The only man to ever shoot at a UFO
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Peruvian air
force Colonel Oscar Santa Maria Huerta with his Russian Sukhoi-22 jet.
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AS WILL
Smith would say: “Welcome to Erf.”
Thirty-five
years ago, fighter pilot Oscar Santa Maria Huerta had a real-lifeIndependence
Day moment when he attempted to shoot down a mysterious light-bulb shaped
craft, in what to this day remains the only documented case of a military
aircraft firing on a UFO.
It was early
on the morning of April 11, 1980, and the 23-year-old Peruvian air force
lieutenant was preparing for daily exercises along with around 1800 military
personnel and civilians at the La Joya Air Force Base, 1000km south of the
Peruvian capital.
Lt Huerta, a
pilot with eight years’ experience who had been flying combat missions since
19, was ordered to take off in his Russian-made Sukhoi-22 fighter to intercept
the strange silvery object that had been spotted floating near the end of the
runway.
The object
was five kilometres away, hanging in the air about 600 metres off the ground,
and was not replying to any communications.
“This
‘balloon’ was in restricted air space without authorisation, representing a
grave challenge to national sovereignty,” the now-retired Colonel writes in UFOs:
Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.
At 23,
then-Lt. Huerta managed to fire on — and hit — a UFO.Source:Supplied
Colonel Huerta was one of many researchers, former military
officers and others who gave evidence at a major press event at the National
Press Club in Washington in 2013, aimed at pressuring the US government to open
its files on UFO encounters.
“It had to come down. La Joya was one of the few bases in
South America that possessed Soviet-made warfare equipment, and we were
concerned about espionage,” he wrote.
After takeoff, Colonel Huerta flew to 2,500 metres and came
in for an attack run. “I reached the necessary distance and shot a burst of
sixty-four 30mm shells, which created a cone-shaped ‘wall of fire’ that would
normally obliterate anything in its path,” he writes.
Just one of those shells would wipe out a car, but they had
no effect on the object. “I thought that the balloon would then be torn open
and gases would start pouring out of it. But nothing happened. It seemed as if
the huge bullets were absorbed by the balloon, and it wasn’t damaged at all.”
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