E-006603LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Kinross F-89 Radar Intercept and Disappearance
Night of November 23, 1953Lake Superior intercept area, Lake Superior, United States / Canada
Air Defense Command radar reportedly tracked an unidentified target over Lake Superior and guided an F-89C interceptor toward it. Hall says the two radar blips appeared to merge before radar contact with the F-89 was lost; the aircraft and crew were never recovered. USAF later identified the target as an RCAF C-47, while Hall reproduces RCAF correspondence denying a matching incident.
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“Hall reports that Air Defense radar detected an unidentified target over Lake Superior and guided an F-89C toward it; ground controllers then saw the interceptor blip close on the target, merge with it and disappear from the scope.”
“Hall reproduces the Air Force position that the target was an RCAF C-47 and that the F-89 then crashed for unknown reasons, while also reproducing RCAF correspondence stating that its records showed no report of such an incident in the Lake Superior area.”
SRC-002107 · Kinross USAF C-47 identification versus RCAF correspondence; uploaded PDF pp. 218-220
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“Hall also quotes an Air Force information sheet saying Flying Safety officials presumed the pilot suffered vertigo and crashed into the lake, and argues this does not explain the reported radar-merger sequence.”