With the development of aviation, the sad fate of the inexplicably disappeared sea vessels has spread to the crews of aircraft of various companies and countries. This topic was most actively followed in the United States press.
The nephew of steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie Whitefield took off from Roosevelt Airfield on Long Island on April 17, 1938, but his plane never made it to another airfield, only 22 miles away. The fuel supply should have been enough for 150 miles.
The entire area with such a radius was carefully studied, but there were no traces of the plane crash. By the way, this area was very densely populated, so the plane crash would probably have become known. Explanations in the spirit of "the businessman just got lost" were swept aside by other pilots, because Whitefield's flight practice at the time of his disappearance was 200 hours. Nevertheless, no one saw either him or the plane …
20 km from the Korean island of Chodo (80 km south-west of Pyongyang) on July 2, 1953, an American fighter piloted by Lieutenant B. Bick disappeared without a trace, whose last words were: "Red balls are flying by!.."
In November (according to other sources - February 23), 1953, the all-weather interceptor F-89C, piloted by Lieutenant Wilson, disappeared at the American Kinross Air Force Base (Michigan). In the sky over Lake Superior, locators recorded the approach of the plane with a UFO, and then the disappearance of both marks. It is not excluded as a collision of vehicles in the air, and the capture of the aircraft by an unidentified object. No traces of the F-89C have been found either on the ground or in the lake.
In July 1954, in New York State, an F-94C aircraft with secret electronic equipment, with a crew of pilot Captain Suggs and radar operator Lieutenant Barkov, was performing the planned flight. According to the pilot's testimony, at an altitude of 450 m, during the interception of a UFO, the engine (it is not clear from the message - one or both at once) stopped.
The electronics are out of order. The plane began to dive. First the lieutenant and then the captain ejected. The plane, which was supposed to crash near the landing site of the crew (in this case, the pilots survived), were searched most persistently for three months from the ground and from the air - and they did not find it! All this took place in a densely populated area and at the height of the tourist season.
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In 1955, a military transport plane with 26 passengers on board went missing near Sangent Hill. The researchers claimed that he allegedly disappeared after meeting with a fast-flying UFO.
At the end of 1972, three planes disappeared in the United States at once. Four radar stations (radars) on the ground and a transport plane in flight observed a UFO in the air, and the link was directed to intercept it. Following the pursued target, three fighters flew into a large cloud and … disappeared from the radar screens, although the UFO mark was tracked by operators for a long time.
In March 1974, in the area of Kirtland airbase (New Mexico), three ground-based radars at once discovered an unknown object next to a military aircraft carrying out a training flight. The marks on the radar screens came close and merged, after which one mark with great speed moved away. The search work was not successful.
In the area of Calgary (Canada), three UFOs moving towards the United States at once were detected by radar at an altitude of about 5 km. The interceptor pilot reported that he saw the target and … immediately sent a distress signal. In the same instant, the plane's mark disappeared from the radar screens. Despite the search undertaken, no pilot or wreckage was found.
In the summer of 1981, at the operational office, the chief of staff of the Turkestan Military District read out the combat report of the commander of the fighter regiment of the air defense association. It reported that over the airfield of the regiment "at an altitude of over 7 km hovered an unknown aircraft of a cigar-shaped form, measuring about 100 x 200 [sic] meters."
A pair of aircraft on duty was lifted into the air. The pilot of the lead aircraft fired two rockets. Almost at the same time, the plane's and its missile markings disappeared from the tracking radar screens. The wing interceptor pilot saw them disappear. No traces of the crash or debris of the aircraft and missiles were found.
Of course, it can be argued that the loss of pilots and crews is understandable: lost control - and crashed. However, these are only cases where no traces of the wreck were found.
In the Bass Strait area, south of Melbourne (Australia) on October 21, 1978, 22-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich flew at 18:19 in the Cessna-182 to the south-southwest, not knowing that from 14:00 to 18:45 two cigar-shaped objects were seen over the strait.
UFOs were observed from the ground and during Valentine's flight, at the moment when alarming messages began to come from him. At 19:12, he got in touch for the last time: "I am going to King Island … Melbourne, this strange plane is again above me …". Silence for 2 seconds … "It hung … and this is not a plane … Melbourne …".
The story of the disappearance of Valentich's plane in an Australian newspaper
Silence, the pilot's hand holds the microphone button for another 17 seconds, due to which a strange metallic rattle is heard in the speakers, which, as they calculated later, consists of Z6 sounds clearly differing from each other. As stated by Dr. R. Hines of NASA, these sounds were not similar to those that can be obtained by manipulating a microphone …
At 19:33 the search for "Cessna" began, in which 9 aircraft participated. Meanwhile, when Valentich's plane no longer responded, a strange object was still seen from the ground, and TVs were junk and not tuned in nearby settlements. The weather was clear, the search continued for 5 days, but no traces of the disaster were found within a radius of 1700 km.