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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
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.
I'd tend to lean towards the "something else". There was radiation on their clothing, their skin was dark orange, and their hair had all turned grey. That's besides the orange spheres that were seen that night, AND the fact that there weren't any external injuries, but severe internal ones. Whatever they saw, they cut their tent open and ran like hell, without taking the time to put on clothes or shoes in -30°C (-22°F) weather. Oh, and one of the women was missing her tongue.
you're correct. a pack of almas or something not exterrestial could not have caused any of that. utterly creepy.
I've curtailed my camping expeditions into the desolate wilderness for several reasons, things like that being one of them... I doubt a Glock would help much in such a situation; in fact it might very well make matters worse.
I doubt a Glock would help much in such a situation; in fact it might very well make matters worse. I read about a chap who kayaked around the North Pole with just a tent, a few supplies and a .243 rifle. When polar bears started sniffing around his tent one night he fired the rifle through the tent wall, and the next morning there was a little blood but the bears were gone. I damn sure wouldn't camp in the snowy wilderness without an African caliber rifle, and without three buddies with rifles chambered in African calibers! "Okay fellas, .338 WIN MAG is the minimum caliber allowed on this trip! .460 WEATHERBYS ARE EVEN BETTER!") A Glock is what you use on yourself to keep the Injuns from scalping you alive.
From what I've heard, these little critters have a way of getting inside your head through telepathy, so any physical weapon is going to be next to worthless. As far as what sort of physical weapons they might actually have, I shudder to think what sort of weapon could cause an energy pulse to crush someone's internal organs yet leave the exterior skin undamaged.
Right, I guess I wandered off topic. The rifle prolly ain't much good against off planet hostiles (OPH?) and I was just chatting about wilderness gear in general..... I look at the pics of those pretty gals and I feel sad. Women who are tuff enuff to sign on for these excursions are really great. And, the very thought of them meeting some horrible end where it was a tossup which would take their lives-the fear of encountering some unthinkable menace or the awful fate of exposure to extreme conditions. How simply G_D awful, and I feel terrible for their families. I don't want to think about how I'd suffer knowing my friends and loved ones met such a nightmarish fate.
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#4. To: Cynicom, tom007 (#1)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#4)
Project Blue Book should have been called Project Whitewash.
#14. To: Cynicom, Original_intent, Fred Mertz, Tom007, all (#7)
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Got time for something truly eerie?
#16. To: Jethro Tull (#14)
#25. To: Original_Intent (#16)
it could have been a pack of Almas (given the force required to cause the injuries), or something else.
#26. To: FormerLurker (#25)
I'd tend to lean towards the "something else". There was radiation on their clothing, their skin was dark orange, and their hair had all turned grey.
#30. To: christine (#26)
utterly creepy.
#32. To: FormerLurker, christine, Jethro Tull (#30)
I've curtailed my camping expeditions into the desolate wilderness for several reasons, things like that being one of them...
#33. To: HOUNDDAWG (#32)
I damn sure wouldn't camp in the snowy wilderness without an African caliber rifle, and without three buddies with rifles chambered in African calibers! "Okay fellas, .338 WIN MAG is the minimum caliber allowed on this trip! .460 WEATHERBYS ARE EVEN BETTER!")
#39. To: FormerLurker (#33)
From what I've heard, these little critters have a way of getting inside your head through telepathy, so any physical weapon is going to be next to worthless. As far as what sort of physical weapons they might actually have, I shudder to think what sort of weapon could cause an energy pulse to crush someone's internal organs yet leave the exterior skin undamaged.
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