The Unnatural Incursion(s) over Washington DC...

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”

John Lennon

In July of 1952, I was barely out of diapers as I was only two years old. The Cold War was just getting started and overall life was very good in the United States. We were at peace and felt good about it. Life was so tranquil it was almost boring - that is until July of 1952 when the strangest of events, witnessed by hundreds, occurred over our Nation's Capital.

I have reported on another strange event which happened in Los Angles right after the start of World War II. That event, like this one, remains unexplained until this day. The Washington Post reported the incident this way:

"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... " 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.

 

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 analogous 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 disappeared.

 

Wow! Think about that. For hours there were unidentified craft buzzing our Capitol. Radar at Andrews AFB clocked their speed at up to 7,200 mph. It is a good thing that happened in 1952 for if it happened fifty years later, things would have been different. Wait a minute - it did happen fifty years later - almost 50 years to the date. It was reported by the Washington press as follows:

 

"In the early morning hours of Friday, July 26, 2002 NORAD radar scopes displayed a slow moving mysterious object in the Washington D.C. area. The object did not respond to communications. As the result two F16 jet fighters were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base to investigate the object. According to NORAD when the jets were launched from Andrews the strange aircraft faded from the radar screens. The jets then returned to base. However, witnesses tell a different story. The loud rumble of the jets flying low (below cloud ceiling of 6,000 feet) woke several people. Witnesses saw a mysterious blue light flying ahead of the jet fighters."

As with many of us, there is an awareness that something is happening in our skies. It has to be, as there are hundreds of now well documented incursions in the skies all over the world. Our government owes us answers. If these are experimental military craft, tell us. If they are swamp gas, northern lights or other natural phenomena, tell us. Finally, if these "lights" belong to something other than a terrestrial source, please tell us - we can handle it. Failure to disclose something which have been visible to so many (including myself) does nothing but foster distrust in government.