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"On Tuesday, the White House was placed under lockdown after it appeared that an aircraft was flying in restricted air space over Washington DC. But was it really an aircraft… or was it birds?

The North American Aerospace Defense Command first reported an object entering capitol airspace this morning, which prompted a response from National Security officials and a temporary lockdown of some capitol buildings, CNN reports (https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/white-house-lockdown-airspace…). A Coast Guard rotary-wing aircraft (probably a helicopter, but NORAD did not specify) went to investigate—and did not find a threat. Perhaps, tweeted (https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1199396131312193536) ABC7 DC-Area transportation reporter Sam Sweeney, it was birds.

“The comments you’re seeing about a flock of birds is speculation,” a NORAD spokesperson told Gizmodo by phone. “I cannot confirm or deny that it was a flock of birds.” (Another NORAD spokesperson told NBC news (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airspace-violation-washington-d-… might be a “flock of birds or a weather balloon.”)"

https://gizmodo.com/norad-will-neither-confirm-nor-deny-a-flock-of-bi… (https://gizmodo.com/norad-will-neither-confirm-nor-deny-a-flock-of-bi…)

It's an older story (2019). But this topic is all about looking back and thinking twice. There were a few other images circulating around twitter back then, and it seems a video exists somewhere.


Some additional links.

https://www.twz.com/31253/heres-what-really-happened-with-that-washin… (https://www.twz.com/31253/heres-what-really-happened-with-that-washin…)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/28/politics/white-house-lockdown-scramble (https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/28/politics/white-house-lockdown-scramble)