U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus.
On 24MAY2011, an Armée de l’Air NATO two seat Mirage 2000D crashed in Afghanistan. The crew ejected and survived.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus.
U.S. Army and Marines, along with French and Italian troops, conducted an 81 miles (130 kilometers) combat logistics patrol to retrieve the French jet. Some personnel arrived by V-22 Osprey.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 25MAY2011.
There is confusion about where the plane crashed; Lieutenant Colonel Eric de. Lapresle, of the Armée de l’Air, said it happened 100 km West of the city of Farah (in Farah Province), but U.S. DoD information (attributed to USMC 12th Marine Corps District) stated it happened northwest of Forward Operating Base Delaram in Nimruz Province, which is South of Farah (some DoD reports incorrectly put Delaram in Helmand Province which is Southeast of Farah).
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 25MAY2011.
For more confusion, some of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) reports claims the Mirage is a 2000-5F while the French air force says it is a two seat 2000D. The 2000-5F is an upgrade of the single seat 2000C, however, the photos clearly show a two seater. To make things more confusing, some USMC sources refer to the Mirage as an ‘F-2000’.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
The French Mirage 2000D was operating with a Mirage F1 in assisting Italian NATO troops who had come under fire. It’s thought the Mirage 2000D developed technical problems.
26MAY2011. Photo via USMC.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.
An M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle was used to tow the wreckage to a new location for disassembly.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 26MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
Personnel worked to remove the flares from the spine of the 2000D.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
Photo via USMC.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
The aircraft was considered a total loss, and to hasten the recovery effort it was decided to quickly remove the wings by using C4 plastic explosives. ‘Purple-K’ was poured into the wing root to try and prevent the spread of any internal fire that might be caused by the explosion. Note the detonating cords leading to the blocks of C4.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
A Heavy Expanded Military Tactical Truck (HEMTT) off-loaded portable fire fighting equipment before the big-bang.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
Photo via USMC.
Photo via USMC.
A MTVR MK36 wrecker truck, and the M88A2, were then used to pull the wings off the Mirage.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
Photo via USMC.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
The M88A2 tracked recovery vehicle then hoisted the fuselage onto a HEMTT pulling a vehicle trailer.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 27MAY2011.
USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Jeff Kaus, 28MAY2011.
“And I saw The Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from Heaven from beside God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.”-Revelation 21:2, Aramaic Bible
They’ve been happening since the end of 2010, Sky Cities making appearances over coastal cities in Southern China. The most recent was over Yangtei City, in August 2019, and even got the attention of the official communist government TV news known as CCTV:
Here’s a May 2018 video from another communist government TV channel, CGTN. What looks like a giant apartment building “near Beach #1 in Qingdao” in the background, it seems to appear on the ground:
The government controlled news media dismisses these as mirages. I’ve seen mirages of water caused by heat waves rising off hot desert roads or dry lake beds, but they are not ‘steady’ like these. The mirages of water I’ve seen are wavy, from the heat rising, and it’s that wavy-ness stirring up the air molecules that give the effect of water on the road or dry lake bed, and they don’t last long, simply shifting your perspective can make them go away. I have never seen a steady, sharp edged mirage that reaches up into the sky and lasts for long periods of time!
Here’s a video from 2011, Xin’an river, which looks to be near flood stage. The problem I have with it is that it’s hard to tell which is the Sky City and which is the real city, there’s no explanation in the video:
CGTN video, March 2016, skyline appears just above the water along the port of Dalian in Liaoning Province:
One possibility is the melting of glaciers is not only flooding the oceans with fresh water, but permeating the air with humidity. However, if you compare the images in the sky with the landscape on the ground they are very different. The sky cities appear to me as if they were megalithic blocks, something you’d see in an early science fiction silent film movie about a stark future-city. Is this what inspired the megalith builders of the super ancient times?
Is it possible that increased humidity in the air can project an image of one city over another city? China is full of what the ‘western’ news media calls ghost cities; giant cities built but never populated with people, and many were built in the desert regions of China:
In the June 2018, Australian Broadcasting Company’s (ABC News) video you can see some of the buildings in those ghost cities look like blocky megaliths. Also note that there are lines of unfinished buildings with construction cranes still present. In some of the videos of the Sky Cities you can barely make-out what looks like construction cranes. Again, is it possible that atmospheric conditions caused by Climate Change is projecting ghost cities from desert regions into the sky above coastal cities?
In this video, from Xinhua, a ghost city in China’s Inner Mongolia with fog wrapping the lower half of the buildings, it look just like the Sky Cities that appear over water in other parts of China:
Note that at the beginning of this article I pointed out that the first Sky Cities appeared in 2010, that’s about ten years after the construction of the ‘ghost cities’ was started, that’s enough time for many of the buildings to be nearly finished.
Are they human made holograms? Hologram technology has advanced so far that now they can even create the sensation of touch and sound! Here’s a November 2019 explainer from C/NET:
The C/NET report shows you how far hologram tech has come in just the past two years. Here’s an NBC News explainer about how holograms work, as of January 2018:
For those of you who are too religious, natural mirages or human made holograms do not refute End Times signs, it could back them up with scientific explanation.
The natives of the Southwestern area of United States not only talk of Sky Cities, some of them still live in Pueblos. That’s correct, that plateau of protruding rock in the above pic has a city on top of it! It’s known as the Acoma Pueblo.
Note the blocky megalithic appearance of the mud-brick buildings, from a distance. Unfortunately, as you’ll see in this official New Mexico video, Acoma is now a tourist trap Sky City:
For the native people of the U.S. Southwest, Pueblos came into use due to a need to escape climactic factors and even competing humans. A good example are the Anasazai who once lived on the flat lands and built their cities partially buried in the ground, but then abandoned them. Anasazai myth says their ancestors lived in the ground like ants, until the sky gods told them it was safe to come out. Archaeologists think the Anasazai civilization was ended by a catastrophic climate change (drought), and that the survivors split-up and started building in the hills and on plateaus.
The Navajo talk about The Fifth World. It is not the same as the Mesoamerican Fifth World, this appears to be the Sky World. It is above the ground where humans and other animals live (Fourth World), and below the place where the Soul (Spirits) of Living Things live (heaven?), and above that The Place of Melting (source of creation?).
The Fifth World (sky?) is connected to multiple End Time events in that it appears to be the battle ground between the Spirit World and the Fourth World of animals. Humans/animals don’t like living on Ground (Fourth World) and yearn to live in Sky (Fifth World), but the Spirits of heaven (Spirit World) routinely interfere, even saying “What are you doing here? This is not your country.”
In 2012, Columbia took part in its first participation in the USAF’s Red Flag wargames at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Columbia used their Israeli made Kfir COA (Kfir C.12, heavily modified Dassault Mirage).
In 2017 and 2016, the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, conducted ‘dissimilar’ air combat training, pitting contracted (Airborne Tactical Advantage Company [ATAC]) Israeli made F-21 Lion (Kfir, modified Dassault Mirage) against the super expensive F-35B.
Taxpayer funded ATAC operated F-21
F-35B Lightning-2
ATAC F-21, June 2016
F-21 Lions used to be operated by the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps.