It
is usually believed that the military is actually involved in
cover-ups on UFO cases. However there are very few cases of UFO
encounters which involve military and have actual evidence or
photographic proof in general public. One such case is the world
famous UFO encounter in Los Angeles on February 25, 1942 in the early
morning, where a giant UFO was hovering over the city and was
witnessed by hundreds of observers.
Japanese
planes had bombed Pearl Harbor so heavily just 79 days ago that the
whole country was in fear of an unexpected attack. On February 23,
1942, a Japanese submarine shelled
the Ellwood oil fields near Goleta, Santa Barbara, California.
Due to hostile movement of the Japanese submarine, the Military was
on high alert expecting an invasion. The crews were asked to look for
anything unusual. The military had a well designed alert system, and
were searching the skies in matter of minutes.
In
the morning of February 25, 1942 air raid sirens started sounding
throughout Los Angeles County after a strange object was sighted near
Culver City and Santa Monica. The object was of unknown origin, huge
(about 800 feet) and possibly had protective stealth devices on. It
emerged out of the night sky dropping at a steep angle over the
Pacific Ocean curving south to east towards Los Angeles, travelling
at lightening fast speed just above the surface of the water barely
skimming it. The object most likely became aware of the electronic surveillance by the Military some 120 miles west of Los Angeles and
responded by retracting its entry by reducing its speed to a bare
minimum at 50 miles away. It then turned inland near Point Dume.
Since
the unidentified object disappeared behind the mountains along the
west coast in the same area of the attacked oil refinery, the
antiaircraft batteries were ordered to be on green alert - “ready
to fire”. At 2:15 am, the whole warning system came into operation
and a total blackout was ordered at 2:21 am, which effected all of
southern California, including Los Angeles to Mexican border. The
37th Coast Artillery Brigade immediately came into action and lighted
gigantic spotlights towards the hovering craft. The anti-aircraft
units went crazy and started heavy firing at 3:16 am with .50 caliber machine guns and 12.8 pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at the
reported craft from Santa Monica to Culver City. They were determined
to bring down the craft and within one hour, until 4:14 am, they had
fired 1400 shells directly at the strange craft. However, the giant
craft took hits after hits but still escaped totally unharmed,
completely damage free.
It
moved silently, passing directly over MGM studios in Culver City
where an extremely good photograph of the craft was taken, which
later became a classic in Ufology. The craft soon proceeded towards
Long Beach, and finally went out of sight and disappeared south of
Signal Hills oil field. The blackout was finally lifted at 7:21 am.
The
air raid and heavy shelling was witnessed by thousands of civilians,
in which eight causalities were reported. Five people were accidentally killed from falling shrapnel (shell fragments) while three others
collapsed due to heart attack. Several buildings and vehicles were
also damaged. Most of the eyewitness described the object as a
strange magic lantern hanging in the sky. Some air raid wardens
testified that the object was pale orange in color, huge, and hardly
moved at all. It was magnificent, exotic and had a gorgeous color.
This
incident affected the thoughts of President Ronald Reagan which
became clear when he warned the citizens of a “possible alien
attack from the outside world”.
