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Milton Torres, F86D pilot, ordered to shoot a UFO with Rockets
After 50 years, US fighter pilot Dr. Milton Torres could finally talk about his engagement to shoot 24 rockets at a significant unknown contact in the clouds off the East Coast of England in 1957.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0INH_DI1M&t=49srich bradley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84UfSwxEDzoGeoffrey Torres - Milton's son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYicfhXdkuARetired Pilot explains 1957 UFO incident
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/retired-pilot-explains-1957-ufo-incident/"The date was May 20, 1957...It was a typical English night in Kent," wrote Dr. Milton Torres, then an F-86D fighter pilot.
A typical night in Kent meant completely cloudy skies. The "soup," as the ex-pilot referred to the thick cloudy weather, went from the surface to above 32,000', the highest altitude he reached that night.
Milton was a 25-year-old Lieutenant in the US Air Force, but his squadron was stationed in England. Milton was "sitting alert" in the new F-86D interceptor. His Wing, the 406th Fighter Interceptor Wing, had committed to having F-86Ds stand alert, ready to launch and shoot down the Soviet threat on 5-minute notice.
"To put it quite candidly, I felt like a one-legged man in an a$$-kicking contest."
"The initial briefing indicated that the ground was observing for a considerable time a blip that was orbiting the East Anglia area," Milton continued. "There was very little movement, and from my conversation with the [ground control intercept controller] all the normal procedures of checking with all the controlling agencies revealed this was an unidentified flying object with very unusual flight patterns. In the initial briefing, it was suggested to us that the bogey actually was motionless for long intervals."
The ability to stay motionless in the air is fascinating.
"The exact turns and maneuvers they gave me were all predicated to reach some theoretical point for a lead collision course type rocket release," Milton continued. "I can remember reaching the level off 32,000 feet and requesting to come out of afterburner only to be told to stay in afterburner. It wasn't very much later that I noticed my indicated Mach number was almost 0.92. That is about as fast as the F-86D could go straight and level. Then the order came to fire a full salvo of rockets at the UFO. To be quite candid, I almost [blank] my pants."
Milton wanted to confirm the order was not false and "authenticated" the controller by asking for specific codes from a sheet. The controller returned with the correct authentication, so Milton selected his salvo of all 24 rockets and prepared for the final turn.
He lined up on the UFO in an attack run. "The blip was burning a hole in the radar with its incredible intensity," he wrote.
At about 10 seconds to release, Milton noticed the numbers started changing. His overtake pegged at 800 knots was now a negative overtake of 200 (the maximum negative overtake).
Within seconds the blip was visible back on the scope, moving away from the fighter.
"Do you have a Tally Ho?" the controllers asked if he could see the object.
"I'm in the soup, and it's impossible to see anything," Milton replied.
By this time, the UFO was leaving the 30-mile range marker of his radar scope. Milton reported the object was gone, only to be told that the thing was now off the ground controller's scope as well.
Ten seconds from weapons release, the target had zipped away at unimaginable speed.
"My impression was that whatever the aircraft (or spacecraft) was, it must have been traveling in 2-digit Mach numbers [7,000 mph] to have done what I had witnessed."
With no target in sight, Milton headed home and landed without incident. On the way home, the controller said someone from London would debrief Milton.
"I had not the foggiest idea what had actually occurred, nor would anyone explain anything to me," Milton said.
The next day a sergeant in the squadron took Milton to a hallway, and a civilian appeared from nowhere.
"The civilian looked like a well dress IBM salesman, with a dark blue trenchcoat. He immediately jumped into asking questions about the previous day's mission. After my debriefing of the events, he advised me that this would be considered highly classified and that I should not discuss with anybody, not even my commander. I have not spoke of this to anyone until the recent years."
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00:00 Trailer
1:30 Support & Perks
2:05 intro
6:00 Scramble!
10:45 Attack simulation in Digital Combat Simulator
14:14 Attack Run
18:13 The Man In Black (blue?)