This caught my eye as something Mulder would read and talk about.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27279684/

U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO


LONDON - An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the
height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his
radar, according to an account published by Britain’s National Archives on
Monday.

The fighter pilot said he was ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the
UFO moving erratically over the North Sea — but that at the last minute the
object picked up enormous speed and disappeared. The account, first published
in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper more than 17 years ago and to this day
unverified by military authorities, was one of many carried in the 1,500 pages
the archives made available online.

The unnamed pilot said he and another airman were scrambled on the night of
May 20, 1957, to intercept an unusual “bogey” on radars at a Royal Air Force
Station Manston, an airfield at the southeastern tip of England about 75
miles from central London.

“This was a flying object with very unusual flight patterns,” the pilot
said, according to a typed manuscript of his account mailed to Britain’s
Ministry of Defense by a UFO enthusiast in 1988. “In the initial briefing it
was
suggested to us that the bogey actually was motionless for long intervals.”

Ordered to fly at full throttle in cloudy weather, the pilot said he was
given the order to fire a volley of 24 rockets at the mysterious object.

“To be quite candid I almost [expletive] my pants!” the pilot said, saying
he asked for confirmation — which he received.

Retired U.S. airman Milton Torres told Britain’s Sky News on Monday that he
was the pilot and has spent 50 frustrating years attempting to uncover the
truth of his aerial encounter.

Speaking from his home in Miami, Torres said he never saw the UFO with his
naked eyes, but watched in awe as it appeared on his jet’s radar and sped off
before he had chance to fire.

“All of a sudden as it was coming in, it decided to take off and leave me
behind ... The next thing I know it was gone,” Torres told Sky News. “It was
some kind of space alien craft. It was so fast, it was so incredible ... it was
absolutely death-defying.”


Impossible to miss?

In the newly published government file, the U.S. airman said the UFO
appeared impossible to miss.

“The blip was burning a hole in the radar with its incredible intensity,”
the pilot said. “It was similar to a blip I had received from B-52’s and
seemed to be a magnet of light. ... I had a lock on that had the proportions of
a
flying aircraft carrier.”

As he closed in on the object to prepare for combat, however, the object
began to move wildly before fading off his radar. The target gone, the mission
was called off, and he returned to base to an odd reception.

“I had not the foggiest idea what had actually occurred, nor would anyone
explain anything to me,” the pilot said. He said he was led to a man in
civilian
clothes, who “advised me that this would be considered highly classified and
that I should not discuss it with anybody not even my commander.”

“He disappeared without so much as a goodbye and that was that, as far as I
was concerned,” the pilot said, according to the account.


No military record

Britain’s military said it had no record of the incident, according to the
files. Neither did the U.S. military. The second pilot’s account, also
included in the files, paints a somewhat different picture of events, saying
there
were not one but several “unknowns” and that he did not remember being
contacted by anyone about staying quiet. He did not mention the targets’
size.

“I know this is not a very exciting narrative but it is all I can recall,”
the second pilot said.
His name, like his colleague’s, was redacted from the files.

David Clarke, a UFO expert who has worked with the National Archives on the
document release, said it was one of the most intriguing stories he had culled
from the batch of files released Monday.

He said that the CIA once had a program intended to create phantom signals
on radar — and that this may have been an exercise in electronic warfare.
Whatever the case, Clarke argued that “there’s no doubt something very
unusual
happened.”

Clarke said the batch of files released Monday — which include witness
accounts, investigations, and sketches — was part of a three- to four-year
program
intended to make a total of 160 UFO-related files available to the public.


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