Make that 1941
Posted on 02/25/2011 7:19:40 PM PST by Chi-townChief
At 2:25 a.m. on February 25, 1942, most of the greater Los Angeles region's three million population was awakened by loud air raid sirens that kept wailing for the next thirty-eight minutes.
Powerful searchlights were aimed at a glowing unidentified aerial object over the Santa Monica Mountains that was shaped like a "lozenge."
Moments later, America's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade fired off 1,430 anti-aircraft shells at the UFO.
***rarely are you born 9 months to the day. If they were all born within a couple months of each other, then ...**
So it tood a few months for their “daddy” to get around! They are still like “the Children Of The Damned”, inflicting their curses on the US.
And when Americans told them what we thought of Obama care, all they could see was “A brick wall!” and still voted for it.
What was the movie called? Plan 9 ... doesn’t seem to be it.
Thanks thanks.
Certainly folks alive at the time, in LA, remember such goings on.
Make that 1941
“That’s ma name; Hollis Wood!”
Never saw that movie - how did they explain the object??
Not another one of those pesky weather balloons!
This incident is discussed a bit in Dolan’s “UFOs and the National Security State, 1941-1973”. He indicates that DOD denied the existence of the entire episode until 1974. At that time a memo from George Marshall to FDR on the incident was declassified.
Marshall told FDR that the UFOs were “commercial sources, operated by enemy agents for the purposes of spreading alarm, disclosing locations of antiaircraft positions, and slowing production through blackout.”
What is so ironic is that during the war and post war period authorities of all countries blamed the flights of the “foo fighters” on the enemy, whoever that might be.
Marshall had no evidence for his statements. Advice from Presidential advisors hasn’t gotten a lot better since those days.
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