Nuclear Capable Bombers Intercepted Off The Coast Of California - Russian Saber Rattling or Were They Conducting Scientific Research On Magnetic Anomalies?

  

U.S. F-22 jet fighters were scrambled when a fleet of Russian bombers triggered alarms in the U. S. The F-22s  intercepted four Russian long-range (9,400 mile) Tu-95 Bear-H bombers, that are equipped to fire both traditional and nuclear payloads at targets from the air; along with two IL-78 aerial refueling tankers. The Russian bombers, equipped with electronic warfare and intelligence-gathering capabilities, split their course when they were intercepted by the F-22s. Two of the Russian aircraft headed towards the U. S. and got within 50 miles of the coast of Northern California.  Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets from Oregon were scrambled to visually ID the Russian bombers.

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..."

   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?