
The Kinross Incident β A US Fighter Vanished on Radar Over Lake Superior (1953) | Conspiracy Theories
On November 23, 1953, an F-89 Scorpion took off from Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan to intercept an unidentified radar target over Lake Superior. Ground controllers watched two returns on the scope move closer and closer together β and then merge into one. When the sweep came back around, only one target remained, and it was moving north. Lieutenant Felix Moncla was 27. Lieutenant Robert Wilson was 22. There was no mayday, no explosion, no debris. No confirmed wreckage has ever been recovered. The Air Force said Moncla had been chasing a Canadian transport. The RCAF said they had no aircraft there. Seventy years later, the official record still contradicts itself. Tonight's episode starts with everything that's real β the Cold War radar chain, the polar bomber threat, the ordinary Monday evening that turned into one of aviation's most unsettling disappearances β and then builds a story about what might have been waiting underneath that water for a very long time.





