Case no.12,Washington D.C. 19520001

**alsogage79** · 08-01-2004, 09:53 AM

This case has been around for a long time, I got some good info on it. It is about the UFOs that appeared over Washington D.C. in 1952.

Date:July 19, 1952
Location:Washington D.C.

On July 19, 1952 at around midnight radar at the Air Route Traffic Control picked up eight unknown objects that was heading right at the White House at about 120 miles per hour, staff near Andrews AFB saw an orange-red ball of flame with a tail that revolved, the object was going at a fantastic speed. By 2:00am you could see flaming objects all around in the Washington area. One time it appeared that a UFO was following a commercial airliner. Then a worried controller of ARTC called the Air Force Command, they talked but a Combat Officer said "we aren't concerned about this, someone else is supposed to handle this." the UFOs were still around the White House and at 6:00am the UFOs got picked up on radar again. Two days later the Air Force Intelligence heard what was going on, and it was in a Washington newspaper, it looked liked the military was being lazy, but the military might have had intelligence on the objects already. Some of the UFOs were travelling at 7,000 mhp and they had went in a prohibited airspace over the white house. Seven days went by after the UFOs appeared and the USAF were getting many UFO reports, more than forty a day but only thirty percent went in the "unknown" category. On July 26, 1952 at around 10:30pm, the ARTC controllers began to pick up UFOs on radar. Many aircrafts that were in the sky at the time reported that they saw white,orange, and red lights flash. Then a USAF B-25 was directed to catch the UFOs, but they had no success. At midnight more action was taken, two F-94s went into the sky to see if they could find the UFOs but they found nothing. The press alerted Major Ruppelt of Project Blue Book, the USAF's UFO investigation team. A navy electronics expert that was with the team said he saw "seven good solid targets" and he also said that they vanished immediately." More and more UFO reports came in. A very important conference meeting was called since the second War World was called, Major General John Samford said that hundreds of UFO reports came in and that they had no evidence that the UFOs were a threat. When the navy electronics expert saw the objects on radar they also had left very weak echoes and they were put down as temperature inversion caused it and that was the official explanation, but Samford appeared to be keeping quiet about something as if he was hiding key facts.

I attached a pic of the anomalous lights that were above the white house in 1952.

**EHoffman** · 08-03-2004, 03:12 PM

That's actually the Capital Building, not the White House. And here is a better picture, from this website, actually:

http://www.alien-ufos.com/img/ufos/w...0sufoflap2.jpg

EDIT: I've found the original Washington Post article from the time these events happened. It is as follows:

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Military secrecy veils an investigation of the mysterious, glowing aerial objects that showed up on radar screens in the Washington area Saturday night for the second consecutive week.

A jet pilot sent up by the Air Defense Command to investigate the objects reported he was unable to overtake the glowing lights moving near Andrews Air Force Base.

The CAA reported reported the objects traveled at "predominantly lower levels"-about 1700 feet. July 19.

Air Force spokesmen said yesterday only that an investigation was being made into the sighting of the objects on the radar screen in the CAA Air Route Traffic Control Center at Washington National Airport, and on two other radar screens . Methods of the investigations were classified as secret, a spoken said.

" We have no evidence they are flying saucers; conversely we have no evidence they are not flying saucers. We don't know what they are," a spokesman added.

The same source reported an expert from the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton Ohio, was here last week investigating the objects sighted July 19.

The expert has been identified as Capt. E. J. Ruppelt. Reached by telephone at his home in Dayton yesterday, Ruppelt said he could make no comment on his activity in Washington.

Capt. Ruppelt confirmed he was in Washington last week but said he had not come here to investigate the mysterious objects. He recalled he did make an investigation after hearing of the objects, but could not say what he investigated.

Another Air Force spokesman said here yesterday the Air Force is taking all steps necessary to evaluate the sightings. "The intelligence people," this spokesman explained, "sent someone over to the control center at the time of the sightings and did whatever necessary to make the proper evaluation.

Asked whether the radar equipment might have been mis-functioning, the spokesman said, "radar, like the compass is not a perfect instrument and is subject to error." He thought, however,the investigation would be made by persons acquainted with the problems of radar.

Two other radar screens in the area picked up the objects.An employee of the National Airport control tower said the radar scope there picked up very weak "blips" of the objects. The tower radar's for "short range" and is not so powerful as that at the center. Radar at Andrews Air Force Base also registered the objects from about seven miles south of the base.

A traffic control center spokesman said the nature of the signals on the radar screen ruled out any possibility they were from clouds or any other "weather" disturbance.

"The returns we received from the unidentified objects were similar and analagous to targets representing aircraft in flight," he said.

The objects, "flying saucer or what have you, appeared on the radar scope at the airport center at 9:08 PM. Varying from 4 to 12 in number,the objects appeared on the screen until 3:00 AM., when they diappeared.

AT 11:25 PM., two F-94 jet fighters fro Air Defense Command squadron, at New CAstle Delaware, capable of 600 hundred mph speeds, took off to investigate the objects.

Airline, civil and military pilots described the objects as looking like the lit end of a cigarette or a cluster of orange and red lights.

One jet pilot observed 4 lights in the vicinity of Andrews Air Force Base, but was not able to over-take them, and they disappeared in about two minutes.

The same pilot observed a steady white light in the vicinity of Mt Vernon at 11:49 PM. The light, about 5 miles from him, faded in a minute. The lights were also observed in the Beltsville, MD., vicinity. At 1:40 AM two-other F-94 jet fighters took off and scanned the area until 2:20 AM., but did not make any sightings.

Visible Two Ways

Although "unidentified objects" have been picked up on radar before, the incidents of the last two saturdays are believed to be the first time the objects have been picked up on radar-while visible to the human eye

Besides the pilots, who last saturday saw the lights, a woman living on Mississippi Ave., told the Post she saw a very "bright light streaking across the sky towards Andrews Air Force Base about 11:45 PM. Then a second object with a tail like a comet whizzed by, and a few seconds later, a third passed in a different direction toward Suntland, she said.

Radar operators plotted the speed of "saturday night's visitors" at from 38 to 90 mph, but one jet pilot reported faster speeds for the light he saw.

The jet pilot reported he had no apparent "closing speed" when he attempted to reach the lights he saw near Andrews Air Force Base. That means the lights were moving atleast as fast as his top speed-a maximum of 600 mph.

One person who saw the lights when they first appeared in this area did not see them last night. He is E.W. Chambers, an engineer at Radio Station WRC, who spotted the lights while working early the morning of July 20 at station's Hyattsville tower.

Chamber's said he was sorry he had seen the lights because he had been skeptical about "flying saucers" before. Now he said, he sort of "wonders" and worrys about the whole thing.

Leon Davidson, 804 South Irving St. Arlington, a chemical engineer who made an exhaustive study of "flying saucers' as a hobby, said yesterday reports of saucers in the East, have been relatively rare.

Davidson has studied the official report on the saucers, including some of the secret portions never made public, and analyzed all the data in the report.

Davidson, whose study of saucers is impressively detailed and scientific, said he believes the lights are American "aviation products"-probably "circular flying wings," using new type jet engines that permit rapid acceleration and relatively low speeds. He believes, they are either "new fighter," guided missiles, or piloted guided missiles.

He cited some of the recent jet fighters, including the Navy's new " F-4-D, which has a radical "bat-wing," as examples of what the objects might resemble.

Davidson thinks the fact that the lights have been seen in this area indicates the authorities may be ready to disclose the "new aircraft" in the near future. Previously, most of the "verified saucers" have been seen over sparsely inhabited areas, Davidson explained, and now, when they appear here, it may indicate that "secrecy" is not so important any more.

SOURCE: http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc892.htm

**trog** · 08-04-2004, 03:14 PM

Those to me where probably the same craft seen in Mexico a few months back.

they look alot alike.

**EHoffman** · 08-05-2004, 07:55 PM

To me it looks like it is just one big craft with all those lights on it. Try connecting those lights in your head and you'll see what I mean.

**alsogage79** · 08-05-2004, 08:03 PM

To me it looks like they are seperate crafts, it looks like each one has it's own lights and they also look like they might be traveling in a group.

**KelliAli** · 08-06-2004, 12:48 AM

They do look like theyre traveling in a group, why wouldn't they be?
I think if they are actually alien flown crafts then they did this so people would
see them. There are survelance cameras around the Capitol am I correct?
And I do believe aliens have a great ability to detect electrical devices as those.

Kelli

**alsogage79** · 08-17-2004, 07:09 PM

I think the anomalous lights that appeared over the White House are real UFOs, the lights did go at fantastic speeds, on one occasion they went 7,000mph.

**space_cougar** · 08-30-2004, 05:03 PM

Found this pic aswell, hope it helps.

**alsogage79** · 08-30-2004, 05:50 PM

The pic didn't come up space cougar.

**space_cougar** · 08-31-2004, 05:12 AM

Sorry about that, i previewed it first and it was ok, i'll try and get it working.
The pic was just a slightly larger pic than EHoffman (post#2) posted, showed the whole dome with lights on the other end aswell.