I never knew this happened: Battle of LA

[DEATH eVADER]

On another forum, sombody linked to a page that describes what happened on that fateful night, just weeks after the Pearl Harbour incident.

What is most interesting is that it might of not been a terestrial craft, but was not reported as a UFO. Two reasons:
a) It was a wartime occurance, when an invasion by the Japanese onto mainland US was invitable, so all these strange occurances could be contributed to aircraft employed by the opposition.
b) This occured before the incidents involving either Keneth Arnold or even Roswell, so it would not of been believed to be a UFO initially

Windows Media Player or Real, Radio Broadcasts:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1217.html


Link to the web page:
http://www.rense.com/ufo/battleofla.htm

Have you ever heard of the Battle of Los Angeles? Few have. Imagine a visiting spacecraft from another world, or dimension, hovering over a panicked and blacked-out LA in the middle of the night just weeks after Pearl Harbor at the height of WWII fear and paranoia. Imagine how this huge ship, assumed to be some unknown Japanese aircraft, was then attacked as it hung, nearly stationary, over Culver City and Santa Monica by dozens of Army anti-aircraft batteries firing nearly 2,000 rounds of 12 pound, high explosive shells in full view of hundreds of thousands of residents. Imagine all of that and you have an idea of what was the Battle of Los Angeles. The sudden appearance of the enormous round object triggered all of LA and most of Southern California into an immediate wartime blackout with thousands of Air Raid Wardens scurrying all over the darkened city while the drama unfolded in the skies above... a drama which would result in the deaths of six people and the raining of shell fragments on homes, streets, and buildings for miles around.

 

[Gargantou]

LOL, that's interesting..
However, rense.com is a shit site imo, quite a few articles I've read there have appeared as utter bollocks..
I myself, I believe in aliens, however, I am also aware that the chance of us encountering another intelligent lifeform is INCREDIBLY small..
But the chance is still there so it could be real..
But I wouldn't hold my breath for it..

 

[Flyingdebris]

most crazy UFO websites are complete crap most of the time. However this things seems legit. Tons of eyewitnesses and backed up by official news.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

"1941" was one of the best films starring John Belushi for its time. I can't help feel that the incident on rinse.com was in fact the one played out in the movie (though out by a few months). If none of you have seen the film, get it, its worth it, just for John Belushi, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd.

Of course if you do watch it, you might questions its historical accuracy.

 

[Direwolf]

I'll second the fact this really was an actual incident. And its always one of those cases that I cite whenever someone says that no one but drunk people and idiots see UFOs.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round incident was probably the most ridiculous though.

 

[CptStern]

heh would it have killed some of you to google it?

The West coast air raid (sometimes referred to as the Los Angeles air raid or The battle of Los Angeles) was an unidentified flying object encounter which occurred on February 24, 1942.

In the late evening of February 24 and the early morning hours of February 25, 1942. Several unidentified aircraft were reported over Los Angeles.

Air raid sirens were sounded throughout Los Angeles county at 2.25 a.m., and a total blackout was ordered. Thousands of Air Raid Wardens were summoned to their positions.

At 3.16 a.m. the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing 12.8 pound antiaircraft shells at the unidentified objects, which were sometimes illuminated by bright spotlights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_coast_air_raid

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/aaf2.html

http://www.presidentialufo.com/west_coast_air_raid.htm

http://www.maxwelldemille.com/air-raid.asp

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Combine Overlord just owned you all

That is interesting though.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I didn't think about wiki'ing it, but thanks anyway for the linkage

Its a shame Orsen Welles couldn't of done his broadcast at the same time ......

Coincidently



Didn't a similar incident occur in the mid 90's somewhere in North Europe?

 

[Fishlore]

This is probably regarding the hot air balloons that Japan sent to the US around that time. They carried bombs designed to explode near the ground and cause massive forest fires in the US. Here is a link.

http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/balloon_1/

Problem was, it was the wet season and this attack didn't really do much at all.

 

[CptStern]

This is probably regarding the hot air balloons that Japan sent to the US around that time. They carried bombs designed to explode near the ground and cause massive forest fires in the US. Here is a link.

http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/balloon_1/

Problem was, it was the wet season and this attack didn't really do much at all.

no likely:

At the end of the war, the Japanese stated that they did not send planes over the area at the time of this alert, although submarine-launched aircraft were subsequently used over Seattle. A careful study of the evidence suggests that meteorological balloons—known to have been released over Los Angeles —may well have caused the initial alarm.

US balloons not japanese

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/aaf2.html

 

[DEATH eVADER]

no likely:



US balloons not japanese

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/aaf2.html

And defeats the point of this:

One Herald Express writer who observed some of the incident insisted that several antiaircraft shells had struck one of the objects, and he was stunned that the object had not been downed.

With shrapnel from flak causing this much devestation:

In addition to several buildings damaged by the friendly fire, three civilians were killed by the antiaircraft fire

Flak = Shards
Baloon = Fabric

Shards + Fabric = Slice and Dice