On a rare note, files just recently released to the British Archive confirm reports that American pilots were ordered to shoot down UFO’s spotted over the English countryside during the height of the cold war.
Yahoo! News: “One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar reading like ‘a flying aircraft carrier.’
The pilot, Milton Torres, now 77 and living in Miami, said it spent periods motionless in the sky before reaching estimated speeds of more than 7,600 mph.
After the alert, a shadowy figure told Torres he must never talk about the incident and he duly kept silent for more than 30 years.
His story was among dozens of UFO sightings in defense ministry files released at the National Archives in London.
In a written account, Torres described how he scrambled his F-86 D Saber jet in calm weather from the Royal Air Force base at Manston, Kent in May 1957.‘I was only a lieutenant and very much aware of the gravity of the situation. I felt very much like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest,’ he said.
‘The order came to fire a salvo of rockets at the UFO. The authentication was valid and I selected 24 rockets.
‘I had a lock-on that had the proportions of a flying aircraft carrier,’ he added. ‘The larger the airplane, the easier the lock-on. This blip almost locked itself.’At the last moment, the object disappeared from the radar screen and the high-speed chase was called off.
He returned to base and was debriefed the next day by an unnamed man who ‘looked like a well-dressed IBM salesman.’‘He threatened me with a national security breach if I breathed a word about it to anyone,’ he said.”