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37 = UFOs are real, why don’t they land on the White House lawn and make an official announcement?” In the summer of 1952, this very On July 19, 1952, at 11:40 P.M., air traffic controller Edward Nugent at Washington National Airport spotted seven unusual-looking blips on his radarscope. Nugent watched i in amazement as the blips performed amazing maneuvers, traveling up to 7,000 miles per hour. He immedi- ately called the senior air traffic controller Harry Barnes. Barnes looked at the scope in shock. In a later interview, Barnes said, “We knew immediately that a very strange situation existed... there is no other conclusion that I can reach but that for six hours there were at least 10 unidentified flying objects moving above Wash- ington. They were not ordinary aircraft. I could tell that by their movement on the scope. I can safely deduce that they performed gyrations which no known aircraft can perform. By this I mean that our scopes showed that they could make right angle turns and com- plete reversals of flight.” Barnes immediately contacted nearby Andrews Air Force Base who also had unusual blips on their radar. Later, they made visual contact with the UFOs. Airman William Brady was the first to see “an object which looked like an orange ball of fire, trailing a tail.” Following Brady’s sighting, numerous other officers, guards, and employees observed the UFOs. Meanwhile, airline pilots throughout the area called in to report UFOs cavorting around their own planes. When the activity continued, commercial jets were grounded and Newcastle Air Force Base sent out two F-49 jet interceptors to chase the unknown objects. Each time the jets approached, however, the UFOs would dart away. When the jets left, the UFOs returned. The Sighting That Changed the World capital. One of the most common questions asked about UFOs is, “If nearly happened. THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS