U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO

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He was told to never talk about Cold War incident; files now are public

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Britain releases UFO files
Oct. 20: Britain's Ministry of Defense has released files detailing reported UFO sightings. Msnbc.com's Becca Field reports.

By Raphael G. Satter
updated 3:50 p.m. ET, Mon., Oct. 20, 2008

LONDON - An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain’s National Archives on Monday.

The fighter pilot said he was ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the UFO moving erratically over the North Sea — but that at the last minute the object picked up enormous speed and disappeared. The account, first published in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper more than 17 years ago and to this day unverified by military authorities, was one of many carried in the 1,500 pages the archives made available online.