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December 5, 2008

Milton Torres, Ph.D.

The Milton Torres Declassified UFO Incident [Series Premiere]

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Milton Torres, Ph.D. [1931 - 2015] discussed his 1957 experience when he was ordered to take off and shoot down a UFO. His incident was recently declassified by the British Ministry of Defense and he is finally sharing his story after 50 years (more below). This was Veritas' premiere episode.


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For more than a half a century, those few humans who knew about the time Milton Torres battled a giant UFO had only his word as proof.

In October 2008, after British officials released previously classified Ministry of Defence `X-files`, the world found out the secret that Milton - now a retired civil engineering professor living in Miami - was ordered never to reveal.

According to the documents, on the night of May 20, 1957, the former U.S. F-86D Sabre pilot was told by his U.K. commanders to unload all 24 of his rockets on a mysterious object moving over the sleepy community of Norwich.

That makes him the only known military fighter pilot on Earth ever to officially be commanded to engage an unidentified flying object.

"I`ll say what I believe - space aliens," from his home in Miami he said. "I don`t believe it was of this Earth."

Even before he took off, the British-based American lieutenant was told to "arm all weapons and fire on sight," as he went up against a radar signature which was almost the size of an aircraft carrier.

Running with most lights off, he guided his plane and checked instruments with only a flashlight.

He remembers he felt like he was going to strike the first blow in a war.

"It all came out of nowhere that night," he said of the mysterious blip on his screen and the orders he was given.

His jet was screaming in, still about 15 miles away, and he was preparing to let all of his rockets go. He never saw what he was about to attack because of cloud cover which masked the most important details of the confrontation.

Just as the 24-year-old airman was closing in at almost 700 mph, though, the image vanished from his instruments.

"It moved faster than anything we were capable of," he recalls.

Officials recorded that the "aircraft" was likely Russian.

"I was told never to reveal what happened if I ever wanted to fly again," Milton says, recalling an American in a trench-coat who flashed a National Security Agency I.D. card in the pilot`s face.

But there were moments when he couldn`t hold the secret inside anymore. Over the years, he told a few people, including a military historian in 1988, who could not find any mention of the incident through official means. Yesterday, with the release of the documents for the first time, Milton finally felt at ease to recount out loud the moment modern warfare and the stuff of science-fiction almost came to blows.

"It was an amazing night, and I never thought the truth would be told," he said. "But I still don`t know what it was."

Milton told his son, who carries his name, about the face-off a few years ago.

"What you have to keep in mind, is that this man, as well as being a jet pilot, is extremely well educated," Milton Torres Jr. said of his father, who holds three degrees, including a doctorate.

"The blip was burning a hole in the radar with its incredible intensity," the pilot wrote in his report. "(It) seemed to be a magnet of light."

"To know it wasn`t just something I imagined is enough," the 77-year-old, one-time ace now says.

To this day, when he goes outside, he always looks up, half expecting to catch a glimpse of the prey that escaped him that night.

His file is one of 19 reports that have now been released by the British National Archives - click here to see them - the second batch of documents to be aired since May.

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