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We're NOT Alone...

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We're NOT Alone...
« on: October 21, 2008, 01:57:37 AM »
I knew it...

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U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO
He was told to never talk about Cold War incident; files now are public


By Raphael G. Satter
updated 3:50 p.m. ET, Mon., Oct. 20, 2008

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 UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain’s National Archives on Monday.

The fighter pilot said he was ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the UFO moving erratically over the North Sea — but that at the last minute the object picked up enormous speed and disappeared. The account, first published in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper more than 17 years ago and to this day unverified by military authorities, was one of many carried in the 1,500 pages the archives made available online.

The unnamed pilot said he and another airman were scrambled on the night of May 20, 1957, to intercept an unusual “bogey” on radars at a Royal Air Force Station Manston, an airfield at the southeastern tip of England about 75 miles from central London.
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Re: We're NOT Alone...
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2008, 07:26:40 AM »
Funny thing, there's people that still think that We are the supreme beings in all of the Galaxies.
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Re: We're NOT Alone...
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2008, 11:25:57 AM »
I do find it interesting that we think we can just "shoot down" a vehicle from a more advanced race. If they have the technology to get here, they probably have the technology to wipe us out. I sure hope they are more patient with us than we are with them.
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