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In 1952, DC’s skies were littered with US fighter jets chasing UFOs. More than 70 years later, the mystery persists

by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

The night was warm and muggy over New Castle Air Force Base in Delaware, the kind of heat that clung to the metal skins of the alert fighter jets lined along the runway.

Lt. William L. Patterson of the 142nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron did not stray far from the flight line as part of the readiness posture routine for pilots in 1952: Keep the engines warm, be airborne in minutes and stay alert for the remote chance that Soviet bombers close in on the mid-Atlantic.

Then the order came: intercept unknown objects flying around the White House and Pentagon. Radar screens at nearby Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base were lighting up with targets no one could identify, and they taunted restricted airspace.

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