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1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incident (First Wave)

Event date: 1952 Jul 19
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Country: United States

Record summary

Air traffic controller Edward Nugent at Washington National Airport spotted seven unidentified objects on radar. Senior controller Harry Barnes confirmed the objects, which were also tracked by Andrews AFB radar and visually confirmed by airline pilots. F-94 interceptors were scrambled but the objects vanished upon their arrival.

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