Snake Plissken wrote:
I have come across lots of odd stories about Antrctica over the years, Project High jump and its real purpose, secret Nazi bases during WW2, Mysterious undergound Lake Vostok, Personnel being evacuated from Antarctic bases under mysterious cuircumstances etc.
Hey Snake,
I've been meaning to get back to you on this. I was looking for some of the info sources I had, but was unable to recover them all from my old hard drive.
Concerning Operation High Jump though, I can probably tell you some pertinant facts. As well as some of the WILD things that DIDN'T happen there.
You see, I came across the OMEGA story years ago, and remembered my grandmother's story of our family, and how, at one point in time 1947, my dads two older brothers, were both at oposite ends of the earth at the same time. One was at the North Pole, while the other was at the South Pole, (they were both Navy men).
Reading about the crazy UFO battles etc in Omega, I decided to call my uncle in Ohio, who was a seaplane tender in Operation Highjump, and had a close relationship with all the pilots. We ended up having a long conversation, and he told me a lot about the mission. While in the service, he had been on many "classified" missions, word would quickly get around so that all the men eventually learned of their purpose there. While Highjump was an exception to this rule, there were no Nazis or UFO's involved in the story. But there was a GREAT MYSTERY!
My uncle was aboard the USS Pine Island
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000150.htm. In his relationships with other crew members he knew that the first people to know the reason for the mission was the pilots. But in talking with them, they said, "You know Don, we still don't know what we're doing here, but I can tell you this much, we've found 3 warm LAKES, and we're dropping some kind of markers around them."
This is the only web reference I could find at the time=
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000152.htm So, of all the Natl Geographic (and others) specials aired about the Antartic, when have you ever heard about THIS before? Isn't this a little more exciting and fantastic find compared to penguins?? It would seem logic to me, that they may in fact have found places in the ice that ufo's have been using for coming and going, thus, the continued secrecy and non-disclosure of the lakes.
Yes, they did lose one plane, and launched a recovery mission, but other than that, the mission was uneventful. After our conversation, my uncle said he intended to bring the topic of this mission back up at their next reunion, for further input from other surviving crewmembers, but sadly he passed away before that could happen. He developed a blood clot in the hospital after a heart attack.
Search the links I provided, and go to the other pages for more info. This site seems to be the most accurate, from my uncles information.