RAF pilot ordered to shoot down UFO in 1957.

[Rik Meleet]

A FORMER Top Gun told yesterday how he was ordered to shoot down a massive UFO — over NORWICH.

RAF controllers told US pilot Milton Torres to “lock on” and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city.

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A FORMER Top Gun told yesterday how he was ordered to shoot down a massive UFO — over NORWICH.

RAF controllers told US pilot Milton Torres to “lock on” and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city.

But as he came within seconds of firing at the alien intruder — “the size of an aircraft carrier” on his radar — it vanished at 10,000mph.

The amazing close encounter is revealed in secret Ministry of Defence X-Files which are declassified today.

Milton said: “It was some kind of alien snooping over England. I guess we’ll never know what it was.”

The incident happened in 1957 when Milton was a 26-year-old US Air Force lieutenant based at RAF Manston in Kent.

At 11pm one night he was ordered to scramble in his F-86D Sabre fighter to attack a “bogey” hovering above Norfolk.

Speaking about it publicly for the first time, he said: “I was told I would be firing a complete salvo, all 24 rockets. I was pumped up — this was the sort of thing that happened before a war.”

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He got the UFO on his radar and closed for the attack at the Sabre’s top speed of almost 700mph — then it disappeared off his screen in a flash.

Milton, now 77, said: “I was smoking, as fast as I could go. This thing had a different propulsion system. It was not an airplane.”

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vtt_rGLNLM

What to make of this ?

 

[Labtec600]

Didnt know the Sabre carried that many rockets and could go that fast.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

There was a thread about this a week or so ago. A similar argument ensued.

 

[History_Buff]

This was actually posted and discussed here about 3 weeks ago.

 

[Rik Meleet]

There was a thread about this a week or so ago. A similar argument ensued.

This was actually posted and discussed here about 3 weeks ago.

I searched, but couldn't find it.

 

[Ansar]

I searched, but couldn't find it.

Aliens erased it.

 

[BSmith1068]

Here it is:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=296177

 

[ComradeDavo]

It's no secret in the UK that we have had several incididents with what the government/millitary has deemed 'UFO's'.

This is the main one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_Incident

 

[Rossiya]

What was a US pilot doing in England?

 

[J-man]

What was a US pilot doing in England?

During the Cold war lots of Americans where stationed in Europe.

 

[dutchfire]

What was a US pilot doing in England?

Enjoying the sunny weather?

 

[sourboy]

Yeah I posted this a couple weeks ago, and this is the 2nd copy cat thread since. lol.

 

[Berzerker]

dont they have a bunch of civilian witnesses? An aircraft carrier sized ufo would have to be up there 15-20 miles or so to escape visual detection

 

[warpus]

It's no secret in the UK that we have had several incididents with what the government/millitary has deemed 'UFO's'.

They're flying, they're unidentified, what else would you call them?

UFO doesn't imply "extraterrestial intelligence"

 

[Berzerker]

it does in this case

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

What was a US pilot doing in England?

Britain is pretty much a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier. We've operated off of your jolly rock since the Second World War.

 

[Rossiya]

Britain is pretty much a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier. We've operated off of your jolly rock since the Second World War.

It's funny, we have always referred to Bigraltar as the "rock". What does that mean that Americans say for Bigraltar? "Pebble"?

 

[bhsup]

It's funny, we have always referred to Bigraltar as the "rock". What does that mean that Americans say for Bigraltar? "Pebble"?

"Prudential Life Insurance Company"