Battle of Los Angeles UFO incident (not the sci-fi film)

[Warzouz]

This reminds me of the Spielberg movie "1942" with Bellucci

[magnemoe]

If you have a powerful enough light you can illuminate a cloud. Perhaps someone had an itchy trigger finger and got done binge reading a pulp fiction series and though he saw something. It would only take one gun firing to cause everyone to start shooting.

Search lights was common during ww2, they are very capable of light up clouds.

One guy in Norway restored one of those and generated lots of ufo reports.

So someone used a search light on a cloud, some others shot and now the rest started shooting

[Brethern]

Search lights was common during ww2, they are very capable of light up clouds.

One guy in Norway restored one of those and generated lots of ufo reports.

So someone used a search light on a cloud, some others shot and now the rest started shooting

Not to mention three months ago Japan Crippled the pacific fleet at pearl harbor, so considering those factors if you saw something that looks like a plane where none should be what would you do?

[xcorps]

My point is however that Americans where known to be trigger happy, more so than others.

The day prior to this sighting a Japanese submarine, I17 (365ft long), commanded by Kozo Nishino, shelled Ellwood Oilfield near Santa Barbara for 20 minutes. The last confirmed sighting was by Arthur Basham who reported it heading south, towards Los Angeles. Signal lights were reported by multiple civilians.

[Stargate525]

Why assume that UFO = alien? It is just as likely to be leprechauns, ghosts, time travellers, or a divine manifestation. It is however much more likely that it was something man-made or a physical manifestation that was simply misunderstood by the observers.

I find the idea of the Second Coming of Christ being heralded by a massive barrage of anti-aircraft fire. xD

On the actual thing... Yeah, probably just a bit of trigger-happy panicking by the gunners.

[Reactordrone]

Well obviously it was Flash Gordon on a hawkman rocket cycle.

or maybe cloud.