In the United States, the remains of an aircraft that disappeared 50 years ago in the pursuit of a UFO were discovered.
This fall, Adam Jimenez, a spokesman for the Great lakes Dive company, which performs engineering work in reservoirs on the US-Canadian border, handed over to reporters images of a fighter jet lying at the bottom of the lake. According to him, the plane was discovered back in 2005, but the company was in no hurry to report the find to make sure that this is the same legendary F-89C that disappeared half a century ago.
A voice from the other world?
On the evening of November 23, 1953, US air defense radar detected an unidentified object moving at a speed of about 800 kilometers per hour over Lake Superior, which separates Canada and the United States. The F-89C all-weather fighter jet, piloted by Lieutenant Felix Monclah, Jr., flew to intercept from Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan.
Several radar installations watched the chase at once, and their operators saw the same thing. One of the operators who served at the Battle Creek radar station in Michigan said, on condition of anonymity:
“First, the pilot said he could not see the target. But on the radar screen it was noticeable that the mark from the plane was approaching a strange object. Having flown closer, the pilot said: "I see the target, I want to get closer." His words were accompanied by interferences, and by the end of the phrase there was more interference than at the beginning. Every time Monkla wanted to say something, his words became more and more illegible. There was interference on the air only when he was transmitting something to the ground. When the plane's mark merged with the target's mark, the ether “exploded” due to interference, and there was silence. Was this burst of noise the last words of the pilot?"
Trying to determine if the fighter flew too close to the target, so that their tags merged into one, the radar operator checked the readings of the "friend or foe" system. The system aboard the Moncla aircraft did not respond to requests from the ground. Then the tag flew to the northeast and went beyond the range of the radar.
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Fighters piloted by Howard Nordeck and William Mingenbach flew in search of Kinross Air Force Base. Having circled over the lake, they turned back. And then Mingenbach heard on the air … the voice of Felix Monkl! It cut through forty minutes after only the UFO mark remained on the radar, and disappeared from the plane. Mingenbach's declassified report says that the voice was quite recognizable, but they "only heard the middle of the sentence when the connection was interrupted again, and thus the meaning of the message remained incomprehensible."
Lieutenant Mingenbach knew Felix Moncl himself personally, so his report could be trusted.
Canadians deny their guilt
The military tried to hide the truth about the incident. The next day, a public relations officer stated that the UFO was a C-47 aircraft of the Canadian Air Force and that the Monclay crew, having identified the target, had crashed "for reasons unknown" on their way back to base. But the Canadian government denied that their plane could have caused the crash. A C-47 plane actually flew over the lake at that time, but its pilot did not see the American plane, although the weather was good, and did not even hear Felix Monclay, who was supposed to ask by radio who was in the air.
Ufologist Gord Haight tracked down Gerald Fosberg, the pilot who was at the helm of the ill-fated C-47. He confirmed that the dispatchers began to ask if he saw an American plane. But already after the mark from the Monkla fighter disappeared from the screens. He was confident that he could not go off course, fly into American territory and cause an interception. Interestingly, the map showing the flight paths of the aircraft was removed from the US Air Force dossier. And whether they crossed is unknown.
The Associated Press agency broadcast a message about the tragedy, but the authorities seized it from all newspapers - except for the Chicago Tribune, where they managed not only to publish the article, but also to distribute the circulation.
After the US Air Force and the Canadian Department of Defense declassified dossiers on the long-standing tragedy, the investigation has not advanced a single step.
And next to it is a mysterious disc …
And here's an accident: the remains of the plane were "groped" by specialists of the "Diving Company of the Great Lakes" during the next work at the bottom of the reservoir.
The images were obtained using the latest Shark-2 sonar. The company's engineers were able to discern that the plane was almost intact: only one wing and tail stabilizer were broken, although jet fighters usually crumble into small pieces in a collision in the air or falling into the water. Everyone got the impression that the fighter seemed to be carefully laid on the water and sank.
By lowering a probe with a TV camera to the bottom, Adam Jimenez and his colleagues were able to read the tail number on the tail of the fighter. It really was F. Moncl's plane.
“Trying to locate the broken wing, we started combing the bottom near the plane,” Jimenez said. - About 70 meters from the fuselage, we saw some kind of round or oval object crashing into the bottom. It was not possible to examine it in more detail, even at the highest resolution its image remained blurry. One of the staff recalled that the F-89s could carry a Genie-type missile with a nuclear warhead. Although the modification of the F-89 for nuclear weapons occurred at a later time, we thought if there were any tests with earlier versions of the fighter, and decided to test this hypothesis. But, having lowered the Geiger counter there, we did not find an increased level of radiation."
The probe with the TV camera was able to see more. According to its characteristic luster, the object was metallic. At the bottom, a furrow stretched behind him, as if the object had crashed into the sand at great speed. “Maybe what we saw was nothing more than the tip of an iceberg, and most of it was hidden under the sand,” added Jimenez. There was a notch on one side of the object, very similar to that of a fighter jet.
Could the object collide with a fighter in the air, tear off its wing and crash nearby? Adam was forced to reject this version: in a collision in the air and hitting the water, the plane would have received much more serious damage. Maybe the object just happened to be nearby at the bottom?
The researchers were unable to look inside the plane and see if there was a corpse - the cockpit lid was closed. After combing 10 square miles around the crash site and making 28 passes over the plane, they could not find the missing wing and tail unit.
Jimenez and his colleagues were going to return to the crash site with reporters and continue their research. But the Canadian government intervened. It demanded that the exact coordinates of the aircraft be given and further work should be carried out only when accompanied by coast guard vessels or with representatives of the authorities on board. And soon the "Diving Company …" was completely deprived of its license to conduct underwater work.
There was another case
Perhaps the incident that occurred on the night of September 8, 1970, when a military plane disappeared in the skies of Great Britain, will help shed light on the mystery of the death of the Moncla plane. Shortly before this, the radar operator at Staxon Wold had received very strange messages from the pilot, Captain Schaeffner:
“I have eye contact … something vague, no clear outline. It is a bluish light. Damn, well, brightness. Very bright … I'm next to him now, side by side with him. It's maybe 600 feet away from me … it's a cone … What a brightness - dazzles the eyes if I look at it for more than a couple of seconds … Hey wait, there's something else here! It looks like a big soccer ball made of glass … Maybe there is a relationship between it and the cone. There is a glowing haze. Yellow. For a second … he turns. Heading straight for me … making a maneuver to deviate … I can firm …"
The connection was lost. At that moment, the operator saw that on the radar screen, the marks from the aircraft and the UFO slowly merged into a single whole.
Two months later, the plane was found almost intact at the bottom of the North Sea. The cockpit lid remained attached to the hull (if you leave the plane at high speed, the lid breaks off). The belts and ejection seat remained in the plane - but no sign of the pilot. The impression was that he disappeared without unfastening the belts: in the cold sea water, his body should not have dissolved in such a short time. Maybe in the cockpit of the fighter, which lies at the bottom of Lake Superior, the water is also shaking the neatly fastened seat belts …
FROM THE DOSSIER
Mysterious disappearances of liners occur quite often
1955 year. A US Air Force transport aircraft with 26 passengers and crew was approaching the US coast. The ground radar operator suddenly saw a second mark on the screen. The UFO flew at great speed and suddenly rushed straight into the plane. The two marks merged into one, which flew away with amazing speed. A search on the water in the area of the incident did not find a single oil slick, only the briefcase of the general on board was floating there.
1959 year. Missing US Air Force F-106 fighter sent to intercept UFOs off the coast of Japan. The pilot reported to the ground that he saw a round metal object with the cockpit at the top. He shouted that he had fired two missiles, and they, having reached the UFO, exploded, as if breaking against an invisible obstacle. Then he shouted that the UFO had turned on some kind of beam and chased after him. Radar operators saw how two labels on the screens merged into one, then she disappeared too. No fuel or debris was found.
1960 year. The F-101 was returning to Edwards Air Force Base. California by successfully completing the assignment. Suddenly a mark appeared on the radar screens, which merged with the plane and disappeared. This incident ended more safely: the next day the plane landed at the base as if nothing had happened. Under hypnosis, the major who piloted the plane said that he, along with the fighter, was taken aboard a huge UFO, where they were subjected to various studies.
1972 year. Three fighters flew near Clovis, pcs. New Mexico when UFOs were detected by ground-based radars. The crew of an aircraft flying nearby saw him with the naked eye. The fighter pilots chased the object. The UFO sharply increased its speed, flying into a large cloud. The fighters entered there after the object and did not take off from the other side. Radar operators saw the four landmarks merge together. The pilots observing the pursuit noticed only a UFO that flew out from the other side of the cloud and disappeared. No debris was found on the ground.
1974 year. From Kirtland Air Force Base New Mexico, night training plane took off. When he was already in the air, an object appeared on the radar screen, flying at a speed of 680 km / h. The UFO changed course, heading straight for the plane. The marks from the plane and the object merged together, after which the remaining point began to move away with great speed. No debris was found on the ground either.