On Feb 25th 1942 at 2 am a UFO appeared over LA and the Army scrambled to shoot it out of the sky. Nearly 2,00 rounds of 12 lb high explosives were shot towards this UFO in what became known as the Battle of Los Angeles. It happened five years before Roswell, two years before D-day and a few weeks after Pearl Harbor. A glowing craft was seen hovering over LA in the middle of the night, the Army sent out an alert to completly blackout all lights and sound the Air Raid sirens waking nearly allof LA. and the Army's 37th coast Artillery shells started bursting over the LA sky. The city was blacked out from 2:25 to 7:21 am after an earlier yellow alert at 7:18 pm was called off at 10:23 pm. The blackout was in effect from here to the Mexican border and inland to the San Joaquin Valley. The army had every available spotlight on the object itself which appearead to glow brightly like a wheel . From 3 am to 3:30 the army scored many direct hits but could not bring the massive object down and the craft moved on slowly to Long Beach before dissappearing. Observers said the object appeared to be over 8,000 feet or higher and was more than 800 feet in length, compare that to a modern 747 at only 231 feet.. Much of the firing appeared to come from the vicinity of aircraft plants along the coastal area of Santa Monica, Inglewood, Southwest Los Angeles, and Long Beach.
The headlines next day in the LA times read." Chilly Throng Watches Shells Bursting in Sky"
