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Originally posted by yeti101
reply to post by WitnessFromAfar
its ashame your official source doesnt state he saw an object in the beams. Or how long the beams were converged
Also that entire article makes no mention of your object slowly drifting across the sky in the beams with shells bouncing off it. I dont really see anything in there that supports your case.
[edit on 2-9-2009 by yeti101]
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
(yes I'm that lazy)
Honestly, I don't believe that Battle of Los Angeles was an extra-terrestrial event. I believe it was one of more than a few attacks on america by foreign powers that was conveniently swept under the rug. Here's a great example:
Originally posted by WitnessFromAfar
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
(yes I'm that lazy)
Honestly, I don't believe that Battle of Los Angeles was an extra-terrestrial event. I believe it was one of more than a few attacks on america by foreign powers that was conveniently swept under the rug. Here's a great example:
Indeed, however we do in fact have 60+ years of now declassified documents that unfortunately don't seem to support your conclusion.
For example:
"At the end of the war, the Japanese stated that they did not send planes over the area at the time of this alert, although submarine-launched aircraft were subsequently used over Seattle. "
www.sfmuseum.org...
Let me take a moment however, to thank you for phrasing your theory so well!
There is another issue I'm having with that theory in particular, and that is the fact that nothing made in 1942 could have withstood such an AA pounding.
Also, we didn't really have aircraft at the time that could:
A) Cross the atlantic and make a return trip carrying payload
B) Move at over 330mph
C) Hover over Culver City
Would you mind addressing these points, as they pertain to your theory?
I've examined many aircraft in this thread, both in active service and in testing... Perhaps you know of a Japanese or German craft of which I am unaware?
Additionally, no bombs were reported dropped, which would be odd for an enemy attack run...
Thanks for considering these points, and nice to meet you!
-WFA
[edit on 2-9-2009 by WitnessFromAfar]
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
I believe what people were seeing was nothing more than a light show, launched from off the coast.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
I feel I need to point out here, that in nearly every attack perpetrated against the west coast, fire was not returned, because they did not want to give away their exact locations and make targets easier to spot for the enemy. Now, I'm not sure if this supports or detracts from my theory, but it does make me wonder why we would fire on UFo's that showed no hostile action, but not on foreign enemy planes that are firing on us.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Again, i believe this was nothing more than a psyop, and a recon mission.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
reply to post by WitnessFromAfar
Again, if launched from subs, as the japanaese did multiple times, not all that much fuel was needed on the aircraft.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
The one thing that does always catch me is the solid radar hits. Cant explain that one.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
However, the attack on fort steven, in oregon, was the only attack on an actual military installation on mainland US during the war. They, again, were ordered not to return fire(now remember, this was an armed base, on watch and ready to fight), as to not give away exact locations. The bombs that were fired did only minor damage to a school baseball field, because the targets could not be clearly identified by the enemy.
Again, I have to wonder why a small oregon twon was too importnat to put at risk, but LA was not.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
I also have found, in my research, that the submarines that pulled off the Ellwood Shelling were though to be headed south from santa barbara, which would have put them right around the LA coastline right on the 24th/25th.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
The things I certainly do know: It was not fire balloons, it was not a weather balloon, it was not skylanterns.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
The other sde to this that cannot be proven or disproven, is the NAZI/UFO connection. Many people do this that the NAZI's had UFO tech and were using it during the war, which would expain the "foo fighters". It is quite possible that this was a test flight of new aircraft.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
reply to post by WitnessFromAfar
If(and now this is all hypothetical), the germans were developing a A.G. Craft, it is possible that such a craft was only in development stages, and would not have had attack capability.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Throw in Project Paperclip, which is fact, and we know that many high ranking R&D NAZI scientists were relocated to the US and other allies toward the end of the war. Best example is Werner Von Braun. These scientists brought their tech with them. It is not out of the question that this tech is still classified to this day.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Now, back to the real, and not the hypothetical.
The part I find very tough with this case is all of the different reports. Some reports have the craft not exceeding 200 mph. Some say they far surpassed 300 mph. Some say there was one craft. Others say there were multiple waves.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
The one thing I cannot get passed, however, was Japan's determination to destroy america's morale. They knew about psychological warfare. That was the idea behind bombing oregons forests, behind hitting alaska and santa barbera. They knew they werent going to hurt americas powe, but they thought they could hurt americas psyche.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
i also cant get passed the timeline. If you take the BofLA out of the equation, the Ellwood Shelling was then the only single wave attack that the japanese pulled off. Every other attack was two-fold, within one or two days of each other, in close locations.
Originally posted by gambon
i am also trying to work out the light angles from the picture ,they seem set around the "o" in more or less a circle ,however there are less lights in the main part of the film than this image ,could these have been added in the darkroom to add artistic balance in the frame?
Originally posted by gambon
sry meant to say i have the maps you did and am using them to try to construct a 3d representation...however the sites could not provide that pattern in the sky from the locations provided as far as i can tell so far but they could possibly from the lights in the film...hinting at ,photo manipulation..
Originally posted by gambon
Page 136 of the document has an intresting graph showing balloon movement and speed ....but also throws up a few interesting names and places ....remember this report is from 1946....I got a cold shiver tbh...