Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the Ken Ross incident and
asking what really happened. That's correct, the Ken Ross
incident, what really happened. Now this whole event happened
back in November 23rd, 1953. A very strange case.
I want to get into a little bit of the background first.
I found this over at Wikipedia and I thought they actually did
a pretty good job on it. The person involved here, the
main character is Felix Monclau and now they tell us First
Lieutenant Felix Eugene Monclau Junior.
He was born in 1926, presumed dead November 23rd, 1953.
Was the United States Air Force pilot who disappeared while
performing an air defense intercept over Lake Superior in
1953. His disappearance is sometimes
known as the Kinross Incident, after Kinross Air Force Base,
where Moncla was on temporary assignment at the time he
vanished. The US Air Force reported that
Moncla had crashed into Lake Superior while tracking a Royal
Canadian Air Force RCAFC 47 aircraft, which was off course.
According to the report, the pilot of the Canadian aircraft
did not know that he was the subject of an interception.
Because that's the narrative that they go with.
They always have to make up a story right from the get go.
Now just getting a little bit of background on Felix Moncla.
He was born in Mansura, LA October 21st, 1946 to Felix
Senior and was a high school science teacher who was his dad
was a high school science teacher, principal and veteran
of World War One and his mother was Yvonne Baradon Moncla.
She was a seamstress. It says he has two older
sisters. Not long after his father had
been hospitalized, Monkla's family moved to Morrillville,
Louisiana to live with his uncle and great aunt.
Monica attended. Monkla attended high school in
Morrillville and upon graduating from high school, accepted an
athletic scholarship to Southwest Louisiana Institute
where he played football and received his Bachelor of Science
degree. After graduation, he enlisted in
the United States Army and served during World War Two.
After his service, Monkla attended the University of New
Orleans but re enlisted in the military at the start of the
Korean War in 1950, this time joined the United States Air
Force as an officer pilot trainee.
After spending a few months at a desk job in Dallas, TX,
Montclair was sent to Connelly Air Force Base in Waco for basic
pilot training where he met married Bobby Jean Coleman.
He took his advanced pilot training at Reese Air Force Base
in Lubbock and further training at F 89 Scorpion at Tyndall Air
Force Base in Panama City, FL. In Panama, Bobby Jean gave birth
to their first son in July 1952. In July 1952, Monica and his
family moved to Madison, WI and had a daughter born five months
before Monica's disappearance. This is a young guy, 27 years
old, newly married, he's got a couple kids and then this
happens. Real tragedy.
On the evening of November 23rd, 1953, Air Force Command ground
intercept radar operators at So Saint Marie, Michigan identified
an unusual target over Lake Superior near the Soo Locks.
An F89C Scorpion jet from Ken Ross Air Force Base was
scrambled to investigate the radar return.
The Scorpion was piloted by First Lieutenant Moncla, with
Second Lieutenant Robert J Wilson acting as a Scorpion's
radar operator. Wilson had a difficult time
tracking the object on Scorpion's radar, so ground
radar operators gave Moncla directions toward the object as
he flew. Moncla eventually closed in on
the object at an altitude of about 8000 feet.
Ground control tracked the scorpion and the unidentified
object as two blips on the radar screen.
The two blips on the radar screen grew closer and closer
until they seemed to merge. Assuming that Moncla had flown
either under or over the target, Ground control anticipated that
moments later, the scorpion and the object would again reappear
as the two separate blips. There was a fear that the
objects had struck one another, but the single blip continued on
its previous course. The whole thing is they saw this
radar blip come up. Of course, this is 1953.
It's coming across the SOO locks up there.
That's the very top of Michigan, right there where it meets the
Upper Peninsula, mostly toward the West side, kind of in the
center right there. They sent up this first
Lieutenant Monica to intercept this thing.
They're assuming that it's a Canadian airplane, maybe cargo,
whatever, and let it know, hey man, you've crossed over the
border, you're on our side. You guys are lost now.
This is at night time. Attempts were made to contact
Mont La via radio, but without success.
A search and rescue operation by both the US Air Force and the
Royal Canadian Air Force was quickly mounted, but failed to
find any trace of the plane or its pilots.
Weather conditions were a factor in hampering the search.
Wow. So they're flying toward this
blip, whatever it is, and he doesn't say, hey, I see it, he
just disappears. The official US Air Force
Accident Investigation report states the F89 was sent to
investigate an RCAFC 47 Skytrain which was travelling off course.
The F89 was flying at an elevation of 8000 feet when it
merged with the other aircraft, as was expected in an
interception. It's IFF signal also disappeared
after the two returns merged on the radar scope.
So they're 8000 feet up. It merges.
So I'm assuming that's flying above or maybe below this
aircraft. And then when it should be
coming out to where you can see that's gone past the oncoming
aircraft, it disappears. It's hard to imagine he could
have crashed a plane that quickly.
I mean, he would have had to just drop out of the sky like a
rock. When you think this doesn't make
any sense, it's IFF signal also disappeared after the two
returns merged on the radar scope.
Although efforts to contact the crew on radio were unsuccessful,
the pilot of another F89 sent on the search stated in testimony
to the accident board that he believed he heard a brief radio
transmission from the pilot about 40 minutes after the plane
disappeared. Now that's weird. 40 minutes?
This thing had to be going what, at least what, 300 mile an hour?
400 mile an hour. So he would have had to be a
couple 100 miles away you would think.
US Air Force investigators reported that Mankla may have
experienced Vertigo and crashed into Lake Superior.
Now this is right where the parallel narrative starts.
Right at the beginning, the US Air Force said that Mankla had
been known to experience Vertigo from time to time.
Additional leads uncovered during this later course of
investigation indicated that there might be a possibility
that Lieutenant Montclair was subject to attacks of Verticore
a little more than the normal degree.
Upon pursuing these leads, it was discovered that statements
have been made by former members of Lieutenant Michael's
organization, but were not first hand evidence and were regarded
as hearsay. So nothing like throwing a
little bit a little bit of hearsay into the mix.
Pilot Vertigo is not listed as a cause or possible 'cause in any
of the US Air Force Accident Investigation Board's findings
and conclusions. So right off the bat, we have a
missing pilot. We have an unidentified object
and instead of trying to track down all the facts and figures,
we end up with this parallel negative.
The official accident report states that when the unknown
return was first picked up on radar, it was believed to be an
RCAF aircraft VC 912, but it was classified as unknown because it
was off its flight plan course by about 30 miles.
This assertion emphatically denied by the pilot of this RCAF
flight, Gerald Fosburg, when he was interviewed for the David
Sherniak documentary the Montclot Memories produced for
Vision TV's Enigma series. So here you go, fall guy.
So we have an unidentified object overlake superior.
They send him up. Now, this Canadian fellow, he's
30 miles away, but the US government comes in and says, Oh
yeah, this Gerald Fostag driving the RCF flight, he was the one
that we were looking for. He was, he was off course.
This guy says no way. I was not off course.
According to UFO writer Donald Keyhole in his 1955 book The
Flying Saucer Conspiracy, he received a telephone call
telling him of a rumor out at Selfridge Field that an F89 from
Ken Ross was hit by a flying saucer.
But a follow up call to public information officer Lieutenant
Robert C White revealed that the unknown in that case was a
Canadian DC3. It was over the locks by
mistake. There you go.
It looks to me like just another lie to cover this up.
I mean, first thing is they tell us, hey, there is a blip on the
radar over the Sioux Locks. OK, we'll go up and have a look.
Nothing said about this Canadian plane flying 30 miles away or
this Canadian DC3 that was mistakenly there, just this
blip. Information officer Robert C
White revealed that the. I don't think this is a
revelation. I think this is a statement.
The unknown in that case was a Canadian DC3.
It was over the locks by a mistake, right?
The locks refers to the restricted airspace over the SOO
locks at so Sainte Marie, Sioux Saint Marie, rather on the US
Canadian border at the southeast end of Lake Superior.
Yeah, restricted airspace. I don't know if you've ever been
up there on the border waters, the boundary of waters.
What are you going to call up there between Michigan and
Canada? But I've been up there and if
you get within, I don't know, probably a mile, half a mile of
the Canadian border. They've got boats out there.
They're very protective of their border, as is the US.
Well, used to be so the idea that the Canadians could just be
flying across the US border there in this protected airspace
repeatedly makes no sense to me. Now it goes on here, tells a
little bit of what happened afterwards.
This is a classic case. You have this radar, unknown
object detected on the radar. They send this piled up with
this copilot radar operator guy, go find it.
They find it, they disappear. So then what happens?
Well, immediately the government creates a parallel narrative, a
couple parallel narratives they just keep spewing out.
I mean, it takes a lot of lies to cover up the truth.
So first thing they say it was this Canadian what transport
plane? Skytrain.
And the pilot, they track him down and he says, no, that
wasn't me, I was 30 miles away. So they lied about that guy.
When that didn't work, they claimed that there was another
cargo plane that the Canadians had wandered over into
restricted Air Force airspace. How can we assume they're
telling the truth about these, either one of these planes?
And if those two planes were right in that area, why didn't
we see them on the radar? So anyway, it says it is
possible that aircraft parts found near the Eastern Shore of
Lake Superior in late October 1968 or from the missing F 89.
Sure. AUS Air Force officer confirmed
the parts were from a military jet aircraft and news reports
speculated these might be from monocles F89.
The identity of the parts was never published in the Canadian
government states they have no record of the find.
So here we go, another one of these narratives.
Well, somebody found something somewhere and that's probably
it. But there's no chain of custody,
There's no follow up. It's just a rumor that they
plant in the news media here it says, and here's another one.
There's still, there's the guy's been gone for what, 70 years?
They can't help themselves. They can't stop lying about it.
Here's 1 from 2006 Great Lakes Dive Company hoax According to a
story circulating among UFO buffs on the Internet, in 2006,
a group of Michigan divers calling themselves the Great
Lakes Dive Company discovered Montclass F89 at the bottom of
Lake Superior in the approximate location where the jet had
disappeared from radar. Another made-up story.
A story circulating among UFO buffs.
I would like to know who planted that story.
Pretty deep water out there. I would think to define that
thing at the bottom of Lake Superior would take some
specialized equipment. I know that water's really,
really cool. I don't think this is the sort
of thing that a group of scuba divers who just do this on the
weekend for a hobby would be able to pull off.
If that water is as deep as the rest of the Lake Superior and as
cold as the rest of the Lake Superior, you'd really need dry
suits and you might need, you know, specialized breathing
apparatus, all that you get down over, you know, 100 feet.
What you see the government doing here every time is instead
of looking at this whole story and thinking about it
critically, they want to tell you a child's story.
They want to treat you like a child.
Yeah, he did go up there, but it wasn't a UFO.
It was this Canadian airplane. Oh, wait a minute.
No, not that one. Oh, it was this airplane over
here. Oh, not that one.
How did the how did his craft just disappear off of radar?
Another question that hasn't been answered by the government
is this other pilot says, yeah, I heard, I think I heard a call
from him on his radio 40 minutes after he disappeared.
That's some scary stuff. What if this giant UFO just came
along and just snatched you up and you're calling from the
cargo hull, one of these things that's pretty frightening?
Let's hope not. So there's a lot of unanswered
questions about this whole case. But the one common thing that we
do see is just the way that our government just lies to us
constantly about this stuff. There's no end to it.
They just continuously make up new narratives.
Now I want to take a look at one more article on this before we
finish up. So we'll finish up with this
article from jackandkitty.com. Looks like a couple of citizen
journalists over here. The title of their article says
revisiting the Ken Ross incident.
Air Force pilot vanishes chasing UFO over Lake Superior.
They dated this July 22nd, 2024. Duluth, MN Dateline On November
23rd, 1953, First Lieutenant Felix Monclaw and 2nd Lieutenant
Robert Wilson vanished while pursuing an unidentified flying
object over Lake Superior. This event, known as the Ken
Ross Incident, remains one of the most intriguing UFO
mysteries in Midwestern history. the US Air Force claimed Monaco
crashed into the lake while tracking a misidentified
Canadian aircraft, but the real Canadian Air Force disputed this
explanation, insisting none of their planes were in the area.
So there you have it. We have what looks like the true
story. Hey, there's a UFO, go check it
out. And then we have the narrative,
oh those were Canadian airplanes.
If the one doesn't work, the other one will.
And candidates say no, not our planes.
Felix Eugene Moncler Junior, born on October 21st, 1926 in
Missouri, Louisiana, was a dedicated service man with a
rich history. He served in the US Army during
World War Two and later joined the US Air Force during the
Korean War. Moncler, affectionately known as
Jean, was stationed at Ken Ross Air Force Base in Michigan when
he disappeared. His family, including his wife
Bobby Jean, and their two children, were living in
Madison, WI at the time. On that fateful evening, radar
operators at Soul Saint Marie, Michigan, detected an unusual
radar return over Lake Superior. Monkla and Wilson were scrambled
in an F89 Scorpion jet to investigate.
As they approached the target, the radar blips are their jet
and the unidentified object merged.
Ground control expected to see the tube lips separate again,
but only one continued on its path.
Radio contact with Montclair was lost and a search and rescue
mission yielded no trace of the plane or its crew.
You got to wonder. It just so happens that it gets
right to the blip and then disappears.
You can't see it, like, go descend it, you know, off the
radar into the water. That's weird. the US Air Force
concluded that Montclair had crashed while intercepting the
Royal Canadian Air Force C47 aircraft that was off course.
The pilot of the Canadian plane was reportedly unaware of the
interception. Yeah.
So an airplane flies right over the top of you and you don't see
it, not even aware of it? I don't know, pretty strange to
me. The official report suggested
Montclair may have suffered from Vertigo causing the crash.
I'm not sure that was that in the official report.
I don't think that was that was listed as a cause.
However, this explanation has been met with skepticism,
especially since the RCAF denied having any aircraft in the
vicinity at the time. Several aspects of the Ken Ross
incident continue to fuel speculation.
In 1968, aircraft parts were reportedly founded near the
Eastern Shore of Lake Superior, which some believed would be
from monoclass F89. However, the identity of these
parts was never confirmed, leaving the mystery unresolved.
Yet. We don't even know what their
aircraft parts. They just were reportedly OK.
No, nothing. Nothing official on that at all.
In 2006, a group called the Great Lakes Dive Company claimed
to have discovered Montclass Jet at the bottom of Lake Superior,
reigniting interest in the case. This story was later debunked as
a hoax, but it highlighted the enduring fascination with this
enigmatic event. I think that this dive company
story was just planted by somebody, honestly, because why
else would you do it? Just just to throw something in
there? So the casual reader, the normie
says, Oh yeah, they found that plane.
Despite the passage of time, the disappearance of Felix Mocular
remains a poignant reminder of the mysteries that continue to
captivate the human imagination. And then they have to talk about
the monument they have down there at at the cemetery in
Louisiana. It says the Ken Ross incident is
a classic story of Midwestern UFO lore, embodying the
intriguing and mystery intriguing mystery that
surrounds many UFO encounters. To me, this is a classic case of
cover up is what this is. You see this so often in these
government cases. You have a legitimate recorded
event, in this case the UFO flying over the locks.
Something happens, so there's an official action.
In this case, they send up these two pilots to investigate and
then everything becomes murky. Then it goes up, plane
disappears, We don't see it go down the radar.
We don't have anything, any kind of a call from them.
No distress calls, no mayday calls, nothing like that.
Just off the charts. And we're to believe that he got
Vertigo. Nobody called for Mayday.
Nobody called for help. I mean, he got there OK.
How was it that he managed to fly out into into the middle of
the fly out, you know, over here to the locks several miles away.
He was able to do that, but he couldn't turn around and come
back. He flew his airplane into the
into the Lake Superior. And why didn't they?
Still haven't found it. There's no wreckage.
No wreckage came up, no body parts, no foam from the sea,
nothing like that. Very, very strange.
What we see after this whole occurrence then is the narrative
that gets put out there by the government after that.
Well, it was this Canadian airplane or it was that Canadian
airplane. They just keep changing the
story as they go along. That's the thing.
The truth never has to has to change.
The truth will stand on its own. But when you're telling lies
that cover up the truth, then frequently those stories have to
change all the time because people find out the truth.
In this case, they lied and said, well, this was this sky
train airplane flown by the Canadian military.
And somebody tracks down the pilot and he says, no, that
wasn't me. I was 30 miles away.
Definitely not me. Oh, OK.
Well, it must have been another airplane from Canada, but they
don't have any proof of it. No, I should say no evidence of
it. Then they just continue on years
later. Well, we found some 196815 years
later, well, we found some airplane parts washed up on the
shore. That's interesting.
This airplane crashes in what, 100 feet of water, 200 feet of
water, I don't know, 50 feet of water and the parts wash up on
the shore. 1520 thirty miles away somewhere.
That's interesting. I wonder how that happened.
But there's no, there's no follow up on it.
Nobody comes out and says, hey, I found these parts, let's take
these parts to an expert and determine what they are.
There's no, there's no analysis of the evidence, just a story
that shows up in a news feed somewhere.
They're seeding the narrative. Then we go along 2006, we're 53
years later at this point and we have more lice coming forward.
Well, the Great Lakes Dive Company found this guy.
Really. Wouldn't that be what kind of
dive equipment did they use? Who are the the members of the
Great Lakes Dive Team, company, whatever?
Who are these guys? Story just circulates through
the UFO community like wildfire and then it it's found out to be
a hoax. They just keep putting stuff out
there because they don't want to be accountable.
They don't want to tell the truth.
Hey, we sent this guy up to investigate a UFO and we don't
know what happened to him. Now, reportedly, another pilot
said that they heard a transmission from this poor man
40 minutes later. That's some scary stuff.
But that's just swept under the rug.
This Ken Ross case, I think it just shows you the playbook that
was used. I mean, they've been, they've
been operating out of the same playbook since the first time
they saw one of these things and they didn't want you to know
what they were. Interesting case.
Very sad case really, even though it's over 70 years old
now. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over now.