UFO?
In 2007, a video was uploaded to the internet. It claimed the video was captured off an aircraft carrier, and that the uploader had smuggled the content off. Eventually, though, the US government and the department of defense did confirm that these videos involved real unidentified flying objects that had an encounter with Navy fighter jets.
In 2004, the US Navy was conducting exercises off the coast of San Diego. Technicians were puzzled by a series of radar tracts that conducted strange and seemingly impossible maneuvers. When the tracts appeared again, navy officers looked out through binoculars to see white specs floating above the surface of the ocean. When fighter jets took to the sky, later on, they were instructed to investigate. What they saw was very strange. There was a white capsule-shaped object that resembled a tic tac floating above the ocean. Its movements were quick and seemingly effortless. As the jet approached, the UFO realigned itself and disappeared at a quick speed.
A new group of fighter jets soon took to the skies. This time, they were outfitted with very advanced camera systems. The object they encountered was also very strange with its movement sudden and sporadic. When they got a lock on the object with the camera, the infamous video was produced.
These videos are absolutely extraordinary and make people wanting to know more. However, according to navy witnesses, subsequent videos were erased by people boarding from helicopters.
Two more subsequent videos came into the light of similar events. In summer 2014, another naval fleet, strange tracts appeared on radar. Two videos were taken.
According to the pilots, the UFO appeared to be rotating.
For the third video:
According to witnesses, most senior officers of the ship were unfazed by what they saw. It seems likely that the government does not see these objects as a threat. Whether these floating objects were military assets or something foreign, a lot of mystery surrounds these videos and the eyewitness accounts.
Lemino. (2020). Extraordinary till Proven Otherwise. Retrieved from youtube.com/watch?v=SpeSpA3e56A.
A Tokyo Crash
On August 12, 1985, a Boeing 747 prepares to take off from Tokyo to Osaka. The plane’s history was troublesome. Years before, the tail scraped the runway which caused the repair of the bulkhead, the wall at the tail of the plane that helps maintain cabin pressure. The two halves of the bulkhead were not joined properly. After nearly 12,000 cycles of taking off and landing, the pressure built up for the bulkhead was too much. The joints holding the two halves of the bulkhead together snapped. Few minutes after takeoff, an explosion rings out in the plane as the bulkhead collapse and air burst through.
The explosion was so intense that it blew off the plane’s tail fin. Hydraulic lines are severed, meaning the pilot can no longer control the rudder.
Because there is no bulkhead, the cabin depressurizes. The crew desperately tries to regain control of the plane. But it’s shaking violently. The plane descends miles off course and flying amongst the mountainous regions of Japan. Eventually, pilots are unable to pull the plane up, and it crashes onto a mountainside. The rescue operations were bungled as helicopters reported no signs of survivors. Worried about landing on the mountainside in the nighttime, it took until daylight the next day for rescuers to reach the crash site.
Incredibly, 4 people managed to survive. But 520 were killed, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster that involved one plane. In all, a faulty repair job had significant ramifications. Human error was to blame.
Fire on the mountain: The crash of japan airlines Flight 123. Medium. (2021, July 30). Retrieved from https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fire-on-the-mountain-the-crash-of-japan-airlines-flight-123-dadebd321224.