Did you know that in the 1942 “Battle of Los Angeles” UFO case there were multiple UFOs seen, some travelling at an estimated 18,000 MPH?

On 25 February 1942, less than three months after the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, unidentified aircraft appeared over the city of Los Angeles, causing widespread alarm, and 1,430 rounds of anti-aircraft shells were fired. On that day at least a million southern California residents awoke to the wail of air raid sirens as Los Angeles County cities blacked out at 2.25 a.m. 12,000 air raid wardens reported dutifully to their posts, most expecting nothing more than a dress rehearsal. At 3.16 a.m., however, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade’s anti – aircraft batteries began firing 12.8 pound shells at the targets as searchlight beams studded the sky. The shelling continued intermittently until 4.14 a.m. Three people were killed and three died of heart attacks directly attributable to the barrage, and several homes and public buildings were severely damaged by unexploded shells. At 7.21 a.m. the blackout was lifted and the sirens sounded the all clear.

Aircraft of the 4th Interceptor Command had been warming up waiting for orders to intercept and engage the intruders, yet no such orders were given during the fifty one minute period between the first air raid alert and the first military barrage. Clearly no enemy aircraft were involved in the ‘invasion’. According to thousands of witnesses a large unidentified flying object remained stationary while the anti – aircraft shells burst around it and against it. A Herald Express staff writer said he was certain that many shells burst directly in the middle of the object and he could not believe that it had not been shot down. The object eventually proceeded at a leisurely pace over the coastal cities between Santa Monica and Long Beach, taking about twenty minutes of actual ‘flight time’ to move twenty miles, then disappeared from view.

An interesting eye – witness account of the phantom raid has been provided by Paul T. Collins, who had been working late at the Long Beach plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company and was returning home when he was stopped by an air raid warden in Pasadena who told him to turn out the lights of his car and stay parked beside the road until the all clear sounded. Pacing back and forth across the street trying to keep warm, Collins suddenly saw bright red spots of light low on the horizon to the south which were moving in a strange manner:

They seemed to be ‘functioning’ or navigating mostly on a level plane at that moment – that is, not rising up from the ground in an arc, or trajectory, or in a straight line and then falling back to earth, but appearing from nowhere and then zig-zagging from side to side. Some disappeared, not diminishing in brilliance at all, but just vanishing into the night. Others remained pretty much on the same level and we could only guess their elevation to be about ten thousand feet.

In less than five minutes at least half a dozen red flashes rent the sky among the strange spots of red light, followed in about 100 seconds by the dull thuds of the bursting shells. One of the anti aircraft batteries around the Douglas Aircraft plant, Dougherty Field, or the Signal Hill Oil Field had fired a salvo into the moving spots of red light, according to Collins, whose position was about twenty miles from the aircraft factory:

“Taking into account our distance from Long Beach, the extensive pattern of firing from widely separated anti aircraft batteries, and the movement of the unidentified red objects among and around the bursting shells in wide orbits, we estimated their top speed conservatively to be five miles per second. We did not see the enormous UFO seen by thousands of observers closer to the coast. Very likely it was below our horizon and a few miles farther up the coast at that time.”

Summary: In addition to the massive “mothership” seen by thousands and fired upon by the military there were also many smaller craft flying at an estimated 18,000 mph in the adjacent area. Witnesses reported direct hits on the giant craft which appeared to do it no damage as it sat still over the city of LA before moving off at roughly 60 mph then disappearing.

Taken from “Above Top Secret” by Timothy Good