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Title: Fighter Jets Ordered to Shoot Down UFO
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URL Source: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/fi
Published: Oct 20, 2008
Author: blog.wired
Post Date: 2008-10-20 14:12:16 by tom007
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Fighter Jets Ordered to Shoot Down UFO By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 20, 2008 | 12:26:00 PMCategories: Bizarro
Mcchordf86reduce_2 At the height of the Cold War -- and hysteria about alien invasions -- two U.S. fighter planes were "scrambled and ordered to shoot down a UFO over the English countryside," Reuters reports. The incident is one of thousands of UFO-related files, declassified and released by the British government today.
In one document, F-86 pilot Milton Torres describes his encounter with a huge, erratically-moving object in May, 1957.
"The order came to fire a salvo of rockets at the UFO. The authentication was valid and I selected 24 rockets.
...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.
The U.K. National Archives' 1500-page document dump undoubtedly includes other UFO doozies. Drop us a line if you find some good ones, or tell us about 'em, in the comments.
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
Tom... I have to wonder about the order of battle here. US fighter under Brit control in Britain? Possible sure, just wonder. Silent all these years???? Really have to wonder about that part.
There are multiple reports of this kind of stuff dating all the way back to WWII. Project Blue Book should have been called Project Whitewash. I don't post a lot on the subject as the kooks try to downplay it, and accuse everyone else who looks at the evidence of being kooks, as they prefer to think what they're told to think - it doesn't require thought that makes their heads hurt. My conclusion, based on the available evidence and sightings over the years, is that there is some there, there. You can even find paintings from the Renaissance with flying objects in them. The conclusion I've reached, based on the available evidence, is that we are, and have been for a long time, under observation by one or more advanced societies who are technologically well in advance of our current capabilities.
OI... Not sure if your wrote that post or whether I did. You been peekin in my mind again???????
This story takes the cake. CLICK THE PICTURE
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#14)
Jethro... thanks, never read that one before. Very interesting.
Very interesting. The data in inconclusive - it could have been a pack of Almas (given the force required to cause the injuries), or something else. Nevertheless it is intriguing.
The declassified files contain testimony from the leader of a group of adventurers who camped about 50 kilometers south of the skiers on the same night. He said his group saw strange orange spheres floating in the night sky in the direction of Kholat-Syakhl. That coincides with a fictionalized account of activities related to the Roswell incident in a book written by Whitley Strieber called "Majestic". From what I've read, those "orange spheres" come down like a falling leaf. If you ever see such a thing nearby, RUN. Hopefully you'd find a safer place to hide than what these poor people did. I REALLY would not have wanted to be on that mountain that night. It gives me the creeps just thinking about what might have happened to them. There was a movie not too long ago that involved another UFO related incident that is based on the Phoenix Lights. The name of the movie is Night Skies, it seems like it might give a clue as to what these poor folks might have gone through.
That just gave me the willies. I hate to imagine the shock, horror, fear and pain of what happened to them. If they ran into sub zero mountain conditions barefoot and without their essential survival gear (which would still be only marginal at night unless they buried themselves in snow caves) after collecting radiation sunburns and bone crushing injuries, my guess is that a great, big lizard critter suddenly materialized inside the tent intending to harvest organs (or a tongue) and, gee, what would I do if Draco was struggling with one expedition member and my tent cutting knife was handy? I'd prolly slash the tent and make a run for it in deep snow, too. Bare fear is what made folks jump from the WTC to certain deaths when the flames gave them no other choice. It is the absence of reason. If a 7 ft tall lizardy thingy suddenly materialized I wouldn't feel very brave unless he was attacking my woman/sleeping bag partner. I'd rather take an alien bullet than be cold and alone, crying icicles into my ears! :)
Thanks for the link to that incident as I hadn't heard of it until yesterday when I printed out the article and read it at home last night.
Here's another story that is high on the creep out factor; An Eskimo Village that Vanished And here's even more food for thought;
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#7. To: Original_Intent (#4)
Project Blue Book should have been called Project Whitewash.
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Got time for something truly eerie?
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Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved
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