👁“‘There Was a Hole Big Enough to Swallow a Plane’: Retired Navy Officer Breaks Silence on Alien-Human Base Under the Ice 😱🧊”

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It began on January 2, 2015.

UFO researcher and journalist Linda Moulton Howe, known for walking the razor’s edge between science and speculation, received an email from a retired U.S.

Navy officer.

He didn’t give his full name.

He didn’t ask for fame.

He only asked to be referred to as Brian S.

His credentials, however, were real—and shocking.

Brian S.

had spent 20 years in the U.S.

Navy, serving as a flight engineer aboard the LC-130 Hercules aircraft for Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6).

His service dated from 1983 to 1997—a time when the world’s coldest continent was more geopolitically and technologically active than the public was ever told.

Attached to the email were proofs of service: a photo of Brian standing proudly at the South Pole, an Antarctic Service Medal awarded in 1984, and internal mission details that only a member of VXE-6 could have

known.

But all of that was just the surface.

Brian described how, during flights over the Transantarctic Mountains, he and his crew repeatedly saw “silver disc-shaped objects darting through the sky”—always in the same location, always behaving in ways

no known aircraft could.

They shimmered, moved with unnatural agility, and hovered as if watching.

But the UFOs were just the beginning.

According to Brian, there was a restricted zone near the South Pole Station that all aircraft were explicitly banned from flying over.

The official reason? An “air sampling facility.”

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But Brian and his crew accidentally violated that no-fly order twice—once during a medical evacuation mission that required a direct route over the area.

What they saw below was anything but a research facility.

It was a hole.

An abyss.

A void so massive he claimed you could fly an LC-130 into it.

Let that sink in.

The LC-130 is not a small aircraft.

It’s a massive, ski-equipped cargo plane designed to transport heavy loads across the ice.

A hole that could “swallow” such a plane is not just a cavern—it’s a portal.

But to what?

When Brian’s crew returned, they were met by a man from Washington D.C., presumably intelligence.

His words were etched into Brian’s mind:

“You saw nothing.”

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It’s a sentence that has echoed across countless whistleblower accounts.

And in this case, it became the gateway to an even darker chapter.

Brian shared the most disturbing part of his testimony with Linda in a follow-up interview.

A team of 15 scientists, stationed near Marie Byrd Land, had suddenly gone dark.

After two weeks of total radio silence, Brian and his crew were dispatched to investigate.

When they arrived, the camp was abandoned—but all the gear was still there.

No sign of struggle.

No footprints.

Just empty silence in the middle of the most desolate place on Earth.

Then, out of nowhere—a week later—the scientists reappeared.

They radioed for pickup.

No explanation.

No details.

Brian’s team retrieved them.

But what he saw during that flight chilled him more than the Antarctic winds ever could.

The scientists were… broken.

Pale.

Silent.

Shaking.

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Some stared blankly into space.

Others refused to eat or speak.

Trauma had cleaved their spirits open.

When they landed at McMurdo Station, the scientists were immediately whisked away into a different vehicle.

Their equipment was quarantined, shipped alone to New Zealand, and never seen again.

Brian didn’t need to ask what had happened.

He already knew.

Whispers at the South Pole Station told of a secret base—buried under that restricted air sampling site—where human and extraterrestrial scientists worked side by side.

The rumor was that the missing scientists had stumbled onto—or were forced to participate in—experiments or operations involving non-human intelligence.

It sounded insane.

But Brian wasn’t the only one saying it.

Years earlier, Navy intelligence insider William Tompkins released a bombshell book titled “Selected by Extraterrestrials.

” In it, Tompkins described top-secret missions during World War II to monitor German aerospace operations—which he claimed were being aided by alien beings.

According to him, German scientists, backed by a shadowy group known as the Thule Society, developed anti-gravity spacecraft in secret bases—including some, he claimed, in Antarctica.

He wasn’t alone.

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Admiral Richard Byrd, who led the famous Operation Highjump in 1946—a massive military expedition involving 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft—reportedly ran into strange aircraft during the mission.

In an interview published in a Chilean newspaper, Byrd warned:

“The United States should adopt measures of protection against aircraft flying from pole to pole at incredible speeds.”

Aircraft that can fly from the North Pole to the South Pole in a single breath? What was Byrd trying to say—and why was the operation abruptly cut short after just eight weeks?

Now, one might argue these are just puzzle pieces scattered across time.

Coincidences.

Unproven anecdotes.

But what if they’re not?

What if Brian S’s story—his UFO sightings, the massive hole, the missing scientists—isn’t a standalone tale, but the missing chapter in a saga stretching back a century?

The Thule Society, founded in 1918, believed in a superior subterranean race called the Hyperboreans, allegedly in contact with Earth’s elite.

They claimed to receive telepathic blueprints for advanced spacecraft from off-world intelligences.

These designs, whispered into the mind of a psychic named Maria Orsic, reportedly became the foundation for Nazi Germany’s secret space program.

And where did they flee when the war turned against them?

Antarctica.

The myth has always lingered: Nazi UFOs, underground bases, alien collaborations.

But now, we have a man—a Navy veteran—saying he may have seen the remnants of that secret world with his own eyes.

Of course, skeptics are quick to point out inconsistencies.

Brian S remains anonymous.

Linda Moulton Howe has had a complicated relationship with credibility in recent years.

And some aspects of the Nazi-Antarctica mythology have been debunked or disproven—such as the real reason Germany explored the continent (whaling operations, not UFO bases) or the misquoted Byrd

interview.

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But none of that entirely erases the testimony.

Because even if 90% of the Nazi-Antarctica lore is fiction, Brian’s account stands on a different ground.

He had no book to sell.

No stage to stand on.

His only demand was anonymity.

What he described was limited to what he experienced, and when he speculated, he admitted it.

And still—the hole was real.

The discs were real.

The silence was real.

As for the collaboration between humans and aliens?

Brian never claimed to witness it—only that the rumors lined up too perfectly with what he did witness.

In a world flooded with deepfakes, psy-ops, and misinformation, the truth has never been murkier.

But sometimes, it’s the eyewitness—the one who doesn’t shout, doesn’t beg to be believed, who simply says “this happened”—who forces us to look again.

What if he’s telling the truth?

What if the most remote place on Earth is also the most important—and most dangerous?

What if the real reason the South Pole is closed to overflights and independent exploration isn’t weather, but secrets buried in ice, guarded by silence, and protected by ridicule?

Brian S walked away from his service in 1997.

But he’s still carrying what he saw.

And now that he’s spoken, we can’t unhear it.