Anti-aircraft shells weighing 5-8 kg continuously shot into the sky, the 5.0 machine gun also continuously spewed a series of fire beams.
Hello readers, welcome to explore the unsolved mysteries with us! Today we are going to talk about a UFO event witnessed by 2 million people at once – the Battle of Los Angeles. At first hearing the name, people may feel that this is not a simple matter. Indeed, this is believed to be the only public confrontation between humans and UFOs.
Battle of Los Angeles
On February 24, 1942, US Naval Intelligence issued a warning, ordering the entire army to be on alert, expecting an ambush within the next ten hours. At 19:18, the US military blew its air defense horn, the whole of Southern California entered a yellow no-fly state. More than three hours passed in a tense atmosphere, but nothing happened, and the military also lifted the alarm. It turned out to be a false alarm, and everyone relaxed.
At 1:44 a.m. on February 25, radar stations off the coast of Southern California captured unidentified UFOs heading toward Los Angeles. Around 2am, the UFO was 200km from the shore, and just 25 minutes later, it was only 5km from the coast.
At this time, all air defense positions received orders to prepare to open fire. Air raid sirens sounded again throughout Los Angeles, and the entire city was plunged into darkness due to a complete power outage. At this point, strange things happened, the signal on the radar screen disappeared, the UFO seemed invisible. But some people report, with the naked eye, objects can be seen floating in the sky. Moreover, the number of UFOs reported by many different places also varies, from one to hundreds, reported flight altitudes are also different, some say hundreds of meters, some say thousands of meters, speed speed is fast or slow. So what is going on in the end?
At 3:06 am, the US Navy suddenly launched an attack, with full fire. Huge beams of headlights pierced the night, searching for targets in the dark sky. Anti-aircraft shells weighing 5-8 kg continuously shot into the sky, the 5.0 machine gun also continuously spewed a series of fire beams. The attack lasted until 4:14 a.m., and the power outage was not cleared until 7:21 a.m. According to officials, more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells were fired that night.
Nearly 2 million people in Los Angeles witnessed this "campaign". The next day, related news dominated the major media headlines.
So what is the result? Officials say nothing was shot down. The then-Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said in a press conference that the entire raid was a false alarm and that no aircraft were seen in the skies above Los Angeles that night.
It is possible that because of the Pearl Harbor incident that the US had just experienced and the Japanese bombardment of Elwood, the US military was put in a state of nervous tension and high alert, which raised a false alarm. However, Secretary of War Henry Stimson has a different view, 15 unidentified flying objects UFO are flying over Los Angeles, they could be commercial aircraft operating from secret fields in California or Mexico, or light aircraft launched from Japanese submarines, for the purpose of determining the position of air defense or damaging the morale of the people.
Because it was the middle of World War II, people didn’t have time to worry about what ultimately happened that night, and it just went on.
However, some mysteries cannot be hidden. After World War II ended in 1945, a photograph of the Battle of Los Angeles caught the attention of UFO enthusiasts, who were amazed to discover that where eight beams of floodlights converge looks like a UFO. In addition, after the famous "Roswell UFO Incident" occurred in 1947, more and more people began to believe that the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942 was far from simple. Under pressure, the US military also opened an investigation into the Battle of Los Angeles.
So what is the conclusion of the US military? Like the Roswell incident, it was all caused by meteorological balloons.
Why Meteorological Balloons? The explanation given by officials is that when the incident arose, an authentic meteorological balloon was launched in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, and witnessed by military personnel, saying that the UFO was moving very slowly, match the drift speed of the balloon.
In addition, several witnesses said they saw a red fireball, officials said it was a light mounted on the balloon.
However, some people who are really passionate about UFOs refuse, have proposed a lot of questions. For example, when the UFO was first discovered, it was 200km from the coast, if it were a meteorology balloon released in Hollywood, it should have been spotted right over Los Angeles. How could it drift so far without being noticed, and when it drifted back, it would be considered an enemy plane? Someone also took out a computer to calculate and said, two points 200 km from the coast, after only 25 minutes, the distance is only 5km, this speed is not low, the meteorological balloon cannot drift so fast. Also, when the radar initially detected the UFO, why did it suddenly disappear? Some military personnel explained that this was caused by an incomplete radar system. However, if the US military’s radar, which even the meteorological balloon can’t locate, loses track, then this radar system is not a matter of completeness or incompleteness, but it seems that it has no defense force. In addition, someone asked, if it was indeed a meteorological balloon, how could the US military with more than 1,400 anti-aircraft artillery shells and countless machine gun bullets, how could it not hit it?
In this way, the "Battle of Los Angeles" like the "Roswell Incident" that followed, with different attitudes among officials and citizens, has become an unsolved mystery in UFO circles.
However, it was not until 2016 that new information was revealed. In a previous episode, we introduced William Mills Tompkins, a scientist who served as a senior analyst at the secret consulting firm Douglas in the United States.
He has participated in many space programs including "Plan Apollo", which revealed the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations in the book "Scientists Chosen by Extraterrestrials" and the truth about humans. Aliens use technology to influence humans on Earth.
This part we will not repeat in this episode, but let’s talk about Tompkins’ unique description of the Battle of Los Angeles, because that year he was also one of the witnesses at the scene.
Tompkins said in the interview that he and his family lived in an apartment building four blocks from the sea. On the night of the incident, he and his brother were still sleeping, lying on the floor listening to the radio and reading the newspaper. Suddenly, their father arrives and tells them to hurry up to the open-air bunker of the apartment building. There, they saw on the horizon a bright white point, hovering motionless in the air. What’s more sinister is that, to the left of the white point, there is a pen-shaped beam of light. They looked like that for five minutes, when suddenly there was a bright flash, illuminating everything. After the flash passed, they discovered that everything was gone.
Waiting for a while, not discovering anything new, they returned home to sleep, in their sleep being awakened by the sound of anti-aircraft guns. Curiosity was greater than fear, so they ran out again to see, and discovered a giant UFO unidentified object lying right on top, about 2,000m above the ground, 8 beams of searchlights focused on its body, Anti-aircraft shells fired relentlessly into its bottom, but it was unharmed.
Tompkins recalls the situation at that time, the giant UFO stayed there for about an hour and a half, during which time hundreds of different types of aircraft appeared around it, the vast majority were circular, There are also giant cigar-shaped planes. Tompkins revealed a situation that has not been made public by officials: After the attack, the Los Angeles breakwater filled with naval ships also ran out of ammunition, not just the coastal artillery force running out of ammunition. Both the US Pacific naval fleets, the Eastern Fleet and the Western Fleet, have run out of ammunition.
As we mentioned before, the number, altitude, and speed of UFOs mentioned in the spotting reports in different areas are different, perhaps Tompkins’ description is correct. can explain this strange phenomenon.
However, it must be said that there is still no conclusion as to what happened that night in Los Angeles, we can only expect in the future to find more evidence to unravel the mystery for everyone. . So which explanation do you tend to trust more? Please leave a message and share with us. Here, we will introduce you to a rare event in history, when an American pilot and a UFO fought head-to-head.
27 minutes of direct confrontation
On October 1, 1948, George F. Gorman, a 25-year-old pilot with the North Dakota Air National Guard, was flying a P-51 fighter jet over the city of Fargo. carry out the task.
At 9 o’clock that evening, as Gorman was about to land, he suddenly discovered to his right a glowing white flying object. Gorman contacted the air traffic tower to report the discovery, but the tower was confused:
Why is there nothing on the radar? So Gorman circled around, preparing to test himself.
Gorman said in a later report that he felt the white object about 15-20cm in diameter, and that the light was constantly flashing. However, as Gorman approached it, the object’s lights suddenly stopped flashing, it accelerated to the left and swerved.
For the next 27 minutes, the mysterious object played cat and mouse with Gorman at high speed through the air. Gorman said that the flying object performed extremely difficult maneuvers that he couldn’t match, such as fast turns and high-speed climbs. Gorman once tried to follow this flying object when it made a sharp turn, but because of the speed so fast, he himself temporarily lost consciousness. It’s absolutely not a physical problem, says Gorman, because very few pilots in the world can make a sharp turn like that object and still stay awake. He believes that this flying object must surely be controlled by intelligent beings, because there is a clear intention behind every act of its flight.
The crew and passengers of a nearby commercial jet, as well as two air traffic controllers at the tower, all watched the aerial pursuit.
The US Air Force has also launched an investigation into the incident. Guess what the official’s conclusion this time? Probably a lot of people guessed right, according to the official statement, what Gorman encountered was a meteorological balloon…
Gorman has also not publicly discussed the incident since then, but he has privately told friends that he can’t believe he did acrobatics with a glowing balloon for 27 minutes. So do you believe?
