Los Angeles Battles UFO In 1942 (69th anniversary of The Battle of Los Angeles)

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[Chi-townChief]

At 2:25 a.m. on February 25, 1942, most of the greater Los Angeles region's three million population was awakened by loud air raid sirens that kept wailing for the next thirty-eight minutes.

Powerful searchlights were aimed at a glowing unidentified aerial object over the Santa Monica Mountains that was shaped like a "lozenge."

Moments later, America's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade fired off 1,430 anti-aircraft shells at the UFO.

[DBrow]

And one day after Ellwood, CA was shelled by a sub. People were probably on edge.

[dragnet2]

Er...No “lightening” either...

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm...Is this a UFO thread or a porno thread?

[al_c]

“HORRYWOOD!!!!”

[Bluebeard16]

I believe kalipso louie is going to be in Chicago this weekend and he’s looking for the UFO’s. Maybe they will come and take him away.

[ApplegateRanch]

None were born, nor hatched. The were reproduced by fission, like all other bacteria.

[jackibutterfly]

This isn’t true - if you look, they all have different birthdays.

[bobby.223]

Germans? Ha!! Shows what you know ‘dog. Everybody knows it was the North Koreans raiding Pearl from junks stationed in the Panama Canal...

[SengirV]

rarely are you born 9 months to the day. If they were all born within a couple months of each other, then ...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I just saw Conrad Brooks from “Plan 9 from Outer Space”. I’ll ask him. (He’s 80 years old and looks like 60. Still funny as heck).

That UFO cost about 5 bucks to make, which is 4 dollars more than it cost to make the whole movie.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

They all may have different birthdays BUT DO THEY HAVE BIRTH CERTIFICATES?

[Right Brother]

"It was huge! It was just enormous! I had never seen anything like it in my life!" she said. "It was just hovering there and hardly moving at all. It was a lovely pale orange. I could see it perfectly because it was very close. It was big!"

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Can you help me here? Do you recall if this was before or after “the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor”? (July 18, 2008)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#4DBrow: re Japanese fire balloons. I just copied this at the National Archives, College Park, Md. the other day.
From Record Group, 160 (Army Service Forces), Entry 37, Box 10, 9th Service Command, A.G. Officer, Decimal File 383.4
Correspondence “acknowledgement of letter stating plans for Combating Effects of Japanese balloons”
- 5/05/45, Telephone Conversation between Major Poffenburg and Mr. Hankey re “Explosion of Japanese Bomb” near Bly, Oregon. Describes how picnickers from a church group “picked up, dropped or kicked a demolition bomb.”
Record No. 279, and

Record No. 271: another phone conversation transcribed listed the victims are:

Mr. John E. Tucker: “And the names of the persons who were killed. Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, 28. Also, an unborn child by Else Mitchell. Nex is Gene Patske, 12 years old, Richard Patske, 14 years, Sherman Shoemaker, 12 years, Eddie Engen, 13 years, Jay Gifford 12 years. All of Bly, Oregon.”

Japanese balloon fires, explosions, or droppings were found in Utah, Wyoming, and Montana, among other states.

These people were also casualties of war and should not be forgotten.

[Fiji Hill]

At Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, the event is celebrated with a dance featuring a band playing tunes popular at the time.

[smoothsailing]

Whoa, holy moley!

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[oyez]

Roswell got a lot of mileage out of the event but not the rest of us.

[WaterBoard]

Radio News Report: News Clip

An editorial in the Long Beach Independent wrote, "There is a mysterious reticence about the whole affair and it appears that some form of censorship is trying to halt discussion on the matter."

It is an intersesting case as there really was an object according to a 1983 Air Force report on the incident. They claim it was a weather balloon - that fighters and anti-aircraft artillery could not destroy.


"An alert called at 1918 [7:18 p.m., Pacific time] was lifted at 2223, and the tension temporarily relaxed. But early in the morning of the 25th renewed activity began. Radars picked up an unidentified target 120 miles west of Los Angeles. Antiaircraft batteries were alerted at 0215 and were put on Green Alert—ready to fire—a few minutes later. The AAF kept its pursuit planes on the ground, preferring to await indications of the scale and direction of any attack before committing its limited fighter force. Radars tracked the approaching target to within a few miles of the coast, and at 0221 the regional controller ordered a blackout. Thereafter the information center was flooded with reports of "enemy planes, " even though the mysterious object tracked in from sea seems to have vanished. At 0243, planes were reported near Long Beach, and a few minutes later a coast artillery colonel spotted "about 25 planes at 12,000 feet" over Los Angeles. At 0306 a balloon carrying a red flare was seen over Santa Monica and four batteries of anti-aircraft artillery opened fire, whereupon "the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano." From this point on reports were hopelessly at variance." -- pp. 277-286, Washington, D.C. : Office of Air Force History

It is interesting that the USAF lied about sending US Army fighters to intercept the aircraft in their official history when multiple contemporaneous reports including the one above states they did.

[Dusty Road]

Now this is interesting, my mom and dad were driving in LA when this happen, they're story seems to differ from the reports. When the sirens went off they and several other pulled over and went lights out. My father who was a pilot at the time said there was no doubt it was a small plane going west to east and trying to maneuver to avoid the AA. The next morning there were reports of a military surveillance plane going down east of LA. This was also about the time a Japanese sub was was shelling a refinery off the coast of Santa Monica. Dads convinced we shot down one of our own planes as it was returning from the sea in an attempt to locate the sub.