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The extremely high numbers of UFO reports in 1952 disturbed both the Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both groups felt that an enemy nation could deliberately flood the U.S. with false UFO reports, causing mass panic and allowing them to launch a sneak attack.
- UFO Mania Takes Hold
- Mysterious Radar Blips Buzzing Over The White House
- ‘I Tried to Make Contact with The Bogies’
- Averting Mass Panic with A Disputed Theory
It all started in 1947, when a search-and-rescue pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported nine "saucer-like things...flying like geese in a diagonal chainlike line" at speeds exceeding 1,000 m.p.h. near Mount Rainier in Washington State. Within weeks, “flying saucer” sightings had been reported in 40 other states. In the name of national security, Air F...
Shortly before midnight on Saturday, July 19, 1952, air-traffic controller Edward Nugent at Washington National Airport spotted seven slow-moving objects on his radar screen far from any known civilian or military flight paths. He called over his supervisor and joked about a “fleet of flying saucers.” At the same time, two more air-traffic controll...
Nobody bothered to tell Ruppelt, the Air Force’s lead Project Blue Book investigator, about the sightings. He found out a few days later when he flew into Washington, D.C. and read news reports. Ruppelt tried to get out to National and Andrews to interview radar operators and air-traffic controllers, but was denied a government-issued car or even c...
The next day, newspaper headlines across America screamed “Saucers Swarm Over Capital” and “Jets Chase D.C. Sky Ghosts.” The publicity and public panic over the sightings were so great that President Harry Truman himself asked aides to get answers. When they called Ruppelt, he said it could have been caused by a temperature inversion, but more inve...
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The Mass Fleet of UFOs over Washington D.C. Capital in 1952. Follow This Channel on LBRY @FindingUFO ...more.
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Mar 11, 2019 · Over several weeks, up to a dozen unexplained objects repeatedly streaked across the skies over Washington, D.C.—spotted not just by crackpots, but by radar operators, professional pilots and...
- Missy Sullivan
Nov 3, 2023 · Did UFOs Invade D.C in 1952? In 1952 a dozen UFOs outran a team of U.S. Air Force fighter jets flying Washington D.C. The sighting was not the first of it's kind.
- Missy Sullivan
Aug 1, 2021 · In 1952, over the course of 17 days, a series of UFO sightings were reported in Washington, D.C. What were these objects? Spy Planes? Meteors? Read on to learn more about the Washington D.C. UFO incident.
Aug 3, 2018 · The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Captain Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.
