Ancient Meteor Impact Or Something Else? What Lurks Beneath Antarctica?
Scientists have discovered an "anomaly" located beneath a portion of the Antarctic region, in an area called Wilkes Land. The area itself is 151 miles across and about 2,700 feet deep.
The ice front of Dibble Ice Shelf, a significant melt water producer from the Wilkes Land region, East Antarctica
Some believe the strange readings are the remains of an asteroid impact which possibly caused the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event that killed 70 percent of Earth's organisms living on land and 96 percent of its sea creatures. If true, the asteroid would have been more than twice the size of the Chicxulub impact that killed off the dinosaurs.
Others have come up with different theories. One theory is how the anomaly may be a mysterious portal to the so-called Hollow Earth concept. Another is it could be a massive UFO base, established long ago for purposes unknown.
According to an article from the New York Post (and originating from The Sun), "This 'Wilkes Land Gravity Anomaly' was first uncovered in 2006, when NASA satellites spotted gravitational changes which indicated the presence of a huge object sitting in the middle of a 300-mile-wide impact crater."
"Now the internet has lit up with discussions of the mysterious observations after the UFO-hunting crew Secure Team 10 posted a YouTube video about the anomaly."
The YT channel suggests Nazis built secret bases in Antarctica during World War II. They also mentioned how these bases may have been designed to accommodate flying saucers.
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While on the same topic, another interesting point was brought to light: A US Navy-led expedition, called "Operation Highjump," was conducted between 1946-1947. It was officially titled "The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program" and was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.
According to Wikipedia:
Highjump’s objectives, according to the U.S. Navy report of the operation, were -
Training personnel and testing equipment in frigid conditions.
Consolidating and extending the United States' sovereignty over the largest practicable area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal even before the expedition ended).
Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and utilizing bases in the Antarctic and investigating possible base sites.
Developing techniques for establishing, maintaining, and utilizing air bases on ice, with particular attention to later applicability of such techniques to operations in interior Greenland, where conditions are comparable to those in the Antarctic.
Amplifying existing stores of knowledge of electromagnetic, geological, geographic, hydrographic, and meteorological propagation conditions in the area.
Supplementary objectives of the Nanook expedition (a smaller equivalent conducted off eastern Greenland).
Still, UFO hunters and other conspiracy theorists believe the operation was an attempt to find a "secret world" entrance.
The scientist who first spotted the anomaly beneath the frozen wasteland, Professor Ralph von Frese of Ohio State University, stated, "This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time."
"All the environmental changes that would have resulted from the impact would have created a highly caustic environment that was really hard to endure. So it makes sense that a lot of life went extinct at that time."
