Thanks.
Ping.
UFO ping
The “tin foil hat” crowd must not be awake yet.
Sorry this is off-topic, but is the cockpit of that plane open?!
smoking?....what? ..he said: “I 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..
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.
NCC-1701?
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.
Interesting but several years before this incident my father a fighter pilot serving in Korea had an encounter with “UFO” over Korea, unknown type craft, same incredible speed (nothing known in technology at the time) when it disappeared....
he was smart enough to never tell anyone about his encounter except my mother.
Ummm. Can someone confirm that an F-86 can actually carry 24 rockets much less “lock-on” and fire all of the simultaneously?
Sabres had radar and guided missiles? Who knew?
THANKS MUCH.
IIRC, those who’ve studied the issue contend that there have been AT LEAST 200 incidents wherein we lost military personnel and planes approx 1930-1957 or some such.
In some cases, the planes disappeared entirely—not a shred of them ever found—radar indicating they were engulfed by the UFO or some such.
After some incidents of fighters being sent after UFO craft, we lost commercial airliners to UFO’s. Eventually, we got the message, and propagated orders to avoid conflict with them.
I forget if it was 200 such incidents or 600. More than a few, for sure.
This man was a racist white pilot locking onto and preparing to fire into Farrakhan’s mother ship. Calypso Louie has every right to be indignant.
I can tell you what it wasn’t : space monsters from outer space.
This thing had a different propulsion system. It was not an airplane.I think 10,000 MPH velocity as it left may have been the first clue. ;') Thanks Stoat and Quix.
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.
There is no mention of visual contact, all 1957 radar detections.
There was something there for sure, and it certainly spoofed both ground and airborne radars, without visual contact.
One of these crashed in Australia in 1964.
Best UFO evidence so far.
Posted this link in another thread...and throwing it on here as well.
Interesting stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_Incident