Video · October 2008
Milton Torres on Sky News: ordered to shoot down a UFO over East Anglia (October 2008)
RevengeofShinobi1 · October 2008 · 3 min · Watch the original
A live Sky News interview with Milton Torres from his home in Miami, days after the Ministry of Defence files containing his 1988 account were opened at The National Archives in October 2008. He recalls being ordered to fire on a radar target over East Anglia in May 1957, the object leaving at a speed he puts at Mach 10, and the threat that kept him silent.
Source: Sky News, October 2008, via a viewer's upload (2010). Auto-captions.
Key moments
- 0:50 Milton Torres: Asked whether it had haunted him for fifty years: “it certainly did I wanted to know what it was in the worst possible way”.
- 1:26 Milton Torres: Torres: he researched it on his own but found “nothing that we knew”: “it was just way too fast… it aberrated all of the laws of Newton”.
- 1:44 Milton Torres: Asked if he could have been fooled by reflections: “no no there were two of us there were two of us myself and my wingman”, so two airborne radars and the GCI radar as well.
- 2:48 Milton Torres: On being sworn to silence: “they promised to take me out of my airplane and I had well I loved my airplane more than I loved anything”.
Transcript
From automatic captions; names and terms may be misspelled. Check the original video before quoting.
0:00 well I'd like you to come back and meet a very special man that I've been talking to he's Milton Torres he's in Miami forests and over 50 years ago he was ordered to shoot down a UFO when he was based in Britain and he was flying over East Anglia wasn't far over Norwich City and he was told to shoot down what appeared to be image objects a hey you could say you could say it was somewhere between Norwich and your it's which it was right in that area yep bill Lewis you I know that you've locked on and then there was nothing to fire at because this thing went like the speed of sound that say ten mark ten thousand miles an hour no idea was Ken mark 10 o'clock at least you must have I mean the last fifty years this thing must have haunted you didn't it it certainly did I wanted to know what it was in the worst possible way this is the sort of thing a scientist
1:01 wants to dig his teeth into did you do some research only there so again I just wonder he had you have you spent a lot of time researching into what it might have been what it could have been well yes I did I did a lot of researching on my own but I found that nothing that we knew it so that's the best I could come with her it was just way too fast and way too let's put this way he it it aberrated all of the laws of Newton that Sir Isaac Newton put in place so that's why I know it was something different and he certainly wasn't you don't feel you could have been fooled by reflections in the sky there was something solid something no no there were two of us there were two of us myself and my wingman and my wingman for the life of life of me I cannot remember who he was but whoever he was I just didn't know who the help besides myself could be seeing this so that was two
2:03 radars up there and not just one and the DCI radar as well when he went up to fly again after that I mean did you think I might see it again well I always hoped but I never saw it again and what about other pilots did you ever talk to other pilots about it I mean did other pilots I've seen several others I've talked to several others and most of them have said they've seen something but they didn't know where it was but presented about the bottom line but everybody like you presumably was sworn to silence and sort of threatened by the government to keep your mouth shut or lose your job well well let me tell you why it was so scary to me they promised to take me out of my airplane and I had well I loved my airplane more than I loved anything including my mother you know so as far as I was concerned that was heresy to talk like that so when they said that they got they got my
3:03 obedience sounds like they got your attention and you've got ours as well milking Torres it's been a pleasure talking to you here on Sky News thank you very much for joining us from Miami with the stories of the UFO great story
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