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Post by auntym on Feb 26, 2012 15:51:05 GMT -6
Ancient Aliens _ The Battle of Los Angeles 1942 [/color]
Uploaded by MarkHicks121 on Feb 26, 2011
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late February 24 to early February 25, 1942 over Los Angeles, California. The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor. Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the incident a "false alarm." Newspapers of the time published a number of sensational reports and speculations of a cover-up. A small number of modern-day UFOlogists have suggested the targets were extraterrestrial spacecraft. When documenting the incident in 1983, the U.S. Office of Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves" likely triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries.
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Post by auntym on Aug 19, 2012 13:57:42 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/when-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%9D-came-los-angelesAugust 19, 2012 When “It” Came to Los Angeles[/color] By Steve Erdmann This is the 1942 'Battle of LA' UFO. Searchlight beams are converging on the object over the Culver City area of Los Angeles. On February 23, 1942, on a wave of Pearl-Harbor-attack-hysteria, many were convinced that the Japanese came to West Coast Los Angles and encountered the fury of anti-aircraft batteries along Santa Monica, Inglewood, Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Fernando, California that included a complete blackout in a thirty-nine-mile arc which began at 2:26 a.m. Searchlights detected a slow-moving object several thousand feet above the El Segundo oil refineries and the sky was a mass of shelling steel for 15 minutes. It was described in a maze of description from a “blimp”, “a plane”, “planes”, “a shimmering lozenge”, “a triangle”, “triangles”, “fireball”, “butterfly”, “seven planes”, “25 silvery planes in V formation”, “12 airplanes”, “a cloud’, “30 or more aircraft”, “high-flying planes, one to hundreds”, “drifting barrage balloon”, “15 jap planes”, “batch of balloons or kites” as the descriptions mainly given. 1430 rounds of munitions The object was seen by approximately a million people in southern California, from Hermosa Beach to San Pedro, Long Beach, Orange County and the northern San Diego County. It would stand still at times and then speed up to 200 miles per hour. No bombs were dropped and 1430 rounds of anti-aircraft munitions were fired at it as it was pinpointed by 22 spot lights. Estimated elevation ranged from 9,000 to 18,000 feet. (The Battle of Los Angeles 1942: The Mystery Air Raid. Terrenz Sword. 2010. Written and compiled in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, 196 pages.) Japanese Stealth Submarines Major General Mark Clark gave the “official” explanation that “detection instruments” alerted to a “small force” of about five aircraft from Japanese submarines lurking near the coast: plane-carrying submarines: possibly pontoon aircraft. Referred to as the “Item” in I-class submarines or Glen-type float planes, the aircraft could cover 500 miles at 80 to 190 knots, and carried 7.7 mm machine guns. “It Is Balloon!” (Chief Wild Eagle quoted in the 1965 television program, F-Troop.) Another explanation often given was “bomb balloons” that travelled from Japan on the Jet Stream to various locations. 9000 balloons were launched and 300 discovered in the U.S. But this activity was said to happen between 1944 and April, 1945. A Pleadian Beam ship Sword draws a compilation of rare and varied news clippings and sources of testimony, allowing a well-researched and impressive bit of history on the topic. Photo analysis of a print by Frank Warren definitely shows a saucer-shaped object later compared to and similar with a UFO photo allegedly taken by UFO claimant and Contactee Billy Meier on March 29, 1976 of a claimed Variation – IV Pleadian Beam ship. There is a real explanation for the Meier claims, especially in light of Meier’s previous incidents of faked photos and phoney models of his photographs that were discovered (as well as the identification of normal ladies whom he extracted and reproduced as ‘Pleadians’ in his photos): the Frank Warren photos had been fairly publicized since 1942 – Billy Meier ‘believers’, like so many other of his hoaxes, fashioned a UFO model based on the Warren photos, not a spaceship caught in the glare of spotlights. (A lengthy file has been established by Meier critics Derek Bartholomaus of the Independent Investigations Group, Phil Langdon, Peter Brooksmith, Alan Friswell, Kal Korff, Stanton Friedman and even his wife Popi Meier, that his claims are fallacious; photos of alleged cosmonauts Asket and Nera publicized by Meier – and sanctioned to believer Lee Elders – were actually taken from a Dean Martin Variety Show broadcast in the 1969-1973 period of entertainer Michelle Dellafave and Susan Lund of the Goldiggers and the Dingaling Sisters, which were confirmed by them in 2007.) CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/when-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%9D-came-los-angeles
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Post by auntym on Feb 17, 2015 15:08:50 GMT -6
ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/losangeles1942.htm1942-Battle of Los AngelesBy Billy Booth UFOs/Aliens Expert Summary: It is very rare that among the annals of Ufology there should appear a UFO case which involved military, yet is accompanied with actual photographic proof. Such is the case of an event which took place over the Los Angeles area on February 25, 1942. A giant UFO would actually hover over the city, and be witnessed by hundreds of observers. Pearl Harbor Scare: As America was gathering its senses after the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, there was a heightened feeling of insecurity and anxiousness. The skies were being watched as never before as a giant UFO moved through California, alerting the military and civilian watchers as well. This case is known as the "Battle of Los Angeles," and is one of the most important cases in Ufology. Surreal Sight: It would be early morning on February 2, 1942 when the incoming craft sirens were first heard in the Los Angeles area. Many Americans were expecting another wave of Japanese fighter planes, and thought this is what they would see as they left their homes, and ventured outside. How wrong they were! The first sightings of a large UFO would be made in Culver City, and Santa Monica. A Total Blackout: Air Raid Wardens were ready to go at the first hint of an invasion. But, this invasion would be something other than Japanese planes. The giant hovering object was soon lit up by the gigantic spotlights of the Army's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade. Everyone who looked up was shocked by the sight of the giant UFO sitting above their city. Military aircraft were sent to confront the object. UFO Takes Direct Hits: Because of a well-organized alert system, the whole California southern section was searching the night skies in a matter of minutes. What they saw were beaming searchlights illuminating the night sky, all of them converging on one thing-a UFO. A similar scene would be repeated later during the The Norwood Searchlight Incident albeit, on a smaller scale. The beams of light would soon be accompanied by tracer fire from anti-aircraft artillery, all of the rounds aiming at the invading craft. The giant UFO would take direct hit after hit, yet without damage. CONTINUE READING: ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/losangeles1942.htm
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