The Kinross Incident (1953)
On November 23, 1953, an F-89 fighter jet took off from Kinross Air Force Base, Michigan, to intercept an unidentified object detected by radar over Lake Superior. Controllers watched the two radar blips converge, merge, and vanish together from the screen. Neither the aircraft nor its two crew members, Lieutenant Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson, were ever found.
Witnesses
2 airmen (missing), radar controllers
Why it endures
A military interception case documented by radar, with the total and never-resolved disappearance of a fighter jet and its crew.
Official version (contested)
The Air Force claimed the target was a Canadian C-47 aircraft, but the Canadian government has consistently denied that any of its planes were involved that night.