Conversely, if the slant angle was greater the calculated sizes would have been smaller. Given the American ability to move ships through the Panama Canal as well as the naval bases on the west coast, Japan will be facing an enemy on their home turf who can replenish a navy and keep them working more or less indefinitely. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. The u/BattleofLosAngeles community on Reddit. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, **The conspiracy subreddit is a thinking ground. We then went to our south-facing kitchen and porch windows to observe the action where it culminated in the south. Consider the beam at the right side of the photo. The blackout was in effect from here to the Mexican border and inland to the San Joaquin Valley. I was 14 at the time, living in the Adams and Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. Unidentified Planes Pass Over HarborAN official source which declined to be quoted directly told The Associated Press in Los Angeles that United States Army Planes quickly went into action. Damn what a great post! With Nia Peeples, Kel Mitchell, Dylan Vox, Theresa June-Tao. A State Guardsman died of a heart attack while driving an ammunition truck, heart failure also accounted for the death of an air raid warden on duty, a woman was killed in a car-truck collision in Arcadia, and a Long Beach policeman was killed in a traffic crash enroute to duty. Henry B. Ayers, 63-year-old state guardsman, died at the wheel of an ammunition truck during the black-out. Quantum Of Solace 2008 Movie . The recapture of Hawaii is probably the next major goal for the US. Awesome job man. During the initial invasion, they used an orbital insertion, mistaken for a cluster of meteors, to deploy their forces. If the slant angle of the beam was less than 30 degrees then the calculated sizes would have been larger. “SEEKING OUT OBJECT - Scores of searchlights built a wigwam of light beams over Los Angeles early yesterday morning during the alarm. The action was moving south along the coastline. As for Hawaii, let's just pretend they either sneak around that or they're launching a simultaneous assault there, whatever you fancy; this focuses on mainland California. It is claimed to be one of the few "unexplained" UFO phenomena. I don’t know the film speed or the f stop of the camera. The … Jan. 8, 2020. The blackout was not without its casualties, however. The Angeles, Cleveland, San Bernardino and Los Padres National Forest is one of 12 national forests statewide whose campgrounds will remain closed. Powerful searchlights from countless stations stabbed the sky with brilliant probing fingers while anti-aircraft batteries dotted the heavens with beautiful, if sinister, orange bursts of shrapnel. Just thought I’d let you know that I was an eyewitness to the event back in February of 1942. 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. Battle: L.A. had a fantastic trailer!!! There was a period of silence following that, then the thumping of antiaircraft fire. Neon signs were glowing inside stores. 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. As early as the 1970s, the idea that an extraterrestrial invasion was responsible for setting off the Battle of Los Angeles began to circulate in the UFO community. Great read. I was quite the aviation buff back then, as I am now, but I must admit that I had a devil of a time trying to identify the objects, what with the awe, excitement and speculation of the moment, the bursting shells, tracers, etc. and that this is a time exposure because, the light beams show upthere are quite a few “explosions” (I presume) which probably did not happen all at once. Thousand of southern Californians were an hour or more late to their jobs. Without more solid information to go on this has to be no more than a WAG (wild...rear-end... guess) (but I bet its close to right! There were no reports of any attempt to bomb southern California from the air although many war-vital factories, shipyards and other defense industries were on the route the object followed. ), (NOTE: if you found this photo-analysis interesting you may want to check out the analyses of other photo cases at http://brumac.8k.com. That is, the variations are consistent with each beam getting dimmer as it travels away from the searchlight. The offica.explanation makes zero fucming sense. Radio stations went off the air with the first alert, and were not permitted to resume broadcasting until 8:23 a.m. A newspaper man at San Pedro said airplanes passed over the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor area. Traffic signals continued to flash in some areas. A day prior, on February 23, 1942, Japanese submarine I-17 shelled an oil refinery near Santa Barbara. Several different versions are presented in an effort to understand the nature of the “object” (dense smoke? Thank you for putting so much effort into this post. Los Angeles doused its lights first, at 2:25 a.m.. San Diego, just 17 miles from the border did not receive its lights out order until 3:05 a.m. My family and I observed the entire episode through the large bay window of our home facing west. ** The City received 3,200 Moderna vaccines for its initial distribution for first respondersLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles firefighters and paramedics became the City’s first frontline workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine today — part of the supply of 3,200 Moderna doses to be administered in this initial phase of vaccinations. Countless thousands of Southland residents, many of whom were late to work because of the traffic tie-up during the blackout, rubbed their eyes sleepily yesterday and agreed that regardless of the question of how “real” the air raid alarm may have been, it was “a great show” and “well worth losing a few hours’ sleep.”. The species was considered by the humans to be incredibly intelligent. The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by American rock band Rage Against the Machine, released on November 2, 1999 by Epic Records.The album was nominated at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album, and was recognized by both Time and Rolling Stone magazines as the best album of 1999. A Long Beach police sergeant, E. Larsen 59, was killed in a traffic accident while in route to an air raid post. It headed inland over Redondo Beach, a couple of miles to the south of our vantage point, and eventually disappeared over the eastern end of the Palos Verdes hills, what’s today called Rancho Palos Verdes. The following are excerpts from the primary front page story of the LA Times on February 26th. Mathematically, Japan’s results will have to depend on the size of army they can deliver as well as their ability to continue to supply ammunition, other provisions, and manpower replacements. Based on the above calculations, and realizing that a much better estimate could be made if we had more accurate information on the spotlights, camera, etc., I would hazard a guess that the width of the illuminated “object” is on the order of 100 ft or more in size. The Battle of Los Angeles was an incident on February 24-25, 1942 where a stray weather balloon or alien ship depending on how you view things was misidentified as a Japanese aircraft. As for the land response, it will amount to a reallocation of resources. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. There are variations, but they are uniform and agree with the distance (from the searchlight) and width of the beam. No bombs were dropped and no planes were shot down during the anti-aircraft firing in the Los Angeles area, the western defense command said in San Francisco. Later however, another official said no United States craft had taken off because of possible danger from the army’s own anti-aircraft fire. What would happen? We only saw one object, not several as some witnesses later reported. **Our intentions are aimed towards a fairer, more transparent world and a better future for everyone. Battle Los Angeles and 6 more... 0 likes A few months ago View 9 movies Britt_Aero @brittmmeyer. Cookies help us deliver our Services. This means that the diameter at a distance d from the mirror would be about D = 5’+0.02d. My father had been a balloon observation man (in the AEF) in World War One, and he knew big guns when he heard them. The story of the Battle of Los Angeles near the start of WWII as told by newspapers and witnesses from several sources follows the photo analysis. As it was, attacking Hawaii was already at the extreme limit of Japanese logistics. Los Angeles comedian Joe Luna died last week from COVID-19, just days after being hospitalized and documenting his battle on social media. Anti-aircraft guns fired steadily for two minute periods, were silent for about 45 seconds, and continued that routine for nearly a half an hour. 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.”. Hence the horizontal width of the beam, W, (not perpendicular to the beam axis) would be W = D/sin (angle of elevation) = D/sin(30) = 2D for the assumed 30 degree elevation angle. Aaron Eckhart, who played Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz in the film, has talked about the possibility of a sequel, however.. Interview 1 [edit | edit source]. In Los Angeles, 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese residents of a fishing village on Terminal Island were the first West Coasters taken into custody. Unless they’d also occupied and invested Hawaii as an army depot and naval base, the west coast would be a fantasy. First we have the print as provided by Frank Warren: Sometimes it is helpful to see a negative. Others held on similar charges were Walter E. Van Der Linden, Norwalk dairy man, accused of failing to darken his milking barns, and Giovanni Ghigo, 57, nabbed while driving to market with a truckload of flowers. But I strongly remember the searchlights converging on the bottoms of the reddish objects flying in formation. If we knew the distance of the camera from the beam convergence and the focal length of the camera we could calculate the approximate size. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. They were removed to FBI headquarters, where Richard B. Press J to jump to the feed. See also the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942. 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