Seeing as the Sun ran this 3 years ago, it is hardly 'new'...
Try searching for 'Roswelsh Incident'! Here is the front page picture:
If true, though, it would shut up the 'bearded bullsh!tter' from the Fleet Air Arm once and for all! Unless, of course, it was a mighty SHar that did the shooting some 6 years before it entered service!
LJ