“The Missing Diary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd” is a very short account of Byrd’s journey into “a paradise inside the Earth” on February 19, 1947.It was published as a booklet by Global Communications in 1990. The beginning diary entry indicates Byrd wasn’t even sure the public would ever see it. This is NOT from his better known diary about his 1934 polar adventure.
“I must write this diary in secrecy and obscurity,” Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd wrote. “It concerns my Arctic flight of the nineteenth day of February in the year of Nineteen and Forty Seven.
“I am not at liberty to disclose the following documentation at this writing . . . perhaps it shall never see the light of public scrutiny, but I must do my duty and record here for all to read one day. In a world of greed and exploitation of certain of mankind can no longer suppress that which is truth.”
He then wrote about his Arctic flight. At first, he recorded that his plane was running smoothly but then the gyro-compasses began to “gyrate and wobble” and he saw a green valley where there should only be ice and snow. Next, the plane’s controls became unresponsive and the plane seemed to be remotely brought in for a landing in a paradise inside the Earth. Byrd’s full description of what he saw and experienced can be found in the above-mentioned diary, but here is some of what he wrote about his audience with the one introduced to him as “The Master.”
“I bid you welcome to our domain, Admiral. . . We have let you enter here because you are of noble character and well-known on the Surface World. . . You are in the domain of the Arianni, the Inner World of the Earth. . . But now, Admiral, I shall tell you why you have been summoned here.
“Our interest rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bombs. . . It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the ‘Flugelrads,’ to your surface world to investigate what your race had done. . . we have never interfered before in your race’s wars, and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely, that of atomic energy. . .
“Your race has now reached the point of no return, for there are those among you who would destroy your very world rather than relinquish their power as they know it. . . So now, I say to you, my son, there is a great storm gathering in your world, a black fury that will not spend itself for many years.
“There will be no answer in your arms, there will be no safety in your science. It may rage on until every flower of your culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in vast chaos. Your recent war (WWII) was only a prelude of what is yet to come for your race. . .
“Yes, my son, the dark ages that will come now for your race will cover the Earth like a pall, but I believe that some of your race will live through the storm . . . We see at a great distance a new world stirring from the ruins of your race, seeking its lost and legendary treasures, and they will be here, my son, safe in our keeping. When that time arrives, we shall come forward again to help revive your culture and your race. Perhaps, by then, you will have learned the futility of war and its strife. . .
“You, my son, are to return to the Surface World with this message. . .”
One has to wonder if all this is true, how might things be different today if Byrd’s message had not been suppressed for so long. And, of course, can the worse-case scenario be avoided? With a twinkle of hope, it’s been more than 70 years since Byrd’s 1947 experience and humankind is still here. But with or without Byrd’s message, it would behoove us all to be busy making our world a more peaceful place. – The editor
KENS NOTE: MY FATHER,EARL PFEIFER, WAS ON THE CARRIER PHILIPPINES SEA DURING ADMIRAL BYRD’S EXPEDITION . THIS AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS PART OF ADMIRAL BYRD’S TASK FORCE. MY FATHER NEVER SPOKE ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE EXPEDITION.
