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Lake mystery still unsolved
Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 (CST) by Thoth
 Fifty-three years ago this month, a U.S. Air Force F-89 Scorpion jet vanished from radar screens over Lake Superior after being sent to intercept an unknown aircraft. On the evening of Nov. 23, 1953, Air Force radar tracked the missing jet until it merged with an unidentified object 70 miles off the Keweenaw Peninsula, at an altitude of 7,000 feet.
Newspaper reports said the missing plane, which had left the Kinross Air Force Base at 5:22 p.m. “was last heard from when it radioed the base from somewhere out over the lake.”
Pilot 1st Lt. Felix E. Moncla Jr., 27, of Mercauville, La. and radar operator 2nd Lt. Robert Wilson, 22, of Ponca City, Okla. were presumed dead, likely somewhere under the snow-swept waters of Lake Superior.
The U.S.
military said the object the plane chased was a Royal Canadian Air
Force Mohawk C-47 transport plane, but that claim was later denied by
the Canadian government, saying there were no such aircraft in the area
at the time.
Algoma Central Railway
workers roughly 100 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie said they heard a
crash that occurred shortly contact with the F-89 was lost by the
military. But after a search, no sign of the crew or fighter jet was
discovered.
In autumn 1968, prospectors
in the Cozens Cove area of Ontario found mechanical parts north of
Sault Ste. Marie, including a tail stabilizer section, that military
officials said were from a high-performance jet aircraft.
A newspaper article from
the time said the parts were thought to have perhaps been from the
missing Kinross plane, but that idea was later discounted. The article
doesn’t say why.
Over the years, a great
deal of speculation has surrounded the “Kinross Incident,” with some
UFO investigators suggesting the Scorpion may have struck, or even been
devoured by, a craft from another planet.
“It is a compelling mystery
with an interesting UFO twist,” said Gord Heath, a British Columbia
resident interested in the Kinross incident since 2000. “Many people at
radar tracking stations observed the F-89’s return merging with the
blip from the other craft before it disappeared. The possibility that a
UFO ‘swallowed’ the F-89 makes this an interesting puzzle.”
Now, more than five decades
after the crew disappeared without sending a distress signal, the
mystery of what happened to Moncla, Wilson and the Scorpion jet has
been given new life.
Reports from The Great Lake
Dive Company — a downstate venture said to be made up of Michigan
natives with a common interest in shipwreck hunting and historical
preservation — say they used side-scan sonar equipment to discover the
missing plane, along with a piece of the object it presumably collided
with.
The jet is reportedly
located in deep water, lying upright on the lake bottom, mostly intact.
The port wing and starboard tail stabilizer are missing. Cockpit
structure is said to be in place, suggesting the pilots may still be
inside.
Reportedly, the find was
said to be made in an area off the Keweenaw Peninsula in summer 2005,
with the dive company waiting a year before announcing its discovery.
“Frankly we came away
surprised,” said Adam Jimenez, dive company spokesman from Oakland
County. “We expected, at best, to locate an engine, wing or other small
debris. Finding the plane together was really unexpected.”
The company reportedly made
a positive identification of the F-89. The second object reportedly
shows an impact trace that shows how it landed and stopped a little
more than 215 feet from the plane’s wreckage.
Jimenez reportedly claimed
the mystery object was confirmed to be metallic with a mark from being
struck that could match a wing from the fighter jet. The missing wing
from the plane’s wreckage may be buried in lake sediments underneath
the teardrop-shaped object.
In August, Jimenez
contacted The Mining Journal with a news release, saying the company
was still in the process of documenting “the mystery object,” with “a
lot of wreck site forensics to complete.”
Reportedly, there is
nothing else located on the bottom of the lake for miles, leading dive
company researchers to conclude the plane and second object being found
so close together means they must both be related in the crash.
“We feel bittersweet,”
Jimenez wrote. “On one hand, we set out to answer this thing and did.
But on the other hand, you realize this was a tragedy that claimed the
lives of two American pilots.”
Jimenez said a documentary on the history, search and discovery of the F-89 and mystery object was being planned.
But like the F-89 Scorpion jet itself, Jimenez and the dive company unexpectedly dropped off the radar screen.
Now researchers are
wondering whether the reported find and purported sonar images
circulated were a hoax, or whether Jimenez and his associates have
simply sought a lower public profile with their claims remaining valid.
“While it may be too early
to reach any definitive conclusions, there certainly seems to be many
more questions than answers concerning Great Lakes Dive Company and the
alleged F-89 discovery,” said Dirk Vander Ploeg, editor and publisher
of UFODigest.com and PsiTalk.com in an on-line commentary. “About the
middle of October, the Great Lakes Dive Company Web site suddenly went
blank. It was at this time that Adam Jimenez stopped returning phone
calls and e-mails.”
Jimenez has not answered
Mining Journal requests seeking interviews for this story and Internet
searches for the company have failed to produce new contact information.
Heath, who has contacted
several principals in the case and maintains an extensive Web site on
the Kinross case, said he believes there are several intriguing
possibilities concerning the whereabouts of the missing F-89.
“The best possibility
towards solving the mystery will be to find the aircraft, with or
without the remains of the crew,” Heath said. “I do think it is
possible that the F-89 is either on the bottom of Lake Superior or
perhaps somewhere else in the region.”
Are the remains of Wilson
and Moncla with their plane on the bottom of an inland lake or lost in
a dense Canadian forest yet to be discovered by a hunter or trapper?
Was the wreckage actually recovered by prospectors along Lake Superior
in 1968?
Perhaps the missing
Scorpion jet indeed sits upright off the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula
in more than 250 feet of water in Canadian jurisdiction? Or does the
real answer to where the crew went lie somewhere beyond the stars?
As the popular science fiction television program “The X-Files” would say: “The truth is out there.”
Copyright: The Mining Journal
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Re: Lake mystery still unsolved
by artberry on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 (CST)
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.artberry.net | Disappeared. What a surprise. Funny how the evidence is all of a sudden being discredited. The evidence is still available on the interent though http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0906/kinrossobject.html
It certainly doesn't look fake and why would anyone want to fake this sort of evidence in any case? |
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Re: Lake mystery still unsolved
by Scotty on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 (CST)
(User Info | Send a Message) | I'm hoping there is a documentary in the works, but because of the sudden silence and the closure of the dive company's website, I've a feeling the divers have been warned to forget about whatever it is they've discovered on the lake bottom. I find it hard believe a commercial diving company would damage their reputation by making up a story about something that would have a such huge impact on how we view ourselves and the tiny planet on which we've evolved. What better proof of life elsewhere in the universe, than a whole e.t. craft, rather than the peices of metal some people claim to have that supposedly belonged to crashed u.f.o's. It is stated that perhaps the plane wreckage might still contain the remains of the pilots, then the same could apply to the e.t. craft and its crew, if it is indeed that's what it is. Governments would find themselves with a heck of a lot of explaining to do if all of a sudden they have to go from total denial one day, to full disclosure the next! What excuses would they offer for having lied to us all these years in order to protect the oil industry's monopoly on energy. for instance? People world wide would right away start to question their religious beliefs, athough the Vatican has prepared for this by admitting there could be life elsewhere, though still created by God. If this is indeed an e.t. craft on the lake bottom, it's probably already been salvaged by the U.S. military, with an old boat hull put in its place. It's only a matter of time now and probably within the next few years (by 2012) our governments will have to come clean regarding our off-world visitors. With the access folks have to video cameras, sooner or later someone is going to record these craft landing and perhaps even their crews exiting them. It seems that every day, someone records strange craft in the sky. I'm sure many of these craft are military "black projects", but then there are those that move in ways that would kill any human being on board. I have seen them myself and fortunately for a few of the sightings, people were with me.
Blessings Everyone! |
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