Two F-15s Intercept Russian Bomber In The GIUK Gap. |
The NewYork Daily News, and other media outlets, have quoted
government sources as characterizing this incident as a training exercise or
"saber rattling". Rep. Mike
Conaway (R-Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, labeled this
as "intentional provocations." and is quoted as saying, "Putin
is doing this to taunt the U.S. and exercise some sort of saber-rattling,
muscle-flexing nonsense. Truth is we would have squashed either one of those
(bombers) like baby seals,". Retired
Air Force Lt. Gen Thomas McInerney said he couldn't remember a case of Russian
strategic bombers coming so close to the U.S. coast – even at the height of the Cold War.
The European Union Times reports that Lieutenant-General Viktor Bondarev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, prepared a report on "...the just completed scientific mission of North America carried out by 4 Tupolev Tu-95 strategic aircraft and 2 Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tankers that “electronically swept” for “magnetic anomalies” from Alaska to California; and warns that a “catastrophic event” may be nearing for this region..."
The European Union Times reports that Lieutenant-General Viktor Bondarev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, prepared a report on "...the just completed scientific mission of North America carried out by 4 Tupolev Tu-95 strategic aircraft and 2 Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tankers that “electronically swept” for “magnetic anomalies” from Alaska to California; and warns that a “catastrophic event” may be nearing for this region..."
According to the EU Times this scientific mission was the result of data gathered by a Kosmos
2473 satellite that detected "a severe mysterious magnetic anomaly"
that occurred June 3rd in the Yellowstone region of the Western
United States - that resulted in an "earthquake swarm". The report goes
on to say that this magnetic anomaly was precipitated by a mysterious
earthquake swarm that hit the Brooks Range mountains in Alaska .
Lieutenant General Bondarev states that Russian
military authorities have a grave concern of the catastrophic effect the
magnetic anomalies have on highly sophisticated inertial navigation systems
used by US, NATO and Russian warplanes. The Russians interest in "magnetic
anomalies" stems from the rapidly
shifting north magnetic pole that, since 2005, has moved 25 miles a year from
Arctic Canada toward Siberia .
The Magnetic North Pole has been shifting North. |
The report also claims that two US military aircraft were
near the boundaries of the magnetic anomalies emanating from the Yellowstone
area on June 4th "while this event was still active causing them to
crash." " The two US fighter jets crashing on 4 June,
this report continues, were identified as a US Navy FA-183 that went down when
the pilot was attempting to land aboard the carrier Carl Vinson, and a US
Marine Harrier AV-8B jet that crashed into a residential community in Imperial,
about 90 miles east of San Diego, both of them occurring within hours of each
other. It also notes that no civilian aircraft would have
been affected by this “magnetic anomaly” as only the most advanced military
aircraft employ these “geomagnetic-satellite” coordinated flight systems which
enable them to “hug the terrain” not unlike the magnetic systems used by birds
and insects to navigate.
The shifting
magnetic north pole has already disrupted airport runways here in the U.
S. prompting the FAA (Federal Aviation
Administration) in 2011 to request that officials at Tampa International Airport
change numeric designators on signs at each end of the runway. In all, over 100 sign panels and 40 signs needed to be changed, along with painted
signs on the runways. In 2013 Oakland International Airport
had to change runway numbers "to match Earth's geological shift"
according to Scott Wintner an Oakland
airport spokesman. According to the EU Times Paul Takemoto, a spokesman for the FAA said,
"The poles are generated by movements within the Earth's inner and outer
cores, though the exact process isn't exactly understood. They're also constantly
in flux, moving a few degrees every year, but the changes are almost never of
such a magnitude that runways require adjusting."
Are there "magnetic anomalies" occurring in North
America - triggering "events" in Yellowstone
and the Rocky Mountains ? Could it be that the Russians
are sincerely concerned, as the EU Times reports, and "We may be on the
verge of a catastrophic North American event that could possibly change the
world forever, we should be prepared."
Or was this fleet of Russian war planes flying off of our Northern
California coast simply a matter of saber rattling?
What do you
think?