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Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio, and then the
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status this ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic
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encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party we
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did where the trot got secret snow parted microphone alchemists
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scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the
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midst we drop fas like plagues, revelations in the catus,
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broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
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watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system faid
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blood moons that for love echoes in the pond sas
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far sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
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We ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
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the dreams. So with you tune in better guards to
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mind it's broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design design. Yeah,
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yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast studio.
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Sad You ever notice how the world never really goes
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back to normal after a war. The dust settles, the
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parades end, and then something weirder slides in through the cracks.
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Tonight we're gonna We're going to into one of those cracks,
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and it's a cold one Antarctica. Picture that the years
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nineteen forty six. The United States has just helped win
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the biggest war in human history, and instead of kicking
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back with a victory cigar, the Navy loads up thousands
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of men, dozens of aircraft, and a small armada, then
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points them at the bottom of the world. They called
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it Operation High Jump. Sounds like a summer camp activity,
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but it wasn't. Officially. High Jump was a test. Harsh weather, training,
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mapping the continent, building a research station. All all very reasonable.
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But here's where the temperature drops. People start whispering about
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Nazi holdouts under the ice, secret U boats, exotic tech
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that never made it onto the battlefield, and somewhere in
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the white silence, a shadow that doesn't fit the map,
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the kind of thing that makes rational men stare a
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little too long at the horizon. I'm Benettantin and this
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is Broadcasting Seeds, the show where we ask the questions
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that get you side eyed. Family gatherings keep you up
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a little later than you planned. We explore strange things, cryptids, conspiracies,
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the paranormal, the biblical, and the cover ups that stitch
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it all together. Our mission is simple, learn the story
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behind the story. Understand how the weird interests and it
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intersects with your life. Because if the past is hiding
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secrets in the ice, odds are those secrets are shaping
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the world you'll wake up to tomorrow. So here's the
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plan for today. First, will lay out the official story,
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what the Navy said, what they brought, and what happened
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when their boots hit the ice. Then will descend a
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level and follow the rumors of Nazi bases under the shelf,
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U boats slipping past the Antarctic Circle project with names
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the bell. Finally, will zoom out and ask the hard question,
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did High Jump light a fuse on the modern UFO
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era or are we just seeing Cold War paranoia through
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a frosty lens. I'm not asking you to believe anything yet.
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I'm asking you to be curious, to look for patterns,
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to notice the points where the official record goes quiet
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and the folklore gets loud. That is usually where the
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truth is trying to breathe. If you're new here, welcome
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to the campfire. If you've been rolling with me a while,
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you know the drill tap. Follow, Leave a review, Share
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this with a friend who loves a good rabbit hole.
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That is how the show grows, and it keeps me.
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It helps keep making these deep dives for you. Section one,
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The Coldest War. The official story no one could quite explain.
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So let's start with what we know, or at least
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what we're told. Operation High Jump wasn't some small research
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trip with a few scientists in a tent. It was
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the largest Antarctic expedition in human history. And we're talking
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about forty seven hundred personnel, thirteen ships, thirty three aircraft,
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and in enough logistics to invade a small country. Admiral
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Richard E. Byrd, a decorated explorer and national hero, was
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put in charge the official line scientific exploration and training
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for cold weather operations. Now that sounds innocent enough until
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you look closer. And the mission was supposedly the last
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six months. It ended in barely eight weeks. The fleet
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came home battered and bruised. Some reports mentioned multiple aircraft loss,
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strange equipment malfunctions, and men suffering from frostbite, exhaustion, and
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something that wasn't quite physical. Bird gave a few interviews
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about his after his return, and one of his statements
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still hangs in the air like his breath on that
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frozen continent. He said, the United States must repair for
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the possibility of hostile craft that can fly from pole
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to pole at incredible speeds. Hold up hostile craft from
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pole to pole. This this was nineteen forty seven. Jet
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propulsion was barely a toddler. So what exactly did he
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see out there? Some say Bird's words were misinterpreted or
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misin translated, what others believe it was a slip, an
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echo of something too classified for the evening news. And
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then there was the secrecy. When birds logs and journals
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were finally released, huge sections were redacted. Convenient right. No
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one really explained why the mission wrapped up so early,
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and official reports blamed weather and supply issues. But the
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Antarctic summer had just begun. Here's where the story gets
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even stranger. Right after High Jump, Birds supposedly brief Pentagon
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officials warning of an unknown enemy capable of attacking anywhere
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on Earth. Within months, the Cold War kicked in the
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high gear. The timing is suspicious, to say the least,
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So maybe Operation high Jump was just a military drill,
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or maybe, as some whisper, the ice wasn't the only
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thing that froze the blood of everyone who went down there.
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Because when thousands of soldiers go to the end of
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the Earth and come back silent, you have to ask,
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what did they really find? Section two Shadows beneath the ice,
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the Nazi base that wouldn't die. Here's where the story
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turns from military mystery to full blown legend. If Operation
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High Jump was the match, then the idea of the
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Nazi base buried beneath Antarctica is the gas that's kept
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us fire burning for nearly eighty eighty years. According to
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the most colorful accounts, the story starts before World War
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Two even ended, and in nineteen thirty eight, Nazi Germany
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sent an expedition to a region they called New Schwabenland,
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a vast stretch of Antarctic territory between twenty degrees east
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and ten degrees west. On paper, it was about whaling
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rights and research, but let's be honest, when the Third
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Reich did research, it often meant something way more exotic.
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Reports claim that mapped, Reports claim they mapped massive underground
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cap governs dropped thousands of Nazi flags to marked territory
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and discovered ice free zones warmed by geothermal events perfect
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for hidden bases. Fast forward in nineteen forty five. The
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war is over, Berlin has fallen, Hitler is Hitler's dead,
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or so we're told. But then sightings start rolling in.
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U boats slip past South that passed the South Atlantic,
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Argentinian newspapers reporting strange German activity near the Southern Ocean,
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and two German subs even surrendered months after the war ended,
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their logs conveniently incomplete. So where were they hiding? That's
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when the legend of Base two eleven takes shape. An
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alleged fortress carved into the ice where SS scientists and
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engineers continued their work on experimental technology. Some even tie
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it to Diglock or the Bell, a rumored device that
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manipulated gravity and possibly dimensions think anti gravity, propulsion, time distortion,
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the whole sci fi package. But decades before we supposedly
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had the tech. Now here's the heart that makes researchers scorn.
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Just as Allied intelligence began tracing Nazi escape routes through
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South America, Operation high Jump gets the green light. A
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year later, Bird and thousands of men are streaming straight
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towards the same coordinates the Nazis were rumored to occupy coincidence,
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I mean maybe, But when High Jump ended early and
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several planes went down under mysterious conditions, the dots started
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connecting themselves. Eyewitnesses claimed the Navy encountered flying discs emerging
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from the water, attacking at impossible speeds before vanishing beneath
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the ice. Bird's diary allegedly describes flaming silver objects and
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an engagement that forced the fleet to retreat. The US
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military denies it, of course, But here's what it's super interesting.
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Not one of those witnesses ever publicly recanted, and so
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the legend lives half history, half haunting. Maybe it was paranoia,
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maybe it was classified weapons testing, or maybe the Nazis
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found something under the ice that wasn't human and we
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showed up to make sure it stayed buried. So what
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happened after the retreat? Why did UFO sidings spike across
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the globe within a year of Operation High Jump? And
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how did Nazi scientists suddenly end up in the United
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States working on aerospace propulsion Section three, Fire in the Sky,
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UFO's paper clip, and the birth of the modern mythos.
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So what happened after Admiral Admiral Bird and his fleet
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high tail it out of Antarctica. Within months, headlines around
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the world start talking about flying discs the heck. Kenneth
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Arnold spots nine saucers skipping across the Washington Skies in
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in June of nineteen forty seven. A few weeks later,
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something crashes in Moroswell in New Mexico, and the US
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military can't seem to make up its mind if it's
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a weather balloon or a flying saucer. Suddenly the idea
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of unidentified flying objects isn't pulp fiction. It's front page news. Now.
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Think about the timing Operation high Jump wraps in early
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forty seven, Bird warns of craft that can fly from
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pole to pole. Then boom, the UFO ARA begins. You
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could chalk that up to coincidence, or you could ask
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the uncomfortable question, did something follow us back from the ice?
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Around the same time, Operation paper Clip quietly brings more
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over more than sixteen hundred Nazi scientists to the United States,
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sixteen hundred of them men who'd work on the V
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two rockets, all kinds of experimental aircraft, and supposedly even
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magneto magneto gravit tic, gravatic magneto, gravity propulsion. These weren't
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fringe guys. They were top tier engineers. Werner von Braun,
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for example, goes from building weapons for Hitler to building
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rockets for NASA and buried along. Among those scientists were
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others who specialized in technology so strange that the Pentagon
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locked away their patents for decades. It's easy to see
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how the dots connect Nazi scientists, sudden leaps and aerospace
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aerospace tech, reports of disks in the sky, and the
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government that starts classifying everything under the sun. Even Bird's
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own journals vanish into redacted archives. Officially, the world moved on. Unofficially,
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something freaking changed. A veil dropped, We entered the age
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of the Secret Sky. But let's be clear, this isn't
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about saying aliens fought the Navy. It's about tracing how
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one expedition may have triggered a global shift in thinking.
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Suddenly humanity's greatest enemy wasn't just another country, it was,
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frankly the unknown. The Cold War made sure we stayed
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afraid of each other, but Hiji that made us afraid
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of the universe itself. When the ice melted, the myth
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was born UFOs, advanced propulsion, government cover ups. It all
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started to orbit the same invisible gravity well Antarctica, and
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if you look closely, every decade since then has carried
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its echoes, secret bases, unidentified craft, whispers that the Old
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War never really ended, It just moved underground and up
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into the sky. So maybe the real story of Operation
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high Jump isn't what they found. Maybe it's what they
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brought back, and that's fear, secrecy and the first spark
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of the modern UFO age. So here's where we land
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on the ice, in the silence, staring into a mystery
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that's been frozen for nearly eighty years. Operation High Jump
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might have been just a massive military exercise, or maybe
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it was something else entirely a line crossed between our
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world and whatever's lurking beneath it. Either way, it left
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behind a trail of unanswered questions and just enough truth
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to keep that legend alive. Think about it. A global
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superpower sends a full fleet to the most desolate place
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on Earth, led by a man known for chasing the
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edges of the map. They come back early, they come
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back shaken, and the next thing that we know the
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skies are suddenly full of flying discs. The Cold War
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is heating up, and the people running the show start
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locking information behind vault doors. I mean, maybe it's just timing,
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or maybe the ice cracked open and something slipped through.
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But that's the thing about history. Sometimes it's less about
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what's written down and more about what gets erased. The
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declassified files, the witness accounts, the whispers that refuse to die.
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These are all seeds waiting to be noticed, and when
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you start connecting them, you realize the world isn't as
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stable or simple as we'd like to think. So whether
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you believe Operation High Jump uncovered a Nazi base or
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an alien craft, or just the limits of human sanity
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in the cold displace on Earth, remember this truth has
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a funny way of surviving the freeze. If this episode
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got your gears turning, do me a favor, Share it
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with a friend who loves a good mystery. Tap that
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follow button, leave a review, and help the show grow.
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That's how we keep digging deeper, asking harder questions, and
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shining a light on the thing's history. Tried to bury.
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I'm Bene Tanton, and this has been broadcasting steeds stay curious,
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stay aware and keep your eyes on the horizon, because
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sometimes what's hiding beneath the surface is a lot bigger
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than you think. The war's done. War's done, the war's done.
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So they said, I say, with some battles don't end
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when the guns go quiet.
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Wi they just moved south.
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So today Ice.
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They set the fleet where the world runs out of
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Mount Ice for miles.
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In the sky.
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Pitch black Burn doing that with a cold in its past,
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said we found something out here that's looking right back
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froze and still Nazi sigil in the deep rum us