Scpetics dont have a leg to stand on

The object was obviously a....skeptic

*chuckles*

The 1942 "Battle of Los Angeles," which was so nicely parodied in the movie "1941," was a simple misidentification of an army dirigible in Long Beach, followed by people firing at a lenticular cloud coming off the Hollywood Hills. All-in-all, a bunch of nervous, trigger-happy goofballs firing at clouds. Proof? Show me any tiny little speck of "alien" debris recovered as a result.

I don’t see how one could get the impression it was a misidentified army dirigible. The Navy had a pilot training center for dirigibles in the area, true; however, the Navy is known for their meticulous record keeping when it involves untrained pilots and expensive equipment. I find it strange that if such a dirigible were in the area that: one, the Navy did not know; two, the dirigible would have its military communications medium disabled preventing any contact; three, the dirigible never returned to station and was never found; four, the Navy does not have any record of such a dirigible even existing or disappearing; and five, the Navy apparently has no record of personnel missing in action. So your explanation is this: someone hijacked a 300 ft. dirigible directly from underneath the Navy’s nose, took it for a joy ride and never returned, and the Navy, still to this day, have no idea it was stolen. Not only that but the Navy had received their dirigibles directly from the Army, the same Army that was supposedly firing ~1400 anti-aircraft artillery shells at lenticular clouds. The Army apparently also failed to produce any documentation concerning the transaction of said dirigible that would prevent any cross-referencing that could identify it. The Army also contradicted the Navy by saying it wasn’t “war jitters” but a real threat. And, after this massive failure in record keeping, they both proceeded to ask Japan if they were responsible for the craft/dirigible to which the Japanese promptly replied “no.” Even this one portion of your explanation requires hundreds, if not thousands, of military personnel to be greatly incompetent and there are far too many coincidences to even be believed at face value.

Let’s pursue this further though. The radar blips observed demand that the dirigible be traveling toward the hills you mentioned and then disappear from radar and then a lenticular cloud was blown off the hills and it was accordingly picked up by radar as it moved to the area of the incident. In order for this to happen the dirigible must have crashed into the hills you mentioned. Fortunately no 100-300 ft. dirigible was ever found on the hills and there weren’t any dead Navy personnel that would go along with such a finding. Would you mind sharing “any tiny little speck of” terrestrial “debris”? I should also point this out: lenticular clouds, technically known as Altocumulus Standing Lenticularis, are blown away from the mountain/hill tops and then typically remain stationary as they slowly evaporate. Also, the time of this cloud-shooting was very early in the morning and the sky was dark yet witnesses reported this object—the “lenticular cloud”—had a pale orange glow. As far as I am aware lenticular clouds may be colored prettily but they do not glow. It should also be noted that this lenticular cloud must have been capable of deflecting anti-aircraft artillery. The cloud must have also been dense enough that the rush of air caused by the explosions of the anti-aircraft artillery nearby did not immediately evaporate it like one would expect from an already-evaporating cloud. Don’t you think that after ~1400 anti-aircraft artillery shells were fired at the cloud it would have evaporated and everyone would’ve known it was nothing more than a cloud? Or do you honestly believe that the thousands of witnesses—including military personnel—are so idiotic they could not recognize a cloud? Good thing the Californians have people like you showing them what a cloud looks like…

Otherwise, how do I know it's just not our own military goofing around, conducting odd experiments, trying to keep things secret?

Like I mentioned in my previous post in this topic, it very well could be a top-secret military craft. There is nothing suggesting extraterrestrials piloted such a craft but there is also nothing suggesting humans piloted such a craft. What is inside the craft is irrelevant as it cannot be ascertained one way or another so it may be subject to speculative debate ad infinitum. But I think a conclusion can be reached on what the object itself is, or is not, composed of.