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Byrd’s interview with journalist Lee von Atta of INS (International New Service) and carried in the
Chilean newspaper El Mercurio on March 5
th
1947 reads as follows: “Admiral Byrd warned today
of the necessity for the USA to adopt protective measures against the possibility of an invasion of
the country by hostile aircraft proceeding from the polar regions”. On the reasons for terminating
the expedition six months ahead of schedule, he said: “The most important of the observations and
discoveries made was of the present political situation as it relates to the security of the USA” and
he called for “the country to remain in a state of alert and watchfulness. We are abandoning the
region after making important geographical discoveries”.
Given that the US was at the time the sole nuclear power – the USSR would spring a major surprise
in August 1949 by detonating its own atom bomb - and the absolute winner of the recent global
conflict while most of the world, including Western Europe, China, Japan and the USSR, lay in
ruins or was still under colonial rule or American occupation, the warning given by Byrd is not easy
to explain. The Soviet Union had already become the new enemy, but America could hardly fear the
prospect of waves of Red Army bombers going all the way down to the South Pole on their way to
North America and the Pentagon had more than enough means to repulse any “Bolshevik” air raid.
In all probability, Byrd was referring to a clear and present danger that was not Soviet and which he
could not publicly identify. If we accept his secret diary as genuine, then we must believe that,
according to his own words, as he flew over Antarctica from Base Camp “Little America IV” on
Whales’s Bay, on the 2
nd
of February 1947 he was “intercepted” and escorted by “disc shaped craft”
that took him to a sprawling underground facility, called “the domain of Arionni” where he met the
leader of a mysterious Scandinavian-looking group of men, who spoke German-accented English
and who warned him about the trials to be faced by mankind in future decades. Byrd further records
in his diary that on his return to the USA, he submitted his secret account to Forrestal and was
debriefed at the Pentagon for six and a half hours on March 11, 1947.
A Rising Presence
That year which saw the independence of India and Pakistan, the creation of Israel and several other
major international developments, was especially eventful on the “alien” front. It is well known that
Exopolitics Journal
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Come Carpentier de Gourdon,
“
Indian Cosmology Revisited in the Light of Current Facts
”
287
in June of that year, three months after Byrd’s return, many American newspapers carried the report
of Aviator Kenneth Arnold about sighting a squadron of crescent shaped “flying wings” silently
gliding “saucer-like” in the air over the State of Washington at 1200 nautical miles an hour. He was
a highly credible and expert witness so that his testimony was unquestioned as there was no official
policy yet to deny UFO reports.
Between the 4
th
and the 6
th
of July, one or more
craft, apparently crescent-shaped as well, crash
landed or were brought down in the desert of New
Mexico near Roswell in the general area of the Los
Alamos, White Sands and Alamo Gordo (the nerve
centre of the still ongoing Manhattan Project), as
announced by the local army spokesmen, reported in
the newspapers and on the radio, triggering a flurry of activity within the US Government which
promptly ordered the concerned military authorities to issue retractions and rushed by Executive
Order the passage of a draconian and secretive National Security Act in the fall of that year.
Whether coincidentally or not, Forrestal’s 3000 page day to day journal skips the period between
July 3
rd
and 14
th
completely. Subsequent UFO alerts and “crashes” were thence dealt with the same
mixture of barely concealed alarm and stringent censorship.
In September, the Strategic Air Command sent a wing of B-29 bombers on a mission to the Arctic,
basing them at Fort Richardson, Alaska, possibly in response to Admiral Byrd’s cautionary warning
about the danger of attack from the poles. Like the records of Operation High Jump, the goals and
findings of that mission were classified.
Less than two years later, the circumstances of Forrestal’s mental breakdown and subsequent death
by suicide in circumstances that were never properly investigated, while under 24 hour watch at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital, provide support for theories about a major and ominous secret that may
have been suspected by the American leadership during the War and at least partly discovered by
Byrd during the High Jump Antarctic mission. That secret has been kept since by certain persons
and agencies in the US government, if we judge by the amount of indicative evidence available in