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This is an Air Intelligence Information Report dated 22 July 1952 and prepared by Capt. Benjamin L. Berkon, USAF Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Command. It records interviews with control tower operators at Washington National Airport about unidentified objects on 19 and 20 July 1952. Five unidentified targets appeared on radar over Andrews Air Base, and Andrews tower confirmed seeing three objects. Controllers also saw an orange disk, and a Bolling AFB tower operator saw a roundish object drifting low in the sky.
This undated NICAP (Barry Greenwood) release reproduces Blue Book radar pages 968 to 970. They contain an unclassified report by Senior Controller Harry S. Barnes of the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center on the targets seen overnight on July 19 to 20, 1952. Barnes describes eight or more slow-moving radar targets and an orange object near Andrews seen by tower staff. He also records pilot reports of lights and says it was unclear who should report the targets or order an intercept.