Battle of LA, Los Angeles Times, 26 February 1942
On the winter night of 24-25 February 1942 an unidentified object penetrated heavily defended air space over the coast off Los Angeles, triggering aerial barrage from the AA defense on the location. The intrusion took place merely three months after the US entered WWII as a consequence of the Japanese raid over Pearl Harbor.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox addressed the incident in a press conference shortly afterwards and called it a “false alarm”. The next day the Army backed up Knox’es statements by further explaining that the incident might have been caused by commercial airplanes used as a “psychological warfare campaign to generate panic.”
Suspecting a cover up, Long Beach Independent reacted: “There is a mysterious reticence about the whole affair and it appears that some form of censorship is trying to halt discussion on the matter.”
Representative Leland Ford of Santa Monica called for a Congressional investigation, saying, “…none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of ‘complete mystification’ … this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California’s war industries.”
In spite of the fact that the unidentified object was heavily shelled no damage was inflicted upon the object, nothing crashed from the sky and no debris was detected on location. True nature of the object and its intentions remain unexplained until today.
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