RAF Manston, Kent.

First of all, to recap a little. During telephone chats with Milton in Florida, I pressed him to recall, if possible, the RAF Units he had referred to in his mission account, with who he was always in radio contact with? He frequently mentions 'GCI' (Ground Control Intercept) and 'Met Sector'? He had no problem with identifying his GCI as RAF Bawdsey Manor on the Suffolk coast, just south a short distance from the RAF Stations of Woodbridge and Bentwaters! He knew this for sure because he, along with other pilots from Manston, had been sent there on a previous liaison and familiarisation visit. I have now established that this RAF Station was No.144 Signals Unit (now closed). The Radar vectoring of enemy targets during the 'Battle of Britain' and the 'Cold War' with the subsequent radio instructions to pilots were then sent out from there, to guide them to the 'target'. It is very probable that Bawdsey were tracking the UFO from here and also possibly the Early Warning Radar Station at RAF Neatishead in Norfolk.

Milton was not sure about the location or identity of 'the Met Sector, even though he and fellow pilots were also directed to visit some secret underground base, some 15 miles north east of London. He does remember that this bunker was out in open fields with access via a small bungalow building. Alan Turnbull of www.secret-bases.co.uk thought that this the most likely location, from two he suggested? In response to my FOIA request, the MoD's Air Historical Branch (RAF) confirmed this to be the RAF's Sector Operational Command Centre (SOC) secret 'cold war' bunker at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex. This Base was responsible for controlling the military London Metropolitan Sector area at that time. ('The Met Sector') Nowadays it is open to the public as a privately run museum. This Unit had advised Milton that the target 'blip' (the UFO) had entirely gone off the scope in just two sweeps at the GCI site and then instructed him that his mission was considered 'classified'. Furthermore he would be contacted the following day to be 'debriefed'. This was conducted by an officer from The National Security Agency (NSA) based at the American Embassy in London!

The commanding officer at Kelvedon Hatch (The SOC) would 'report' up to the ADOC (Air Defence Operations Centre) at RAF Fighter Command H.Q. at Bentley Priory, Stanmore.

I suggest that, almost certainly, the ORDER to fire would have been AUTHORISED by the ADOC at Bentley Priory, the order then would have been ISSUED by the MET Sector, Kelvedon Hatch and then relayed to the pilots via the GCI Signals Unit at Bawdsey? I firmly believe this would have been the 'chain of command'. Milton knew for certain that his USAF 406th. Fighter Wing was operating under the control of the RAF's 'Control and Rotor System' and the USAF would most definitely NOT be allowed to independently authorise the firing of ANY weapons in the United Kingdom airspace!

IN THE 1950'S, A DIFFERENT AIR FORCE ATITUDE IN THE UNITED STATES TO THE UFO SITUATION!

Historical records show, following a large rash of UFO sightings over the United States including two very public waves of UFO's being tracked by three different radar locations, as they flew over the Capitol, the Pentagon and The White House, on July 19th and July the 26th 1952! These events resulted in a major Air Force investigation. The 'sightings' were headlined in newspapers all over the United States, and in some places replaced the Democratic National Convention on the front page!

A CIA Report by Gerald K. Haines so alarmed the White House, it lead the Truman Administration to give the order that the flying saucers be shot down! On 26th July 1952, the Air Force obeyed and the Chief of Staffs issued the order 'to shoot them down', if they refuse to land!

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