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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???????
#12. To: Cynicom (#7)
OI... Not sure if your wrote that post or whether I did. You been peekin in my mind again??????? Nah, my telepathic abilities are minor and erratic at best. More like a convergence of minds upon an unavoidable truth.
This story takes the cake. CLICK THE PICTURE
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#7. To: Original_Intent (#4)
Project Blue Book should have been called Project Whitewash.
Replies to Comment # 7. 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?
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