Kaitoku Seamount and the Mystery Cloud of April, 9 1984

So....this relates to some other research I am doing as it is a file that was collected. I found it interesting as there has never been a definitive answer as to what caused this massive mushroom cloud.

On April, 9 1984, multiple airline crews in multiple planes reported a mushroom cloud 180 miles off the coast of Japan. It reached an altitude of 18,000 meters and diameter of 320 kilometers. MASSIVE!

NOT since the great Siberian blast of 1908 or the flash recorded over the South Atlantic by a Defense Department satellite in 1979 has there been an explosive event as stubbornly mysterious as the mushroom cloud that appeared over the sea 200 miles east of Japan shortly before midnight April 9, 1984.

It was so close to cargo-laden Flight 36 of Japan Airlines that the plane's commander, Capt. Charles H. McDade, swerved away from it, began a rapid descent, ordered his crew to put on oxygen masks and radioed a ''May Day'' distress call.

''Looks like a nuclear explosion, only there was no fireball,'' he told flight controllers in Alaska. His plane was slightly jostled. ''I turned tail and ran,'' he said later.

The crews of KLM and Flying Tiger airliners, also headed toward Alaska, saw the cloud too. All were flying above a 14,000-foot cloud deck from which a bulb appeared, soaring at an estimated 500 miles an hour. The bulb rapidly expanded to a diameter of 200 miles - the distance between New York and Washington - then thinned and disappeared above 65,000 feet.

Source

So....I am trying to find any other information anyone may have found on this or anything about it. Was there a massive volcanic eruption? Was it a new type of bomb tested by the Soviets? What was this truly huge cloud/explosion and why has nobody ever bothered to figure it out?

I would think a volcanic eruption of that magnitude would have surely drawn worldwide attention and scientists.

I don't have a link to the PDF on it as there are none online, but it is available in the Cejka Files at the following link:

Cejka Files

Thanks. I haven't heard of this before. Though the other two mentioned in the article are quite familiar.
I wonder if there is anything else available about this? Definitely going to have to start digging now.

Fascinating. I had never heard of this until now. Thanks for sharing it.

I shall do some investigating!

originally posted by: pfishy
Thanks. I haven't heard of this before. Though the other two mentioned in the article are quite familiar.
I wonder if there is anything else available about this? Definitely going to have to start digging now.

Yeah....I have been looking around for a little bit today and there doesn't seem to be anything else report based on it other than the one in the Cejka Files that I linked to.

Here is a link to download the PDF from my DropBox account.

Let me know if it doesn't work.

Dropbox

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Hi Vasa,

I can not see your PDF, so it might be the same,

Otherwise, here is some more info on that incident ( and others alike )

CIA Archive

A story in the NY Times.
NY Times

how did i never hear of this?
post it on the forrgotten news thread

a reply to: EartOccupant

Awesome!

70 (or more) "cold explosions"??!! Crazy! Never heard of them before until today! So as Kyle would say, "I learned something today!"

a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF

Glad i could attribute to your learning

I like learning... the problem is .. it brings me more questions

www.cia.gov...

And here's a Remote Viewing session of the explosion, I think.