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One wonders exactly what "faded from the radar screen" means. Did it land? Did it turn on some stealth technology that someone besides the US Air Force is using? Or did it simply leave at mach 10? This is a very curious story. There must be other witnesses if there actually was an attempted intercept ... even at 1am ... and if there are other witnesses who come forward and are publicized, then the story could get very interesting indeed.

>>"faded from the radar screen"<< usually means it just disappeared from the scope. This is not unusual, as anomalies happen all the time, even with the most advanced pulse-Doppler radars. In fact, I had on many occasion ran my radar out to max rage, scrolled it “up” just to see if anything was trolling along. And sometimes I did lock onto something. Sometimes it stayed in place and nothing happened, sometimes it was moving at terrific speeds, but in all cases it was resolved to be an an anomaly that caused the return, or another aircraft that was able to be identified. I would suspect this event was one of those I just described.

Basically, I think the radar returns were anomalies and the blue light was an illusion (the AB glow from the lead aircraft, as seen from behind by the guy on the ground).

I can gar-an-darn-tee yah it wasn’t no experimental aircraft-—no way would we ever let one of those out of the box, especially over heavily populated areas and hi-alert areas like the east-coast/Wash DC. No way. No how.

Bottom line, to repeat myself, the jets scrambled to investigate an anomaly, the blue light was the AB glow of the lead aircraft from zero aspect. The blue light went away when the lead aircraft pulled out of AB.

Nothing more.

>>This is a very curious story. There must be other witnesses if there actually was an attempted intercept ... even at 1am ... and if there are other witnesses who come forward and are publicized, then the story could get very interesting indeed.<<

Like most stories of “UFO’s,” it will take on a life of its own, as those that want to believe will, and those that offer explanations are one of “those” that are hiding the secret, and the lack of proof jusy goes to show ya just how good the cover up really is.

Now, that is not to say we don’t have secrets, we do, but we don’t take our secrets out into the world to be seen by the neighbors.

These aren't the first "UFOs" reported over Washington, DC. As I recall in the late 40s or early 50s there was a rash of UFOs sighted on radar over DC. I believe that fighters were also scrambled then.

Keep your powder dry and your eye on your daughters.