Retired Pilot Explains 1957 UFO Incident

By Nicholas Spangler

If you believe Milton Torres' story the Air Force was seconds from attacking an alien aircraft over England late one cloudy night in 1957.

The possible interstellar war was averted when the unidentified flying object sped away.

“It was not made of this Earth,” said Torres, 77, a retired Florida International University engineering professor. “I’d love to tour that … UFO, whatever it was.”

The account was included in thousands of pages of UFO-related documents recently declassified by the British Ministry of Defense and posted online. To everyone’s surprise, the truth was not just out there, but in Florida, where Torres lives with his wife, Dorothy.

By midweek, he’d done a television interview with Great Britain’s Sky News and been featured on “Good Morning America.” “Nightline” had panned across pictures of him as a young lieutenant. Reporters were calling hourly, and Dorothy left the phone off the hook at night.

Torres’ account begins with him scrambling his F-86D Sabre jet from an airfield in Kent, near the southeast coast, to intercept what he has since called a UFO circling East Anglia.

See the entire case file at: <A HREF="https://www.ufocasebook.com/milton-torres.html">The Milton Torres Incident</a>.