Washington, D.C., was abuzz with speculations, jests, and scoffs amidst a flurry of fascination with a strange pattern of lights in the sky above Capitol Hill this evening of November 28, 2024. The incident gave way to curiosity as to why the extraterrestrial visitors had unexpectedly stopped in the nation’s capital.
The witnesses described four glowing bright lights that hovered soundlessly above the Capitol dome near the Statue of Freedom.
First, the lights went straight in a triangle and remained that way for several minutes. Many witnessed this incident, including Dennis Diggins, a U.S. Air Force veteran and licensed tour guide, who managed to take photos and videos that have gone viral.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,”
Diggins said.
“The way they just hovered there was unsettling, to say the least.”
Reactions to the lights went from pure concern to amusement as images flooded social media. Some speculated it could be an alien activity. In contrast, others used humor to try and process the strange occurrence:
“The aliens came, saw our Congress, and decided there’s no intelligent life here,”
one Twitter user joked. Skeptics jumped on the bandwagon with their explanations of drones or reflections.
If the timing wasn’t a coincidence, it only piqued the intrigue-even if only weeks after a high-profile congressional hearing about unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, startled testimony of former Pentagon officials popped up to claim the government had been running secret programs to retrieve and study non-human technologies. Public fascination with UFOs has grown ever since, and last night’s spectacle only fanned the flames.
The experts have already begun weighing in with their explanations. John Greenewald Jr. – a ufologist with a highly trafficked site – placed the new sighting within a “long history” of claims of similar sightings near the Capitol that frequently turn out to be either from lens flares or a reflection from the floodlights illuminating the dome for nighttime tours.
“That’s a well-documented little phenomenon,”
Greenewald said.
These aren’t little lights out there in space; instead, they can often best be explained through camera Artifacts or, more especially, atmospheric ones.
The Pentagon has maintained silence on the incident so far- a fact that gives way to speculation. This is a case whereby in recent months, government agencies vowed for more transparency concerning the investigation into UAP. Its silence on this particular event does little to settle public curiosity. Some believed the lights over Capitol Hill summoned images of other unexplained phenomena in the capital’s history.
To this day, radar anomalies and visual sightings over the nation’s capital in 1952 produced a national stir until local authorities assigned those “X FILES” to “weather.” Similar reports, almost uniformly relegated to reflections, hoaxes, or misidentified aircraft in following times, have been ignored.
