According to eyewitness testimony (MUFON Case No. 70031), "On August 28 at the time I took the picture, I was on a foot tour around Washington DC detailing the events of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
We came to the a street corner, I don't remember the exact street, and I saw a good photo opportunity with the Capitol Building, the moon, and a clock tower all in the background of the photo.
I took three photos, and my parents took a few more as well. However, only one of those photos contained lights. At the time that I took the picture, I didn't even notice it, and just continued on with the tour.
On the car ride back from the tour, I was looking through my photos and noticed these 5 lights in a V-formation above the Capitol building.
I had no idea what they were, I can't think of anything that would cause a light pattern like that besides maybe military planes?
Because I didn't even notice them in the first place, I was only able to go off of the picture, and I have no information on the objects' motions or actions."
Its not the first time UFOs were sighted over Capitol Building In Washington D.C.
At 11:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, 1952, Edward Nugent, an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport (today Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport), spotted seven objects on his radar. The objects were located 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of the city; no known aircraft were in the area and the objects were not following any established flight paths. Nugent's superior, Harry Barnes, a senior air-traffic controller at the airport, watched the objects on Nugent's radarscope.
He later wrote:
We knew immediately that a very strange situation existed . . . their movements were completely radical compared to those of ordinary aircraft.
Barnes had two controllers check Nugent's radar; they found that it was working normally. Barnes then called National Airport's other radar center; the controller there, Howard Cocklin, told Barnes that he also had the objects on his radarscope. Furthermore, Cocklin said that by looking out of the control tower window he could see one of the objects, "a bright orange light. I can't tell what's behind it."
At this point, other objects appeared in all sectors of the radarscope; when they moved over the White House and the United States Capitol, Barnes called Andrews Air Force Base, located 10 miles from National Airport. Although Andrews reported that they had no unusual objects on their radar, an airman soon called the base's control tower to report the sighting of a strange object. Airman William Brady, who was in the tower, then saw an "object which appeared to be like an orange ball of fire, trailing a tail . . . [it was] unlike anything I had ever seen before." As Brady tried to alert the other personnel in the tower, the strange object "took off at an unbelievable speed." Meanwhile, another person in the National Airport control tower reported seeing "an orange disk about 3,000 feet altitude." On one of the airport's runways, S.C. Pierman, a Capital Airlines pilot, was waiting in the cockpit of his DC-4 for permission to take off. After spotting what he believed to be a meteor, he was told that the control tower's radar had picked up unknown objects closing in on his position. Pierman observed six objects — "white, tailless, fast-moving lights" — over a 14-minute period. Pierman was in radio contact with Barnes during his sighting, and Barnes later related that "each sighting coincided with a pip we could see near his plane. When he reported that the light streaked off at a high speed, it disappeared on our scope.
