Washington D.C. UFO Incident
Washington D.C., USA · July 1952
Over two consecutive weekends, UFOs were tracked on radar over the nation's capital. Air Force jets were scrambled but couldn't intercept the objects. The sightings prompted the largest Pentagon press conference since WWII.
- Classification
- Radar-visual
- Witnesses
- Radar operators, pilots, civilians
- Significance
- UFOs over the White House prompted national security concerns
