Posted on 10/20/2008 3:44:51 AM PDT by Stoat
Locked on ... Sabre jet had UFO in sights
RAF controllers told US pilot Milton Torres to “lock on” and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city.
Tale ... Milton Torres as a young man, and today
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.”
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.”
The flyer said he was visited afterwards by a sinister security official and warned not to tell anyone — so he kept silent until now.
The close encounter is in 19 files made available online yesterday by the National Archives.
Downhill?
I was just on the Midway and they had one on static display and remember reading the top speed as a little over 600 mph.
Years ago in college, they actually offered a course on UFO’s.
It was mostly an examination of the pros and cons and trying to weigh them in the balance.
Critically, when you look at things like the Condon reports, the veracity and training of witnesses, various types of close encounters, you have to come to a few conclusions.
There is some type of totally unexplained phenomena.
There are “parties” who are trying very hard to cover that fact up.
Short of the Martians landing and blasting cities with death rays, the government will probably not do any kind of “disclosure”. There are simply too many unanswered questions.
The evidence is simply too compelling, especially when it’s people and places who are trained in this area.
That guy’s apparently an air-show regular ... At this point, I think somebody has taken a photo of him taxiing, and photoshopped it into a supposed takeoff/landing picture. On landing or takeoff, his canopy is closed. That’s just weird.
F-86D Dog Sabre had an afterburning engine with 25% more power than the dayfighter and could make the high 600s
Three letters: PRP.
Thanks.
The powers that be are afraid of being lynched
for various ugly decisions they made along the way . . .
for complicity in many American deaths unnecessarily . . . sometimes very deliberately . . .
May well be other reasons as well but that’s a key one that’s been leaked repeatedly the last 10 years or so.
I have had a close relative work around the UFO technologies.
Saw them coming and going fairly routinely on his job.
I had hoped you’d be able to restore my appreciation for your critical thinking and research skills. Instead, you managed to trash it lower than ever.
Ah well . . . time will reveal many things.
But the evidence is available in the public domain . . . very high quality even tangible evidence about tangible objects.
You would do well to investigate the organization that’s done the quality vetting of the more than 3,000 cases of tangible evidence left from UFO craft. I think I ref’d it on the AZTEC thread this year. Was a high quality presentation with high quality research.
Of course, if your mind is as closed as it often sounds, don’t bother.
“Wellllllll, folks, obviously another naysayer waiting for a UFO to land in his lap and castrate him before he’ll get a clue.”
Exactly !.. I am not a denier, but a strong skeptic.
There is zero proof that there are ETs zipping around us.
Show me the beef.
In the meantime, go back to Kook to Kook radio.
A foolhardy addiction to
A TYPE II ERROR
is unimpressive
and rather unscientific.
You are required to report sightings. PRP has nothing to do with it unless you are seeing flying elephants in the room.
(I really shouldn’t have to mention this, Quix, but for the sake of others that migth have missed it as well...)
You fail to recognize tongue-in-cheek humor. Relax. It is the proper spelling if you’re in a Commonwealth country.
>>>>
How many military types have you known who were perfect spellers?
or typists?
Or proof readers?
Most such stuff was done by . . . drum roll . . .
humans.
Flawed humans.
Like those on FR.
that is a picture of a landing, not take-off. that is why the front wheel is not spinning. also, other posters have said open canopy in that situation is normal. in case of ejection, the canopy will be out of the way.
True. I’d forgotten that aspect.
Trying to get class prep finished. I often miss a lot of things.
Thanks.
The ‘zero proof’ thing
is OUTRAGEOUSLY INACCURATE at this point in time.
Murderers are executed on far less proof routinely.
Willful ignorance increasingly is not worth my bother.
Enjoy your
TYPE II ERROR consequences when they arrive.
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