[Gaffer]

This same sort of thing happened in the vicinity of the White House (on more than one occasion IIRC)

http://fas.org/irp/agency/ustreas/usss/t1pubrpt.html

[VeniVidiVici]

This same sort of thing happened in the vicinity of the White House (on more than one occasion IIRC)

I don't think you can even begin to compare air-defense assets in the Moscow area to the DC area at the time of Rust's flight into Red Square.