RAF officer breaks 37-year silence on UFO radar mystery

A former RAF officer has claimed that UFOs are real and may have invaded UK airspace, branding official resistance to such theories as "stupid and arrogant".

Wing Commander Alan Turner MBE was sworn to secrecy after he tracked a series of unidentified objects soaring over southern England at incredible speeds.

But now the airman, who was honoured by the Queen for his years of distinguished service, has broken his silence and spoken publicly for the first time about his experience.

Wing Commander Alan Turner

Turner, who was a chief operator of the RAF’s radar system for 29 years, said colleagues sat stunned when 35 super-fast vessels appeared on their screens. 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.

Wing Cmdr Turner said six military radars, plus operators at Heathrow, spotted the UFOs east of Salisbury Plain and filed reports on the unexplained phenomenon in 1971.

The RAF chief even drew a map charting their flight in between key sites like RAF Lyneham, Wilts, and the aircraft navigation transmitter at Brookmans Park, Herts.

Map shows the UFOs' path across
southern England

Three days later, the Ministry of Defence visited the RAF and instructed staff to "never speak about the incident again".

Wing Cmdr Turner, who retired from the RAF in 1995, said: "UFOs are a fact — 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 witnessed the same thing.

"It’s arrogant to believe that we’re the only ones in this universe."

Despite this, the Ministry of Defence stressed there were "realistic explanations" for such reports.

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