most amazing stories
00:11:44about the Hollow Earth.
00:11:46The Hollow Earth was a concept
00:11:48proposing that the planet Earth is
00:11:50entirely hollow or contains
00:11:52a substantial interior space.
00:11:54Notably suggested by Edmund Haley
00:11:56in the late 17th century.
00:11:58However, the notion was
00:12:00first disproven in 1740
00:12:02and again in 1774 by
00:12:04Charles Hutton.
00:12:06But was these conclusions accurate?
00:12:08There are still many who believe the Earth
00:12:10has a vast cavern system below
00:12:12our very feet.
00:12:14On the surface, the Mammoth National Park
00:12:16in central Kentucky encompasses
00:12:18around 80 square miles.
00:12:20But underneath lies a twisted
00:12:22labyrinth of limestone caves
00:12:24creating a network that earns the title
00:12:26the longest cave system
00:12:28in the world.
00:12:30Richard E. Byrd, pilot of the US Navy
00:12:32flew over the poles, both
00:12:34the Arctic and the Antarctic
00:12:36With a small Fokker monoplane
00:12:38he flew over the Arctic
00:12:40passing through Greenland, Kings Bay
00:12:42now Nyalesund
00:12:44and Spitsbergen, Svalbard
00:12:46reaching the North Pole.
00:12:48As for the South Pole, in 1928
00:12:50he set up a camp based on the
00:12:52northern tip of Roosevelt Island
00:12:54in the Ross Sea with laboratories
00:12:56workshops, warehouses
00:12:58a radio station and a hospital.
00:13:00This base
00:13:02was the Byrd camp
00:13:04and his crew were 42 people
00:13:06for 14 months.
00:13:08Roosevelt Island is in the north eastern
00:13:10part of the Ross Ice Shelf
00:13:12The ice covered island
00:13:14off the coast of Antarctica is around
00:13:16about 90 miles long
00:13:18and 35 miles wide
00:13:20and was discovered in 1934 by
00:13:22Admiral Byrd himself. It was in fact
00:13:24a perfect location for all
00:13:26base camps.
00:13:28At last, on November 29th
00:13:301929, he flew over the
00:13:32North Pole. This expedition and
00:13:34three others in 1934
00:13:361939 and 1955
00:13:38made Byrd a well-known
00:13:40explorer of Antarctica.
00:13:42But here we're going to focus on something
00:13:44that Byrd never spoke about in public
00:13:46about what happened to him on one of
00:13:48his trips to the poles
00:13:50but we know from third parties that he
00:13:52found the entrance to the interior
00:13:54of the Earth.
00:13:56The entrance to the
00:13:58centre of the Earth sounds almost
00:14:00like a bad 1950s sci-fi movie
00:14:02but is there
00:14:04in fact any truth to this?
00:14:06Ariana and
00:14:08Agatha are the legendary kingdoms
00:14:10that is said to be located in the Earth's
00:14:12core. Though many
00:14:14remain sceptical and rightly so
00:14:16could Admiral Byrd's diary logs
00:14:18provide a tantalising truth
00:14:20so amazing it's
00:14:22difficult to believe.
00:14:24Here we have access to his flight log
00:14:26about what happened on February 19th
00:14:281947
00:14:30this would be an unofficial expedition
00:14:32that's why it wasn't previously named
00:14:34from his blog
00:14:36we can read the following
00:14:38I am not at liberty to disclose the following
00:14:40documentation in this writing
00:14:42it may never see the light of public scrutiny
00:14:44but I must do my duty
00:14:46and record here so that
00:14:48everyone can read it someday
00:14:50we're going to avoid log entries that talk
00:14:52about routine issues and we'll
00:14:54go directly to the substance
00:14:56so registration begins at
00:14:580600 hours, six in the morning
00:15:000900 hours
00:15:02vast ice and snow below
00:15:04yellowish colouration of nature
00:15:06is observed and dispersed
00:15:08in a linear pattern
00:15:10altering the course to better examine
00:15:12this colour pattern below
00:15:14reddish or purple is also observed
00:15:16circulating this area
00:15:18in two full turns, returning to
00:15:20the direction assigned by the compass
00:15:22checking position again
00:15:24inside the base camp and transmitting
00:15:26information about colourations
00:15:28in the ice and the snow below
00:15:300910 hours
00:15:32both magnetic and gyro compasses
00:15:34beginning to gyrate and wobble
00:15:36we're unable to hold our heading
00:15:38by instrumentation
00:15:40take bearing with sun compass
00:15:42yet all seems well
00:15:44the controls are seemingly slow to respond
00:15:46and have sluggish quality
00:15:48but there's no indication of icing
00:15:500915 hours
00:15:52in the distance is what appears
00:15:54to be mountains
00:15:56it's no illusion, there are mountains
00:15:58consisting of a small range
00:16:00that I've never seen before
00:16:020955 hours
00:16:04altitude change to 2950 feet
00:16:08encountering strong turbulence again
00:16:101000 hours
00:16:12we're crossing over a small mountain range
00:16:14and still proceeding northwards
00:16:16as best as can be ascertained
00:16:18beyond the mountain range
00:16:20this is what appears to be a valley
00:16:22with a small river or stream
00:16:24running through the centre portion
00:16:26there should be no green valley below
00:16:28something is definitely wrong and abnormal here
00:16:30we should be over ice and snow
00:16:32to the port side
00:16:34are great forests growing on the mountain slopes
00:16:36our navigation instruments
00:16:38are still spinning
00:16:40the gyroscope is oscillating back and forth
00:16:421005 hours
00:16:44I alter altitude to 1400 feet
00:16:46and execute a sharp left turn
00:16:48to better examine the valley below
00:16:50it is green with either moss
00:16:52or a type of tight-knit grass
00:16:54the light here seems different
00:16:56I cannot see the sun anymore
00:16:58we make another left turn
00:17:00and we spot what seems to be a large animal
00:17:02of some kind below us
00:17:04it appears to be an elephant
00:17:06no, it looks more like a mammoth
00:17:08this is incredible, yet there it is
00:17:10decrease altitude to 1000 feet
00:17:12and take binoculars
00:17:14to better examine the animal
00:17:16it is confirmed
00:17:18it is definitely a mammoth-like animal
00:17:20it's not the first time
00:17:22people have reported strange animals
00:17:24occasionally, reports do come in
00:17:26of people sighting dinosaurs
00:17:28and other extinct animals
00:17:30unusually, it's locations where humans
00:17:32are pretty scarce
00:17:34if we take for an example the woolly mammoth
00:17:36well, they were once thought
00:17:38to be legendary creatures
00:17:40they weren't even identified
00:17:42as extinct species
00:17:44could it be that
00:17:46Admiral Byrd witnessed
00:17:48some sort of aberration
00:17:50or experienced something more profound
00:17:52like a portal or doorway
00:17:54to another reality
00:17:56report this to base camp
00:17:5810, 30 hours
00:18:00encountering more rolling green hills now
00:18:02the external temperature indicator
00:18:04reads 74 degrees Fahrenheit
00:18:06continuing on our heading now
00:18:08navigation instruments
00:18:10seem normal now
00:18:12I'm puzzled over their actions
00:18:14attempt to contact base camp
00:18:16radio is not functioning
00:18:1811, 30 hours
00:18:20countryside below is more level and normal
00:18:22if I may use that word
00:18:24ahead we spot what seems to be a city
00:18:26this is impossible
00:18:28aircraft seem light
00:18:30and oddly buoyant
00:18:32the controls refuse to respond
00:18:34my god, off our port
00:18:36and starboard wings are a strange type
00:18:38of aircraft
00:18:40they're disshaped
00:18:42and have a radiant quality to them
00:18:44they're close enough now to see
00:18:46the markings on them
00:18:48it's a type of swastika
00:18:50this is fantastic, where are we?
00:18:52what has happened?
00:18:54I tug at the controls again
00:18:56they will not respond
00:18:58we're caught in an invisible vice grip of some type
00:19:0011, 35 hours
00:19:02our radio crackles
00:19:04and a voice comes through in English
00:19:06with what perhaps is a slight
00:19:08Germanic accent
00:19:10the message is
00:19:12welcome admiral to our domain
00:19:14we shall land you in exactly 7 minutes
00:19:16relax admiral, you are in good hands
00:19:18I note the engines of our planes
00:19:20have stopped running
00:19:22but the aircraft is under some strange
00:19:24control and is now turning itself
00:19:26the controls are useless
00:19:2811, 40 hours
00:19:30another radio message received
00:19:32we begin the landing process now
00:19:34and in moments the plane shudders
00:19:36slightly and begins a descent
00:19:38as though caught in some great unseen elevator
00:19:40the downward motion
00:19:42is negligible
00:19:44and we touch down only with a slight jolt
00:19:4611, 45 hours
00:19:48I'm making a hasty
00:19:50last entry in the flight log
00:19:52several men are approaching on foot
00:19:54towards our aircraft
00:19:56they're tall with blonde hair
00:19:58in the distance is a large shimmering city
00:20:00pulsating with rainbow hues of color
00:20:02I do not know what is going to happen now
00:20:04but I see no signs of weapons
00:20:06on those approaching
00:20:08I hear now a voice ordering by name
00:20:10to open the cargo door
00:20:12I comply
00:20:14end of log
00:20:16some of these caverns can be huge
00:20:18of course we don't believe we've probably
00:20:20discovered all these caverns
00:20:22which might be on planet earth
00:20:24we do know that vast systems like this
00:20:26do probably exist throughout the solar system
00:20:28there's even rumors
00:20:30that there are vast cavern systems
00:20:32or some type of hollow area on our moon
00:20:34so not only do we discuss the topics
00:20:36of hollow earth here
00:20:38we're also discussing the topics of the hollow moon
00:20:40yes, it's feasible
00:20:42things could exist like that
00:20:44and yes, there is probably room
00:20:46for a civilization
00:20:48to actually live under the ground
00:20:50after all, ancient civilizations
00:20:52around planet earth
00:20:54have lived under the ground in periods of time
00:20:56in our past
00:20:58and they are visible by cave systems
00:21:00deep into the planet
00:21:02and it must have taken hundreds of years
00:21:04to construct
00:21:06it's amazing what people can actually do
00:21:08but is there a civilization
00:21:10hidden away in Antarctica
00:21:12that's the biggest question that we face here
00:21:14and I don't really know for sure
00:21:16if that could exist or not
00:21:18if so, then it's something
00:21:20that has really been well kept secret
00:21:22maybe that we'll learn more as years pass
00:21:24or
00:21:26excavations and exploratory
00:21:28science missions go across Antarctica
00:21:30and we do get that information
00:21:32one thing is for sure
00:21:34that many people are coming forward
00:21:36today utilising Google Earth
00:21:38as a piece of software to identify
00:21:40locations of interest across Antarctica
00:21:42and it is a subject
00:21:44which is very well much in the limelight
00:21:46at the moment, especially regarding
00:21:48whistleblowers which are coming forward
00:21:50and saying that they were part of a military operation
00:21:52and involved with
00:21:54locating underground
00:21:56facilities throughout Antarctica
00:21:58that clearly are not our own
00:22:00if that is the case then we have to really
00:22:02start thinking, could there be some truth
00:22:04to these incidents, and was
00:22:06Admiral Byrd's diary logs
00:22:08actually real events
00:22:10which unfolded, which he made
00:22:12logs of? It's very difficult to
00:22:14know, one thing is for sure, there's a huge amount
00:22:16of secrecy surrounding
00:22:18Admiral Byrd's diary logs, where are
00:22:20they? And what was really
00:22:22written in them? It's really
00:22:24difficult to work out what's true and what's
00:22:26not here, but one thing is for sure, we have
00:22:28a huge mystery on our hand.
00:22:30Then, the Admiral describes
00:22:32from memory the following events because
00:22:34he could not register in his log
00:22:36moment by moment, as he did
00:22:38up to this point. What follows is
00:22:40his conversation with whoever captured
00:22:42him. Byrd and Howie
00:22:44his radio operator, get off
00:22:46their plane, escorted by their hosts
00:22:48on a kind of flying platform
00:22:50without wheels, and take them
00:22:52to a large room in a building that's
00:22:54according to his words, he'd never seen
00:22:56before in his life. In this
00:22:58room, they're invited to have a drink,
00:23:00a delicious drink, but not
00:23:02recognized by neither.
00:23:04Suddenly, a door opens
00:23:06silently and Byrd is invited to go
00:23:08and talk with the Great Master.
00:23:10On this door, he could see some
00:23:12inscriptions that he couldn't read.
00:23:14This Great Master is an
00:23:16old man, but with delicate features,
00:23:18and he asked the Admiral not
00:23:20to be afraid that he needed to talk
00:23:22to him. The Master told Byrd
00:23:24that he had been allowed access
00:23:26for being a good-hearted man
00:23:28and well-known in the surface world.
00:23:30This surprised the Admiral
00:23:32and the teacher continued speaking.
00:23:34You are in the domain of
00:23:36the Ariani, the inner world
00:23:38of Earth. We shall not long
00:23:40delay your mission, and you will be safely
00:23:42escorted back to the surface, and
00:23:44for a distance beyond. But now
00:23:46Admiral, I shall tell you
00:23:48why you have been summoned here.
00:23:50Our interest rightly begins
00:23:52just after your race exploded
00:23:54the first atomic bombs
00:23:56over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
00:23:58It was at that alarming
00:24:00time we sent our flying machines,
00:24:02the Flugelrads, to your
00:24:04surface world to investigate
00:24:06what your race had done.
00:24:08That is, of course, past history now,
00:24:10my dear Admiral, but I must continue
00:24:12on. Our emissaries have already
00:24:14delivered messages to the powers of your
00:24:16world, and yet they do not heed.
00:24:18Now you have been chosen
00:24:20to be witness here that our world
00:24:22does exist. You see,
00:24:24our culture and science is many
00:24:26thousands of years beyond your race,
00:24:28Admiral. Your race has now reached
00:24:30the point of no return, for
00:24:32there are those amongst you who would destroy
00:24:34your very world rather
00:24:36than relinquish their power as
00:24:38they know it. Antarctica
00:24:40has been a mysterious place for a long
00:24:42time, with people claiming
00:24:44that they've seen all sorts of strange things
00:24:46from there. There was, in the 1970s
00:24:48and to the 1980s,
00:24:50people who reported seeing a very large
00:24:52black hole over Antarctica.
00:24:54There was, in fact, one
00:24:56satellite photograph that circulated
00:24:58the internet. However,
00:25:00it turned out that it was actually part of the
00:25:02actual photographic process, and
00:25:04the arm of the photographic
00:25:06telescope, which
00:25:08caused this round hole to appear
00:25:10in the middle of the Antarctic.
00:25:12That was pretty much
00:25:14realised very quickly. However,
00:25:16it didn't stop people coming forward with
00:25:18conspiracy theories that there was a
00:25:20massive cover-up. There was a huge
00:25:22hole in the Antarctica where
00:25:24objects, flying disks and things,
00:25:26would enter in and come out of.
00:25:28And, of course, the governments of the world were
00:25:30keeping that very hush-hush.
00:25:32Truth of the matter is,
00:25:34there are some strange, unusual holes
00:25:36in Antarctica, caverns, systems,
00:25:38caves. Could they be
00:25:40a place which are entrances
00:25:42to another world? Who really knows?
00:25:44It seems that Antarctica
00:25:46is well off the map for being
00:25:48a location where you can visit.
00:25:50It seems very difficult to find out
00:25:52any information about Antarctica
00:25:54these days, even though, in the 21st
00:25:56century, we all have access to
00:25:58computer and software systems which might
00:26:00be able to utilise satellites
00:26:02to find locations. There are still
00:26:04areas completely blacked out.
00:26:06We have to question, why is that?
00:26:08In 1945 and afterwards,
00:26:10we tried to contact your race,
00:26:12but our efforts were met with hostility.
00:26:14Our flugelrads were fired upon.
00:26:16Yes, even pursued
00:26:18with malice and animosity
00:26:20by your fighter planes.
00:26:22So now, I say to you, my son,
00:26:24there is a great storm gathering in your
00:26:26world, a black fury
00:26:28that will not spend itself for many
00:26:30years. There will be no answer in your
00:26:32arms, there will be no safety
00:26:34in your science. It may
00:26:36rage on until every flower of your
00:26:38culture is trampled and all
00:26:40human things are levelled in vast
00:26:42chaos. Your recent war
00:26:44was only a prelude of what is yet to
00:26:46come for your race. We here
00:26:48see it more clearly with each hour.
00:26:50Do you say I am mistaken?
00:26:52Bird replied that no,
00:26:54he knew that the Earth had passed through
00:26:56a dark age previously.
00:26:58It's not a real surprise to find
00:27:00that people believe in the ancient
00:27:02hidden cities around the world.
00:27:04We've already discovered ancient cities
00:27:06before. We still know that there
00:27:08are some ancient cities which haven't
00:27:10been found yet which we believe exist
00:27:12such as the lost city of the Amazon.
00:27:14There are many places like
00:27:16this which researchers and scientists still
00:27:18continue to try and find. However,
00:27:20it does prove that, yes,
00:27:22we can hide such a thing like this
00:27:24in plain sight in some cases.
00:27:26What happens if something is underground?
00:27:28Well, that's literally not going to be
00:27:30found at all, especially in a region known
00:27:32as Antarctica where prying eyes
00:27:34don't get a chance to see what's actually
00:27:36there. It is a complete
00:27:38lockdown location and I think only people
00:27:40go in and out as military and science
00:27:42expeditions.
00:27:44Any of us living an experience like
00:27:46Bird's would go out into the world
00:27:48and tell our story without thinking
00:27:50that many people would think that we are crazy.
00:27:52Instead, Bird hid
00:27:54the message keeping it to himself.
00:27:56Why did he do this?
00:27:58Well, simply because when he told
00:28:00the High Commanders of the Pentagon,
00:28:02they ordered him to be silent.
00:28:04Even the President of the United States,
00:28:06Harry S. Truman, was duly informed
00:28:08too. The Admiral, being a
00:28:10soldier, kept silent, accepting
00:28:12the orders of silence in the name of
00:28:14humanity. What?
00:28:16Was Admiral Richard Bird a visitor
00:28:18to the Hollow Earth? Did the
00:28:20Ariani, the inhabitants of the Hollow
00:28:22Earth, allow him entry? Does
00:28:24this mean that the inhabitants of the Hollow Earth
00:28:26can open doors or gateways to
00:28:28other domains? If we have
00:28:30to be partial, there are certain
00:28:32sources that say that his diary does
00:28:34not exist and that it is from
00:28:36the writer F. Armadeo Gianni,
00:28:38published in 1957.
00:28:40His book is called The World
00:28:42Beyond the Poles, where he tells
00:28:44the story of Admiral Bird and that
00:28:46this story comes to light.
00:28:48There are, in addition to this document,
00:28:50many sources that cite the Hollow
00:28:52Earth, from the city of Urx
00:28:54in Argentina to the cave of
00:28:56Los Tayos in Ecuador.
00:28:58Not only would there be entrances to an
00:29:00underground world, but also a kind of
00:29:02entrance hall to the Hollow Earth itself.
00:29:04In ancient times,
00:29:06the concept of a subterranean land,
00:29:08the inside the Earth, appeared in mythology,
00:29:10folklore and legends.
00:29:12The idea of a subterranean realm
00:29:14became intertwined with
00:29:16the concepts of places
00:29:18and origin of even afterlife,
00:29:20such as the Greek underworld.
00:29:22Even the Tibetan Buddhists believe that
00:29:24there is, in fact, an ancient city
00:29:26called Shambhala, which is located
00:29:28inside the Earth.
00:29:30If we believe in the Admiral's
00:29:32diary, the Ariani have been sending
00:29:34their UFOs, called flugelrads,
00:29:36for years. They would bring their
00:29:38message of peace so that we take care
00:29:40of our planet, but then man attacks
00:29:42the UFOs, preventing them from
00:29:44delivering the message.
00:29:46So is there any new evidence to support
00:29:48Admiral Bird's claims? It's been a long time
00:29:50since Admiral Bird visited Antarctica,
00:29:52as you can well imagine. Well, there are
00:29:54whistleblowers that have come forward, as I've
00:29:56previously mentioned, who talk about
00:29:58coming across certain facilities that look
00:30:00to be advanced technology,
00:30:02look to be that they may have not been
00:30:04created by us.
00:30:06If that is the case, then that
00:30:08lends even new theories
00:30:10and new ideas about
00:30:12what is really going on in Antarctica.
00:30:14There is even speculation that numerous
00:30:16officials, presidents and astronomers
00:30:18and scientists had a gathering
00:30:20in Antarctica not too long ago. If that
00:30:22is true, then we have to ask the questions
00:30:24why? Was it some mass
00:30:26discovery that needed their input?
00:30:28It's interesting to note
00:30:30that there seems to be evidence
00:30:32to support that, that these people
00:30:34were around the
00:30:36Antarctica location at that given time.
00:30:38Why astronauts?
00:30:40Why scientists? Why presidents?
00:30:42It would suggest that something
00:30:44of major was discovered
00:30:46in Antarctica, and if that is the case,
00:30:48then could it have been this lost
00:30:50city, the lost city that
00:30:52Admiral Byrd claimed to have witnessed?
00:30:54Recall the case of the Battle of
00:30:56Los Angeles. A UFO of gigantic
00:30:58dimensions on February the 25th
00:31:001942 flew over
00:31:02Los Angeles, generating
00:31:04alarm since the United States had entered
00:31:06World War II less than three
00:31:08months earlier. Was it
00:31:10a flugelrad sent by the Ariane
00:31:12to try to stop the Second World War
00:31:14and that it wanted to communicate
00:31:16with the high commanders of the United
00:31:18States? If so, obviously
00:31:20the dialogues between the Ariane
00:31:22and the humans ended before
00:31:24we started. Maybe because of
00:31:26this, we can never get in touch
00:31:28with the other inhabitants
00:31:30of our world.
00:31:42Newly released data from a European
00:31:44satellite has revealed the
00:31:46tectonic underworld below the frozen
00:31:48southernmost continent.
00:31:50Researchers have created
00:31:52incredible 3D maps of
00:31:54Antarctica's tectonic underworld
00:31:56and found that the ice has been
00:31:58concealing the remains of an ancient
00:32:00supercontinent's spectacular
00:32:02destruction. It's
00:32:04well known to scientists that the exact
00:32:06geological makeup of Antarctica's
00:32:08innermost land, located
00:32:10in East Antarctica, is
00:32:12yet to be discovered. What else
00:32:14awaits discovery in this
00:32:16mysterious continent?
00:32:18Antarctica today is
00:32:20divided into three distinct regions.
00:32:22East Antarctica,
00:32:24West Antarctica, and the Antarctic
00:32:26Peninsula, with each area
00:32:28containing a different topography
00:32:30beneath. The ice of the
00:32:32Antarctic Peninsula, for example,
00:32:34conceals a spine of mountains
00:32:36projecting northwest from the
00:32:38inside of the continent.
00:32:40East Antarctica, the largest area,
00:32:42includes flat plains as well
00:32:44as mountains. The Gamburtsev
00:32:46mountain range is located here.
00:32:48Its mountains extend for
00:32:50750 miles, with peaks
00:32:52rising above 11,200
00:32:54feet, roughly the same
00:32:56height as the European Alps.
00:32:58This range is completely covered
00:33:00by over 2,000 feet of ice.
00:33:02The ground in West Antarctica
00:33:04is almost completely below
00:33:06sea level. The ocean bowl
00:33:08beneath this section was created
00:33:10during the last Ice Age,
00:33:12when the weight of the ice, which was
00:33:14considerably thicker at the time,
00:33:16pushed down on the bedrock.
00:33:18But what else lies beneath the ice
00:33:20on this enigmatic continent?
00:33:22In November 2018,
00:33:24news outlets around the world
00:33:26reported that incredible data
00:33:28about Antarctica had been obtained
00:33:30from a defunct European
00:33:32satellite. Launched on
00:33:34March 17, 2009,
00:33:36the Gravity Field and Steady State
00:33:38Ocean Circulation Explorer,
00:33:40the GOCE,
00:33:42was the first satellite of the Living Planet
00:33:44Program, which is the European
00:33:46Space Agency's Earth Science
00:33:48Program. It orbited Earth
00:33:50between March 2009
00:33:52and November 2013,
00:33:54and its task was to measure the pull
00:33:56of the Earth's gravity more precisely
00:33:58than any mission before.
00:34:00Using data from that satellite,
00:34:02the researchers from Kiel
00:34:04University in Germany and the British
00:34:06Antarctic Survey examined
00:34:08Antarctica under the ice.
00:34:10Analysis revealed rocky
00:34:12zones known as cratons in the Earth's
00:34:14lithosphere, a zone between
00:34:16the planet's crust and mantle.
00:34:18Cratons are the core regions
00:34:20of most tectonic plates.
00:34:22The team also found organs
00:34:24which are folded up regions
00:34:26of plates that are the precursors
00:34:28to mountain ranges. It's by
00:34:30studying the number of cratons and
00:34:32origins that scientists
00:34:34are able to compare the continental
00:34:36plates beneath Antarctica
00:34:38with other regions around the world.
00:34:40GOCE's newly
00:34:42discovered cratons are believed
00:34:44by scientists to represent the
00:34:46remains of ancient continents,
00:34:48and they reveal important information
00:34:50about how Earth's modern-day continents
00:34:52are structured, especially
00:34:54Antarctica. But data
00:34:56from the decommissioned satellite
00:34:58not only produced a global gravity
00:35:00map, but also revealed
00:35:02local gravity changes with
00:35:04a resolution as small as around
00:35:0650 miles. Co-author
00:35:08of the study, Fausto Ferra
00:35:10Ciccoli, science leader of
00:35:12geology and geophysics at the British
00:35:14Antarctic Survey said,
00:35:16these gravity images are revolutionizing
00:35:18our ability to study
00:35:20the least understood continent on
00:35:22Earth, Antarctica.
00:35:24In East Antarctica, we see an
00:35:26exciting mosaic of geological
00:35:28features that reveal fundamental
00:35:30similarities and differences
00:35:32between the crust beneath Antarctica
00:35:34and other continents it was joined
00:35:36to until 160
00:35:38million years ago. One
00:35:40interesting piece of information the team
00:35:42found was that East Antarctica
00:35:44is made up of old cratons
00:35:46and younger origins.
00:35:48The researchers found similar structures
00:35:50to this in Australia and India.
00:35:52However, West Antarctica
00:35:54has a thinner and more
00:35:56homogenous crust, which more
00:35:58closely resembles the southern tip
00:36:00of South America.
00:36:02The gravity map the team assembled
00:36:04from the data reveals that East
00:36:06Antarctica is made up of multiple
00:36:08cratons, which are the cause
00:36:10of long lost continents.
00:36:12The scientists used data from
00:36:14other satellites to essentially strip
00:36:16Antarctica of its vast layers
00:36:18of ice, so that they were able
00:36:20to focus on the bedrock beneath.
00:36:22When they examined this layer,
00:36:24the team found evidence of the continent's
00:36:26history as part of Gondwana,
00:36:28a supercontinent
00:36:30made of the modern Southern Hemisphere
00:36:32continents.
00:36:34The matching shapes of the coastlines of
00:36:36Western Africa and Eastern South America
00:36:38were first officially noted
00:36:40by Francis Bacon in 1620,
00:36:42at a time when Africa
00:36:44and the New World first became available
00:36:46to study. But the idea
00:36:48that not all the continents of the
00:36:50Southern Hemisphere were once joined
00:36:52by one great supercontinent was not
00:36:54put forward in detail until hundreds
00:36:56of years later, in 1912
00:36:58by German meteorologist
00:37:00and pioneer of polar research
00:37:02Alfred Wegener.
00:37:04He's remembered today as the originator
00:37:06of continental drift theory,
00:37:08which he put forward in 1912,
00:37:10suggesting that the continents are slowly
00:37:12drifting around the Earth.
00:37:14But Wegener also convinced that
00:37:16all of the Earth's continents were once
00:37:18part of a single great landmass,
00:37:20called Pangea.
00:37:22Its name is derived from the Greek
00:37:24Pangaea, meaning all the Earth.
00:37:26Wegener proposed that Pangea
00:37:28existed about 240 million
00:37:30years ago, but by about
00:37:32200 million years ago, it began
00:37:34breaking up. Over millions
00:37:36of years, Pangea eventually
00:37:38separated into pieces that
00:37:40gradually moved away from one another.
00:37:42These pieces slowly formed
00:37:44the continents we recognize today.
00:37:46Nowadays, scientists
00:37:48believe that several supercontinents
00:37:50like Pangea have formed and broken
00:37:52up over the course of the Earth's history.
00:37:54These include Panotia,
00:37:56which formed about 600 million
00:37:58years ago, and Rodinia,
00:38:00a supercontinent that assembled
00:38:02around 1 billion years ago
00:38:04and broke up 750 to
00:38:06633 million years ago.
00:38:08In terms of
00:38:10Wegener's Pangea,
00:38:12Godwana comprised the southern half
00:38:14of this supercontinent.
00:38:16According to plate tectonic
00:38:18evidence, the supercontinent of
00:38:20Godwana was assembled by
00:38:22continental collisions in the late
00:38:24Precambrian, about 1 billion
00:38:26to 542 million
00:38:28years ago, and broke up
00:38:30around 180 million years ago.
00:38:32It eventually split into the
00:38:34landmass we know as Africa,
00:38:36South America, Australia,
00:38:38Antarctica, the
00:38:40Indian subcontinent, Madagascar,
00:38:42and the Arabian Peninsula.
00:38:44Even though the continent
00:38:46existed many millions of years
00:38:48ago, some paranormal researchers
00:38:50have put forward the idea that Godwana
00:38:52may have been the original model
00:38:54for the lost continent of Atlantis,
00:38:56with the knowledge of existence
00:38:58somehow being passed down through the
00:39:00ages. Godwana
00:39:02has formed into its final shape
00:39:04about 500 million years ago.
00:39:06By this time, primitive
00:39:08multicellular organisms had evolved,
00:39:10as revealed by the rare
00:39:12fossils left from this period,
00:39:14which include segmented worms,
00:39:16frond-like organisms, and round
00:39:18creatures similar to modern
00:39:20jellyfish. When Godwana
00:39:22represented Earth's southerly
00:39:24supercontinent, the planet was a
00:39:26lot warmer than today, and crucially,
00:39:28there was no Antarctic ice
00:39:30sheet.
00:39:32It was also a time,
00:39:34the Jurassic period,
00:39:36when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth,
00:39:38and huge areas of Godwana
00:39:40were covered with lush rainforest.
00:39:42The first stage of the
00:39:44breakup of the subcontinent began
00:39:46in the early Jurassic period,
00:39:48about 180 million years
00:39:50ago. This new information
00:39:52contained in this gravity map
00:39:54gives scientists more knowledge
00:39:56about how the Antarctic continent
00:39:58was formed, but perhaps
00:40:00just as importantly, it tells
00:40:02scientists what will happen to it
00:40:04in the future. Antarctica
00:40:06is melting at a fairly rapid rate,
00:40:08and being aware of its
00:40:10underlying structure can tell us
00:40:12how this will happen, and perhaps
00:40:14how it will eventually recover.
00:40:16In December
00:40:182019, it was revealed
00:40:20that a new map of the mountains, valleys,
00:40:22and canyons concealed beneath
00:40:24Antarctica's ice had revealed
00:40:26the deepest land on Earth, and
00:40:28would help predict future ice loss.
00:40:30The new NASA map, called
00:40:32Bed Machine Antarctica,
00:40:34collects together ice movement
00:40:36measurements, seismic measurements,
00:40:38radar, and other data points
00:40:40to assemble what is hoped to be the most
00:40:42detailed picture ever of Antarctica's
00:40:44hidden features.
00:40:46According to NASA's website,
00:40:48Bed Machine is a new
00:40:50Antarctic bed topography product
00:40:52based on ice thickness data
00:40:54from 19 different research institutes
00:40:56dating back to 1967,
00:40:58encompassing
00:41:00nearly a million line miles
00:41:02of radar soundings. Bed Machine
00:41:04relies on the fundamental physics-based
00:41:06method of mass conservation
00:41:08to estimate what lies beneath
00:41:10the radar sounding lines,
00:41:12utilizing highly detailed information
00:41:14on ice flow motion
00:41:16from satellite data that dictates
00:41:18how ice moves.
00:41:20Originally, NASA's bed map was
00:41:22a result of work led by the British
00:41:24Antarctic Survey, where researchers
00:41:26assembled decades' worth of
00:41:28geophysical measurements.
00:41:30In operation from 2013,
00:41:32Bed Map 2, like the
00:41:34original Bed Map, was a collection of
00:41:36three datasets, surface elevation,
00:41:38ice thickness, and bedrock
00:41:40topography.
00:41:42One important discovery made by
00:41:44Bed Machine Antarctica was
00:41:46of previously unknown topographical
00:41:48features, such as the broad
00:41:50ridges that shield the glaciers
00:41:52flowing across the
00:41:54transarctic mountains, which
00:41:56separate east and west Antarctica.
00:41:58Bed Machine also discovered
00:42:00the world's deepest land canyon
00:42:02below Denman Glacier in east
00:42:04Antarctica, an astonishing
00:42:0611,000 feet below sea level.
00:42:08As a comparison,
00:42:10the lowest exposed region of land
00:42:12on the Earth is the Dead Sea,
00:42:14which sits a mere 1,419
00:42:16feet below sea level.
00:42:18The new NASA map is
00:42:20a vital resource that will help
00:42:22scientists predict exactly which areas
00:42:24of Antarctica are at highest
00:42:26risk of sliding into the ocean
00:42:28in the next few decades or even centuries,
00:42:30and which parts might
00:42:32in fact be more stable than previously
00:42:34thought. Who knows
00:42:36what else such Antarctica mapping
00:42:38projects might turn up in the future.
00:42:52Secret alien or Nazi UFO
00:42:54bases in Antarctica.
00:42:56It's an intriguing idea
00:42:58and popular with many UFOlogists.
00:43:00Now whilst
00:43:02admitting that reality is often much
00:43:04stranger than fiction,
00:43:06which is this? Reality
00:43:08or fiction?
00:43:10As always, let's take a look
00:43:12at the evidence.
00:43:14The notion that Nazi Germany
00:43:16had a secret UFO base in
00:43:18Antarctica is one of the most famous
00:43:20ideas associated with the end
00:43:22of the Second World War.
00:43:24Specifically, that a number
00:43:26of secret factions of Nazis
00:43:28escaped and set up a secret
00:43:30underground base to aid in
00:43:32the development of their top secret
00:43:34flying saucer program.
00:43:36Such stories have been
00:43:38circulating for decades,
00:43:40adding uniquely to popular theories
00:43:42about alien visitors that
00:43:44remain a hallmark of modern
00:43:46UFO lore. This
00:43:48idea has had renewed attention during
00:43:50the past few years, thanks
00:43:52to widespread attention
00:43:54given to a 2006 discovery
00:43:56by Ohio State University
00:43:58scientists who found
00:44:00a gravitational anomaly
00:44:02located below Wilkes Land,
00:44:04Antarctica. This has
00:44:06been interpreted by some as being
00:44:08the long sought after secret
00:44:10Nazi UFO base.
00:44:12However, it has turned out
00:44:14to be simply an impact crater
00:44:16with a typical mass concentration
00:44:18at its centre.
00:44:20It should be noted, firstly,
00:44:22that there is some legitimacy to the idea
00:44:24of a Nazi presence in Antarctica
00:44:26during the years leading up to World War II.
00:44:28In fact, the icy
00:44:30continent's strategic importance
00:44:32prompted an expedition by Germany
00:44:34between 1938 and 1939.
00:44:36This remains
00:44:38a significant contributing factor
00:44:40in the beliefs that the Nazis may have
00:44:42tried to establish a permanent stronghold
00:44:44at the South Pole.
00:44:46It is also well known
00:44:48that a variety of advanced aircraft
00:44:50had been designed by the Germans
00:44:52towards the end of the war,
00:44:54including suggestions that some of these
00:44:56resembled flying saucers.
00:44:58Though in fairness, no verifiable
00:45:00reports have been found that would
00:45:02indicate the veracity of the claims
00:45:04about Nazi flying saucers.
00:45:06In large part, the
00:45:08crux of the entire Nazi UFO
00:45:10affair has long remained centred
00:45:12around a device known as
00:45:14die Glocke, or the bell.
00:45:16This was a conjectured
00:45:18Nazi weapons project, rumoured
00:45:20to have been anything from some kind
00:45:22of experimental anti-gravity device
00:45:24to a special
00:45:26anti-aircraft weapon.
00:45:28Unfortunately, there is a lack
00:45:30of good source material about die Glocke
00:45:32that can help support the case
00:45:34that such a device ever existed.
00:45:36So, what,
00:45:38apart from the expeditions carried out by
00:45:40Germany during the 1930s,
00:45:42might serve as the genesis
00:45:44of these legends about a Nazi UFO
00:45:46base in the southernmost
00:45:48polar regions?
00:45:50This notion actually has less
00:45:52to do with anything the Nazis did,
00:45:54and instead appears to stem from a
00:45:56series of seemingly cryptic
00:45:58comments made by Rear Admiral
00:46:00Richard E. Byrd during an
00:46:02interview with international news
00:46:04service correspondent Lee Van Atter.
00:46:06It's important to
00:46:08interject at this point that Byrd
00:46:10was a highly respected American
00:46:12adventurer and hero, known
00:46:14for his pragmatic and down-to-earth
00:46:16views, and his proven
00:46:18extreme courage in the face
00:46:20of adversity.
00:46:22The interview, which took place
00:46:24on board the USS Mount Olympus
00:46:26in 1947,
00:46:28appeared in the Wednesday, March
00:46:305th, 1947 edition
00:46:32of a Chilean newspaper,
00:46:34El Mercurio.
00:46:36Admiral Byrd declared that it was imperative
00:46:38for the United States to initiate
00:46:40immediate defense measures against
00:46:42hostile regions, potentially using
00:46:44Antarctica as their base.
00:46:46He further stated that he didn't
00:46:48want to frighten anyone unduly,
00:46:50but that it was a bitter reality
00:46:52that in the case of a new
00:46:54conflict, the United States could
00:46:56be attacked by, quote,
00:46:58flying objects which could fly
00:47:00from pole to pole at incredible speeds.
00:47:02As one can see,
00:47:04such wording easily lends
00:47:06itself to the idea of a connection
00:47:08between the Nazi UFO myth
00:47:10and something going on at the
00:47:12South Pole.
00:47:14What kind of perceived threat
00:47:16prompted Byrd to make such claims
00:47:18during the interview?
00:47:20Had some kind of danger actually
00:47:22existed in the southernmost extremities
00:47:24of Antarctica just after World War II?
00:47:26And if so, what was the nature
00:47:28of this threat?
00:47:30And could it have been associated with the
00:47:32technological carryovers from Nazi Germany,
00:47:34as some UFO researchers have already
00:47:36speculated over the years?
00:47:38Byrd had been tasked with
00:47:40leading the ill-fated Operation
00:47:42Highjump, which occurred between
00:47:44late 1946
00:47:46and early 1947
00:47:48and involved an extremely heavy
00:47:50military presence.
00:47:52Hence, some in UFO circles
00:47:54have gone so far as to suggest
00:47:56that Byrd's Operation Highjump
00:47:58represented a secret battle between
00:48:00US forces and a group of
00:48:02Antarctic residents with advanced
00:48:04Nazi UFO technologies.
00:48:06After all, what else
00:48:08might have sent Byrd and his scores
00:48:10of ships and aircraft packing
00:48:12so quickly, terminated
00:48:14six months earlier than expected,
00:48:16after embarking upon this extensive
00:48:18and extremely well-funded
00:48:20military expedition?
00:48:22The theory about Nazi UFOs
00:48:24would also seem to explain Byrd's
00:48:26cryptic warning.
00:48:28However, on the contrary,
00:48:30it seems that what Byrd was actually
00:48:32warning was the threat of an enemy
00:48:34nation getting to Antarctica and
00:48:36establishing military bases there
00:48:38before America.
00:48:40In fact, although details about it
00:48:42remained undisclosed for many years,
00:48:44the establishment of strategic bases
00:48:46had been precisely what the American
00:48:48presence during Operation Highjump
00:48:50had aimed to do.
00:48:52And, as regards the brevity
00:48:54of the expedition, rather than
00:48:56bumping into secret Nazi bases
00:48:58and their armaments, Byrd and his
00:49:00men encountered a relentless and
00:49:02unconquerable enemy,
00:49:04Mother Nature.
00:49:06The brutal conditions during that winter
00:49:08had been creating huge problems.
00:49:10In one dramatic instance,
00:49:12in January 1947,
00:49:14a sudden downwind managed to sweep
00:49:16a helicopter mid-takeoff
00:49:18directly into the ocean,
00:49:20leaving a narrow window of opportunity
00:49:22for the pilot to escape the icy
00:49:24waters and be rescued.
00:49:26There were plenty of other situations,
00:49:28but the servicemen involved weren't as lucky.
00:49:30Complications resulting from
00:49:32extreme weather conditions led to
00:49:34the loss of several lives during the
00:49:36short period that Operation Highjump
00:49:38was underway. Operation Highjump
00:49:40was terminated the following February,
00:49:42solely because of the worsening weather.
00:49:44Returning again
00:49:46to Byrd's cryptic statements
00:49:48given to El Mercurio,
00:49:50there was no need for an enemy
00:49:52aircraft, standard or exotic,
00:49:54to be present at the time of
00:49:56Operation Highjump to validate
00:49:58Byrd's commentary.
00:50:00Because, by the end of World War II,
00:50:02experimental jet engines
00:50:04were already in development,
00:50:06and within a few short years, planes
00:50:08that incorporated such technology
00:50:10would eventually revolutionize both
00:50:12military and commercial aircraft.
00:50:14Admiral Byrd would certainly
00:50:16have known about this, and spoke
00:50:18of the expectation that any
00:50:20military with a permanent presence
00:50:22in the South Pole might be able
00:50:24to use this strategic location
00:50:26to launch these aircraft
00:50:28that could reach any place on Earth
00:50:30within just a few short hours.
00:50:32No wonder he was concerned.
00:50:34There is another
00:50:36factor worthy of consideration here.
00:50:38Had Byrd's statements
00:50:40about lightning-fast flying
00:50:42objects been somewhat
00:50:44exaggerated too?
00:50:46Antarctic explorer Paul Sippel
00:50:48noted of the famous
00:50:50El Mercurio interview that the
00:50:52waters aboard the USS Mount Olympus
00:50:54had somewhat overblown
00:50:56claims from Byrd's earlier
00:50:58expeditions in the region relating
00:51:00to the so-called Bungers
00:51:02Oasis, a lake
00:51:04found to have uniquely warm temperatures
00:51:06about 30 degrees centigrade
00:51:08or 90 degrees Fahrenheit,
00:51:10containing a variety of algae.
00:51:12Byrd later described the
00:51:14location as
00:51:16a land of blue and green lakes
00:51:18and brown hills in an otherwise
00:51:20limitless expanse of ice
00:51:22and that his crew had
00:51:24seemed to have dropped out
00:51:26of the 20th century
00:51:28into an ancient landscape
00:51:30where land was just starting to
00:51:32emerge from one of the great ice ages.
00:51:34Byrd would
00:51:36later call the discovery
00:51:38by far the most important of the expedition
00:51:40so far as the public
00:51:42interest was concerned.
00:51:44No doubt this led to speculation.
00:51:46Paul Sippel went on
00:51:48to say,
00:52:04Byrd is claimed
00:52:06to have written in his so-called secret
00:52:08diary,
00:52:19Our navigation instruments are still spinning.
00:52:21The gyroscope is oscillating
00:52:23back and forth.
00:52:25Byrd continues, saying that he can see
00:52:27animals in the valley, among them
00:52:29a living specimen of a woolly
00:52:31mammoth. This no doubt
00:52:33helped fuel other claims associated
00:52:35with Byrd's expeditions, namely
00:52:37that they had discovered a habitable region
00:52:39at the South Pole, wherein a
00:52:41cavernous entry point into the earth had led
00:52:43them to meet residents who existed below
00:52:45ground, the so-called
00:52:47hollow earth dwellers,
00:52:49and took him to meet the master
00:52:51who said to Byrd,
00:52:53We shall not long
00:52:55delay your mission,
00:52:57and you will be safely escorted back
00:52:59to the surface.
00:53:01But now, Admiral, I shall
00:53:03tell you why you have been summoned here.
00:53:05Our interest rightly
00:53:07begins just after your race
00:53:09exploded the first atomic bombs
00:53:11over Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
00:53:13Japan. It was at
00:53:15alarming time that we sent
00:53:17our flying machines,
00:53:19the Flugelrads, to your surface
00:53:21world to investigate.
00:53:23We have never interfered
00:53:25before in your race's wars
00:53:27and barbarity.
00:53:29But now we must,
00:53:31for you are tampering with a certain power
00:53:33that is not for mankind,
00:53:35namely, that of atomic
00:53:37energy.
00:53:39A wonderful story, but
00:53:41unfortunately, the secret diary
00:53:43has been definitively shown to be a fake.
00:53:45Taken into context,
00:53:47the embellishment of such details
00:53:49by the press could easily have served
00:53:51as the root of claims about
00:53:53not only a prehistoric oasis
00:53:55at the South Pole,
00:53:57but also the flying craft
00:53:59and eventually a secret
00:54:01Nazi base.
00:54:03Again, it seems likely that
00:54:05Byrd had been making a general statement
00:54:07about the potential uses of enemy aircraft
00:54:09during the coming decades,
00:54:11in the sense that a hostile nation,
00:54:13should they ever establish a base at one of the
00:54:15poles, might use the area
00:54:17as a centralized point for launching
00:54:19attacks against the US mainland.
00:54:21Indeed, Byrd had
00:54:23previously suggested that the US
00:54:25might wish to establish such a base
00:54:27at the North Pole.
00:54:29Hence, it seems clear that he viewed the polar
00:54:31extremities as militaristically
00:54:33advantageous locations.
00:54:35Finally, Byrd's
00:54:37phrase,
00:54:40seems to further indicate
00:54:42that his statements dealt not with any
00:54:44existing menace, but instead
00:54:46with the potential for a future
00:54:48threat by an enemy nation.
00:54:50With World War II
00:54:52still fresh in people's minds,
00:54:54many at the time shared concerns
00:54:56such as these.
00:54:58All speculation aside,
00:55:00what we are left with is very little
00:55:02ground for believing that Operation
00:55:04Highjump ended prematurely,
00:55:06due to the presence of hidden
00:55:08Iranian races, attacks
00:55:10by woolly mammoths, or even
00:55:12Nazi flying saucers.
00:55:14Few would argue, however,
00:55:16that the various grains of truth
00:55:18pertaining to Byrd's historic operations
00:55:20have seeded themselves in the fertile
00:55:22grounds of myth and speculation,
00:55:24taking on a new
00:55:26and fascinating life of their own
00:55:28throughout the past several decades.
00:55:30One of the most significant
00:55:32researchers in this area is
00:55:34Micah Hanks, the author of
00:55:36Magic, Mysticism, and the Molecule.
00:55:38In his book,
00:55:40he presents his investigative analysis
00:55:42of ancient magical practices,
00:55:44mystical states,
00:55:46and outer body encounters through
00:55:48altered states of consciousness.
00:55:50Micah also explores stories
00:55:52of mythical animals and lands,
00:55:54and critically for our consideration
00:55:56of Operation Highjump,
00:55:58secret advanced technology.
00:56:00Micah is fascinated that there continues
00:56:02to be growing interest in Antarctica,
00:56:04and the talk of secret meetings
00:56:06being held there by U.S.
00:56:08presidents, astronauts, and scientists.
00:56:10One of the more
00:56:12recent discussions circulates around
00:56:14the discovery of an ancient civilization
00:56:16buried beneath the ice,
00:56:18a civilization that had a complex society.
00:56:20There have even been claims
00:56:22of frozen pyramids,
00:56:24photographs of which were published on the
00:56:26Internet a few years ago.
00:56:28Dr. Mitch Darcy, a geologist
00:56:30at the German Research Center for
00:56:32Geosciences in Potsdam, said,
00:56:34The pyramid-shaped structures
00:56:36are located in the Ellsworth Mountains,
00:56:38which is a range more
00:56:40than 400 kilometers long,
00:56:42so it's no surprise that there are rocky
00:56:44peaks cropping out above the ice.
00:56:46The peaks are clearly composed
00:56:48of rock, and it's just a coincidence
00:56:50that one particular peak
00:56:52has a pyramid-like shape.
00:56:54By definition, it is a nunnertack,
00:56:56which is simply a peak of rock
00:56:58sticking out above a glacier or ice sheet.
00:57:00This one has the shape
00:57:02of a pyramid, but it doesn't make it
00:57:04a human construction.
00:57:06Pyramid-shaped peaks are very common.
00:57:08The Matterhorn in the Alps
00:57:10and Mount Búlánstindr in Iceland
00:57:12are notable examples.
00:57:14Though there are
00:57:16many hard facts here,
00:57:18they do not deter the hardline
00:57:20theorists. They continue
00:57:22to believe Antarctica is the home
00:57:24of a number of secret bases,
00:57:26when in reality, there's no
00:57:28advantage in having a secret base
00:57:30in Antarctica, because if there were,
00:57:32the world's governments would already
00:57:34have had a very public fight over it,
00:57:36and there is no evidence
00:57:38of that at all.
00:57:40Seemingly, all the South Pole
00:57:42is rich in is natural
00:57:44diversity and scientific
00:57:46opportunities, and long
00:57:48may it stay that way.
00:57:54Antarctica remains the last fully
00:57:56unknown area of land on planet Earth.
00:57:58Buried under thick sheets
00:58:00of ice, we can only guess
00:58:02what secrets might reside beneath.
00:58:04Perhaps because of this,
00:58:06there are many conspiracies and rumors
00:58:08that swirl around the icy continent,
00:58:10many of which revolve around UFOs
00:58:12and an extraterrestrial
00:58:14presence there, one that
00:58:16various governments of the world may
00:58:18even be aware of.
00:58:20Maybe the best place to start would be
00:58:22a brief recall of the claims
00:58:24surrounding Operation High Jump,
00:58:26a United States-led operation
00:58:28which took place in early 1947
00:58:30as they looked to establish
00:58:32a research base at the South Pole,
00:58:34at least officially.
00:58:36According to some research,
00:58:38following the transplantation of
00:58:40German engineers and scientists to the
00:58:42United States, as part of Operation
00:58:44Paperclip in the aftermath of the
00:58:46Second World War, they had learned
00:58:48of an already established base
00:58:50of the Third Reich in the frozen
00:58:52world of Antarctica, a base
00:58:54incidentally that also had an alien
00:58:56presence. With an apparent
00:58:58cover story of wishing to establish
00:59:00a research base in place,
00:59:02the operation was led by highly
00:59:04respected naval officer, Rear
00:59:06Admiral Richard Byrd,
00:59:08and it would be Byrd's own writings and
00:59:10testimony that would seemingly reveal
00:59:12the real reasons for the mission.
00:59:14On the afternoon of February
00:59:16the 19th, 1947,
00:59:18Byrd took to the skies for
00:59:20reconnaissance flight over the
00:59:22frozen continent. However,
00:59:24according to his diary notes,
00:59:26flight entries and press conferences
00:59:28he would give in the days and weeks following
00:59:30the flight, instead of seeing
00:59:32thick, rugged sheets of ice,
00:59:34he found himself looking down on
00:59:36lush, green vegetation,
00:59:38as well as mammoth-like beasts and other
00:59:40animals that he claimed shouldn't have been
00:59:42there. He would elaborate
00:59:44that he found himself looking at a huge
00:59:46opening, and that when he followed
00:59:48it, he found himself inside the
00:59:50Earth itself. It appeared
00:59:52he was flying over a huge city
00:59:54as he entered a mammoth, cavernous opening.
00:59:56Then, things turned
00:59:58even stranger. Byrd claimed
01:00:00that something took over his plane
01:00:02while, at the same time, a voice
01:00:04came over the radio, bidding him
01:00:06welcome. It had, he recalled,
01:00:08a strong Nordic or German accent.
01:00:10He further noticed several
01:00:12round, circular-shaped objects
01:00:14approaching him, his plane was brought to
01:00:16land on the ground, and several tall,
01:00:18blonde-haired men approached his plane.
01:00:20His last flight note
01:00:22declared that a voice from outside his plane
01:00:24was ordering him to open the
01:00:26cargo doors.
01:00:28According to what he would later tell
01:00:30the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio,
01:00:32he and his men were accompanied to
01:00:34a large building where they were served
01:00:36drinks unlike anything they had previously
01:00:38tasted. He then claimed
01:00:40to have met with representatives of a
01:00:42race that resided in the inner
01:00:44earth. They told him that they
01:00:46had been allowed to enter unharmed, as
01:00:48they were aware of his noble character.
01:00:50He would further reveal that
01:00:52the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki
01:00:54and Hiroshima had created
01:00:56concern among their kind regarding
01:00:58the human race, and that they now
01:01:00felt compelled to intervene should
01:01:02such an event appear likely in the future.
01:01:04Perhaps most alarming of all,
01:01:06particularly in light of his
01:01:08statement that the inner race felt
01:01:10compelled to intervene in human affairs,
01:01:12was his claim that the United States
01:01:14military had to prepare for attack
01:01:16from objects that could fly from
01:01:18pole to pole at incredible
01:01:20speeds. Whether we should
01:01:22take Byrd at his word or treat
01:01:24his claims with a pinch of salt
01:01:26remains open to debate.
01:01:28It is perhaps interesting, though, that
01:01:30he was hospitalized only days after
01:01:32his press conference, and what's more,
01:01:34despite his renowned reputation,
01:01:36he was never again allowed to
01:01:38speak publicly about his experiences
01:01:40again, at least in an
01:01:42official capacity.
01:01:44In his writings around a decade later,
01:01:46Byrd would write that he had been
01:01:48ordered to remain silent on his encounter
01:01:50for the sake of humanity.
01:01:52While the claims of Richard Byrd
01:01:54were one of the first mysterious
01:01:56events surrounding Antarctica,
01:01:58one of the most recent is no less
01:02:00mysterious or thought-provoking.
01:02:02It occurred at some point in
01:02:04the late 1990s or early
01:02:062000s, deep below the Russian
01:02:08research facility Vostok Station.
01:02:10It had long been
01:02:12suspected by scientists that a
01:02:14great lake of water flowed below
01:02:16the ice since the base had been
01:02:18first established in 1957.
01:02:20The presence of the
01:02:22vast lake under the sheets of ice
01:02:24was finally confirmed in 1993
01:02:26after three decades
01:02:28of tests and experiments by both
01:02:30Russian and British scientists.
01:02:32What is further interesting
01:02:34about Lake Vostok is that
01:02:36scientists believe its environment
01:02:38is very similar to that on Europa,
01:02:40one of the main moons of Jupiter,
01:02:42and a celestial body that many believe
01:02:44could well harbour life.
01:02:46And it didn't take long for the scientists
01:02:48with an interest in studying Europa
01:02:50to turn their attention to
01:02:52the lake under Vostok Station.
01:02:54It also didn't take long for
01:02:56conspiracies and alleged leaked
01:02:58documents to find their way into the
01:03:00public domain. The general thrust of the
01:03:02claims are that a secret and
01:03:04ultra-specialised elevator was
01:03:06painstakingly installed through
01:03:08the thick ice and eventually down
01:03:10to the environment below,
01:03:12including Lake Vostok.
01:03:14What's more, according to a whistleblower
01:03:16testimony from someone who claimed
01:03:18to have worked on the project,
01:03:20Dr Anton Poudelka, who had sought
01:03:22sanctuary in Switzerland after
01:03:24allegedly abandoning the operation,
01:03:26they found a lot more than they were
01:03:28expecting. Poudelka
01:03:30claims the team discovered a 14
01:03:32armed octopus in the waters of
01:03:34Lake Vostok. This octopus
01:03:36was unlike anything they'd previously seen,
01:03:38with the glass octopus being
01:03:40the closest comparison.
01:03:42According to Poudelka, not only
01:03:44did this being seem to have superior
01:03:46intelligence to a standard octopus,
01:03:48it could paralyse a person with
01:03:50its venom from 150 feet
01:03:52away. Even more remarkable,
01:03:54it had the ability to change
01:03:56its form and mimic a number of
01:03:58other aquatic creatures.
01:04:00By the time the research team had realised
01:04:02it could also assume the form of a person
01:04:04and mimic the crew,
01:04:06it was too late to save one of the
01:04:08biologists from being ripped to pieces
01:04:10by this apparent alien
01:04:12life form. It was
01:04:14eventually captured, whereupon Russian
01:04:16military officers arrived at the base
01:04:18and confiscated it. Its
01:04:20whereabouts now is unknown, but
01:04:22rumblings among the crew were that these
01:04:24would be attempts to weaponise the alien
01:04:26DNA of the unsettling aquatic
01:04:28alien, which would ultimately lead
01:04:30Poudelka to publicly reveal
01:04:32what he knew.
01:04:34There have of course been further claims
01:04:36of bizarre and suspicious goings-on
01:04:38over Antarctica as the
01:04:402000s have unfolded.
01:04:42Many people have claimed to have spotted
01:04:44anomalous facilities, and even
01:04:46crashed UFOs using Google Earth
01:04:48for example. And while some of
01:04:50these are more convincing than others,
01:04:52they are all intriguing.
01:04:54Without a doubt, one of the most thought
01:04:56provoking and unsettling claims
01:04:58of unusual activity involving
01:05:00potentially alien bases in Antarctica
01:05:02actually made the pages
01:05:04of the tabloids in 2016,
01:05:06following the claims of archaeologist
01:05:08Jonathan Gray.
01:05:10Gray would state that he had in his
01:05:12possession video footage filmed
01:05:14in Antarctica by an American
01:05:16television crew from California
01:05:18who had been missing since
01:05:202002, a short time
01:05:22after the footage had been recorded.
01:05:24Gray put forward that video
01:05:26showed spectacular ruins of the
01:05:28frozen continent, as well as an
01:05:30intense American military presence.
01:05:32What's more, this unit
01:05:34themselves appeared to be engaging
01:05:36in archaeological activity
01:05:38at the site of the ruins.
01:05:40For their part, the military in the region
01:05:42denied any such activity or knowledge
01:05:44of the missing television crew.
01:05:46Gray, however, insisted there
01:05:48was a massive archaeological dig
01:05:50taking approximately two
01:05:52miles beneath the icy surface,
01:05:54and more importantly, the United States
01:05:56authorities were using every
01:05:58power they could to block the airing
01:06:00of the video, as it would clearly show this.
01:06:02What does this mean
01:06:04for the claims of Richard Byrd?
01:06:06Was his revelation more accurate
01:06:08and authentic than many people
01:06:10give him credit for?
01:06:12And has the human presence in Antarctica
01:06:14since the end of the Second World War
01:06:16not been one of purely scientific research,
01:06:18but one of using research
01:06:20as a shield to protect the few
01:06:22praying eyes that are
01:06:24in this part of the world from witnessing
01:06:26discoveries and revelations
01:06:28that would not only change human history,
01:06:30but possibly alter our own
01:06:32collective future?
01:06:34And above all else, just what are
01:06:36the ruins of these great cities?
01:06:38Who lived there, and when?
01:06:40Might we find one day that
01:06:42beneath the icy blanket, these cities
01:06:44are the ruins of Atlantis?
01:06:46Might the disaster that overtook
01:06:48the legendary civilization have been
01:06:50part of a pole shift that sent
01:06:52the continent suddenly hurtling across
01:06:54the Atlantic to the southern regions?
01:06:56Might the presence of this
01:06:58advanced alien civilization,
01:07:00Atlantean or not, explain
01:07:02the alleged pyramid of the enigmatic
01:07:04continent that resides near the
01:07:06United Kingdom-owned Princess Elizabeth
01:07:08Station?
01:07:10All of this is speculation.
01:07:12Of that there is no doubt,
01:07:14but speculation that is surely warranted
01:07:16for such a mysterious, protected
01:07:18and off-limits-to-most location.
01:07:20And speculation that will
01:07:22continue for the foreseeable future
01:07:24or until the secrets of the seventh
01:07:26continent are revealed to all.
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