The Battle of Los Angeles

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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Dates Active: February 25, 1942
Category: Conspiracies, UFOs
Cause: Weather Balloon
Status: Closed
Entry ID: 012824C-00047

Summery: 

United States anti-aircraft artillery fire upon an unknown object in the skies above Los Angeles during the early days of World War II. While some reports blame a weather balloon and 'war nerves' for the scare, many believe that the incident involved alien craft.

In Depth:

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, anti-aircraft artillery spotted a strange object in the sky over Los Angeles and began opening fire. The barrage lasted almost an hour, with almost 1,400 shells having been fired into the night sky. The five people were died in incident: three to car accidents that occurred from the blackout order or distracted driving and two to heart attacks. It turned out to be a false alarm: according to official statements made by various branches of the military at the time a combination of wartime jitters, a couple of weather balloons and some overactive imaginations were responsible for the barrage.

This took place only three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and only two days after the bombardment of Ellwood by a Japanese submarine on February 23, 1942. Understandably, many soldiers were on edge due to the idea that another attack on the United States mainland, and everyone was on high alert.

Objects were spotted on radar floating in the air sometime around 2:00am, with two additional radar posts confirming them. Air-raid sirens were activated and a total blackout was ordered at 2:25am. Then the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing at around 3:16am, unleashing a torrent of flares, .50 caliber bullets, tracers, and 12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the otherwise dark sky. Gunners trained their weapons on a number of objects in the sky that they thought were enemy planes, but it turned out there was nothing there.

While official sources have consistently blamed the radar blips on a couple of weather balloons released the night before, some conspiracy theorists the so-called "Battle of Los Angeles" was actually caused by UFOs. Many site pictures produced by newspapers at the time as proof of supposed UFOs, but experts in newspapers at the time point out the pictures were altered in order to better show the contrast of the black and white photos, causing the appearance of some of the flares to be mistaken for alien craft.

Officially, no UFOs were ever shot at over Los Angeles.

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Last Updated: March 23, 2024

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