Long Beach Police Chief J.H. With Nia Peeples, Kel Mitchell, Dylan Vox, Theresa June-Tao. Hence if the object were 1000 ft from the projection lens it was about 2 x 25 = 50 ft wide. We only saw one object, not several as some witnesses later reported. What this means: Please keep any "meta" discussion directed at specific users, mods, or r/conspiracy in general in this comment chain only. 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. It is theorized that they are invading for Earth's liquid water. I was 14 at the time, living in the Adams and Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. Welcome to HistoryWhatIf! As for the land response, it will amount to a reallocation of resources. 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). Directed by Mark Atkins. 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. And even if it was a weather balloon. Ernest Sichler said Harada, driving to the market with a load of cauliflower, refused to extinguish his truck lights. Many used the L.A. Times doctored photo as proof, along with the fact that the floating object had appeared immune to gunfire. Anti-Aircraft Guns Open FireMoments later the anti-aircraft guns opened up, throwing a sheet of steel skyward. 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]. 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. Three Japanese, two men and a woman, were seized at the beach city of Venice on suspicion of signaling with flashlights near the pier. They were removed to FBI headquarters, where Richard B. Eltermann described the searchlight as being 5 ft in diameter and with a divergence of about 1.25 degrees or about 20 milliradians. At 2:21 a.m., Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt issued the cease-fire order, and the twenty-minute “battle of Los Angeles” was over. 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. City Blacked Out For HoursThe city was blacked out from 2:25 to 7:21 am after an earlier yellow alert at 7:18 pm was called off at 10:23 pm. 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. The Battle: Los Angeles sequel is a rumored sequel to the 2011 film Battle: Los Angeles.Although the first film's ending makes the possibilities of a sequel neverending, nothing is official yet. The air raid sirens awoke us at 2 AM. A newspaper man at San Pedro said airplanes passed over the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor area. 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. Respect other views and opinions, and keep an open mind. 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. 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). 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. “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? Later on, we all expected “them,” that is, the Military, to tell us what was really up there after the war. 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. 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. The beams are quite bright before they reach the “object” and zero or nearly zero afterward. A Santa Monica bomb squad was dispatched to remove an unexploded anti-aircraft shell in a driveway there. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned. http://brumac.8k.com/WhiteSandsProof/WhiteSandsProof.html, The Battle of Los Angeles, 1942” by Terrenz Sword. Searchlights probed the western sky. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A fire erupted at a home in the Hollywood Hills early Friday morning. Thousand of southern Californians were an hour or more late to their jobs. The unknown alien species are a caste-based species who launched a surprise planet-wide invasion on Earth, most likely motivated by a need for a new home or a colony. We thus had a grandstand seat. When daylight and the all-clear signal came, Long Beach took on the appearance of a huge Easter egg-hunt. We then went to our south-facing kitchen and porch windows to observe the action where it culminated in the south. Just thought I’d let you know that I was an eyewitness to the event back in February of 1942. 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. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. There were isolated incidences of failure to comply with black-out regulations. 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. 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. An experienced Navy observer with powerful Carl Zeiss binoculars said he counted nine planes in the cone of the searchlight. Always excellent content. How large is the “object”? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. They seemed to be completely oblivious and impervious to the shells exploding around them. The whole incident last, at least from our perspective, lasted about half an hour, though we didn’t time it. Aaron Donald of … 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? These sources said inability to obtain fire proof helium caused discarding of such plans. There may well be information on the shape of the “object” which is not discernible from the print because apparently the exposure level of the “object” is quite high and so the image may be well into the range of brightness saturation of the print. 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. There are variations, but they are uniform and agree with the distance (from the searchlight) and width of the beam. This is a forum for free thinking, not hate speech. Sheriff’s Capt. He said they were silver in color. I was eight-years-old at the time, and my parents lived at 2500 Strand in Hermosa Beach, right on the beach. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald was selected unanimously to the NFL All-Pro team, the league announced Friday. Conversely, if the slant angle was greater the calculated sizes would have been smaller. 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. No bombs were dropped and no airplanes shot down and, miraculously in terms of the tons of missiles hurled aloft, only two persons were reported wounded by falling shell fragments. Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove. 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. The spectacular anti-aircraft barrage came after the 14th Interceptor Command ordered the blackout when strange craft were reported over the coastline. The craft were not identified. Neon signs were glowing inside stores. This is awesome I hope we get more posts like these. H.C. writes:I’m a WWII veteran. Traffic Snarl Follows All Clear SignalSoon traffic was snarled. 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. ), (NOTE: if you found this photo-analysis interesting you may want to check out the analyses of other photo cases at http://brumac.8k.com. This requires knowing what portion of the city the object was over, where the cameraman was, and the altitude of the “object.” An alternative method is to estimate the diameter of a spotlight beam at some distance from the spotlight and use that width as a reference size. 14 And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. Shooting at the aerial intruders were gunners of the 65th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment in Inglewood and the 205th Anti-Aircraft Regiment based in Santa Monica. LeBron Gets 28, Lakers Hold Off Bulls 117-115 Without DavisLeBron James had 28 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, and the Los Angeles … Rule 2 does not apply when replying to this stickied comment. 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. solid body?) 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. Remember, this was less than three months after Pearl Harbor. The blackout was not without its casualties, however. at the convergence of the beams. Consider the beam at the right side of the photo. I remember distinctly the convergence of searchlights reflecting off the bottom of some kind of slow moving objects, apparently flying in formation. Battle Los Angeles is a film that showcases an alien invasion of the west coast, today we break down how one can survive in a situation like this. The … McClelland said, “I watched what was described as the second wave of planes from atop the seven-story Long Beach City Hall. Later however, another official said no United States craft had taken off because of possible danger from the army’s own anti-aircraft fire. **, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. The all-clear signal came at 7:25 a.m.”. We need more posts like these in this thread.... Wow! My father had been a balloon observation man (in the AEF) in World War One, and he knew big guns when he heard them. 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. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Damn what a great post! Battle Los Angeles and 6 more... 0 likes A few months ago View 9 movies Britt_Aero @brittmmeyer. 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! Thank you for putting so much effort into this post. An unidentified object moving slowly down the coast from Santa Monica was variously reported as a balloon and an airplane. There were no reports of dropping bombs, but several instances of damaged property from anti-aircraft shells. The recapture of Hawaii is probably the next major goal for the US. The offica.explanation makes zero fucming sense. The “object” width is oriented horizontally (parallel to the ground) whereas the beam is assumed to be tilted at about 30 degrees. - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that there were no planes over Los Angeles last night. 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 how much optical density of smoke this requires I do not know. All the action, clearly spotlighted for ground observers by 20 or so searchlights, was just a few miles west of Los Angeles proper. Wailing air raid sirens at 2:25 a.m. awakened most of the metropolitan’s three million citizens. Also, just to clarify, they don't attack Oregon, Washington, mainland Alaska, and the Canadian province of British Columbia. But that of course never happened. 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. 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. Suppose the elevation angle were 30 degrees. The species was considered by the humans to be incredibly intelligent. The action was moving south along the coastline. See also the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942. 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. 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… Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. It was after three in the morning. If at 2000 ft the calculation yields D = 45 ft and W = 90 ft. One estimate of the height of the object was 8,000 ft. For a 30 degree slant angle of the beam from ground level up to 8,000 ft the distance along the beam would be about 8,000/sin 30 = 16,000 ft. What would happen? 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. Would the U.S. military be able to repel the attack? In January 1942 US forces engaged an unidentified flying object above 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.”. 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. A day prior, on February 23, 1942, Japanese submarine I-17 shelled an oil refinery near Santa Barbara. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. I did not see any planes but the younger men with me said they could. Tracer bullets and exploding shells lit the heavens. The following are excerpts from the primary front page story of the LA Times on February 26th. Los Angeles comedian Joe Luna died last week from COVID-19, just days after being hospitalized and documenting his battle on social media. 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.”. (See BEYOND EARTH: MAN’S CONTACT WITH UFOs by Ralph Blum, 1974, page 68. 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. When brightness reduction and increasing contrast were applied it reveals what appears to be a winged angel of light. More posts from the HistoryWhatIf community. “That’s our understanding,” he said. Great read. My family and I observed the entire episode through the large bay window of our home facing west. Physicians said a heart attack was apparently responsible. 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 ? Though he praised Aaron Eckhart's performance, Ebert heavily criticized the film's writing, effects designs, camerawork and editing. I don’t know the film speed or the f stop of the camera. Up to 25 silvery UFOs were also seen by observers on the ground. ), ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS BLAST AT L.A. MYSTERY INVADERRaid Scare Blacks Out Southland, but Knox Claims ‘False Alarm’, Glendale News PressWednesday, Feb. 25, 1942. It’s likely that the regulars and Marines (especially armored units) do the bulk of the offensive work. 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. It is claimed to be one of the few "unexplained" UFO phenomena. Although some watchers said they saw airplanes in the air, semi-official sources said they probably were the United States Army’s pursuits. 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Hood, local chief, said, “at the request of Army authorities we have nothing to say.”. Above all else, we respect everyone's opinions and ALL religious beliefs and creeds. Not Yet Seen . I'm talking an invasion fleet shelling the coastline as troops land from San Jose to Long Beach. However, certainly a solid metallic object would be sufficient to block the beams. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. 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. A Long Beach police sergeant, E. Larsen 59, was killed in a traffic accident while in route to an air raid post. 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 battle of la is something that always fascinated me. “SEEKING OUT OBJECT - Scores of searchlights built a wigwam of light beams over Los Angeles early yesterday morning during the alarm. 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. Army intelligence, although uncommunicative, scoffed at reports of civilian observers that as many as 200 planes were over the area. Press J to jump to the feed. 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! However, I would guess that the f-stop was low (lens “wide open”; f/2 or 3?) Traffic signals continued to flash in some areas. But I strongly remember the searchlights converging on the bottoms of the reddish objects flying in formation. Today’s vaccinations were administered at Fire 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. ** It appeared to be a very bright orb of light. 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. 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