13 September 2008
(The Sun, London ,
UK
Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, Bainbridge Island Wa sh
The whole article (Page 7):
“AN RAF expert yesterday revealed how he tracked a
whole fleet of ‘spaceships’ on military radar — but the Ministry of Defence
told him to keep quiet.
Wing Commander Alan Turner, 64, said colleagues sat
stunned when 35 super-fast vessels appeared on their screens.
Wing Cmdr Turner, who was a chief operator of the
RAF’s radar system for 29 years, said the craft were equally spaced and shot
from 3,000ft to 60,000ft at almost 300mph.
Incredibly, every few seconds one of the UFOs would
suddenly vanish from radar and be replaced by an identical vessel moments
later. No aircraft at the time were able to maintain that rate of climb or hold
such a formation.
Wing Cmdr Turner – awarded an MBE in 1984 – said six
military radars, plus operators at Heathrow, filed reports on the unexplained
phenomenon in 1971.
Three days later, a representative for the Ministry of
Defence visited the RAF base to instruct them to ‘never speak about the
incident again.’ Wing Cmdr Turner, right, who retired from the RAF in 1995,
said: ‘UFOs are a fact and I don’t care who knows because I tracked them on
military radar units.
‘What I saw defied all logic and was, quite frankly,
extraordinary.
‘It wasn’t just me. More than 30 pairs of eyes of RAF
staff and radar operators at Heathrow
Airport
‘It’s
arrogant to believe that we’re the only ones in this universe.’
The dad of three, of Shrewsbury ,
Shropshire, was a radar supervisor at the now disused RAF Sopley base, Dorset , in 1971. Wing Cdr Turner said: ‘I instantly knew this
wasn’t a convoy of military planes.
‘The only craft we knew that had that rate of climb
were supersonic lightning aircraft but they wouldn’t have been able to hold such a perfect formation and they
also make a lot of noise. No one heard a thing on the night in question.’
Wing Cmdr Turner is guest speaker at the Close
Encounters conference in Pontefract, West Yorks , next month. Philip Mantle, of UFO Data
magazine, said yesterday: ‘His testimony is remarkable.’ ”
The Sun presents a map drawn by Commander Turner. The map charts the
flight of the UFOs in between key sites like RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, and the VOR
aircraft navigation station at Brookmans
Park
The UFO incident occurred on 21 April 1971.
Wikipedia article: “RAF Sopley”:
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Wing Commander Alan
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GCI (Ground Control of Interception) radar installation at RAF Sopley, Hampshire, 1945 (text by commons.wikimedia.org)
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Satellite photo of Sopley ,
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