In 1942 and with the uncertainty surrounding what will accrue to the Second World War was the concerns of the United States fears an attack by a Japanese prospective on the west coast, describes a military historian and writer Carol Glijnz scene then says: "There was adequate information about the presence of submarines, a Japanese working at a distance from the west coast of the United States, where it was expected more attacks after the attack, which happened in the platform for oil refining in Santa Monica near the city of Los Angeles. "
Responded to the naval forces of the threats so I put 12 balloons in the service in order to guard and combing the California coast within the framework of Aarchib Squardron 32, most of the phases of the program are going softly and facilitate it did not record any incident, continued until August 1942 when crash of a balloon which carries a number (L-8) and aired on a street in the city of Dali in California, but the crew and the author of two people who are on the board did not find them on the track, on that day I was born a legend balloon ghost. it is still hard to believe the fact that any one from seeing members of the crew, and did not find the remains of their bodies at all, and still disappeared yet a real puzzle, despite the passage of more than 60 years!
Began legend balloon ghost in August 1942 and specifically in the city of San Francisco, in the early morning for a day falls on Sunday was the crew were preparing to take off in flight 101 and two Lt. Ernest DeWitt Cody (27 years) and Assistant Charles Ellis Adams (34 years) who were at the level of well qualified and experienced (and this is what made the events that took place during the next five hours, more mysterious). That morning was supposed to pilot Balmikaneki Epson P Riley Hill to be on board the balloon with the rest of the crew but he did not allow him to do that
, Says the Epson P Riley Hill, "led the Adams balloon huge and viable for guidance after the verification of safety procedures, although it has never never led the balloons small and did not trip flight in the morning only routine flight (routine) for him. And by the time little take-off ordered to stop the flight because of high humidity in the air because it may add weight to the balloon Vtjolh fall down, making our journey is safe and on board three of the men. therefore I saw that kept out Vosdt door of the balloon and confirmed closed, and then quit it. "The trip was planned to begin to leave the Treasure Island in the Strait of San Francisco, passing over the Golden Gate Bridge and then head to the islands and remote Faralon, which lies about 40 km.
Then in the north end of Ewent Reese and South coastline. The first stage of the route go with ease as planned in the task of guarding the beach, but after an hour and a half to quit, call Lt. Cody base Scoardon said: "Our four miles east of the islands of Faralon about." After four minutes re Cody contact again reported the existence of an oil slick floating on the water, and according to Riley, that was the last received words of the flight 101. moments later, when he was a good time to get further clarification of the crew has not received any response, Vafterd workers at the base the crew did not Akunan Mottaganin the remarks reported by the so kept moving
. But after 3 hours without receiving any word from the crew, the members of Al Qaeda to send alerts succession to the commander of the flight 101, but all the persistent attempts to contact suffered a serious failure, and finally the message has been received but were not coming from the flight 101 and that the balloon veered off course for a distance of 13 km, towards the beach and to the south of San Francisco also remember Ken Gillespie. In the meantime there was a swimmer and a Mr. Kabiolvia stood preparing to enter the water when suddenly saw a huge mass of gray fog coming from the center towards him,
Kabiolvia describes the balloon as it was introduced 47 feet (13 meters) and a large high above the water and suddenly hit the wheels along the sand near the edge of the beach, and then rose slightly above the top edge of the ramp to collide Finally, there are scattered ruins. Saw hundreds of people from the balloon crash witnesses before their eyes, a fall in the middle of the streets of a city of Dali, which surprisingly is not infected with any person as a result of the collision!
In the case gathered by members of the City of Daly and personnel arrived from the Navy and everyone is stunned when he did not find any trace of the lieutenant Cody and his assistant Adams, was the door of the balloon open, which is unusual in the circumstances of flight and the rod safety based on the door was not in place. Examination of Riley Hill, the ruins of the balloon and the room and found that the key driver is still in the status of operation of ON, as well as the transmitter radio is turned on and he discovered that valves of fuel as it is in the same situation that left did not touch one, and the rest of the stock of fuel sufficient to fly for 6 additional hours.
The hat Lt. Cody placed on the control panel, and two of my jacket survive missing out of three, which suggests the hypothesis that they were Albassanha before take-off as required by safety procedures, as there was a bag (a secure lock) contains the codes strictly confidential in place and also the machine gun are also present, and it seems that Cody Adams, opened the door and threw Bnevshma in the air!, investigators in the event of naval officers confirmed that flight 101 was seen by the number of ships and aircraft between the hours of 7 and 11 am, and some witnesses said that he was able to see Cody Adams Gondola in their room and it seemed that everything is going well.
Emerged immediately a number of hypotheses to explain the mysterious disappearance of two men, some hypotheses argued that Cody Adams for erasing a submarine to the enemy and when he landed to check them arrested and taking prisoners, and the rumor again talking about the two men and two realities in love with an unknown woman and possibly kill each other and threw it from the air during flight and He then fled when the airship crashed. He was also told investigators of the naval officers on their hypothesis, they believe that one of the two officers climbed out of the room Gondola to fix a mechanical problem, he fell in trouble Tiglath the other to help him but the two have signed on board.
Year after the incident, she was deemed Lt. Ernest Cody and his assistant Charles Adams among the deceased official, as well as the reform of the balloon in question after the end of the war and became known as the balloon Goodyear GoodYear, who was seen by millions during the administration of sports competitions around the country, but it was a bit of people aware of his story, the others they do not know that the air vehicle flying over their heads was a stealth blimp!
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