A diver in British Columbia stumbled upon a mysterious object in the Pacific Ocean, initially mistaking it for a UFO. However, the reality of the discovery turned out to be much more concerning than expected.
Amid growing global tensions, increased attention is now focused on the US military’s history of losing nuclear weapons over the years. Currently, there are six unaccounted-for nuclear warheads in the possession of the US, each capable of causing massive destruction to entire cities.
In 2016, the Canadian navy launched an investigation after Sean Smyrichinsky reported encountering what appeared to be one of the earliest incidents of a “broken arrow,” a term used by the US military for accidents involving nuclear weapons.
Sean described finding a peculiar 12-foot-long object shaped like a UFO at the bottom of Haida Gwaii, an island chain located 80km off the British Columbia coast. He detailed the object’s unique features, likening it to a halved bagel with large bolts resembling half spheres.
After sharing his discovery with his crew, Sean realized the object might be related to a “lost nuke” incident involving a Mark IV bomb that went missing in the Pacific following a B-36 bomber crash during the Cold War era.
The Mark IV bomb, a massive 10-foot nuclear weapon weighing around five tonnes, disappeared during a training flight in 1950. The crew of the bomber allegedly ejected the bomb into the ocean, claiming it was a dummy capsule containing lead rather than a functional plutonium core.
Despite initial assertions that the lost bomb was non-threatening, subsequent revelations in 1994 confirmed that the Tybee Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, lost during a mid-air collision, was indeed a fully intact nuclear weapon.
Sean’s inquiry into the mysterious object led him to believe it was likely a piece of the missing bomb he had come across while diving. Following his report, the Canadian Department of National Defence expressed interest in the matter and announced plans to dispatch a vessel to examine the object.
While the Canadian government maintains that the object is a dummy, a specialized team will assess any potential risks posed by the object and decide whether it should be retrieved or left undisturbed.
