If not for a Spanish fisherman who saw something and said something, the U.S. Air Force might never have recovered a missing hydrogen bomb during the Cold War. On Jan. 17, 1966, Francisco Simo y Orts was going about his day in the coastal town of Palomares when a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber and KC-135 Stratotanker collided during a refueling mission. The subsequent explosions caused Orts to look skyward, where he saw what he believed to be a crew member strapped to a parachute . Orts reported