U.S. Air Force pilot had orders to shoot down UFO

U.S. Air Force pilot had orders to shoot down UFO
Story By: Tom Llamas
Source: NBC

Kendall, Florida Published 16 hour(s) ago
He was told to keep a government secret or lose his job as an Air Force fighter pilot. Now the secret is out, and a South Florida man is talking about the night he was ordered to shoot down a UFO.

The incident happened more than 40 years ago, when Milton Torres said he had a close encounter that all started with a command from superiors to "scramble." Torres, jumped into his F-86 Sabre jet. "Within two minutes we were airborne, Torres said.

He flew from an airfield in Kent, England, and headed for a target over East Anglia. "They also said this was an active fire mission -- that I would be firing 24 rockets," Torres said.

When Torres looked down into his radar, he was approaching what look like an aircraft carrier in the sky. "It was a big blip," Torres said. "I locked on; I had an overtake speed; everything was going fine." Then, with about 20 seconds to go, the blip started shrinking. "The next thing I know, it was gone," Torres said. "He just disappeared. He just took off."

Torres estimated that the unknown aircraft had to be traveling at about mach 10, or about 5,000 mph. In 1957, nothing went that fast.

Back at the base, his commanders had no answers. "They told me, 'We don't know what happened. We know he went off the scope completely.'"

Torres said it was a cloudy day, but there is no way the U.S. military was stuck in the Twilight Zone that night. "My wingman's radar, my radar, and the ground radar together. Three different radars, no," Torres said.

The incident was recently declassified by the British Ministry of Defense and posted online. The documents only tell Torres' version of the story, sent to the department in 1988. The retired airman, who holds three degrees and taught engineering, never heard back.

The day after the mission, he was debriefed by a U.S. civilian at the airfield who told him the mission was considered highly classified, and if he ever mentioned it again, he would not be flying airplanes anymore.

To this day, Torres said he absolutely believes it was a UFO.

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