1953 Kinross F-89 Crash

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Please take the time to read this incredible report, and view the stunning Photo enhancement by Robert Morningstar.

My thanks to Robert and also to Dirk Vander Ploeg of UFO DIGEST for allowing me to source this article,and their kind permission for use of the stunning images.

My thanks also to Adam Jimenez of The Great Lakes Dive Co. http://www.greatlakesdive.com for permission to use the Sonar images.

Through an incredible set of circumstances,we are presented with what may be the most important Ufological discovery in history.

Unfortunately as this story has developed over the months, further twists and turns have occurred.

Questions have been asked as to the authenticity the Great Lakes Dive company .

The Website hosted by GLDC has disappeared, and no one has been able to contact members of the dive team.

To Date 1/1/07 many of the Websites including this one, are at a loss to explain this apparent silence from GLDC.

Is it all a Hoax? Or Could the Company just be trying to protect its interests? a clasic case of 'Batten the Hatches' untill the company itself has more information?

Whatever the outcome be assured we will update this report with any new developments.

Lake Superior November 23, 1953.

History of the initial case

On November 23, 1953. A US Air Force F-89 jet fighter was scrambled from the Kinross AFB in Michigan USA.

It was dispatched to investigate an unknown object that had been tracked on Radar.

On board the Jet( known as the Scorpion ) was First Lt. Felix Eugene Moncla (USAF), Pilot and First Lt. Robert L. Wilson (USAF), Radar Information Officer.

Here is the original official report of the incident:

'Aircraft took off at 2322 Zebra 23 Nov 53 on an active Air Defense Mission to intercept an unknown aircraft approximately 160 miles Northwest of Kinross Air Force Base.

The aircraft was under radar control throughout the interception. At approximately 2352 Zebra the last radio contact was made by the radar station controlling the interception.

At approximately 2355 Zebra the unknown aircraft and the F-89 merged together on the radar scope.

Shortly thereafter the IFF signal disappeared from the radar scope. No further contact was established with the F-89.

(The next 16 or so letters and the entire next sentence have been blacked out)

An extensive aerial search has revealed no trace of the aircraft. The aircraft and its crew are still missing'.

Note: It was claimed at the time that the F-89 and the unknown object seemed to merge on the radar screens. And only one object, the original unidentified object was still on screen.

And so the case remained, an extensive search was undertaken that November, but no trace of wreckage or the Pilots was found.

Lake Superior 2005.

It is here that this incredible story takes a dramatic twist .

In the summer of 2005 The Great Lakes Dive company (this company was composed of Engineers and Professional divers) decided to test some new equipment on two wrecks that had sunk in 1919.

Through a series of technical glitches and lack of time, they instead decided to spend some time looking for the F-89.

They had a search grid of the possible areas that the F-89 could have gone down, and using there new wide trajectory side scan sonar were amazed on their first pass to locate what turned out to be the missing Jet.

Image from the Great lakes Dive company's Sonar (Source Ufo Digest)

Image from the Great lakes Dive company's Sonar (By Permission of the Great Lakes Dive Co.)

What is even more incredible on closer examination of the surrounding area using the company's ROV (remotely operated vehicle) Some 215ft from the aircraft there was a metallic object partially buried in the sand.

It is believed that this is just the top of a much larger craft. And it will only be through subsequent investigation will the full size be revealed.

(Source: Ufo Digest, Photo enhancements by Robert Morningstar)

The object was 15 ft long by 8.5ft wide.There are strike marks and gouges on the metallic object as seen below.

(Source: Ufo Digest, Photo enhancements by Robert Morningstar)

A spokesman for the Great Lakes Dive Company has concluded that it was highly unlikely that on the lake bed with no other debris for miles, that the Jet and the adjacent object were not interconnected.

To date the Great Lakes Dive Company have been banned from further exploration until they reveal the location of the F-89 to the Canadian Government.

While this request is reasonable for the recovery of the F-89 it is imperative that further investigation of the Teardrop craft remains in the hands of The Great Lakes Dive Company.

It would be all to easy for the various Governments involved, both Canadian and American to hijack this discovery and quietly recover the two craft.

This must not happen. This case must be brodcasted far and wide. So that a legitimate and open understanding of whatever lies at the bottom of Lake Superior, is available to all.

Joe