Battle of LA - Army Fires on UFO in 1942

Originally posted by Gazrok
Who knows...I just might write one, even if just a freebie netbook or something....

Five years before Kenneth Arnold’s sighting would lead to the term “flying saucers”, and even before the US Army would announce that they had captured a flying disc near Roswell, NM…a truly amazing event happened…the US Army open fired on a seemingly indestructible UFO over the streets of LA!

An incredible claim to be sure, and yet an easily verified one! The event occurred on the night of February 25th, 1942, in and around Los Angeles, CA. It was World War II, and the citizens of the west coast were still reeling from Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, just weeks prior. Another attack, this time on the western coast of the continental US, seemed all but assured, and tensions were high with anticipation and fear.

No one felt this tension more than those in the Army’s 37th Coastal Artillery Brigade in Los Angeles. Radar had detected an incoming, and confidence was high that this was the expected Japanese attack! The air raid sirens blared, volunteer air raid warrens reported for duty, and the town was blacked out to make targets difficult for Japanese bombers. But, when the searchlights lit up the sky, it was no Japanese bomber that was to be seen…it was something quite unexpected, and according to numerous witnesses and it’s seeming imperviousness to the numerous anti-aircraft rounds fired at it, something not of this world….

Originally posted by Gazrok
If I did do such a book, I was thinking of this for the back of the book jacket...what do you think? Would you buy it?

Is gaz the next freidman?

I could see back then, they didn't know what they were dealing with. But even today mass sightings still don't make headline news.