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Vol. 15 · No. 124 · Friday, 16 October 2026

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U.S. Confirms USS Carl Vinson Actually Off The Coast of Hawaii in 1941

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WASHINGTON — The White House and Pentagon have finally confirmed the location of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, admitting that the carrier is actually sailing off the coast of Hawaii in 1941 after getting sucked into a time vortex.

The location of the carrier has been the subject of intense international speculation since the Trump administration declared two weeks ago that the carrier was steaming from Singapore to North Korea in a bid to raise tensions, lower tensions, or some combination of the two.

Navy Officials have now admitted that statement was in error and reluctantly admitted that the Vinson is currently somewhere in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor, circa December 1941.

The actual location of the Vinson was recently confirmed in a yellowed photograph, discovered in the Navy's archives by the History and Heritage Command. The archives also included details on an aerial engagement with “two mint condition Japanese Zeroes,” the capture of one Japanese pilot and radio transmissions about “[L]etting the Japs do it again.”

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