The UK X-Files

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  1. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article1830693.ece

     
    Demiurge, Oct 20, 2008
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  2. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    More:
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4974540.ece

     
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  3. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    His name was Torres? :unsure: That sounds kind of........ethnic.
    Shouldn't his name be Throckmorton, Bumswacker, or something?

    Anyway, after this much time the accuracy of his memories will be highly suspect IMO.
     
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  4. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Well, the UK defense files seem to concur that he was ordered to shoot down a UFO. What that UFO was is still subject to debate - Torres confirms he never saw it visually.
     
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  5. Summerteeth

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    Link

    :soma:

    Personally, I think the Palladium explanation is most likely, with Torres being instructed as some kind of smoke and mirrors exercise. :yes:
     
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  6. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    When will we get a UFO or alien story with some decent evidence ......
     
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  7. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    When our science catches up to a culture that can travel across light years of hyperspace? :D
     
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  8. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    DAMN! He was an American pilot, stationed in England.
    That article didn't make that very clear. I found another article saying the guy lives in Miama now. FUCKING sloppy media!
     
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  9. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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  10. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Both articles explicitly state US pilot.:?:
     
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  11. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Oh yes..now I see it. That should have been stated in the title IMO.
    I'm a "bottom line up front" kind of writer myself, so I assume everyone else is too.
     
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  12. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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    Ass U me :?:
     
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  13. oldfella1962

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    I have a hard time believing anyone would fire this much ordnance over a populated area, unless they assumed it was a Russian experimental craft or something.
     
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  14. Captain J

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    Or they knew what it was and thought the risk of not was greater? Or someone is lying? :shrug:
     
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  15. oldfella1962

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    Or someone's done too many lines of Miami's finest coke? :P
     
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  16. enlisted person

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    Yep, even though Americans are stationed there, they are still RAF bases that we lived on.
     
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  17. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Clearly why the aliens are coming in the first place. :D
     
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  18. Patch

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    This definitely sounds like a test of the equipment that they were developing.
     
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  19. Lanzman

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    Since when did the F-86 have an airborn intercept radar? :unsure:
     
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  20. Chris

    Chris Cosmic Horror

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    I thought this was about that boring show "Primeval".
     
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  21. Captain J

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    Doubtful. They might have ordered an intercept as a test, but not with weapons hot or the order to fire.
     
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    Any aliens insane enough to make Norwich their first stop on Earth are clearly a threat to the planet.

    They're lucky we didn't stick Torchwood onto them. Then they'd have been fucked.

    Quite possibly literally.
     
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    :rotfl:

    Have any of the Brits just been watching Sky news?

    They're interviewing Milton Torres live ... and his response to a question about how he felt about the mission?

    "I thought I was going to shit my pants!"

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    I love live telly!
     
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  24. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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  25. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Fuck. That rep comment was supposed to say "I knew there was a variant like that but didn't know when it entered service". I didn't think it was that early.
     
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  26. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

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    Suuuuure it was. ;)
     
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  27. Linda R.

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    Um, it was Norwich. They'd probably have only eliminated four individuals from the gene pool. ;)

    Hmmm, if you were going to pick somewhere where the natives would immediately be doubted, it's that or the Welsh hills... :diablo:
     
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