Posted on 10/20/2008 9:10:05 AM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Former US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres is convinced he had an encounter with an alien spaceship in the skies over England in the 1950s.
He was warned to keep quiet about the incident, but eventually talked about it 31 years later, the newly-released Ministry of Defence files show.
On the night of May 20 1957, Dr Torres, then aged 25, was on standby at RAF Manston in Kent when he received an urgent order to scramble.
He was told to intercept a UFO with "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia that ground radar operators had been tracking for some time.
It was so cloudy he could not see anything, but the object showed up clearly on his radar as similar in size to a B-52 bomber.
He was then ordered to fire a full salvo of 24 rockets at the object - something that came as a sobering shock to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The fact seems to be that in the last 50 years, it never came back... Makes you wonder if it was here at all.
The fact seems to be that in the last 50 years, it never came back... Makes you wonder if it was here at all.
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Can anybody enlighten me as to exactly what “24 rockets” an F-86 could carry?
Considering the B-52 went into service in 1955, I have a question... did it look like a B-52 on his radar to him then or later?
The last place that I went that was going to fire 24 rockets at me.....well I never went back either.
The only Klingons this guy ever saw, he saw in his undies..
What fighter carries 24 missiles?
...swamp gas...
I’m sure it was just a weather balloon.
OK, thanks .....was that 4 MERs of 6 each, or what? Just curious. And what were the rockets? It was well before my time.
I thought the B-52 IOCed in 1949. Gonna have to look taht up. What was he flying. I did not see it in the article. F-86 or F-84 straight wing, perhaps?
If you went visiting to another planet, and they aimed 24 missiles at you, would you come back?
Sounds like a rocket pod. They carry plenty of rockets, but they’re only dumb-fire air-to-ground, and really more useful psychologically than anything else. If true this would only serve to annoy the intruder and provoke an attack.
Oh believe me. It came back. And it made crop circles to get back at them.
The F86D was an “incerceptor; they were armed with unguided rockets. I don’t recall what they were named. The idea was to salvo them into an incoming Soviet bomber formation. If they hit something, they’d have made an awful mess of it. This was before the Sidewinder (heat seeking missile), much less any RADAR guided missiles had been developed.
Now, that is a good point.
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