posted on November 20, 2003 08:39:41 AM new
FALSE ALARM.....thank goodness.
From the Associated Press
Bad Radar Prompts White House Evacuation
Nov 20, 10:56 AM (ET)
(AP) White House security personnel block off the streets in front of the White House Thursday, Nov. 20,...
Air Force fighter jets were scrambled and the White House was briefly evacuated on Thursday after birds or possibly disturbances in the atmosphere tripped radar that keeps watch on restricted air space around the complex.
"It's a false radar target," said William Shumann, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. "When the NORAD fighters got to the location of the alleged violation, they found nothing."
pops up, but there was no aircraft there," he said.
