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to new technologies, with the participation of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the Radio - would
turn out to be one of many statesmen to be confronted with material evidence of this kind; and, like
almost all others, he treated it as a top secret matter of national security.
A semi-ironic allusion to the clandestine discovery can be detected in the Duce’s famous speech to
the Federation of Fascist Trade Unions at Teatro Adriano in Rome on February 23
rd
, 1941 in which
he said:
“In any event, it is more plausible that the United States (would be) invaded, rather than by
troops from the Axis, by the denizens of planet Mars, not well known, but it seems rather warlike
who shall come down from sidereal space on unimaginable flying fortresses.”
German ballistic and space-related research was obviously of utmost interest to the main victors of
the war, the USA, the Soviet Union and Britain; and they took great pains to identify and “mop up”
the evidence and equipment they found when they invaded the country. The American and Soviet
space programmes can be said to have arisen from the ashes of the Third Reich’s achievements and
plans for winning the mastery of airspace and venturing out of the atmosphere.
Sceptics have argued that the Vril is the name of a psycho-physical cosmic force first described in
the 1871 novel “Vril: The Dawn of the Coming Race” by British writer and occultist Lord Bulwer
Lytton, the famed author of the Last Days of Pompei; and that, being a fictional name could hardly
have been adopted as a symbol and a goal by a German occult research society. However it must be
noted that the Vril, the essential energy in light sound and electro-magnetism which Bulwer Lytton
associates with a gigantic race of Indo-Aryan origin, living in a network of deep underground
caverns and endowed with “Enochian knowledge”, was held to be real by eminent scholars of that
period, not to mention other occultists like Helena P. Blavatsky and her theosophist colleagues.
For one, the Indologist Louis Jacolliot who served as France’s Consul in Calcutta in the second half
of the 19
th
century, mentioned the Vril as the invisible power tapped by the Jain initiates he met in
Gujarat and Mysore and described in his book
Traditions indo-europeennes (1876), proving that the
name was used in a non-fictional context to account for real phenomena. Another reference to the
Vril in an Indian context is found in the writings of Saint Yves d’Alveydre and I have personally
heard testimonies from at least two persons, otherwise quite unaware of the above literature, who
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had heard from their relatives during the Second World War about secret weapons being developed
by the German leadership and made possible by the discovery of Vril energy. Such contemporary
accounts show at least that the stories had spread in German and Italian civil society and there may
have been some fire behind that smoke.
The Polar Enigma
The German connection with an “Alien
power” before and during World War II
remains a matter of conjuncture and
speculation until more documentation is found
or made public. A puzzling statement was
uttered by Reich Admiral Donitz during his
trial at Nuremberg to the effect that the Reich
had kept “an invisible fortification in the midst
of the eternal ice”, interpreted by many as a
hint of a remaining secret Nazi base near the South Pole.
In this regard some intriguing clues can be retrieved from well established events. In late 1946,
barely a year after the end of the War, when “ghost rockets” were being reported by the OSS (the
precursor of the CIA) in Sweden, US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal commissioned for
Operation High Jump to Antarctica a large armada, consisting of two large vessels, amphibious
command ship, USS Mount Olympus and the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea, 13 support ships, 2
seaplane tenders, 15 other aircraft, 6 helicopters et al. manned by 4700 men and commanded by the
pioneer of polar exploration, Admiral Richard Byrd.
The operation, surprisingly large and well armed for a “scientific” mission in an uninhabited part of
the world was to last until the fall of 1947 but it was abruptly recalled in early March after
apparently meeting with something unexpected and quite upsetting. A reported secret diary of
Admiral Byrd, signed December 24
th
, 1956 surfaced several years after his demise on March 11
th
1957. There has been so far no confirmation of its authenticity but some cryptic statements made by
Byrd on his return journey from Antarctica, would seem to lend it some plausibility.