Disappearing Aircraft You would think in our modern times, it would be impossible for a plane to disappear, but this has been proven to happen time and time again. Sometimes it was from natural causes, but sometimes it has been claimed UFOs have had a hand in these disappearances. In the beginning of flight disappearing planes were to be expected because there were no “Black Boxes” to alert us by electronic signal. As we progressed however, we started installing radar all over the earth. A large portion of the earth is now subject to radar tracking and soon it is being said we will be able to track every plane from space. Over the years since aviation was invented, there have been many reports of aircraft disappearing without a trace. There are those that fly off and are never seen again and now there are those that disappear while being watched. The ones that disappear before our eyes may be due to a new technology that I have discussed before, it is called active camouflage. The military had been developing this for years. It is merely the application of liquid crystal screens on the bottom of a plane and cameras on top. This produces the effect of broadcasting the sky above the plane to the screens under the plane, making the plane seem to become invisible. There is also a new material which bends light and will make anything it covers invisible. But it is the other type of disappearing aircraft that I am interested in, the type that take off and are never seen again and no wreckage is ever found. Let’s start with August 18, 2004. A small plane was seen having problems by four different people. The plane was flying over Delamere Forest in Cheshire, England. Search parties of hundreds of people searched where the plane was seen going down and even archers who knew the woods like the back of their hands were unable to find anything. It seems the plane disappeared without a trace. This was not the first time a plane has disappeared this way, as a matter of fact it must have happened hundreds or even thousands of times before. While this happened 15 years ago, this kind of thing is still going on. One would think with all the miniature electronics available which can give out a signal, it would be easy to find a plane, so why isn’t this mandated on small aircraft? There is a story of a Cessna aircraft which was circling over the airport at Grand Turk, Bahamas. The tower was trying to contact the pilot a Ms. Cascio. There was a passenger in the plane. They could not contact her but could hear her talking to the passenger, she was saying things like, this has to be the right island but how come there are no buildings here? The island is deserted but according to the map, this should be the right place, etc., and they could hear the passenger agreeing with her. It just made no sense. After about an hour of circling she flew into a small cloud bank and never emerged from the other side. No trace of the plane was ever found. This seems to be one of those cases where a plane has flown into a time warp field, if they exist. If this is true how come the voices of the pilot and passenger could be heard? There have been other cases like this, cases where people were looking out of a plane and saw the past or future of the land below. In 1935 British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard was flying from Edinburgh, Scotland to Andover air base in England and flew over an abandoned airfield at Drem near Edinburgh. His plane flew into a storm and it suddenly vanished and he could see people on the ground in strange uniforms and planes too advanced for the British Air Force such as monoplanes which the British had none of in 1935. In 1939 the British Air Force adapted the uniforms for their mechanics he had seen years before and received monoplanes and painted some planes yellow like the ones he saw. Some people think UFOs are involved while others think it is the supernatural. The supernatural crowd bases their case on things like the crashing airplane that is heard many times by people in Langham in Norfolk, England. This is the site of a former World War II U.S. air base. It is said that sometimes you can see the ghostly crew walking the grounds of the old base. But let’s get on to more disappearing aircraft. A very famous incident of multiple planes disappearing took place on December 5, 1945 off the coast of Florida. A flight of 5 Navy Avengers vanished without a trace after indicating by radio that they were lost and couldn't tell what direction they were going in. To make the story even stranger a Navy rescue seaplane that was sent after them also disappeared, never to return. A huge 5 day search ensued with over 200 aircraft and many ships but nothing ever turned up. Again, on December 27, 1948 a commercial flight was traveling in the area and disappeared. Of course, there is another famous case that has to do with a fighter trying to catch a UFO. On November 23, 1953, Lt. Felix Moncla's plane was being directed toward a UFO by radar. His plane disappeared over Lake Superior, it disappeared without leaving any wreckage of any kind. Is it only aircraft that disappear mysteriously? No many ships have disappeared too, as have NASA space craft. A Mars orbiting spacecraft that cost 125 million dollars disappeared just when it was to go into orbit. This was not the first Mars orbiter to vanish. In 1993 a One Billion Dollar orbiter also disappeared. There are many theories of what happened but nothing was ever proved or wreckage sighted. So, what does all this prove? Unfortunately, not much except there does seem to be some strange things going on from time to time. It is a good bet, as far as I am concerned, there is something that effects the instruments on planes every so often. It may be atmospheric, magnetic, electrical, or who knows? But what else could account for so many planes losing their ability to find the direction they are going in? The plane over the Bahamas was a really strange story and I don't think anything we could come up with here would be reasonable, or could account for this. I think we just have to accept the fact we don't understand everything that happens on this planet.
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