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This is an incident some may not have heard of – Kinross.
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First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. (October 21, 1926 – presumed dead November 23, 1953) was a United States Air Force (USAF) pilot who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept over Lake Superior in 1953. His disappearance is sometimes known as the Kinross Incident, after Kinross Air Force Base, where Moncla was on temporary assignment at the time he vanished.
The USAF reported that Moncla had crashed into Lake Superior while tracking a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) C-47 aircraft which was off course. According to the report, the pilot of the Canadian aircraft did not know that he was the subject of an interception.
According to UFO writer Donald Keyhoe in his 1955 book, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, he received a telephone call telling him of “a rumor out at Selfridge Field that an F-89 from Kinross [sic] was hit by a flying saucer”, but a follow-up call to Public Information Officer Lt. Robert C. White revealed that “the unknown in that case was a Canadian DC-3. It was over the locks by mistake”. The “locks” refers to the restricted air space over the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, on the U.S.–Canada border at the southeast end of Lake Superior.
NOTE: Keyhoe was not just a “UFO writer” as Wikipedia dismissively labels him, but an officer in both the United States Marines and United States Navy in separate stints, a WW2 major, and highly connected government figure serving across multiple agencies and administrations. He also co-founded the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena with Thomas Townsend Brown, a veteran of working at Lockheed Martin the Military Industrial Aerospace company affiliated with secret government programs, and famous anti-gravity researcher (his daughter did a Reddit AMA in 2014, click here, archive)
Article:
DETROIT – As with most things, Michigan has had its hand in the UFO cookie jar a few times.
An Unidentified Flying Object is defined as any aerial object or optical phenomenon not readily identifiable to the observer. Feds now refer to them as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAPs.
On Nov. 23, 1953, radar operators stationed at Sault Ste. Marie were reportedly alerted to an unknown object flying in restricted airspace over Lake Superior, near the Soo Locks. An interceptor aircraft took off from the nearby Kincheloe Air Force Base to investigate. It was piloted by Felix Moncla and had Robert L. Wilson as a radar operator.
For whatever reason, the radar on the F-89C was having problems tracking the object, which allegedly kept changing course, so Ground Control gave Moncla directions.
Moncla pursued the object for a half hour at speeds of up to 500 miles per hour.
Ground Control watched the two blips on the radar screen – representing the F89-C jet and the unknown object – get closer until they became one blip, roughly 70 miles off the Keweenaw Peninsula. The single blip continued on the course it was flying before vanishing from the radar screen.
Attempts made to contact the jet were unsuccessful. A search and rescue operation by the United States and Canadian Air Forces failed to find any trace of the aircraft or its occupants.
More in article.
The radar objects merging until they become one point–that’s called a “merge plot”, described in 2023 to the United States Congress by US Navy pilot David Fravor during the 2004 Tic-Tac USS Nimitz UFO contact:
“When we arrived at the location at 20,000 ft, the controller called Merge Plot, which means that our radar blip was now in the same radar resolution cell as the contact.”