There were never any official reports of Operation “Highjump” finding a German UFO base. Reverse engineering is to take something apart to see how it works so you can use that technology to build your own. The story further goes that they were able to reverse engineer the UFO and make their own UFOs. There were also stories that the Germans, while exploring the Antarctic, found a downed flying saucer (UFO). It was thought the Germans wanted to use this remote area for some kind of research, or as a base for military operations. They named this territory Neuschwabenland. To lay claim to this territory, they dropped several thousand small Nazi flags over the area from their planes. One fifth of Antarctica was observed and charted this way. Flights from the Schwabenland took place over roughly 200,000 square miles of the Antarctic and the planes automatically photographed a grid of this area.

She reached the ice pack in January 1939. In December 1938, the German vessel Schwabenland steamed from Hamburg and headed to the Antarctic.

But a highly controversial German documentary named UFO – Technology Secrets and the Third Reich, suggested that the real reason for Operation “Highjump” was to search for a secret German UFO station still operating in the Antarctic after the war.Īs far back as the late 1800s, the Germans were involved in the exploration of the Antarctic as a possible territory. The “official” purpose of Operation “Highjump” was to establish an Antarctic research base. This task force included 4,700 men, 13 ships and multiple aircraft. Operation “Highjump,” as it was named, began in August 1946 and ended in February 1947. After World War II, the USS Pine Island (our seaplane tender from last week’s article) was chosen for an exploratory mission in waters around the Antarctica. So why I am mentioning the glacier in a history article? Well, the name of the glacier is Pine Island.

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