Kinross and the Aircraft That Went into the Lake
On 23 November 1953 an F-89 interceptor was scrambled from this Michigan base after an unidentified return over Lake Superior. Radar tracked both, they closed — and merged into one. Then the single return went away, and the aircraft, with Lieutenant Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson aboard, did not come back. The search found neither wreckage nor bodies. The Air Force later said the target had been a Canadian transport; Canada replied that it had no aircraft in the area. In 2006 a private expedition announced it had found an intact F-89 on the bottom; the photographs turned out to be a fake, which the organisers admitted. The crash site has still not been found.
Greifswald and the Lights over the Bay
On the evening of 24 August 1990 a group of bright lights arranged in an arc hung over the Bay of Greifswald on the Baltic coast for several hours. Hundreds of people saw them from both sides of the water, and at least five filmed them — remarkable for the time and the place: East Germany had weeks left to exist. The recordings were examined by investigators and by the military. The likeliest explanation is a Soviet army exercise with parachute flares over the Peenemünde range; some of the footage fits it, and some — by timing and altitude — does not. The footage remains one of the longest amateur video records of the phenomenon in Europe.
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