Some of the first reports of a potential aerial threat emerged just before 8:30 AM local time in Washington, with the U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Secret Service subsequently restricting access to various sites and telling individuals at the White House and Capitol Building to shelter in place. Within 45 minutes, the U.S. Capitol Police said that the situation had passed “without incident” and the lockdowns ended shortly thereafter.

The few first reports claimed that what was seen in the restricted airspace over The Whitehouse was an unidentified aircraft. It was first described as a dark elliptical object. Then it was reported that it could have been a drone or a plane that flew off course.

What is most interesting about the event is that while very few news outlets reported it just after it happened; many of the initial reports were pulled from the internet, only to be replaced by official cliché statements of the event being attributed to a flock of birds, a weather balloon, or something else other that a plane, a drone, or a helicopter.
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