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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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Top Gun vs. UFO

 
Locked on ... Sabre jet had UFO in sights

Locked on ... Sabre jet had UFO in sights

 

 
 
 

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.

 

Tale ... Milton Torres as a young man, and today

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.

 

j.coles@the-sun.co.uk



TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: closeencounter; topgun; ufo
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To: Quix

Yur welcome...thought you’d get a kick out of that!


181 posted on 10/21/2008 11:13:47 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Good clear narrative report.

I’d like to see some of the naysayers with fossilized brains debunk it. Just for kicks.

Printed it off to read it.

thx


182 posted on 10/21/2008 11:20:48 AM PDT by Quix (GLOBALIST PLANS FM 1900 ON #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)
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To: lefty-lie-spy
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.

Well, I'm slightly late to the topic, but I'll answer anyway. I happen to know a few brits (including an in law) and its been my conclusion that the ones that I know do a lot of crazy-making. Short on real honesty and facts, long on extraneuos stuff, and lots of joking. I didn't know if it was just the ones I knew, or some sort of national trait.

183 posted on 10/21/2008 8:32:57 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: tet68

This must have cleared up Art Bells constipation !


184 posted on 10/22/2008 3:38:14 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: silverleaf

Thank you for sharing that about your dad.


185 posted on 10/22/2008 7:33:12 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: Quix

“I’m sure the FAA and military radar types . . . such as the FAA director over Alaska who retained a copy of the radar tape of the JAL flight wherein a UFO larger than an aircraft carrier played cat and mouse with the freighter for more than 45 minutes . .”

I had never read about JAL 1628 - that is very interesting, particularly the FAA investigator’s comments.


186 posted on 01/07/2009 6:35:23 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: seemoAR

I’ve heard that Okinawa was a great place to see all kinds of things . . . an Army buddy of mine took a pic of the SR 71 way before it was safe to do so . . . there.


187 posted on 01/07/2009 7:37:06 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs QUOTEs FM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: WoofDog123

I thought so, too.

I think his speaking report of same is on YOUTUBE.


188 posted on 01/07/2009 7:38:28 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs QUOTEs FM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
I was TDY at Kadena AFB the winter of 1965 and 1966. I didn't want to leave. It was a different sort of place. The modern parts of the towns had indoor plumbing, draining to raw sewage ditches outside, that drained to the ocean. It had a smell you had to get used to. ;0)
189 posted on 01/08/2009 2:58:36 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: Reeses

Believe what you like about the hawk. The starlings are really on a mission to find a freshly washed car.


190 posted on 01/08/2009 3:02:40 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: seemoAR

i THINK I started reading extensively about it around 1962.

Studied it a lot since.

Thx.


191 posted on 01/08/2009 3:50:09 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs QUOTEs FM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: seemoAR

Taiwan was a lot the same in 1970.

Very different now!

Thx.


192 posted on 01/08/2009 3:52:17 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs QUOTEs FM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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