U.S. fighter pilot: ‘I was ordered to fire 24 rockets at UFO flying over
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By Rebecca Former US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres is convinced he had an He was warned to keep quiet about the incident, but eventually talked about On the night of May 20 1957, Dr Torres, then aged 25, was on standby at RAF He was told to intercept a UFO with "very unusual flight patterns" over East It was so cloudy he could not see anything, but the object showed up clearly He was then ordered to fire a full salvo of 24 rockets at the object – American fighter pilot Milton Torres was ordered to shoot But before he could carry out this instruction the UFO suddenly darted off The next day a man claiming to be from the US National Security Agency Dr Torres, now 77 and living in Miami, Florida, said he was flying at about He said: "I think it was an alien spacecraft. It had a propulsion system that Until 1967 the MoD had a policy of destroying UFO files every five years This means the incident could have vanished without a trace had Dr Torres not The retired civil engineering professor urged people with more information "There are people who are still alive on Earth who know about this. I’m Dr David Clarke, a UFO expert and journalism lecturer, suspects the US "I think the most likely explanation is that he was basically a pawn in some Close encounters: Numerous UFOs have been sighted above But Dr Torres remains convinced what he saw on the radar came from beyond our Secret MoD documents released for the first time also show how the captain of As the pilot began his descent into Heathrow, he saw something alarming Shaped like a missile, the object suddenly veered across the airliner’s path Travelling at an estimated 120mph, it passed less than 1,000ft from the Sketch of a UFO: This picture has just been released by The documents reveal that Ministry of Defence staff accept that an The incident took place at 7.58pm on April 21, 1991, and was investigated by Having ruled out the possibility of it being a missile, weather balloon or The unexplained close encounter is one of many recounted in military UFO The Alitalia aircraft was on a routine flight from Milan to Heathrow with 57 He told accident investigators: ‘I saw for about 3.4 seconds a flying object, ‘At once I said, "Look out, look out" to my co-pilot, who saw what I had ‘As soon as the object crossed us I asked the ACC (area control centre) Enlarge Another sketch of a UFO seen by a member of the public<\/p>\n At 10.25pm that night there was a report to Brentwood police in Essex of a Southern TV also broadcast a story about a 14-year-old boy who reported Radar images of the object showed that the UFO was initially labelled ‘cruise On July 2 a secret MoD report concluded: ‘These departments have not been ‘In the absence of any clear evidence which could be used to identify the Other incidents recorded in military files the same year include a ‘wingless
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\nencounter with an alien spaceship in the skies over England in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
\nit 31 years later, the newly-released Ministry of Defence files show.<\/p>\n
\nManston in Kent when he received an urgent order to scramble.<\/p>\n
\nAnglia that ground radar operators had been tracking for some time.<\/p>\n
\non his radar as similar in size to a B-52 bomber.<\/p>\n
\nsomething that came as a sobering shock to him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\ndown a suspected UFO in 1957 over East Anglia <\/p>\n
\nand disappeared from his scope in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n
\nthreatened him with losing his flying status if he told anyone what
\nhappened.<\/p>\n
\nMach 0.92, while the UFO was travelling at over Mach 10.<\/p>\n
\nwas beyond us – either magnetism or anti-gravity."<\/p>\n
\nbecause they were considered of "transitory interest".<\/p>\n
\nbeen moved to mention it at a USAF veterans reunion in 1988.<\/p>\n
\nabout the strange encounter to come forward.<\/p>\n
\ntalking about the RAF, USAF, whatever," he said.<\/p>\n
\nmilitary may have been testing a top-secret machine designed to project phantom
\naircraft on to Soviet radar.<\/p>\n
\nsort of exercise involving electronic spoofing warfare," he said. <\/p>\n
\nthe UK skies<\/p>\n
\nsolar system, insisting: "This is something that’s not man-made."<\/p>\n
\nFlight AZ 284 had a similar close encounter to Milton Torres.<\/p>\n
\noverhead. <\/p>\n
\ncausing the pilot to shout ‘Look out!’ as he attempted to avert a mid-air
\ncollision 22,000ft above the Kent countryside. <\/p>\n
\npassenger jet before disappearing from radar screens, leaving the pilot and
\naccident investigators baffled. Enlarge <\/a><\/p>\n
\nthe National Archives<\/p>\n
\nUnidentified Flying Object zooming above Lydd caused the near miss. <\/p>\n
\nthe Civil Aviation Authority and military experts. <\/p>\n
\nspace rocket, the MoD was forced to conclude that it was a genuine UFO and close
\nthe inquiry. <\/p>\n
\ndocuments released today by the National Archives. <\/p>\n
\npeople on board when the ten-foot long object, which had no exhaust flame, was
\nspotted by pilot Achille Zaghetti. <\/p>\n
\nvery similar to a missile, light brown coloured. <\/p>\n
\nseen. <\/p>\n
\noperator if he saw something on his screen and he answered, "I see an unknown
\ntarget 10nm ( nautical miles) behind you".’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n
\ndark flying object in the sky which had no engine noise or lights. <\/p>\n
\nseeing a missile flying at low level before climbing through the cloud and
\ndisappearing on the same evening.<\/p>\n
\nmissile??’ but checks on Army firing ranges and U.S. and British naval ships
\nestablished that it was not a military weapon or ‘space related’ activity. <\/p>\n
\nable to confirm the identity of the object sighted by the Alitalia crew. <\/p>\n
\nobject, it is our intention to treat this sighting like that of any other
\nUnidentified Flying Object and therefore we will not be undertaking any further
\ninvestigation into the sighting.’ <\/p>\n
\nprojectile’ seen on June 17, 1991.<\/p>\n