Startled Washington, D.C., air traffic controller Edward Nugent spotted seven strange blips bouncing on his radar screen at National Airport - UFOs.
Coinciding with Nugent's blips, a Capital Airlines pilot and his crew observed six "white, tailless, fast-moving lights."
Nugent's chief, Harry Barnes, confirmed the objects' position, noting "completely radical" and erratic movements. Controllers at nearby Andrews Air Force Base tracked the strange objects, too.
From land, personnel at the National Airport reported a visual sighting - a hovering "bright light" that whisked away at an "incredible speed." Back at Andrews, Airman William Brady witnessed something as well - an "orange ball of fire, trailing a tail."
The Air Force scrambled a pair of F-94 Starfire jet fighters to investigate. Finding nothing the fighters returned to base.
However, once they departed the skies over the nation's capital, the objects popped up again -convincing Barnes, the National Airport chief controller, UFOs were listening in on air traffic control communications.
Officially, the incident - on the night of July 19, 1952 - is a mystery, according to Wikipedia. But a half century later, retired controller Howard Cocklin remained adamant. He insisted to The Washington Post: "I saw it on the [radar] screen and out the window."
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