Richard E. Byrd's Diary is Missing: The Diary may,
or may not, actually exist. Even so, the story the Diary tells has been told, and told, over and over. Accounts vary, with very little consistency, though certain elements are included in most every version:
Sometime around 1947, Admiral Byrd commanded exploratory mission(s) over the North Pole, or the South Pole, or both. He discovered a vast valley-like depression, or hole in the Earth, with green forests, tropical temperatures, prehistoric animals and a futuristic crystal city.
Circular flying disks took control of his airplane and conducted him into the city where he spoke to the Master of this unknown land. The Master informed Byrd that he was now in the domain of the Arianni - the Inner World of the Earth.
The Master of Arianni and those around him were tall, blond men. They spoke to Admiral Byrd in English with a Germanic or perhaps Nordic accent. Their technology was so very far advanced as to seem magical. They also had a message for the Nations of the world, that they entrusted Admiral Byrd to deliver.
Admiral Byrd returned with his report to Washington D.C. where his diary was seized and he was ordered to never repeat the story.
It may be he never did speak of it again, or maybe he did; either way, the story floated around for all the years since - each story contradicting and occasionally collaborating all the others.
The fact that it remains a mystery is the most mysterious part of it at all.
Admiral Byrd was a serious, well-respected man of impressive accomplishment. He was not the least given to making things up. Why would such a man ever say anything but the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I suppose he might have gone insane. Did the people with him also go insane? Did he return to sanity later? Was no one with him when all this happened? Did no one else under his command have anything to say? Is it possible that the Commander of a U.S. Navel mission was flying solo over Antarctica?
I've searched through many sites on google. discovering nothing solid.
Adding to the mystery, in 1947 Admiral Byrd flew a secret mission across the Arctic, apparently at the same time he was Commander of the 1947 U.S. Navy's Antarctic Expedition - Operation Highjump.
The Expedition included: 14 support ships,1 aircraft carrier, 6 helicopters, 6 flying boats, 2 seaplane tenders, and 15 other aircraft. The total personnel was over 4,000.
I didn't discover how many others were with him on the Arctic mission. He couldn't possibly have been alone.
He also couldn't possibly have been in both places at once.
How is it possible to have such a dearth of official documentation. Have the documents of that time disappeared along with the Diary?
Isn't that as implausible as the story of the Diary?
I wonder.
There are many fantastic tales, few of them involve anyone with the credentials and character of a man like Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
I'd like to know what really happened. I don't suppose I ever will.
Still, the story intrigues.
Richard E. Byrd, 1888-1957 - Wikipedia
Does this man of noble ancestry and honorable service seem like the sort of fellow to invent a fantasy?