{"id":14777,"date":"2013-03-17T08:08:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T12:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=14777"},"modified":"2013-04-15T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T03:10:08","slug":"the-1952-washington-d-c-ufo-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=14777","title":{"rendered":"The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFO - OVNI - UFOs In Washington D.C\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hObI12DD3-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Think about this era for a moment. Men and women dressed like the cast in <em>Grease,<\/em> Afro-Americans still couldn\u2019t vote, and in most states, the only way you could divorce your spouse was to prove he or she was guilty of a crime. \u00a0The Cold War was in full swing, and Harry S Truman, the unpopular incumbent president, had decided not to run in the November election. Eisenhower won that election and ended twenty years of\u00a0 Democratic rule.<\/p>\n<p>But in July 1952, Truman was still president and, according to CIA historian Gerald Haines, his administration was alarmed about a \u201cmassive buildup of (UFO) sightings over the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sightings in Washington, D.C. began on July 19, at 11:40 p.m., when seven to ten UFOs were tracked on radar at Andrews Air Force Base and Washington National Airport. They \u00a0were about fifteen miles south-southwest of the city, no known aircraft were in the area, and they didn\u2019t follow any established flight path. The UFOs reportedly moved along at normal speeds of 100-130 mph, then accelerated to speeds estimated to be over 7,000 mph. They were observed for more than six hours.<\/p>\n<p>The objects were seen by pilots, air-traffic controllers, civil engineers, \u00a0and ordinary citizens. Around three that morning, shortly before jet fighters arrived from Newcastle Air Force Base in Delaware, \u00a0the UFOs vanished simultaneously from all radar screens. \u00a0But when the jets ran low on fuel and had to return to base, the objects reappeared, which convinced a senior air traffic controller, Harry Barnes, that the UFOs were monitoring radio frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next ten days, the UFOs reappeared\u00a0 and F-94 military jets were dispatched to intercept them. But the jets were never able to get close enough to shoot. According to Lt. Colonel Moncel Monte, an Air Force public information officer, they sometimes outflew the pilots by \u201cas much as a thousand miles an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media, of course, had a field day, with headlines screaming about flying saucers in restricted airspace over the White House and the Capital. The headlines of the <em>Washington Post<\/em> on July 28 read: \u2018<em>Saucer\u2019 Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals<\/em>. From <em>The New Yorker<\/em>: <em>\u2018Saucers\u2019 Spotted on Capital Radar. <\/em>The <em>Washington Daily News <\/em>headline for July 29: <em>Jets Ordered to Hunt Down Flying Saucers. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>On July 29, Major General John Samford apparently realized the Air Force had to make some sort of official response, so he held a press conference. It was the largest and longest pres conference the Air Force had held since the second world war. \u00a0The following day, July 30, the <em>Washington Times Herald<\/em> ran a cartoon featuring flying saucers, with a caption that read: <em>Are these what you saucer? <\/em>\u00a0Beneath it was: <em>Mirage, Says AF Officer of \u2018Saucers.\u2019 <\/em>\u00a0The officer, of course, was James Samford, who told the press corps that he was satisfied in his own mind that the appearances of the objects were the result of atmospheric conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The article went on to explain that radar experts from the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson AF Base said that false radar images often are created \u201cby a type of air layer that \u2018bends\u2019 the electrical beams.\u201d \u00a0Temperature inversions as an explanation was readily accepted by debunkers, but Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt wasn\u2019t convinced. Even though temperature inversions occurred nearly every night in June, July, and August, none were strong enough to effect radar.<\/p>\n<p>So, way back in 1952, sightings by dozens of ordinary citizens and technical experts were relegated to the land of &#8220;weather.&#8221; And anyone who thought otherwise instantly became an outlier, to be shunned and ridiculed. It&#8217;s an effective weapon. And it has worked for decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about this era for a moment. 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