Editing Kinross UFO Incident — Key Persons Directory (section)

== Kinross UFO Incident — Key Persons Directory ==

=== The Crew ===

==== First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. (1926–1953) ====
Pilot, F-89C Scorpion "Avenger Red." Born October 21, 1926, Mansura, Louisiana. Pre-medical student before joining the Air Force. 811 total flight hours; 121 hours in F-89. Married with two young children at time of disappearance. Temporarily assigned to Kinross from Truax AFB. Declared dead November 23, 1953. Honored by a memorial plaque in Mansura describing him as having disappeared while intercepting a UFO.

==== Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson ====
Radar operator, F-89C Scorpion "Avenger Red." Rear-seat crew member; responsible for the aircraft's onboard radar. Experienced difficulty tracking the unidentified target; ground control took over intercept direction as a result. Declared missing November 23, 1953. Less publicly documented than Moncla.

=== Ground Personnel ===

==== Second Lieutenant Douglas Stuart ====
GCI controller at Calumet Air Force Station; provided the initial official account of the intercept; identified the target as RCAF VC-912. His account became the basis for the C-47 attribution in the official explanation.

==== Lieutenant William Mingenbach ====
Pilot of the secondary alert aircraft at Kinross; launched as "Avenger Black" approximately an hour after Avenger Red. Redirected to the last known radar position of Avenger Red after the merger event; found nothing.

==== Colonel Shoup ====
Air Force officer; provided the initial official public explanation for the disappearance on November 24, 1953; stated the F-89 had intercepted an off-course RCAF C-47 and crashed while avoiding a collision.

=== RCAF Personnel ===

==== Gerald Fosberg ====
Identified in documentary research as the pilot of RCAF aircraft VC-912, which the USAF named as the unidentified target. In a filmed interview for David Cherniack's documentary "The Moncla Memories," Fosberg flatly denied that his aircraft had deviated from its flight plan or been the subject of an interception.

=== Researchers ===

==== Donald Keyhoe (1897–1988) ====
Retired Major, USMC; founding director of NICAP (1956–1969); the most prominent investigator of the Kinross case in the 1950s. Obtained and reported the alleged leaked document containing the "just swallowed our F-89" quote; documented conflicting notifications to Moncla's widow; characterized the case as one of the strongest in the UFO evidence record.

==== Francis Ridge ====
UFO researcher; NICAP representative; received the initial email from Preston Miller in 2006 claiming the Great Lakes Dive Company had found the F-89 wreckage; forwarded the claim to the UFO research community.

==== James Carrion ====
Director, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) at time of the 2006 claim; conducted the investigation that demonstrated the Great Lakes Dive Company did not exist and Adam Jimenez's claims were a hoax.

==== David Cherniack ====
Filmmaker; produced the documentary '''The Moncla Memories***; conducted filmed interviews with Gerald Fosberg and others with specific knowledge of the incident; contributed to the most detailed publicly available investigative treatment of the case's documentary record.

==== "Adam Jimenez" ====
Pseudonym or unverified identity; spokesman for the fictional Great Lakes Dive Company; perpetrator of the 2006 Lake Superior discovery hoax; identity never publicly established; ceased communications after the hoax was exposed.

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