ÜberDoober
04-04-2008, 08:09 PM
Blips on the scope
Air traffic was light at Washington Airport one midnight last week, and the radar scope of the Civil Aeronautics Authority was almost clear. At 12:40 a.m. a group of bright blips showed. The operator estimated that they were about 15 miles southwest of Washington. Then the blips disappeared abruptly and reappeared a few seconds later over northeast Washington. The operator called his boss, Senior Controller Harry Barnes, 39, a graduate of the Buffalo Technical Institute who has worked for the CAA as an electronics expert since 1941. The operator told Barnes: "Here are some flying saucers for you."
LINK: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822408-1,00.html
I read this quite intently thinking wow, something cool is going down then I happened to notice the date on the story was 1952! This is the famous Whitehouse flyover event.
Air traffic was light at Washington Airport one midnight last week, and the radar scope of the Civil Aeronautics Authority was almost clear. At 12:40 a.m. a group of bright blips showed. The operator estimated that they were about 15 miles southwest of Washington. Then the blips disappeared abruptly and reappeared a few seconds later over northeast Washington. The operator called his boss, Senior Controller Harry Barnes, 39, a graduate of the Buffalo Technical Institute who has worked for the CAA as an electronics expert since 1941. The operator told Barnes: "Here are some flying saucers for you."
LINK: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822408-1,00.html
I read this quite intently thinking wow, something cool is going down then I happened to notice the date on the story was 1952! This is the famous Whitehouse flyover event.