Aliens are Documenting us and aren't Hostile

3FEL9

Islander
Yes shooting down a cloud would be an accomplishment!!

Fighter pilots are normally ordered to intercept, identify, and bring down or escort
intruders away..

A direct shoot to kill order... means ground control already had an positive ID and MOD decided to teach the foos a lesson
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
Fighter pilots are normally ordered to intercept, identify, and bring down or escort
intruders away..

A direct shoot to kill order... means ground control already had an positive ID and MOD decided to teach the foos a lesson

That's assuming that there was something there to shoot at.....all they had were radar contacts.
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
I dont think they would scramble a fighter pair just to shoot 48 rockets at a cloud in the middle of the night over the North Sea.

Fast moving cloud eh ? Mach 10

They had a radar contact so they scrambled their ready alert.....it was what they were there for.

Cloud wasn't moving that fast.....it just seemed like it based on it suddenly leaving his radar screen.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Cloud wasn't moving that fast.....it just seemed like it based on it suddenly leaving his radar screen.

That's quite an assumption, maybe it wasn't a cloud, since clouds dot move that fast...
 

dr wu

Noble
I'm a bit unclear on this pilots comments. Did he actually see a structured craft of some kind or just a radar blip that he was told to chase...?
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
One wonders then why this guy was so sure it was an alien spaceship since most pilots especially back then were skeptical straight shooters and not into such things.

Back in 1957 he was probably just like that.....except for this and his 1992 statement....I can't find any descriptions of anything earlier. So like so many other cases it keeps getting embellished with each telling.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
He said he was going at afterburner in his F86D Dog Sabre.....and at the top speed of around 700mph.

Clouds don't go that fast.....so yes I do know that.

So then it wasn't a cloud on the radar it was something else...
 
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