In 1957, Milton Torres, a US fighter pilot, was sent into the skies over Britain to face a mysterious craft the size of a "flying aircraft carrier" that could hang motionless and then move at thousands of miles an hour; just before unleashing a barrage of rockets at it, it vanished without a trace. The next day, he was debriefed by a mysterious man who "looked like a well-dressed IBM salesman" and told him that he'd face security breach charges if he breathed a word to anyone. Some experts think that he may have been dealing with a US test of radar-fooling electronic warfare equipment -- or, you know, terrifying space aliens from beyond the moon. read more...
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