1961 Greensboro B52 Crash

[kellyiom]

There's just been an update on the BBC website (can't seem to paste link in here for some reason but it was essentially saying a nuke bomb was very close to going off. It's interesting for a few ufo reasons
- seems like the govt has been systematically 'debunking' it
- sounds like something a lot of people would know about maybe?
- did these things happen more frequently than assumed ? Would a crashed ufo be a good way of covering up?

been away for a bit so got some good reading on here to catch up on!

 

[Bob Watson]

US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina – secret document | World news | The Guardian
there we go!

 

[boomerang]

Very interesting. I came away from this article with the view that, lacking a specific understanding of the hardware involved--which most of us will obviously never have ! --there is no way to personally assess how close a shave this really was. Judging by other cold war cliff hangers now in the public domain, we could justifiably assume the worst.

And how far would a government go to keep highly classifed or socially destabilizing information under wraps ? The honest answer is we can't know that either. But hypotheses about such classic incidents as Roswell and Rendlesham should be formulated with this consideration in mind.

 

[Ezechiel]

The transport of 4 megaton nukes over US airspace was crazy enough... But being made aware, 40 years later, that the nukes were secured by an iffy magnetic trigger is way over the top.

Makes you wonder how many other stupid events we'll dig out... We're all really here today thanks to the roll of a dice

...and the next time some skeptic says 'governments can't keep a secret' we can bring up this fine example and call his bullshit lol

 

[Ezechiel]

Turns out it's not a 4 megaton bomb ...

Correction 23 September: An earlier version of this story described the bomb that nearly exploded in North Carolina as having a four-megaton payload. It was in fact 24-megaton

BBC News - US plane in 1961 'nuclear bomb near-miss'

Why does this 'planet of the apes' image keep popping up ?

Little Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Little boy was 16 kiloton (16,000 tons)
This one was 24 megaton (24,000,000 tons) ... game over

 

[ALPHA ROMEO UNIFORM]

Always wondered if the B52 hit a "Vortex" as described in late Professor Ivan Sanderson 'Invisible Residents' which caused the plane to loss of altitude and then turbulence while gaining super speed? Was the flight messed with??

 

[Jimi H.]

The US dropped a nuke on Greenland, big, big scandal, also because the Danish gov kept it a secret that the US had nukes in Greenland, against Danish policy, it was only revealed in 1995.

1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Bob Watson]

10 close calls!