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NEW: ‘Mysterious Lights’ Seen Above U.S. Capitol Cause ‘UFO Panic’

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Hysteria settled in over Washington, D.C. Thursday night as residents reported “mysterious lights” in the sky, leaving online observers wondering whether they were related to the government’s recent hearing on UFOs.

In unison, four shining lights hovered above the U.S. Capitol building before a fifth emerged, a phenomenon captured in photographs and video taken by bystanders who couldn’t believe their eyes. The New York Post notes that the sighting came just weeks after Congress held its latest hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a blanket term used by the U.S. government to encompass all sky encounters that defy categorization. Dennis Diggins, an Air Force veteran and licensed tour guide in the city, released a startling image from the steps of the Capitol showing the four shimmering lights hovering quietly overhead.

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A video from farther away appears to show the same lights. As two of them begin to separate from the group, a fifth abruptly appears out of thin air. The video sparked a “UFO panic” as users rushed to make their best guesses about what could explain the phenomenon. “It’s already happening,” one user wrote. A viewer who claims to work in the area suspected it was nothing more than air travel. “These look like flights lined up for Reagan National (DCA) plus a possibly a helicopter,” they wrote, causing another to reply, “Planes and helicopters don’t just materialize.”

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Others immediately expressed their lack of shock given the state of the world today. “I’ve got a lot going on,” read one meme. Another quipped, “The aliens came to see how political circus is made live and direct.”

Others questioned how the U.S. military could allow UFOs to enter such a secure airspace without notice. “These pop in an out. This is the most secure airspace in the world. Things get shot down. Why aren’t these?” one user queried. Others blamed the lights on “geopolitical tensions” and “cosmic rays,” a sign of how badly some want the truth to be out there.

One user reminded others that the coordinated use of drones in recent years has explained some of the seemingly otherworldly stunts captured on camera. However, she added, the height and prominence of a similar effort Thursday night is incomparable to what she’s seen in the past around Oklahoma City. “I’ve seen these in OKC multiple times. They are not airplanes. I thought they were stars at first until I noticed the red and green lights. They could be drones, but seem to be much bigger and higher than normal ones to me,” she wrote.

The Post also noted a reaction by John Greenewald, Jr., a Ufologist, who theorized that the lights were nothing more than another annual apparition by the hundreds of 24-hour lights around the city that regularly cause lens flare in cameras. “The lights at the U.S. Capitol building have been causing ‘UFO sightings’ in the camera lens for decades & decades,” John Greenewald, Jr. wrote on X. “(Just lens flares, but interesting someone is passing them around, again, and more so interesting people are buying it. New photo, same lens flare ‘phenomenon’.)”

Still, the sighting is unsettling given the timing of Congress’s latest hearing on UAPs where witnesses testified that the government has been communicating with non-human entities and pressuring whistleblowers to remain silent. The hearing came after a report in March by the Pentagon stating that the military has no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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