Fifty-three years ago this month, a U.S. Air Force F-89 Scorpion jet vanished from radar screens over Lake Superior after being sent to intercept what they thought was an unknown aircraft.

On the evening of Nov. 23, 1953, Air Force sent one of its planes, an F-89 Scorpion jet, to intercept an unknown aircraft that flew over Lake Superior at an altitude of 7,000 feet. Its radar tracked the jet until it merged with the unidentified object 70 miles off the Keweenaw Peninsula, at an altitude of 7,000 feet.

Both the jet and the object vanished and were never seen again. In the summer of 2005, The Great Lake Dive Company allegedly found the jet’s wreckage sitting at the bottom of Lake Superior, mostly intact. What’s strange is that they waited a year to announce their discovery. Then, once the media began to show interest in their discovery, they vanished.

Was the CEO trying to boost publicity for his diving company by executing a hoax, or did the government shut them up? Neither would be all that unusual.

Source: The Mining Journal

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