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They were removed to FBI headquarters, where Richard B. Powerful searchlights from countless stations stabbed the sky with brilliant probing fingers while anti-aircraft batteries dotted the heavens with beautiful, if sinister, orange bursts of shrapnel. To get the true relative image brightnesses it is necessary to scan the original negative and then adjust the “gamma” (relation between film image density and the about of light which made the image) to match the gamma at development. My family and I observed the entire episode through the large bay window of our home facing west. Relayed by the Southern California sector office in Pasadena, the second statement read:“The aircraft which caused the blackout in the Los Angeles area for several hours this a.m. have not been identified.”Insistence from official quarters that the alarm was real came as hundreds of thousands of citizens who heard and saw the activity spread countless varying stories of the episode. Who had such technology and resources to create such an indestructible atmospheric scanning device ? It is theorized that they are invading for Earth's liquid water. Traffic Snarl Follows All Clear SignalSoon traffic was snarled. World War II's Bizarre 'Battle of Los Angeles' On February 25, 1942, an infamous false alarm saw American military units unleash a torrent of anti-aircraft fire in the skies over Los Angeles… Three Japanese, two men and a woman, were seized at the beach city of Venice on suspicion of signaling with flashlights near the pier. What fabric and metals in the 40's was developed to tank several hundred-thousands of rounds of AA gun fire repeatedly and not be downed ? Not Yet Seen . It is claimed to be one of the few "unexplained" UFO phenomena. Los Angeles doused its lights first, at 2:25 a.m.. San Diego, just 17 miles from the border did not receive its lights out order until 3:05 a.m. But what if, on the night of February 24, it wasn't a weather balloon, it was a Japanese reconnaissance plane, and Japanese troops actually landed in California shortly after? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, **The conspiracy subreddit is a thinking ground. A Japanese vegetable man, John Y. Harada, 25, was one of three persons arrested on charges of violating a county black ordinance. This is a forum for free thinking, not hate speech. I’m reading through it all now, One of my favorite events! I did not see any planes but the younger men with me said they could. The Battle of Los Angeles tournament (the BOLA) is an annual independent wrestling tournament in North America, run and promoted by Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.Over the years, the tournament has featured numerous notable wrestlers such as A.J. The story of the Battle of Los Angeles near the start of WWII as told by newspapers and witnesses from several sources follows the photo analysis. A day prior, on February 23, 1942, Japanese submarine I-17 shelled an oil refinery near Santa Barbara. The Battle of Los Angeles was an incident on February 24-25, 1942 where a stray weather balloon or alien ship depending on how you view things was misidentified as a Japanese aircraft. I was quite the aviation buff back then, as I am now, but I must admit that I had a devil of a time trying to identify the objects, what with the awe, excitement and speculation of the moment, the bursting shells, tracers, etc. Aaron Donald of … This is awesome I hope we get more posts like these. We hope to challenge issues which have captured the public’s imagination, from JFK and UFOs to 9/11. What would happen? Several different versions are presented in an effort to understand the nature of the “object” (dense smoke? Aircraft factories continued operation behind blackened windows, while ack-ack guns rattled from batteries stationed near-by. The (UFO) group passed along from one battery of searchlights to another, and under fire from the anti-aircraft guns, flew from the direction of Redondo Beach and Inglewood on the land side of Fort MacArthur, and continued toward Santa Ana and Huntington Beach. There were no reports of dropping bombs, but several instances of damaged property from anti-aircraft shells. The original footage was very difficult to see any details due to the brightness. Battle of Los Angeles was the conspiracy to coverup foreign aerial surveillance being conducted over Los Angeles in 1942. “In view of the considerable public excitement and confusion caused by yesterday morning’s supposed enemy air raid over this area and its spectacular official accompaniments, it seems to The Times that more specific public information should be forthcoming from government sources on the subject, if only to clarify their own conflicting statements about it.”“According to the Associated Press, Secretary Knox intimated that reports of enemy air activity in the Pacific Coastal Region might be due largely to ‘jittery nerves.’ Whose nerves, Mr. Knox? The offica.explanation makes zero fucming sense. The northwest sky was lit up with bursting shells and searchlights. Woah, any scientific explanation for that video? He said they were silver in color. Anti-aircraft guns fired steadily for two minute periods, were silent for about 45 seconds, and continued that routine for nearly a half an hour. The … It appeared to be a very bright orb of light. Thus at 1000 ft the diameter would be about 25 ft. Of course, the beam is not uniformly bright across its diameter, so the effective diameter might be closer to 20 feet. Henry B. Ayers, 63-year-old state guardsman, died at the wheel of an ammunition truck during the black-out. There were isolated incidences of failure to comply with black-out regulations. Physicians said a heart attack was apparently responsible. **, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. First we have the print as provided by Frank Warren: Sometimes it is helpful to see a negative. Great read. A Long Beach police sergeant, E. Larsen 59, was killed in a traffic accident while in route to an air raid post. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. There was speculation, that the unidentified object, might have been a blimp-although veteran lighter-then-air-experts in Akron, O., the nations center of such construction, said Japan was believed to have lost interest in such craft following experiments in World War I. Later however, another official said no United States craft had taken off because of possible danger from the army’s own anti-aircraft fire. Above all else, we respect everyone's opinions and ALL religious beliefs and creeds. Tracer bullets and exploding shells lit the heavens. A State Guardsman died of a heart attack while driving an ammunition truck, heart failure also accounted for the death of an air raid warden on duty, a woman was killed in a car-truck collision in Arcadia, and a Long Beach policeman was killed in a traffic crash enroute to duty. Ergo, the action followed the coastline.It could have been two, or three, or up to six miles away, I can’t recall exactly since it occurred so long ago. It’s unlikely they are able to bring the size force necessary to both resist an American counterattack on land as well as the predictable culling of their supply ships by American submarines and surface vessels. Thank you for putting so much effort into this post. See also the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942. In Los Angeles, 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese residents of a fishing village on Terminal Island were the first West Coasters taken into custody. If we knew the distance of the camera from the beam convergence and the focal length of the camera we could calculate the approximate size. Consider the beam at the right side of the photo. I was surprised in the days that followed to discover that with all that aggressive firepower there was no evidence that we had brought anything down.I lived on Virginia Road, a half block south of West Adams Boulevard and one-quarter mile south of what is now the Interstate 10 Santa Monica Freeway; about 5.5 miles southwest of what is now the Los Angeles Civic Center; and approximately 10.5 miles due east of the Pacific coastline of Santa Monica.We were looking in a westward direction from our large living room bay window which gave us an unobstructed panorama of view facing the northwest, west and southwest. All newspaper quotes taken from “The Battle of Los Angeles, 1942” by Terrenz Sword, which appeared in Unsolved UFO Sightings, Spring 1996 issue, pages 57 through 62. Observers lent some credence to the blimp theory by pointing out that the object required nearly thirty minutes to travel 20 or 25 miles-far slower then an airplane. The Battle of Los Angeles was an incident on February 24-25, 1942 where a stray weather balloon or alien ship depending on how you view things was misidentified as a Japanese aircraft. (See BEYOND EARTH: MAN’S CONTACT WITH UFOs by Ralph Blum, 1974, page 68. Hpw could a weather balloon hold up to all that artillery?? Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. It’s likely that the regulars and Marines (especially armored units) do the bulk of the offensive work. IF there were smoke within any beam it should cause an increase in scattered light where there is smoke (which is how we see the beams anyway... light bounced or scattered from dust or smoke particles in the air). Damn what a great post! Given the American ability to move ships through the Panama Canal as well as the naval bases on the west coast, Japan will be facing an enemy on their home turf who can replenish a navy and keep them working more or less indefinitely. Also, just to clarify, they don't attack Oregon, Washington, mainland Alaska, and the Canadian province of British Columbia. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. If there was a lot of smoke swirling around the volume of air illuminated by the beams, I would expect to see variations in bream brightness (brighter where there was smoke). I found a research article by Dr. Louis Eltermann that reports research in the latter 1940’s in which he used an army searchlight to probe the upper atmosphere in order to determine the vertical distribution of dust in the atmosphere. A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a … I’d expect a mixed force of regular Army, Marines, National Guard, and Reserves to be assembled with the intent of denying the Japanese the ability to move, although destroying them will depend on resource availability and equipment. When brightness reduction and increasing contrast were applied it reveals what appears to be a winged angel of light. With Nia Peeples, Kel Mitchell, Dylan Vox, Theresa June-Tao. Anti-Aircraft Guns Open FireMoments later the anti-aircraft guns opened up, throwing a sheet of steel skyward. Directed by Mark Atkins. A newspaper man at San Pedro said airplanes passed over the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor area. Kiddies and even grown-ups scrambled through the streets and vacant lots, picking up and proudly comparing chunks of shrapnel fragments as if they were the most prized possession they owned. There were no reports of any attempt to bomb southern California from the air although many war-vital factories, shipyards and other defense industries were on the route the object followed. As for the land response, it will amount to a reallocation of resources. A few minutes later they were treated to a gigantic Fourth-of-July-like display as huge searchlights flashed along a 10-mile front to the south, converging on a single spot high in the sky. No bombs were dropped and no planes were shot down during the anti-aircraft firing in the Los Angeles area, the western defense command said in San Francisco. That is, the variations are consistent with each beam getting dimmer as it travels away from the searchlight. Ernest Sichler said Harada, driving to the market with a load of cauliflower, refused to extinguish his truck lights. Firing, first heard at 3 a.m., ceased suddenly at 3:30 a.m., after the object disappeared south of Signal Hill, at the east edge of Long Beach. The exposure could have been several seconds. The species was considered by the humans to be incredibly intelligent. 14 And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. Army intelligence, although uncommunicative, scoffed at reports of civilian observers that as many as 200 planes were over the area. There is a really good alternate history book series about a potential Japanese conquest of Hawaii. We're here to explore alternate history scenarios in interesting ways. McClelland said, “I watched what was described as the second wave of planes from atop the seven-story Long Beach City Hall. They seemed to be completely oblivious and impervious to the shells exploding around them. As for Hawaii, let's just pretend they either sneak around that or they're launching a simultaneous assault there, whatever you fancy; this focuses on mainland California. Yeah, these questions sound hella sarcastic but that's the point. However, I would guess that the f-stop was low (lens “wide open”; f/2 or 3?) The whole incident last, at least from our perspective, lasted about half an hour, though we didn’t time it. This means that the diameter at a distance d from the mirror would be about D = 5’+0.02d. Anti-aircraft guns thundered over the metropolitan area early today for the first time in the war, but hours later what they were shooting at remained a military secret. If this were so, then the beam diameter at that height would have been about 165 ft and the horizontal width of the object would have been about 330 ft. How large is the “object”? Searchlights probed the western sky. If the slant angle of the beam was less than 30 degrees then the calculated sizes would have been larger. If anyone has further information on this event, please contact me through this web site. Noted film critic Roger Ebert panned Battle: Los Angeles in a lengthy review, calling the movie "noisy, violent, ugly and stupid", giving the film a mere half star rating. Reporter Bill Henry of the Los Angeles Times wrote, “I was far enough away to see an object without being able to identify it...I would be willing to bet what shekels I have that there were a number of direct hits scored on the object.”. Object Disappears Over Signal HillObservers said the object appeared to be 8000 ft or higher. In the next few hours they would fire over 1,400 shells at an unidentified, slow- moving object in the sky over Los Angeles that looked like a blimp, or a balloon.”, Author Ralph Blum, who was a nine-year-old boy at the time, wrote that he thought “the Japanese were bombing Beverly Hills.”, “There were sirens, searchlights, even antiaircraft guns blamming away into the skies over Los Angeles. Editor Peter Jenkins of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner reported, “I could clearly see the V formation of about 25 silvery planes overhead moving slowly across the sky toward Long Beach.”. Just how much optical density of smoke this requires I do not know. Without more solid information to go on this has to be no more than a WAG (wild...rear-end... guess) (but I bet its close to right! Note: Eltermann was the author of the infamous Project Twinkle Report in November, 1951, which ignored or “covered up” or, at the very least, misrepresented, the White Sands movie film that proved unidentified objects were flying around. It headed inland over Redondo Beach, a couple of miles to the south of our vantage point, and eventually disappeared over the eastern end of the Palos Verdes hills, what’s today called Rancho Palos Verdes. Today’s vaccinations were administered at Fire A Santa Monica bomb squad was dispatched to remove an unexploded anti-aircraft shell in a driveway there. I was eight-years-old at the time, and my parents lived at 2500 Strand in Hermosa Beach, right on the beach. Always excellent content. Neon signs were glowing inside stores. Cookies help us deliver our Services. What this means: Please keep any "meta" discussion directed at specific users, mods, or r/conspiracy in general in this comment chain only. We then went to our south-facing kitchen and porch windows to observe the action where it culminated in the south. Countless thousands of Southland residents, many of whom were late to work because of the traffic tie-up during the blackout, rubbed their eyes sleepily yesterday and agreed that regardless of the question of how “real” the air raid alarm may have been, it was “a great show” and “well worth losing a few hours’ sleep.”. Like other kids in the neighborhood, I spend the next morning picking up of pieces of shrapnel on the beach; indeed, it’s a wonder more people weren’t injured by the stuff, as we were far from the only folks standing outside watching the action.In any case, I don’t recall seeing any truly discernable configuration, just a small, glowing, slight lozenge-shaped blob light-a single, blob, BTW. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Although some watchers said they saw airplanes in the air, semi-official sources said they probably were the United States Army’s pursuits. An experienced Navy observer with powerful Carl Zeiss binoculars said he counted nine planes in the cone of the searchlight. The City received 3,200 Moderna vaccines for its initial distribution for first respondersLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles firefighters and paramedics became the City’s first frontline workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine today — part of the supply of 3,200 Moderna doses to be administered in this initial phase of vaccinations. Rumors of Planes Downed SpikedPolice ran down several reports that planes had been shot down, but said all were false alarms. The Battle of Los Angeles - The TRUE STORY of the 1942 UFO incident over LA. He added that “ none have been found and a very wide reconnaissance has been carried on.”. H.C. writes:I’m a WWII veteran. The beams are quite bright before they reach the “object” and zero or nearly zero afterward. Mathematically, Japan’s results will have to depend on the size of army they can deliver as well as their ability to continue to supply ammunition, other provisions, and manpower replacements. The air raid sirens awoke us at 2 AM. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. At 2:15 AM Los Angeles area anti-aircraft batteries were put on Green Alert --- ready to fire --- and at 2:21 AM the regional controller ordered a blackout. The Angeles, Cleveland, San Bernardino and Los Padres National Forest is one of 12 national forests statewide whose campgrounds will remain closed. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Crews battle a Hollywood Hills house fire. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. In two official statements, issued while Secretary of the Navy Knox in Washington was attributing the activity to a false alarm and “jittery nerves,” the command in San Francisco confirmed and reconfirmed the presence over the Southland of unidentified planes. Would California be under occupation for a while? The recapture of Hawaii is probably the next major goal for the US. Unless they’d also occupied and invested Hawaii as an army depot and naval base, the west coast would be a fantasy. A garage door was ripped off in a Los Angeles residential district and fragments shattered windows and tore into a bed where a few moments before Miss Blanch Sedgewick and her niece, Josie Duffy had been sleeping. Awesome job man. During the initial invasion, they used an orbital insertion, mistaken for a cluster of meteors, to deploy their forces. The all-clear signal came at 7:25 a.m.”. “That’s our understanding,” he said. We thus had a grandstand seat. Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove. Press J to jump to the feed. Styles, Christopher Daniels, Bryan Danielson and Kenny Omega - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that there were no planes over Los Angeles last night. 32 TV shows 346 movies Law Abiding Citizen 2009 Movie . Many used the L.A. Times doctored photo as proof, along with the fact that the floating object had appeared immune to gunfire. Note that there is not a SINGLE description of the object even though is was clearly locked in the focus of dozens of searchlights for well over half an hour and seen by hundreds of thousands of people: Army Says Alarm RealRoaring Guns Mark BlackoutIdentity of Aircraft Veiled in Mystery; No Bombs Dropped and No Enemy Craft Hit; Civilians Reports Seeing Planes and BalloonOvershadowing a nation-wide maelstrom of rumors and conflicting reports, the Army’s Western Defense Command insisted that Los Angeles’ early morning blackout and anti-aircraft action were the result of unidentified aircraft sighted over the beach area. “SEEKING OUT OBJECT - Scores of searchlights built a wigwam of light beams over Los Angeles early yesterday morning during the alarm. Hence the horizontal width of the beam, W, (not perpendicular to the beam axis) would be W = D/sin (angle of elevation) = D/sin(30) = 2D for the assumed 30 degree elevation angle. More posts from the HistoryWhatIf community. I was 14 at the time, living in the Adams and Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. This is a discussion of the photographic print obtained by Frank Warren which was made from the original negative. A few days later, on February 23 — the night before the “Battle of Los Angeles” — a Japanese submarine opened fire on the Ellwood oilfield near Santa Barbara, California. This picture was taken during blackout; shows nine beams converging on an object in sky in Culver City area. Conversely, if the slant angle was greater the calculated sizes would have been smaller. One presumes that this is what the actual negative looks like. The “white cigar-shaped object” took several direct hits but continued on its eastward flight. When daylight and the all-clear signal came, Long Beach took on the appearance of a huge Easter egg-hunt. As such, even with a Hawaiian occupation (which is costly) Japan would need to denude other regions of both land and naval power if they’re going to assault the west coast. Others held on similar charges were Walter E. Van Der Linden, Norwalk dairy man, accused of failing to darken his milking barns, and Giovanni Ghigo, 57, nabbed while driving to market with a truckload of flowers. solid body?) However, certainly a solid metallic object would be sufficient to block the beams. My father had been a balloon observation man (in the AEF) in World War One, and he knew big guns when he heard them. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first detected in the United Kingdom has been identified in Southern California, officials announced Wednesday. Based on the above calculations, and realizing that a much better estimate could be made if we had more accurate information on the spotlights, camera, etc., I would hazard a guess that the width of the illuminated “object” is on the order of 100 ft or more in size. 1 Conspiracy 2 Timeline 3 Cover Up 4 Aftermath 5 UFO related Events of Pearl Harbor having happened just three months prior put the US military, outfitted in Los Angeles, on high alert. “Cities in the Los Angeles area were blacked out at 2:25 a.m. today on orders from the fourth interceptor command when unidentified aircraft were reported in the area,” the western defense command said.“Although reports are conflicting and every effort is being made to ascertain the facts, it is clear that no bombs were dropped and no planes were shot down.”“There was a considerable amount of anti-aircraft firing. Much of the firing appeared to come from the vicinity of aircraft plants along the coastal area of Santa Monica, Inglewood, Southwest Los Angeles, and Long Beach. LeBron Gets 28, Lakers Hold Off Bulls 117-115 Without DavisLeBron James had 28 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, and the Los Angeles … Respect other views and opinions, and keep an open mind. **Our intentions are aimed towards a fairer, more transparent world and a better future for everyone. Tracers streamed upward. Then, several minutes shy of passing into the city of Santa Monica's air space and the path of the waiting anti-aircraft guns, the object vanished. ** Just thought I’d let you know that I was an eyewitness to the event back in February of 1942. At the time, we were convinced that it was a “Jap” reconnaissance plane, and that L.A. might be due for a major air-raid in the near future. The US didn’t land a force in North Africa until late 1942, and most resources destined for the Pacific will already be assembled on the west coast. The Battle of Los Angeles occurred during the night of 24-25 February 1942 — though how appropriate the word "battle" is may be disputable as only one "side" seems to have done anything hostile. The blobs of light which show at apex of beam angles were made by anti-aircraft shells.”. and that this is a time exposure because, the light beams show upthere are quite a few “explosions” (I presume) which probably did not happen all at once. Rule 2 does apply throughout the rest of this thread. Not a physical object, but a fallen angelic being. Aaron Eckhart, who played Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz in the film, has talked about the possibility of a sequel, however.. Interview 1 [edit | edit source]. All of southern California from the San Juaquin valley to the Mexican border was blacked out. Suppose the elevation angle were 30 degrees. Anti-aircraft fire was so heavy we could not hear the motors of the planes.”. He ordered my mother to take my baby sisters to the underground projection room—our house was heavily supplied with Hollywood paraphernalia—while he and I went out onto the upstairs balcony.”“What a scene! We need more posts like these in this thread.... Wow! Unidentified Planes Pass Over HarborAN official source which declined to be quoted directly told The Associated Press in Los Angeles that United States Army Planes quickly went into action. I'm talking an invasion fleet shelling the coastline as troops land from San Jose to Long Beach. It was after three in the morning. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. See THE UFO-FBI CONNECTION by Bruce Maccabee [Llewellyn, St. Paul, MN, 2000. Los Angeles comedian Joe Luna died last week from COVID-19, just days after being hospitalized and documenting his battle on social media. Enjoy the opening scene of Battle: Los Angeles (2011) in HD :) I was an eye-witness to the events of that unforgettable February morning in February of 1942. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A fire erupted at a home in the Hollywood Hills early Friday morning. Army Gunners Fire At UFOs Over Los AngelesCourtesy UFO ROUNDUPVolume 3, Number 8February 22, 1998Editor Joseph TrainorOn Wednesday, February 25, 1942, at precisely 2 a.m., diners at the trendy Trocadero Club in Hollywood were startled when the lights winked out and air raid sirens began to sound throughout greater Los Angeles. The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the mainland United States by Japan and the subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942, over Los Angeles, California. Have returned the air with the first alert, and the all-clear Signal,... 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