A diver in British Columbia spotted a mysterious object in the Pacific Ocean, initially thinking it was a UFO but later realizing it was more concerning. This discovery comes amid increased scrutiny over the US military’s history of losing nuclear weapons, with six warheads currently unaccounted for, each capable of devastating entire cities.
The diver’s find led to an investigation into a decades-old incident known as a “broken arrow,” involving a lost nuclear bomb. The object, resembling a 12-foot-long UFO-shaped structure with large bolts, was found at the bottom of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off British Columbia’s coast.
The discovered object turned out to be a Mark IV bomb lost during a Cold War era B-36 bomber crash in the region. The bomb, which went missing in 1950 during a training flight, was described as a 10-foot blimp-shaped nuclear weapon. The US military initially claimed the lost bomb was a dummy capsule, not containing the necessary plutonium core for an atomic explosion.
Despite the military’s assertions, subsequent events such as the 1958 incident involving a Mark 15 hydrogen bomb near Tybee Island, where a fully-armed bomb was dropped and never recovered, raised doubts about the true nature of these lost weapons. In the case of the Mark IV bomb, the diver’s findings have reignited interest in locating and assessing the potential risks posed by the object.
Following the diver’s report, Canadian authorities expressed interest in investigating the object further to determine any potential hazards and decide whether it should be retrieved. The government maintained that the bomb was a dummy but emphasized the importance of verifying the object’s nature to ensure safety.