UFO Attacks on Washington D.C

(Due to the time period this happened I am not using UAP, I am using UFO)

In 1947 President Harry Truman, in front of a press conference was asked if he had ever seen any flying saucers, his response was “only in the newspapers”. In 1952 he was not planning to run for another term, probably down to low approval ratings, the Cold War, The Korean War and the 1945 bombings of Japan.  In 1952 he was president for a second term when this happened!

19^th July 1952, Washington National Airport, and Ed Nugent (air traffic controller) spotted seven lights on the screen in front of him. There were no planes scheduled, and he called his manager, Harry Barnes, “flying saucers”. In the tower another controller saw it blip, it was a bright light, and it was hovering, then it took off a high-speed using impossible angles to manoeuvre.  Harry Barnes also saw the lights were moving over the city, and a pilot waiting to take off reported seeing a strange light.

In 1947 President Harry Truman, in front of a press conference was asked if he had ever seen any flying saucers, his response was “only in the newspapers”. In 1952 he was not planning to run for another term, probably down to low approval ratings, the Cold War, The Korean War and the 1945 bombings of Japan.  In 1952 he was president for a second term when this happened!

19^th July 1952, Washington National Airport, and Ed Nugent (air traffic controller) spotted seven lights on the screen in front of him. There were no planes scheduled, and he called his manager, Harry Barnes, “flying saucers”. In the tower another controller saw it blip, it was a bright light, and it was hovering, then it took off a high-speed using impossible angles to manoeuvre.  Harry Barnes also saw the lights were moving over the city, and a pilot waiting to take off reported seeing a strange light.

Harry Barnes called Andrews Air Force base, 10 miles way who said that they had seen nothing. They then called back a short while later to confirm that they had in fact seen lights. They had moved over the city, the Whitehouse and in response two USA Air Force F-94 jets from New York Castle Air Force Base, Delaware were deployed. The reports of lights ended soon after, the last detected lights on the radar were at 05.30.

26^th July at 20:15 that night an air stewardess reported she had seen lights above her plane on a flight into Washington, before that at Andrews Air Base they had seen more of them, and some were travelling at 7,000 miles an hour!

This was all great news for the press, hot sales, and all but probably not good for the top brass handling the situation. The CIA formed a special intelligence department for the subject, and Edward Tauss reported for the group that most of the sightings could be explained. He did however recommend the agency continue to monitor the situation.

29^th July and there were not more reported sightings, the Air Force called a press conference. Air Force Major-General John Samford and Roger Ramsey stated that the visual sightings could be attributed to meteors an shooting stars, that the radar had something called temperature inversion and this was present on both evenings. Captain Ruppelt also spoke of an incident in Japan in 1950, that was put down to a flock of ducks…

So what do you think happened? I find this interesting for sure!

https://youtu.be/OKNkF34KLCk?si=a0pnmP5rFOyzIpEQ

Sources:

Wikipedia

The report on Unidentified Flying Objects – Edward J Ruppert

US Project Blue Book, UFO Investigation (Press minutes)

National Archives Museum (museum.archives.org)

Federation of American Scientists

The New York Times

BBC.com

PBS.org

AI Testing – but no research necessary?

There is no link to any sources. No dates.

No actual facts of use. It has not got enough information so it makes it up… Maybe this will convince ONE person to be wary of relying solely on AI… but sadly these days.. I remain sceptical for good reason, oh and it took me longer to write this paragraph than AI to spew out this…

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