“The Disappearance of Lt. Felix Moncla”
The channel that connects Lake Superior with the other Great Lakes
flows through the Soo Locks near Saulte Ste. Marie, Michigan. On one
side of the channel is the U.S., and on the other side is Canada. The
fact that this area is on a U.S. national border makes it a restricted
airspace. As such, it was monitored by the Air Defense Command in 1953.
On the evening of 23 November 1953, an Air Defense Command Ground
Intercept radar controller at Truax AFB became alerted to an
“unidentified target” over Soo Locks. He sounded the alert, and an F-89C
Scorpion jet was scrambled from nearby Kinross Field. The jet was
piloted by 1st Lieutenant Felix Moncla, Jr., with 2nd Lieutenant Robert
Wilson in the rear seat as radar operator.
Ground Control vectored the jet toward the target, noting that the
target changed course as the F-89 approached it at over 500 mph. Lt.
Wilson had problems tracking the target on his onboard radar, so ground
control continued to direct the jet to the target. For thirty minutes,
the jet pursued the radar blip and began to close the gap as the UFO
accelerated out over Lake Superior.
As Ground Control watched, the gap between the two blips on the
radar screen grew smaller and smaller until the two blips became one
blip. Ground Control thought that Moncla had flown over the target and
that the two blips would separate again as he moved past it.
That didn’t happen. Suddenly, the single blip flashed off the screen and the radar screen was clear of any return at all.
Frantically, Ground Control tried to contact the F-89 by radio.
There was no response. Marking the last radar position, Ground Control
dispatched an emergency message to Search and Rescue. That last sighting
was about seventy miles off Keweenaw Point in upper Michigan, at an
altitude of 8,000 feet, approximately 160 miles northwest of Soo Locks.
After an all night air/sea rescue search, not a trace of the plane
or the men was ever found. No debris, no oil slick, nothing was ever
found.
Officials at Norton Air Force Base Flying Safety Division issued a
statement that “the pilot probably suffered from vertigo and crashed
into the lake.” However, this was merely speculation and was based on
hearsay reports that Moncla was prone to vertigo.
The Air Force explained the unknown radar target at first as a
Canadian DC-3, then later as a RCAF jet. Canadian officials responded
that there were no Canadian aircraft in the airspace over the lake at
any time during the chase. The Air Force finally stated that the F-89
had exploded at high altitude, ignoring the fact that this would have
left a lot of debris on the lake surface.
NICAP investigators found that mentions of Moncla’s mission –
chasing an unidentified target – had been obliterated from official
records. Project Bluebook files simply listed the case as an “accident.”
Off the record, those that were present in the Ground Control radar
room that day have expressed other opinions. They think that whatever
the F-89 was chasing directly caused the disappearance of the jet…
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The Kinross Air Force Base Incident ~ Did a jet disappear while chasing a UFO?
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