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conmeo · #1 (**permalink**) 10-23-2008, 03:04 AM

LONDON - An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the cold war was ordered to open fire on a massive unidentified object that had lighted up his radar screen, according to an account published on Monday by Britain’s National Archives.

The pilot said that he had been ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the U.F.O., which was moving erratically over the North Sea, but that at the last minute the object picked up great speed and disappeared from his radar. The account was not verified by military authorities.

The unnamed pilot said he and another airman were sent on the night of May 20, 1957, to intercept the unusual object, which had been picked up on radar at a Royal Air Force station on the southeastern tip of England.

“This was a flying object with very unusual flight patterns,” the pilot said, according to a typed manuscript of his account mailed to Britain’s Ministry of Defense by a U.F.O. enthusiast in 1988.

A retired American pilot, Milton Torres, told Britain’s Sky News from Miami that he was the pilot and that he had spent 50 frustrating years trying to uncover the truth of his midair encounter.

Mr. Torres said he never saw the U.F.O. directly but watched in awe as it appeared on his jet’s radar screen and then sped off before he could fire.

“I had not the foggiest idea what had actually occurred, nor would anyone explain anything to me,” the pilot said. After returning to the base, he said, he was led to a man in civilian clothes, who “advised me that this would be considered highly classified and that I should not discuss it with anybody.”

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