Other Mysterious Aircraft Disappearances and Crashes

No examination of the Kinross Incident would be complete without considering other mysterious aircraft disappearances and crashes which have some similarities with the Nov. 23, 1953 event.

The 1978 disppearance of pilot Frederich Valentich in his single engine Cessna over Bass Strait south of the Australian mainland coast is perhaps the most convincingly documented case of a possible UFO related aircraft and crew disappearance.

One year before Lt. Moncla and Lt. Wilson were lost in an air defence mission over the middle of Lake Superior, a civilian Beechcraft and crew disappeared from radar with no distress call also while flying over Lake Superior while on route to a Grey Cup final in Toronto. The recovery of some personal items from a passenger and aircraft parts does not appreciably lead to an obvious explanation for the mystery.

About two weeks before the Kinross Incident, two UFO contactees, former associates of George Adamski took off in a rented plane from an airport near Los Angeles. They were reportedly on their way to encounter a landed flying saucer. The two men and the plane were never seen again.

Less than three months after the Kinross Incident, a USAF jet, lost in Canadian air space, crashed in mysterious circumstances, into Grouse Mountain by a ski lift overlooking Vancouver, BC.

Back in 1944, a USAF C-47 transport flying 19 passengers crashed far off course into Mt. Deception on route from Anchorage to Fairbanks, Alaska. The crumpled wreckage of the plane was located on a snow avalanche high in the mountain several weeks after the crash, but no human remains were found at the crash site. What happened to the crew and passengers?

1978 Frederich Valentich disappearance

1952 Beechcraft Bonanza Flight to Oblivion

1953 Hunrath and Wilkinson Disappearance

1954 Grouse Mountain F86 Crash

1955 Inalakdere F86 Disappearance

1944 Mount Deception C47 Wreck