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Date: 02-22-98 (21:03)             Number: 195
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1942: ARMY GUNNERS FIRE AT
          UFOs OVER LOS ANGELES
     On 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.
     "Searchlights scanned the skies and anti-aircraft
guns protecting the vital aircraft and ship-building
factories went into action.  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.
My father had been a balloon observation man (in the
AEF) in World War One, and he knew big guns when
he heard them.  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!  It was after three in the morning.
Searchlights probed the western sky. Tracers
streamed upward.  The racket was terrific."
     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.  The "white cigar-shaped
object" took several direct hits but continued on its
eastward flight.
     Up to 25 silvery UFOs were also seen by
observers on the ground.
     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."
     Long Beach Police Chief J.H. McClelland
said, "I watched what was described as the second
wave of planes from atop the seven-story Long
Beach City Hall.  I did not see any planes but the
younger men with me said they could.  An
experienced Navy observer with powerful Carl
Zeiss binoculars said he counted nine planes in
the cone of the searchlight.  He said they were
silver in color.  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.  Anti-aircraft
fire was so heavy we could not hear the motors
of the planes."
     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."
     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.
(See BEYOND EARTH: MAN'S CONTACT WITH
UFOs by Ralph Blum, Bantam Books, New York,
April 1974, page 68.  See also the Los Angeles
Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the
Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942.
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.)
(Editor's Comment:  Maybe the gang at the Black
Vault could use the Freedom of Information Act to
get the Army's Situation Reports for February 25,
1942 for the 65th and 205th A.A. Regiments.
Wouldn't that be interesting reading!)
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reportedly shot a photo of a UFO over the
Olympic Games at Nagano, Japan last
week.  Check it out at this URL:
http://www.members.xoom.com/marianne_timmer
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the Internet.  To say nothing of the way he
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Happy birthday, Heinrich!
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