UPDATE: To Article, 'USAF Pilot Ordered
To Fire Upon A UFO In U.K. Airspace'
by David Cayton  
A telegram from a number of prominent scientists, including Albert Einstein, protested the order to the White House and urged that the command be rescinded, not only in the interest of future intergalactic peace but also in the interest of self-preservation! It was also argued that extraterrestrials would look upon an attack by the primitive jet firepower, as a breach of the universal laws of hospitality!
The 'shoot them down' order was consequently withdrawn on White House orders by five o'clock that afternoon! That very night, the flying saucers were back! Two days later, on July 28th, at the request of President Truman, Captain Edward Ruppelt; who had just taken over 'Project Blue Book', was called to brief Truman's air aide, Brigadier General Landry on the Washington sightings and the phenomena itself!
Timothy Good tells me that in his revised paperback version of his book, 'Need To Know', that the U.S. Defence Dept. Statistics record, in just four years, 1952-56, the U.S. AF and Navy had lost in crashes, a total of 18,662 aircraft of which 1,773 were caused by 'unknown factors'! 'Destruction or disappearance of military aircraft during interceptions of UFO's continued apace. General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air defence Command, told Robert C, Gardner (ex-USAF) in 1953: ''we have stacks of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them''! Furthermore, the former Air Force intelligence officer and UFO researcher, Leonard Stringfield, was told by a reliable source in the 1950's, that the Air Force was losing about a plane a day to UFO's!
Thankfully, Milton Torres and his wingman on that night in April 1957, did not end up just being another statistic!
© David Cayton February 2008.
As a 'postscript' I would like to mention that I have been recently been given as gift from one of my daughters a new book, only published in August of last year. This contains a mountain of more solid data which corroborates the information that I have mentioned in the last part of my article! This important new research by author Frank C. Feschino Jr. in collaboration with Stanton T. Friedman is titled: 'SHOOT THEM DOWN! The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952'. Stunning stuff! How can Governments go on denying the reality of UFO's with all this hard data? After all, the Commander-in-Chief (Truman) had authorised that his Air Force must shoot the flying saucers down! Just who added the ridiculous caveat, 'but only if they refuse to land' we will never know! Did they really believe that their pilots could have the means of communicating with the saucer crews and even if that was achievable, did they honestly think that the superior craft would respond by dutifully complying and land under escort at their Air Force Base!! This book is a must read!
With acknowledgements to Grant Cameron for his www.presidentialufos.com
Timothy Good for data from his book, 'Need to Know'. Richard Chenery and John Hill (two of my ex RAF photographer friends) for their recent specially commissioned photos taken at the Kelvedon Hatch bunker and Fighter HQ.Bentley Priory, respectively. For his kind assistance, Clive Richards of the Ministry of Defence Air Historical Branch (RAF) at Bentley Priory, Stanmore. Finally ,my special thanks for additional research and use of low level aerial photographs of the RAF Units and Bunkers provided by ''Pilot's Eye View, courtesy of Alan Turnbull, www.secret-bases.co.uk
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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