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Top Gun vs. UFO (encounter revealed in files declassified today; pilot confirms)
The Sun (U.K.) ^
| October 20, 2008
| John Coles
Posted on 10/20/2008 3:44:51 AM PDT by Stoat
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:44:53 AM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Stoat; Las Vegas Dave; Quix
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:46:33 AM PDT
by
Joya
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
To: KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:47:19 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
The “tin foil hat” crowd must not be awake yet.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:51:47 AM PDT
by
Edgar3
(Welcome to the USSA)
To: Stoat
Sorry this is off-topic, but is the cockpit of that plane open?!
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:53:34 AM PDT
by
Lonesome
To: Edgar3
Probably saw an unknown model of Soviet ELINT bird that got lost from an odd angle...sheesh...
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:54:27 AM PDT
by
Braak
(The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
To: Braak
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:57:13 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Lonesome
Sorry this is off-topic, but is the cockpit of that plane open?!It certainly looks that way....not being a pilot, I don't know if that's normal or not for this sort of aircraft. Undoubtedly somebody will come along soon who can add information about that....Free Republic is teeming with experts on all manner of military and aviation subjects.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:58:00 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Edgar3
Lets see here, a classified government file released from 1957, a first hand report from the fighter pilot, why do you say tinfoil?? sounds legitimate to me.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:58:12 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(Dems Holler for your Dollars/Palin Hollers to Save you Dollars, OOOOH SARAHCUDA)
To: Stoat
smoking?....what? ..he said: ÂI was smoking, as fast as I could go...”
Was it not Merry Ole England that gave us the Piltdown Man and now, more crop-circles... ? must be something in their mutton..
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:04:02 AM PDT
by
rusureitflies?
(OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
To: Stoat
OK, but where are the declassified files and what do they say?
I hate the way British writers present stories - with words, but no information; and always with some stupid tag line or pun somewhere. Yeah, I’m slightly off topic - bugger me.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:05:13 AM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
To: Stoat
Milton said: It was some kind of alien snooping over England. I guess well never know what it was. NCC-1701?
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:07:17 AM PDT
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: lefty-lie-spy
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:11:06 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
Cheers. I searched the archives and couldn’t find them.
I should have searched the UK Archives, not the US. :)
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:14:09 AM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
To: tet68
A hawk hunts a flock of panicked starlings. Hawks commonly follow migrating starlings and blackbirds.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:19:16 AM PDT
by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Edgar3
The tin foil hat crowd must not be awake yet.
Ahhh, but the 'it must have been swamp gas' crowd is, hence your post.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:24:07 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history.)
To: Stoat
Only the Brits would scramble ONE single-pilot aircraft (only one eye witness) armed with 24 ground attack missiles (Sabres could not carry 24 air-to-air anything except gun rounds) to attack something the size of an aircraft carrier ... that might be armed itself.
Despite the official nature of this ‘report’ it has BS all over it.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:27:50 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: Braak
Probably saw an unknown model of Soviet ELINT bird that got lost from an odd angle...sheesh...Yep, an ELINT bird the size of an aircraft carrier.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:29:24 AM PDT
by
Joiseydude
(Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
To: eastforker
“Lets see here, a classified government file released from 1957, a first hand report from the fighter pilot, why do you say tinfoil?? sounds legitimate to me.”
You overlook a key point.. the size of an aircraft carrier on his radar “
No one saw the craft, they saw only a radar image.. It means nothing.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:30:20 AM PDT
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: Lonesome
Sorry this is off-topic, but is the cockpit of that plane open?! The pilot has the canopy slid back for some reason; odd, but not impossible: there'd be some airspeed above which the canopy had to be closed but below that, no problem. The plane is landing, incidentally (airbrakes are deployed), so there might be some problem and the pilot is cautiously making sure he can get out if it all goes pear-shaped.
Wrong model F-86, anyway: the rocket-armed one was the F-86D, which only had about 25% parts commonality with the basic F-86.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:41:35 AM PDT
by
Grut
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