Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts

Monday, January 07, 2013

Nuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation Levels Above DC Area

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Nuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation Levels Above DC Area

By washington.cbslocal.com
1-5-13

     WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Helicopters have been conducting radiation tests above portions of the Washington, D.C. area using remote gamma radiation sensing technology.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been flying the radiation missions since Dec. 27, 2012 and they will continue until next Friday, Jan. 11. The flights have been conducted during daylight only, and the pilots fly about 80 miles per hour at 150 feet above the approximately 70-square mile radiation assessment area.

Naturally-occurring radiation is measured so that baseline levels can be established and used in security and emergency preparedness, reads a statement from the NNSA.

In addition to monitoring radiation levels and responding to radiological emergencies on the home front, the agency provides the U.S. Navy with nuclear propulsion and works to reduce the global danger of weapons of mass destruction, according to a release issued by the agency.

NNSA is making the public aware of the upcoming flights so that citizens who see the low-flying aircraft are not alarmed by the helicopters conducting the tests. The NNSA’s Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) out of Joint Base Andrews will be performing the assessment for local law enforcement of Washington, D.C, according to the organization’s Dec. 26 press release. . . .

Sunday, July 22, 2012

". . . The Great Alien Reconnaissance of 1952"


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The month that E.T. came to D.C.

By John Kelly
The Washington Post
7-20-12

     This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Great Alien Invasion of 1952 or, as it might more appropriately be called, the Great Alien Reconnaissance of 1952. The UFOs allegedly just flew around; no one saw them land.

But were they aliens? This much is undisputed: Late on the evening of July 19, 1952, air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport spotted a curious cluster of seven blips on their radar screens. Similar blips were sighted by radar operators at Andrews and Bolling Air Force bases.

National’s control tower contacted commercial aircraft in the vicinity and asked their pilots if they had seen anything unusual. Why yes, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman of Capital Air Flight 807 radioed back. He saw six bright lights streaking across the sky, “like falling stars without tails.” . . .

Thursday, June 14, 2012

UFO NEWS | VIDEO: Drone Mistaken for ‘UFO’ Creates Panic on DC Highway


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 Drone Mistaken for ‘UFO’ Creates Panic on DC Highway



By www.myfoxdc.com
6-14-12

     WASHINGTON - People in the D.C. area are buzzing after pictures began popping up online showing what many believed to be a 'UFO' in transport along the Capitol Beltway.

The spotting took place around 11:00 p.m. Wednesday when drivers first saw the craft being hauled on a flatbed truck on I-270, and then again down I-495.

An official at Northrop Grumman confirmed to FOX 5 on Thursday that the craft was actually an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System.

They say the unmanned drone was being transported from Edwards Air Force Base in California to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland for testing.

It wasn't the first time this style of aircraft had had been mistaken for a 'UFO' while being transported. Last year, residents of Cowley County, Kansas made a similar mistake. . . .

Monday, April 25, 2011

UPDATE | UFO Sightings Attributed To NORAD Flight Exercise





By The Woodbridge Patch
4-12-11


Editor's Note–The following abstract was originally published on April 12th of this month–FW


     The North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region (CONR), will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 11-07 beginning midnight Tuesday into early Wednesday morning in the National Capital Region, Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, MD

The exercise is comprised of a series of training flights held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Capital Region Coordination Center, the Joint Air Defense Operations Center, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and CONR’s Eastern Air Defense Sector.

Flights in the National Capital Region are scheduled to take place between midnight Tuesday and 2 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

UPDATE | Additional Reports of Jets Pursuing a UFO Near Washington DC Surface

Additional Reports of Jets Pursuing a UFO Near Washington DC Surface



Submitted By Ken Pfeifer
www.worldufophotos.org
www.MUFONNJ.com
[Unedited]
4-13-11

      On April 13th, around 2 AM (which technically is the early morning of the 14th), I was awakened by the sound of military jets flying over my home.

I live right on the Arlington/Falls Church border, about 10 minutes from DC and the Pentagon, so I am very familiar with the sound differences between commercial and military planes.

I looked out the window and saw a bluish/white light flash, several times, in different positions each time.

It was a cloudy night and each time the light flashed, it lit up the cloud cover near it. I heard the jets clearly, as they were quite loud, but did not see them, probably due to the cloud cover. I have never seen an object flash the way this one did, or move positions so quickly (and none of the positions were linear).

I do believe there was a UFO over the skies of Falls Church that night, and military jets were deployed to intercept.


Second Report


Late last night (on or about 3:08 AM,) I stepped outside for a smoke.

All of a sudden I heard an increasing in volume thunderous roar, approaching from the northwest. This made me look up. It sounded like military jet with the pilots really pushing the pedal to the metal. I did not see the jets, but it sounded like the ones I saw flying over Andrews Air Force base in Maryland. Commercial jets do not sound anything like that and fly much higher. (I see a lot of them, since I live about 15 minutes away from Dulles International Airport).

These jets seemed to be flying pretty low and I have never seen or heard them flying over at this time of night - never. I looked up to see what is making all that noise, but did not see the jets.

However, panning the skies from west to south, I saw what looked like a very bright large star, crossing the sky from west to south in the southwestern quadrant of the sky. It had the same bluish-white tint to it that the stars do. The line of sight was at about 30 degrees angle to the ground.

I could not judge the distance, and did not see any shape that might have been associated with the object, but it crossed the sky in under 10 seconds and disappeared behind the trees I have to the south of my house.

The strangest thing about the object was that it was blinking in a very peculiar manner. Commercial jets have red and green light, blinking continuously without interruption. This thing was bluish-white, would blink 3 times within approximately 1 second, then would stop blinking all together for a second, then blink 3 times within approximately 1 second again, then stop blinking for a second, etc., during the whole 10 seconds or so it took it to cross the visible to me southwest quadrant of the sky.

These was no noise at all coming from the UFO directing - the roar I heard was rapidly approaching from the north - west. As I said before, the UFO disappeared behind the trees in about 10 seconds, but I kept hearing the roar for another 5 minutes or so.

Sounded like the jets kept flying around.

Then everything went silent. Half an hour later the roar came back, but I was already in bed and did not run outside to see what was going on. It would not do any good anyhow, since the speed with which the object moves - it would have been gone by the time I got out.

I came to work and had to tell someone what I saw. I told the story to a security guard that I am friendly with and he said that he lives right near Andrews Air force Base, and he heard they scrambled jets several times last night, which, according to him, they never do at night.

He thought someone might have flown into Washington, DC, no-fly zone or something. This confirms my suspicions that the roar I heard was military jets.

The object could not have been a satellite. I have seen those and they do not blink, do not fly at 30 degrees angle above the horizon and do not get chased by the military jets because the jets cannot fly that high.