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both looking up at the side of the house, wondering how to get wrote: "I was in my bathroom of my apartment on U Street, NW, their cat down, when two circular white lights flew over their DC, looking out the window, when I saw a helicopter with its house. They estimated the UFOs were about the size of a baseball searchlight on as it cruised at about 400 feet elevation moving held at arm's length. The UFOs were visible for about two min- west to east over the S Street, NW, area. This is a normal thing to utes before moving off, but soon came back again. see in my ‘hood. I just paid attention because it had the This time, both UFOs stopped close by—and that was when the searchlight on, which is generally only used when they are father and son realised the spheres were small. Both UFOs looking for bad guys on the ground. stopped for a second, and then one of the objects flew away at a "However, the searchlight of the helicopter went directly over right angle to its previous path of flight. The other object what appeared to be a very large swarm of bees. I thought this remained motionless for about five seconds before continuing on was very strange, not only to see such a swarm at that altitude but pretty much its original direction. These were two separate also that these objects must have been a lot larger than bees to see objects flying in tandem at first, an them that distinctly from about 1/8 mile then separately. They were clearly away and approximately 400 feet up! under intelligent control. "The helicopter continued on its way Four months later, on November 11, . as if it did not see anything. Nor did it 2002, the DC photographer capture But what if | told you that a fix its light onto the strange swarm. So another amazing night-time photograph "swarm" of UFOs passed over I began looking more closely at this of a small UFO. This object was a . ’ . "swarm", which was cloud-like but metallic sphere about the size of a golf | OUI nation's Capitol as recently seemed to have the distinct shape of a ball that silently defied gravity. It liter- very large triangle. It was the size of a ally floated over the head of a beautifu as Monday, May 2, 2005, at football field and was much larger than blonde model before swiftly moving 8.45 pm Eastern Time? any aircraft. The wind was blowing off. west to east at about 10 mph (the One year later, in November 2003, yahoo.com weather page said it was Fox News reported that Air Force NW 10 mph that night). Either way, fighter jets had once again been the wind was not blowing westerly— scrambled and that the White House had briefly been evacuated which makes my next point even stranger. The clouds in the sky on November 20 after "birds" or possibly "disturbances in the were either standing still or moving toward the east. atmosphere" tripped radar that keeps watch on restricted airspace "This group of objects started to cruise south toward the around the complex. National Mall. At this point I yelled for my wife to come to the According to Fox News, Federal Aviation Administration bathroom. 'Get in here now! You have to see this weird thing in spokesman William Shumann said: "It's a false radar target. the sky!’ I pointed it out to her and she watched with me as we When the NORAD fighters got to the location of the alleged tracked it moving east to west over The Mall, over the violation, they found nothing." NORAD is the command centre = Washington Monument, toward the Lincoln Memorial, and off for the defence of American and Canadian airspace. Shumann toward the Pentagon area. explained how "flocks of birds or atmospheric disturbances might have caused the false radar reading, which was initially thought to be a plane flying within five miles of restricted airspace around the White House". He said: "It's one of those ‘electronic gremlins’ that pop up, but there was no aircraft there." Swarm over the Capitol in May 2005 So, should we just forget what happened in 1952 and again in 2002 and 2003? Those events are behind us now and no one was seriously injured, right? But what if I told you that a "swarm" of UFOs passed over our nation's Capitol as recently as Monday, May 2, 2005, at 8.45 pm Eastern Time? According to an eyewit- \ ness, a fleet of UFOs once again passed i es through restricted airspace undeterred. Below is the amazing account that was sent to me by a friend of the DC photographer. I spoke with him on the A closer look at the three lights over the Washington Monument, July 4, 2002. (Photo © WGA 2002) phone 24 hours after the event and he was still in shock from what he had observed. This man, whom I call "the graduate student", is highly intelligent and very credible. He is working on his PhD in anthropology at a Catholic university. He NEXUS +57 But what if | told you that a {| —————_| AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005 www. nexusmagazine.com