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.
Trans-en-Provence and the Mark on the Terrace
On 8 January 1981 a retired man named Renato Nicolaï was working in his garden outside this Provençal town when he heard a whistle. Turning, he saw a lead-grey object the size of a car settle onto the lower terrace; a few seconds later it lifted and went. The gendarmerie came the next day and took soil and plant samples — a rare case where samples were taken before any publicity. GEPAN, the state laboratory at the French space agency, found compressed soil, traces of heating, and biochemical changes in the alfalfa: plants at the centre of the mark had between a third and a half less chlorophyll. The GEPAN report is published. It does not name a cause.
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