Now back to the Intercept of the UFO

As I said, I had an 'overtake' of 800 knots and my radar was rock stable. The dot was centred and only the slightest corrections were necessary. This was a very fast intercept and the circle started to shrink. I called '20 seconds' and the GCI indicated he was standing by. The 'overtake' was still indicating in the 7 or 8 o'clock position. At about 10 seconds to go, (to fire) I noticed that the overtake position was changing its position on the scope. It moved rapidly to the 6 o'clock, then 3 o'clock, then 12 o 'clock and finally rested about the 11 o 'clock position. This indicated a negative overtake of 200 knots (the maximum negative overtake displayed) There was no way of knowing of what the actual speed of the UFO was, as he could be travelling at very high mach numbers and I could only see the 200 knot negative overtake. The circle, which was down to about an inch and a half in diameter, started to open up rapidly. Within seconds it was back to 3 inches in diameter and the 'blip' was visible in the blackened jizzle band, moving up the scope! This meant that it was going away from me fast! I reported this to the GCI Site and they replied by asking 'Do you have a 'Tally Ho?' I reported that I was still in the soup and could see nothing. By this time the UFO had 'broke lock' and I saw him leaving my 30 mile range. "Again I reported that he was gone, only to be told that he was now off their scope as well.

With the loss of the blip off their scope, the mission was over. We were vectored back to 'homeplate' (Manston) and secured our switches. My last instructions were that they would contact me on the ground by land line."

(Additional relevant notes by David Cayton. I have read of earlier reports which often described in these situations, that the 'targeted UFO' craft seem to know that they are about to be fired upon and exit rapido! Also cases have been recorded by pilots that their weapon systems have been temporarily disabled! Sadly, as we will see later, there have also been worse scenarios!)

"Back in the alert tent, I talked to Met Sector." (In response to my FOIA request, The MoD's Air Historical Branch (RAF) confirmed this to be the RAF Sector's Operational Command Centre (SOC) secret 'cold war' bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex. This was responsible for the military London Metropolitan Sector area; nowadays a privately run museum. From Manston, Milton also paid a visit there along with fellow pilots but he could not recall the name of it or the precise location, although he does remember access to the bunker was via just a small bungalow building situated in an open field. (Note: planted trees now obscure this bungalow). "They advised me that blip had gone off the scope in two sweeps at the GCI site and they had instructions to tell me that the mission was considered 'classified.' They also advised me that I would be contacted by some investigator. It was the next day before anyone showed up.

I had not the foggiest idea what had actually occurred, nor would anyone explain anything to me. In the Squadron Operations area, one of the sergeants came to me and brought me into the hall way around the side of the pilots briefing room. He approached a civilian, who appeared from nowhere. The civilian looked like a well dressed IBM salesman, with a dark blue trench coat. I cannot remember his facial features, only to say he was in his 30's or early forties. He immediately jumped into asking questions about the previous day's mission. I got the impression that he operated out of the States. After my debriefing of the events, he advised me that this would be considered highly classified and should not discuss it with anybody, not even my Commander! He then threatened me with a national security breach, if I breathed a word of it to anyone. He disappeared without so much as a goodbye and that was that as far as I was concerned. I was significantly impressed by the action of the 'cloak and dagger' people and I have not spoken of this to anyone until recent years.

My impression was, that whatever the aircraft or spacecraft was, it must have been travelling in 2 digit Mach numbers, at least Mach 10, to have done what I witnessed!

My Unit had been 'declared combat ready' about two months preceding this intercept. Therefore, we would have certainly been under 'control' of the British GCI/Met Centres for all such actions! (This would be via the RAF's 'ROTOR C&R' System, Unit rotational control and reporting system.) Perhaps the cloak of secrecy can be lifted in these days of enlightenment and all of us can have all the facts? This is my account to the best of my memory." Major Milton Torres, 2007.

CONCLUDING COMMENTS

We are indeed privileged to read of Milton's enthralling account and he is now certain that his 'official' debriefing report, given the following day, was to a person whom he now believes, from his credentials, to be an American Embassy based officer from the London branch of the NSA (National Security Agency). This 'report', I am certain, even if filed today, would never pass across the public UFO desk of Air Staff 2a at the MoD in Whitehall! I am also confident that there are many other British military encounter report episodes which have occurred in this Country and overseas, which are buried away never to be released by the MoD to the P.R.O. at Kew! I know of at least two incidents dating from 1958!

It is worth noting here that there was another RAF radar report of a large UFO being tracked by radar over the Irish Sea, also during April 1957! This report, leaked to the Press shortly after, was from RAF West Fruegh, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This incident lead to questions in the House of Commons!

Despite a short lived top level 'Order to shoot down UFO's' in the United States in 1952, it would appear that our British military 'brass hats' were obviously willing, five years on in 1957, to play fast and loose with the lives of American aircrew in our airspace! One can imagine the Defence Chiefs in their frustration, echoing that they cannot shoot at the Soviets, so at least we will have a go at the UFO's penetrating our controlled regions! They may further have generously decreed that this 'shoot to kill policy', would only be authorised to our U.S. allies while based in England? It is of course, quite possible that our Defence Chiefs had never been made aware of this short lived Presidential Order. As any who have served in the armed forces will know; the emphasis on information 'compartmentalisation' and 'The need to Know' maxim, leads to the old problem of 'the left hand not knowing what the right is doing!

The remaining 10 seconds for Milton, to go for rocket launch…could well have been his last……. before oblivion?

Thankfully, we are very lucky that Milton and his wingman did not encounter any superior retaliatory fire power and fortunately safely returned from their mission and survived to tell us the tale!

Read on for further updated detailed information about this outstanding pilot encounter case.

©. David Cayton. November, 2007.

If any reader has more information about this incident, or any other Air Force scrambles and UFO intercepts within the U.K. airspace, please contact me on 0161 483 4956, mob. 07899941291, or by email: davidacayton@hotmail.com

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