https://exopolitics.org/did-us-navy-battle-ufos-protecting-nazi-antarctic-sanctuary-in-1947/
admiral Byrd's statements were published in the Chilean Press but never publicly confirmed by US authorities.
Indeed Byrd did not speak again to the Press about Operation HighJump, leaving it for researchers to speculate for decades over what really happened, and why Byrd was silenced.
After the Soviet collapse in 1991, the KGB released previously classified files that cast light on the mysterious Byrd led Naval expedition to Antarctica. A 2006 Russian documentary, recently translated, made public for the first time a 1947 secret Soviet intelligence report commissioned by Joseph Stalin of Task 68’s mission to Antarctica.
The intelligence report, gathered from Soviet spies embedded in the US, revealed that the US Navy had sent the military expedition to find and destroy a hidden Nazi base. On the way, they encountered a mysterious UFO force that attacked the military expedition destroying several ships and a significant number of planes.
Indeed, Operation Highjump had suffered “many casualties” as stated in initial press reports from Chile. While there is a possibility the report resulted from US disinformation fed to a known Soviet mole, the more likely explanation is that the report exposes the first known historical incident involving a battle between US naval forces and an unknown UFO force stationed near Antarctica.
Re Byrd:
That’s fascinating. Kerry visited Antarctica, McMurdo station around 2016:
Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled later this week to visit McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole stations in Antarctica, where he’ll meet with researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Kerry is set to become the first secretary of state, and the most senior U.S. government official, to travel to Antarctica, where the U.S. has maintained a scientific presence since the late 1950s.
The secretary’s Antarctic visit is scheduled to take place Nov. 10-12 as part of a global tour.
NSF manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, through which it makes awards to researchers across the nation and provides the logistical infrastructure to support U.S. scientific research on the southernmost continent.
“We are honored that Secretary Kerry will visit NSF’s facilities in Antarctica, a vast and globally important region,” NSF Director France A. Córdova said. “He will meet with researchers whose work forges new frontiers in science.”
Kerry’s Antarctic itinerary includes a visit to NSF’s facilities in Christchurch, New Zealand, the gateway city to Antarctica.
While in Antarctica, Kerry will visit McMurdo Station, NSF’s logistics hub and the largest of the three U.S. Antarctic Program stations. There, he’ll meet with scientists studying a wide range of subjects, from geophysics and glaciology to astrophysics and biology as well as the effects of climate change. Two of NSF’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites are located in Antarctica, including one near McMurdo Station in the McMurdo Dry valleys.
The secretary will then visit Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located at the earth’s southern axis atop the 9,300-foot high, ice-covered Antarctic plateau. Amundsen-Scott is the site of long-term atmospheric monitoring and large-scale, cutting-edge astrophysics and particle physics experiments.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190287