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As soon as he scrambled his Sabre jet from RAF Manston in Kent and headed eastwards, he saw the blip on his radar, indicating the presence of an aircraft the size of a B52 about 15 miles away, and he prepared to close in for the kill with a salvo of rockets. But the “aircraft”, judged to be hostile and probably Russian, simply vanished. The blip on the radar disappeared.
The 24-year-old American pilot's extraordinary experience on the night of May 20, 1957, which he was officially ordered never to reveal to anyone, has come to light after the declassification of another batch of Ministry of Defence files relating to reported incidents of unidentified flying objects appearing in British airspace — in this case the only known example of a jet fighter pilot being ordered to shoot down a UFO.
Mr Torres, now 77 and a retired professor of civil engineering living in Miami, told The Times that the day after he was scrambled from RAF Manston he received a visit from an American in a trenchcoat who waved a National Security Agency identity card at him and warned him that, if he ever revealed what had happened, he would never fly again.
Originally posted by Republican08
My favorite line, in the 3 rd one I think...
"If anyone tells me some bs that its a weather ballon...... WEATHER BALLOONS DON'T GO MACH 1"...
It's so true, they don't!
He asked what is it? I answered "It looks like a balloon."
(snip)
This works out to a final speed of 2160 miles/hour, an average speed of 1080 miles/hour
Originally posted by PApro
not trying to hate, but im kinda upset that i sat and watched that only to see that the object tested was man made and the cameras captured nothing.. only thing worth something was the new hanger and that is insignificant to anything.
Originally posted by PApro
not trying to hate, but im kinda upset that i sat and watched that only to see that the object tested was man made and the cameras captured nothing.. only thing worth something was the new hanger and that is insignificant to anything.