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' , £ SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C. Harry a BARNES SENIOR AIR ROUTE TRAFFIC CONTROLLER FOR THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION, WAS IN CHARGE OF THE NATIONAL AIRPORT, WASHINGTON, 0.C., A.R.T, CONTROL CENTER ON THE NIGHT OF JULY 19, 1952. “BRIEFY,"HE STATES IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, "...0UR JOB 1S TO CONSTANTLY MONITOR THE SKIES AROUNG THE NATION'S CAPITOL WITH THE ELECTRONIC EYE OF RADAR...” SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT ON THAT DATE, SEVEN FIPS APPEARED SUDDENLY OW THE CONTROL CENTER'S SCOPE. £D NUGENT, JIM COPELAND, AND Jim RITCHEY, ALL EXPER- NENCED RADAR CONTROLLERS, CHECKED THE OBSERVATIONS. THE AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER RADAR OPERATORVER!- FIED THE SAME SIGHTING. THEY WERE OVER “THE RESTRICTED AREAS OF WAS, NGTON, \HCLUOING THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CAP/TOL...” a oe Cartame.s. PIERMAN, & CAPITOL AIRLINES PILOT OF I7 Barnes stares; “ourinc tHE NEXT 14 MINUTES, HE YEARS FLYING EXPERIENCE, SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OFF, (PIERMAN) REPORTED THAT HE SAW SIX SUCH LIGHTS... WAS ASKED TO CHECK THESE MYSTERIOUS O@yECTS. HE EACH SIGHTING COINCIDED WITH A PIP WE COULD RADIOED BACK... SEE NEAR HIS PLANE. WHER HE REPORTED THAT THERE'S ONE .. .and i: ls ’ THE LIGHT STREAKED OFF AT H/GH SPEED, \ D/S- fe od =e sit APPEARED FROM OUR SCOPE.” THAT MEANS IT ZOOMED OUT OF OUR BEAM BETWEEN SWEEPS! \¥ ACCELERATED FROM 430 MILES PER HOUR TO ALMOST 500 IN LESS THAN 4 SECONDS. . Barnes THEN states: “BEFORE NOTIFYING THE AIR FORCE... OUR TECHNICIANS HAD CAREFULLY CHECKED THE EQU|PMENT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS OPERATING PERFECTLY. . .” “I cam SAFELY DEDUCE THAT THEY PERFORMED GYRATIONS WHICH WOKMNOWN AIRCRAFT COULD PERFORM, GY THIS I MEAN THAT OUR SCOPE SHOWED THAT THEY COULD MAKE A/GHT ANGLE TURNS” “\eAND COMPLETE REVERSALS OF FLIGHT...” “THERE 1S NO OTHER CONCLUSION I CAN REACH BUT THAT FOR SIX HOURS OM THE MORNING OF THE 20TH OFJULY THERE WERE AT LEAST 10 UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECTS MOMNG OVER WASHINGTON, THEY WERE NOT ORDINARY AIRCRAFT. IT COULD “WOR iW MY OPINION COULD AMY WATURAL PHENOMENA SUCK AS SHOOTING STARS, ELECTRI- CAL DISTURBANCES, OR CLOUDS ACCOUNT FOR THESE SPOTS ON OUR NOT TO MENTION PIERMAN'S ACTUAL VISIBLE SIGHTINGS OF THE OBJECTS — THE AIR FORCE 0UG DEEP IN AN EFFORT TO SOUIRM OUT OF THIS SIGHTING. AT4'OCLOCK ON. JULY 29,1952, 4 _PRESS CONFERENCE WAS HELD... . Eos. GENTLEMEN! THE RADAR-SIGHTINGS OVER WASHINGTON WERE CAUSED BY TEMPERATURE INVERSION. THE OBJECTS WERE REFLECTIONS OF GROUND OBJECTS... CARS...TRAINS.. ETC... JUST TWO POINTS, THIS WAS THE AIR FoRCE's oiv@ | BOYS: ANSWER. THEY ORE , wx, | 2omaco v. wencer’s renner | (I) THE ACTUAL || | rure - evension THeony: wien | TEMPERATURE- A LAYER OF COOL AIR LIES INVERSION tient rays ane aeraccree as | OVER WASH- THEY #458 THROVEeN.\1F A TEN- | INGTON ON THE PERATURE-INVERSION 15 STRONS NIGHT OF JULY orarencice cient mars way | 19,52, WAS EVEN BE AEFLECTED. THIS (8 WHAT JUST ONE CAUSES M/RAGES ON DESERTS OR DEGREE HEATED ROADS, ’ mavES ARE acvOREFRACTCO on | FAHRENHEIT! REFLECTED . “rempenaTune- MNVERSION; THE “AIR FORCE SAID, eonany pnd "was Tut answer” VISUAL SIGHTINGS!™