A missing “nuke” from a 1950 crash may have been found off the coast of British Columbia by a diver.
A commercial diver discovered a large metal device off the coast of Canada when diving for sea cucumbers in early October, and the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) thinks it could be a “lost nuke” from a U.S. nuclear bomb that crashed in 1950, BBC News noted.
“I found something really weird, I think it’s a UFO,” Sean Smyrichinsky, the diver, said jokingly to his fellow divers once he got back to shore, BBC noted.
“It resembled, like, a bagel cut in half, and then around the bagel these balls all cut into it, molded into it…It was the strangest thing that I had ever seen,” the diver said, per TuniseSoir News.
One of the divers responded by saying, “Maybe you found that nuke they lost here in the 50s!”
“It was a mystery to everyone,” Dirk Septer, an aviation historian from British Columbia, told the BBC in talking about the nuclear bomb lost in 1950. “It was the height of the Cold War and they were just paranoid that the Russians would get a hold of it.”
Despite the military and Smyrichinsky both believing that they might have found the “lost nuke” bomb replica, that’s far from the case for Septer who says the divers’ location is wrong, given the details from the 1950 crash.
“It could be anything,” Septer said. “Whatever he found, it’s not the nuke.”
Canada is sending military ships to the site where the object is located to make sure it’s not active and doesn’t pose a threat to anyone.
In February of 1950, the engine of a U.S. Air Force B-36 aircraft caught fire while in route to Texas from Alaska, and it was said to have been on a training mission, at the time, TuniseSoir noted. The plane had intended on carrying out a simulated nuclear attack on San Francisco.
Even though the nuclear bomb — that weighed nearly five tons — was unable to cause a nuclear explosion, it was still considered to be loaded with explosives.
“Without a real bomb the support systems could not be tested,” the co-pilot of the 1950 flight said in a 1998 interview, according to TuniseSoir. “There were some dummy bombs made of concrete that were used for load testing, but we weren’t carrying one of those.”
“This mission was to be as real as it gets short of war…The large amount of TNT in the bomb could have caused major damage where it would have impacted.”
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