UFO Magazine Article: “WASHINGTON’S BLIPS – ‘Somethings’ over the capital are traced on radar”

4 August 1952

(Life, New York City, New York)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the article:

“The most startling ‘flying saucer’ incidents recently reported have taken place during the past two weeks over Washington, D.C. and threaten to make politics take a back seat in the most political of American cities. There, for the first time, mysterious objects in the sky were recorded by ground observers, by pilots in airplanes and on radar screens all at the same time. And, for the first known time, the U.S. Air Force sent its jet planes up in an attempt to intercept the objects.

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The attitude of the Air Force during the July incidents was puzzling. When the first appearance of the blips was reported in Washington newspapers, no mention was made of the jet interceptors. In fact the Air Force stated that it had sent none up. But when confronted with the facts by Time-Life Washington Correspondent Clay Blair Jr. who gathered the material for this article the Air Force finally admitted that it had indeed sent fighters up. No reason has been given for this contradiction. The Air Force might have been embarrassed by the delay in supplying planes. Or it might possibly have known more about the blips than it had admitted. There is another puzzle: experienced airline pilots could see lights where the radar reported blips. Air Force planes said they could not.”

I also reported about this article on 14 August 2012 (see below link).

http://www.nicap.org/articles/520804Life_Article.htm

Wikipedia article: “1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_incident

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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.

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UFO Case Report (E-mail): “Subject: July 20, 1952, Washington, D.C., AFXOI FLYOBRPT 5-52”

By Daniel Wilson, 5 April 2006

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“After 0555 hours, Capt. Casey Pierman, a pilot, of Capital Airlines took off from Washington National Airport in DC-4 [airliner]. After reaching 1200 feet altitude on a course of 330 degrees, Capt. Pierman switched over from Tower Control to Airways Traffic Control Center ATCC at Washington National Airport. ATCC informed Capt. Pierman that their radar scope indicated 2 or 3 objects traveling at high speed and instructed Capt. Pierman to steer the DC-4 290 degrees as to intercept the objects now 9 miles ahead of the plane. During the next several minutes Capt. Pierman and his co-pilot Charles Wheaton observed as many as 7 bluish-white objects traveling at tremendous speeds.

A CIRVIS FLYOBRPT was made.”

http://www.nicap.org/reports/wns520719_pierman.htm

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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.

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