Ex-RAF man breaks his UFO silence

A retired RAF officer from Shrewsbury who claims he was silenced by military top brass after tracking six UFOs on a radar is to speak for the first time on the matter.

Former Wing Commander Alan Turner MBE says he was warned not to speak to anyone following an incident witnessed by four civil and six military controllers.

He will be the keynote speaker at the International UFO Conference at Pontefract, West Yorkshire, next month.

Mr Turner was 25 when he joined the RAF as an Air Traffic Controller in 1966 and he finished his career in 1995 with the rank of Wing Commander.

He was awarded the MBE in 1984 and now lives in retirement in Shrewsbury.

"UFOs are a fact and I don't care who knows because I tracked six of them on several military units during my time in the Royal Air Force," he said.

Mr Turner said of his experience: "Within a couple of days I was interviewed in the squadron leader's office by two men who were not identified to me. I, along with all the others in the operations room on the day in question, were told in no uncertain terms not to talk about this incident until cleared to do so.

"I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people saw that day on radar."

Mr Turner has never spoken publicly about the events before.