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U.S. Pilot Ordered to Shoot Down UFO Over England (Fox News)

UPDATE 10/21/2008 AT 1:05 PM:

Here are thumbnails of the pilot’s very interesting description of the event released by the MOD (UK) on Monday 10/20/2008 (pages are numbered 1/2/3 from left–doubleclick on thumbnail to read)…

Source: defe-24-1931, pages 260-262 (the pages preceding 260-262 have MOD transmittal letters for this report)

ORIGINAL POST 10/20/2008 AT 9:14 AM:

This event happened 50 years ago but was announced yesterday and reported by FoxNews.com today. Solid evidence that people are getting tired of election news and need a little interesting diversion (excerpt and link).

A former Top Gun said Sunday he was ordered to shoot down a massive UFO over Norwich, England, 50 years ago.

RAF controllers told U.S. pilot Milton Torres to “lock on” and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city.

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UFO reported by police officers to UK Ministry of Defence (drawing included)

I don’t usually post items like this but, with all the excitement caused by the FOIA release of docs by the Ministry of Defence, I thought it might be fun. BTW, I have never seen a UFO and have not formed an opinion as to what such phenomena might be.

This report was included in the information released by the Ministry of Defence under the Freedom of Information Act (UK). Tip o’ the hat to Nick Pope who discovered this report in DEF 31/173 (we sifted through the pdf and found this info starting at page 240).

The reason this report is so interesting is because not only was the sighting witnessed (in April, 1984) by a local resident and her neighbor, but by the local police (when they arrived to take her report, the object was still visible). The police viewed the object with binoculars and then made a drawing of what they saw (pic of drawing is below).

So…we have the civilian report, the police report, an actual drawing made by the police (included below), and a transmittal letter by New Scotland Yard to the Ministry of Defence.

I present the evidence below. Have fun! BTW, a “Section 40″ is where a name has been withheld to protect the person’s privacy.

Here’s the New Scotland Yard notice to MOD…