Kinross UFO Incident — The Royal Canadian Air Force Denial

Kinross UFO Incident — The Royal Canadian Air Force Denial

Overview

The RCAF's response to the American Air Force's attribution of the unidentified radar target to a Canadian aircraft is one of the most decisive evidentiary elements in the Kinross case. It is not a UFO researcher's claim or a speculative assertion — it is a formal statement from the Canadian government's military command structure, available in the documentary record.

The American Attribution

The initial USAF explanation named the unidentified target as a C-47 Dakota*** of the Royal Canadian Air Force. According to the official statement by Second Lieutenant Douglas Stuart, the GCI controller at Calumet AFS, the aircraft was identified as:

• A C-47 Dakota
• RCAF designation VC-912***
• Traveling from Winnipeg to Sudbury, Ontario
• Approximately 30 miles off its planned course***
• This course deviation was the reason it was classified as "Unknown" by the radar controller

The RCAF Response

When the American explanation was provided to the Canadian government and made public, the Royal Canadian Air Force issued a denial. A 1961 letter*** from the Chief of the Air Staff, Department of National Defence, Canada*** stated:

"A check of Royal Canadian Air Force files has revealed no report of an incident involving an RCAF aircraft in the Lake Superior area on the above date."***

This is a categorical denial from the relevant Canadian authority. It states not merely that the RCAF was not aware of a C-47 being involved in an incident, but that there is no report*** of any RCAF aircraft in the Lake Superior area on November 23, 1953.

The Gerald Fosberg Account

A further complication in the Canadian aircraft narrative involves 'Gerald Fosberg***, identified in documentary researcher David Cherniack's film The Moncla Memories*** as the pilot of the RCAF flight (designated VC-912) that the USAF attributed to the incident. In a filmed interview with Cherniack, Fosberg:

• Flatly denied*** that his aircraft had deviated from its flight plan to any degree
• Stated he had not been the subject of an interception
• Said he had seen no signs of an American aircraft during his flight

If Fosberg's denial is accurate, then the unidentified target was not his aircraft — and the USAF's identification of the target as VC-912 was either an error or a deliberate misdirection.

The 500 MPH Problem

A fundamental technical issue with the C-47 identification that no official explanation has addressed: the unidentified target was tracked at over 500 miles per hour***. A C-47 Dakota — a World War II-era transport aircraft — has a maximum cruising speed of approximately 198 mph*** and a maximum speed of approximately 230 mph***. It is physically impossible for a C-47 to fly at 500 mph.

This means that either:

• The radar tracking of the target at 500 mph was incorrect (in which case the radar data generally is unreliable)
• The target was not a C-47

If the radar data is accepted as reliable (which it must be for the rest of the official narrative to hold), then the target that was tracked at 500 mph was not and could not have been a C-47 Dakota.

Assessment

The RCAF denial is the strongest single piece of evidence against the official C-47 explanation because it comes from the Canadian government rather than from UFO researchers. Combined with the 500-mph impossibility for a C-47 and Fosberg's personal denial, the Canadian aircraft explanation has no credible evidentiary support. It was issued in the first days after the incident and has been contradicted at every subsequent opportunity by the Canadian authorities who would be in a position to confirm it.