The Washington National
Radar/Visual Sightings
July 19/20, 1952 /
July 26/27, 1952
Washington, DC Area
Updated: 12 April 2006
Francis Ridge:
The latest information we have comes from researcher, Dan Wilson, and
the Project Blue Book Archives.
This famous case is Item 23 on a list of 51 items, 41 of which are Air
Technical Intelligence UFO sighting reports cleared for Donald Keyhoe
by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk. Imagine what it must have been
like in 1952 to have UFOs over-flying the Nation's Capitol, tracked by
radar and jet interceptors being scrambled. Not only did this actually
happen on July 19/20, but it happened again on July 26/27. The action
covered a wide area and this directory covers both incidents and the
official records and press releases which followed.
July
19/20, 1952
The first
incident, July 19/20, 1952
(Keyhoe/Ridge)
July 19/20, 1952;
D.C. / Reports from Andrews AFB - MAXW-PBB11 1003-1011 (Dan Wilson)
July 19/20, 1952;
Washington, D.C., UFO Report - MAXW-PBB11 964-966 (Dan Wilson)
July 20, 1952,
Wash., D.C., AFXOI FLYOBRPT 5-52 - MAXW-PBB11-958
-963 (Dan Wilson)
Radar Observer
Relates Watching Stunts By Flying Saucers - MAXW-PBB11 1268-1269 (Dan
Wilson)
July 19/20, 1952;
Washington, D.C./Harry Barnes Report - MAXW-PBB11
968-970 (Dan Wilson)
July 19/20, 1952; Washington,
D.C., Newspaper Articles - MAXW-PBB11 1039-1059 (Dan Wilson)
UO's Sighted At
Andrews AFB, 20 July 1952, One Radar Paint - NARA-PBB90 121-123 (Dan
Wilson)
Report of Unidentified
Targets, July
20, 1952, Harry Barnes - MAXW-PBB11 1020-1022 (Dan Wilson)
Rusume of Washington
Sightings - Conclusions - MAXW-PBB11 1014-1015 (Dan Wilson)
July
26/27, 1952
The Saucers
Return to Washington; July 26/27,
1952 (Keyhoe/Ridge)
July 27, 1952; Repts
Telephoned to OIN-2A2 on 28 July -
MAXW-PBB11 1214-1218 (Dan Wilson)
Washington, D.C. Folder
(BB) -
MAXW-PBB11-916 (Dan Wilson)
Log of Reports on UO
2108E-1121E,
July 26, 1952 - MAXW-PBB11 1149-1151 (Dan Wilson)
July 26, 1952, Andrews
AFB,
Washington, D.C. - MAXW-PBB11 1170-1176 (Dan Wilson)
Washington Newspaper
Articles July 28,
1952 --- MAXW-PBB11 1084-1091 (Dan Wilson)
Article: "Aerial Whatzits
Buzz D.C. Again" - MAXW-PBB11 1190-1198 (Dan
Wilson)
Washington, D.C.; Night of
26/27
July 1952 MAXW-PBB11 1208-1211 (Dan Wilson)
Memo to Carroll -
Radar Sightings of
AP at WN - NARA-PBB90 131(Dan Wilson)
UFO in the
Washington, D.C. Area - NARA-PBB90 127-129 (Dan Wilson)
Newspaper
articles during period from BB files (pdf file) - MAXW-PBB11 1081-1099) - (Fran
Ridge)
Comments Of a Researcher (Dr. James E.
McDonald)
CIA memo, following the wave of sightings over
Washington
The Washington National Sightings
File ( CUFON Link)
Project
Blue Book Case 1661 - Records of the USAF (CUFON/Project Blue Book)
Preliminary
Study Of Unidentified Targets Observed On ATC Radars - CAA, May 1954
(CUFON pdf file)
Partial
Reference List - The Washington National Sightings (CUFON Link)
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