Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.
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You know how you hear stories sometimes about shadowy government agencies converging on an area for no apparent reason, and then leaving just as fast as they came? People usually assume it's aliens, but I wonder how many of those incidents have been stupid shit like this.
The army/airforce actively spread rumors of aliens to hide their activities.
Military term for this is "broken arrow"
It happens more than you would think mostly by the US but also Russia. Usually they find the things pretty fast but a few are just missing and at least one I remember was underwater somewhere it couldn't safely be recovered so the area is patrolled.
Are you referring to bombs the Air Force accidentally dropped or the Navy losing nuke subs? Cause we’ve done both and no one has explained what happened to the USS Scorpion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines
Air force, I think they lost one in the atlantic or gulf in the water but they found one or two swamp ones. My headcannon for the Nemo shark submarine was a mined nuclear sub
I've heard that term before, but I had no idea that this was what it referred to. Fascinating.
There's a movie by the same name about an evil Baldwin brother recovering one to get... Something; i haven't seen it in years.
Travolta and Slater as B2 pilots, it’s cheesy but still a great action flick
Probably all of those, because it's really unlikely that aliens have come to earth and even less likely that an advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel, would ever get busted.
Agreed.
I think one of these armed hydrogen bombs they dropped on NC was never recovered. Someone said that online I didn't read it in a publication so idk.
But there was an incident in Portugal, they sent in these service members to clean up this wreckage with no safety gear and they all died of cancer and the government denied it all. Also plutonium I believe.
Probably a lot