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 well 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 Sabres 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.
Yur welcome...thought you’d get a kick out of that!
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
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.
This must have cleared up Art Bells constipation !
Thank you for sharing that about your dad.
“Im 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.
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.
I thought so, too.
I think his speaking report of same is on YOUTUBE.
Believe what you like about the hawk. The starlings are really on a mission to find a freshly washed car.
i THINK I started reading extensively about it around 1962.
Studied it a lot since.
Thx.
Taiwan was a lot the same in 1970.
Very different now!
Thx.
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