On January 24, 1961, something not at all funny happened in the skies over Goldsboro, N.C. The wing of a B-52G bomber began to leak fuel and exploded, destroying the plane and releasing its payload of two thermonuclear bombs. (One usually does the trick, but the plane carried two on board "just in case.") The first drifted to earth beneath a parachute. Its twin, however, crash-landed in a swamp. Thankfully, neither exploded - which is lucky, considering the bombs had gone through three of the four steps toward activation. Of course, there were complications. The bomb that crashed proved to difficult to recover. Workers could only drag part of it out of the mud, leaving a chuck containing nuclear material buried 150 feet down. It's still there today, and so is the government. U.S. officials bought the patch of swamp and continue to regularly check the radiation levels. As of now, it doesn't look like locals will be catching three-eyed fish anytime soon. As it turns out, though, the Tarheels were just keeping up with their neighbors to the south. In February 1958, two Air Force bombers collided in the air over Savannah, Ga., forcing one of the planes (carrying a nuclear-capable bomb) to crash into the Atlantic. Only a month later, a B-47 bomber accidentally dropped an unarmed nuclear bomb near Mars Bluff, S.C. Frighteningly, such "broken arrow" events were all too common in that era. Five of them occurred in 1958. [From July-Aug 2005 issue of mental_floss magazine, featured in Neatorama with permission] - for more mind-boggling trivia and fun facts, visit mental_floss website and blog. |
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I was a B-52 Pilot at Seymour Johnson AFB, NC when this happened and have flown many of those Airborne Alert missions. I had also flown the mission a few days before another one of our B-52s colliede with the KC-135 Tanker over Spain and the Navy and it's little sub had to locate one of the bombs in the ocean near the Spanish coast.
Duke knew we were irrated and wanted to experiment on us. The bomb core from the MK39 Fatman was never found, why because it landed on our farm. Now I know why Dr. Corbett didn't want to deliver me at Betsy Johnson, he was downstairs drinking coffee and I came out and wasn't breathing. I was a blue baby....I guess they thought I was going to look like a freak. Another thing, everytime I was admitted to the hospital in 1964 and 1969 for breathing problems, my father was placed at Dorothea Dix Hospital. In 1972 when Duke did the testing on us, the same week May 24th my dad was placed at Dorothea Dix Hospital. They had to get him out of the way to do the testing on us. These people will stop at nothing. It is time for the truth to come out..My father went thru hell trying to protect us. When is the coverup going to be revealed? Maybe the C.T.Davis farm was a throw off to cover up where the real explosion was. I guess history would have to be rewritten. Somehow we managed to get another pond at the same time....Two on the farm. Daddy always said the government owned the farm, but it was not because of the tobacco lawsuit. Per daddy's record's at Dix he saw planes flying over in 62 and 63. So that is why they didn't issue a tobacco card for those years. They couldn't sell radioactive tobacco to the public, but it was alright for us to die. Now we know why the neighbors were dying from cancers and one had to have his thymus removed. Maybe someone will come forward and tell the truth. All of us are suffering from Thyroiditis, Thyroid Cancers, Brain Tumors..The DHHS, DOE and US Government haven't offered to pay one penny on our medical bills. Three words RADIOACTIVE IODINE 131
Someone wants the farm, Who? What evil things have taken place over the past 47 years?
It is time for closure and for the Government/Airforce to admit to what they did to us children. We and our children are suffering health wise, and this could have been prevented.
The Government/State/neighbors/family knew there was a missing core down around that area in 1958. I don't know if this was the same one that hit our farm, or their were two separate incidents (1961). The farm is in a MOA area, but not a restricted area by aeronautical charts.
So why where these planes flying over with live bombs over the farm? Have family members killed off because of this? We have been targets of hit and runs, shootings and we are tired of it. What has the fake trust got to do with it(Ponzi Scheme)? Where is the real trust that was given and then taken away back after daddy died in February 1998? What would the DENR reprensentative (won't mention his name- yet) be doing sitting in front of my house watching me all day the week after daddy died? We want answers. Daddy made several trips to the White House back in the 60's, said he knew the Kennedy's personally.. Did this have anything to do with the Cuban Missle Crisis?
We were told after daddy died that someone wanted the farm. Everytime daddy would stand up, before you know it he was put in Dix hospital. I have pulled up old records from Smithfield dating back to the early 60's concerning his fight over the tobacco issue. This was mearly a coverup.
My daughter had surgery for a brain tumor a few years back, she was #4 in the world with that tumor. The other person who had surgery right before her was from the country of Turkey, close to the same place where another incident happened in Palomares, Spain in 1966. I was also quarantined through double steel doors at a hospital in early 1993 with thyroiditis. Not to mention the other girls in the family with rare adenomas, cancer's etc.
And another question, what is up with the State of NC buying land on highway 55 (Lee Land-family) 100+ acres for over 3 million dollars. Did the state think the core landed on my grandmother's land, but got the parcels mixed up? Alot of this is going back to 1972 when the tissue testing was done from Duke and Betsy Johnson Hospital in Dunn. Where they doing paternity test on us? My wallet was stolen out of my pocketbook in 1977 in English class, in it were my social security card and my card from Duke, someone must have wanted that card. Somehow the Johnson's come into play (again family). Like I said, it is time for closure.