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William Kern Sidebar Article A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Cuban Missile Crisis By Sean Casteel William Kern has continually struggled to put his strange experiences into some kind of form that would at least allow for a glimmering of understanding. He most often has not succeeded at that. He is left instead with fragmented dreams and memories of moments no one else can really explain either. One of those stories follows here.
“I was assigned to a reconnaissance air group during the Cuban
Missile Crisis,” Kern recounted. “Sometime before that, just before
the Cuban Missile Crisis happened, I was deployed to a North African
country. I won’t tell you what were doing there, but I’ll just say
this: One day, I was invited—out of all the people who went on that
deployment to
“The airplane was a twin engine C-45,
and the Navy designation for it is SNB,” he continued. “It was an
eight passenger airplane, but the pilot, copilot and I were the only
three people aboard. We landed at this airbase, and I believe it was a
NATO airbase somewhere. Given the range of the aircraft and the time
that we were in the air, I believe it was probably “I was told to stay with the airplane. Does that make any sense? Why would they fly someone that far away and then say, ‘You have to stay with the airplane’? I did. I stayed with the airplane.” But after a few moments, Kern said he walked to the edge of the airfield. It is unclear whether or not he was disobeying orders at that point. “I didn’t have a great field of view from my right to my left,” he recalled, “because there were other aircraft on my right and a small building on my left. So I had a restricted field of view, almost just straight ahead of me. I could hear, on my left, the jet engines of a multi-jet large aircraft. And suddenly here it came. I could hear it coming toward me, and as it passed I could see it was a B-52. “And listen, as it passed, this thought came into my mind: ‘The plane is going to crash on the runway.’” Kern said he walked back to the airplane he had arrived in. Seconds later, the B-52 he had seen did indeed crash at the end of the runway. “It never got off the ground,” he said. “And how did I know? What made me see that? I don’t know. We were delayed in taking off while they mopped up all of that mess. The next thing I remember—I don’t remember taking off. I don’t remember flying back. The next thing I remember was what I thought was the next day. I was at work. I was doing my job. So it wasn’t just a few minutes or a few hours that had passed, it was two days that I can’t remember.” And Kern is as always stuck with more questions than answers. “Why would the military, or anybody else for that matter, take you away from your base for two days and stand you on a runway to watch an airplane crash? Unless in this period that I don’t remember—and this is what worries me and almost chokes me—is that during this period that I don’t remember, did I do something to the airplane? This has worried me all of my life.” Like many others who have experienced precognitive dreams and visions of disastrous events, Kern feels the weight of a childlike sense of guilt or responsibility for what he witnessed. While the story he tells could be an example of an abduction-related “screen memory” or even the vestiges of a military mind control experiment, it is not an easy thing for Kern to assimilate. In any case, the future is there for anyone to change. Or is it? THE END
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