In this gripping episode of Cold Logic, host Silas Gray revisits one of the most unsettling and consequential UFO events in American history: the 1952 UFO sightings over Washington, D.C. Radar screens in the capital lit up with unexplained blips, jets were scrambled, and eyewitnesses—including pilots and air traffic controllers—reported strange lights hovering over the Capitol and White House. What followed was a high-stakes scramble, an official explanation framed as atmospheric distortion, and the birth of institutional narrative control through programs like Project Blue Book and the Robertson Panel. Silas unpacks the radar data, pilot accounts, government response, and the cultural context of Cold War paranoia to ask the hard questions: Was it a secret technology test? A foreign threat? Or something beyond current explanation? How did the govern ...