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I'm not a big UFO buff but when someone told me about this incident in passing yesterday I had to examine further. I am astounded that nobody has tried to find the wreckage of this jet. They found the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald with a mini sub and that was in 730 feet of water. Why hasn't someone like National Geographic or the Discovery Channel sponsored an expedition to find and film this plane's wreckage and get answers?

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The Edmund Fitzgerald was 200m long. A jet crashing on the water surface would leave little contiguous parts in one place.

Look at the attempts to find MH370, a much bigger plane, for comparison.

Or photos of downed jets now. They're completely flat. Crashing into water must've spread it all around.

Except they don't know where it crashed. Here they have a much smaller area to search. I'm fairly certain in 1953 that even the U.S. military lacked the advanced sonar that's available to the average person to use from a boat in 2022.

Small plane wrecks are not easy to find. When people were searching for Steve Fossett in the Sierra Nevada of California in 2007 they found a number of other wrecked aircraft that nobody even knew were up there. Planes disappear.

This was the early days of jet planes so I think the simplest explanation is human or technical error. Rather than a covert attack, or aliens.

Don't rule out the complexest explanation: alien error.

Back then flying saucers were hard to operate. I wouldn’t blame the alien.

Didn't even have anti gravity lock brakes back then.

Human error, but the human was actually an alien.

I wish I could upvote you twice.

the convergence of the 2 dots followed by the only one left taking off seems extremely peculiar, though.

That plus the obvious evidence of multiple different explanations promulgated by authorities strongly suggests some sort of coverup

It seems plausible that one day someone will find it. Lake Superior should be far easier to search than say the Atlantic and presumably the freshwater will be kinder to the airframe than the salty sea.

It is still over 400 meters deep. That is not easy to search unless you have specialized equipment.

History suggests technology and access improves though. Practically everyone takes for granted daily use of what was pretty specialized equipment not long ago.

They still don't have any certain idea or majority of wreckage from MH370, the 1950s fighter is way down the list of missing things.

Wikipedia article for the pilot indicates remains of the jet could have been found in 1968:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Moncla#Reports_of_parts_...

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