Editing Kinross UFO Incident — Master Case File (section)

=== Primary Case Identification ===

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! Field !! Detail
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| Incident name || Kinross Incident; Kinross UFO Incident; the Avenger Red disappearance
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| Date || November 23, 1953
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| Time of disappearance || Approximately 6:55 PM local time (radar blips merged at approximately 7:53 PM in some accounts; timeline varies by source)
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| Location || Over Lake Superior; approximately 70 miles northwest of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan; near the US-Canadian border
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| Aircraft || F-89C Scorpion jet interceptor; USAF serial number 51-5853A; call sign "Avenger Red"; assigned to Truax AFB, Wisconsin; temporarily stationed at Kinross AFB
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| Pilot || First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr.; age 27; 811 total flight hours; 121 hours in the F-89
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| Radar operator || Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson
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| Scramble order || Issued from 30th Air Defense Division headquarters ("HORSEFLY"); relayed through Ground Control Intercept at Calumet Air Force Station; aircraft launched at 6:22 PM
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| Target description || Unidentified radar return traveling at over 500 mph; in restricted airspace over the Soo Locks; initially detected by GCI radar at Truax AFB
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| Radar merger event || Two radar blips converged, merged into one, then disappeared from the screen; all radio contact with Avenger Red lost simultaneously
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| Search effort || U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force; 29,000+ square miles searched over five days; no wreckage, no bodies, no debris found
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| Official explanations || (1) UFO was a Canadian C-47 Dakota off course; Moncla veered to avoid collision, crashed into lake; (2) Ground controller misread radar; mission was completed successfully; (3) Pilot suffered vertigo; crashed into lake while returning to base
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| RCAF response || Denied any RCAF aircraft was involved; 1961 RCAF letter: no record of any incident involving RCAF aircraft in Lake Superior area on that date
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| Project Blue Book classification || Case investigated; attributed to pilot error / vertigo; NICAP claimed case records were expunged from Blue Book files
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| 1968 development || Aircraft wreckage found near Cozens Cove on eastern shore of Lake Superior; identified as high-performance military jet; later determined unlikely to be the F-89 Scorpion; identity never officially published
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| 2006 hoax || "Adam Jimenez" / "Great Lakes Dive Company" claimed to have found F-89 wreckage plus metallic disc; investigated by MUFON director James Carrion; found to be a complete fabrication
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| Current status || Unresolved; no wreckage, remains, or explanation officially confirmed
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