Battle L.A.: A Real Alien Attack?
The new action/sci-fi film Battle L.A. focuses on a group of Marines suddenly tossed into the Santa Monica area to fight an invading alien army! Well, back in your great grandpa’s day, some UFO experts and retired military men think this came close to really happening between February 24th and 25th, 1942.
Whip out those history books and remember that right after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor which got the U.S. into WWII, everyone on the California Coast was jittery.
Hey the enemy could show up in submarines and attack us on the mainland! Big guns and a lot of nervous families’ eyes were aimed out to sea.
When UFO’s were spotted over L.A. throughout the night of the 25th, citizens and military were freaked and shot at them….a lot, but none of the glowing objects seemed to be hit.
Publisher of UFO magazine Bill Birnes told us that people who saw the objects said they “glided and floated” but could also fly at amazing speeds. To this day, no one knows what the crafts or lights in the sky over the L.A. area coast were although one was rumored to be recovered from the ocean and be “of interplanetary origin”.
Responsible, retired Military men Charles I. Halt and Robert L. Salas revealed to reporters their own UFO sighting experiences and verified that “UFO’s have been interacting with U.S. Military for years” with cases investigated in 1952 when they appeared over Washington, D.C. and a lot more since 1969 when “the government closed Project Blue Book”, their alien sightings investigative unit.
After that, according to Mark Easter who runs a sighting report website called Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), civilians have taken over the investigations and people have seen and photographed or recorded flying triangles, crescents a well as lights and the classic “saucers”.
Are the visiting aliens friendly? Captain Salas thinks that their interference shut down 20 ballistic missiles in silos in Montana in 1966. Maybe they wanted to make sure we didn’t kill each other or maybe they wanted to disarm us.
All the experts we talked to think that many incidents of friendly and unfriendly alien encounters over the years have been covered up and that citizens should demand full disclosure.
So were the craft/lights sighted up and down the California coast in 1942 on a scouting mission checking us out for a planned invasion? We may never know. That “battle” was one-sided as we shot everything we had at them…and evidently didn’t harm them. In the new movie opening 
March 11th, Earthlings think we are in for a meteor shower but when alien invader/warriors come out of the sea and cities fall, it’s up to a newly-formed platoon of Marines led by a staff sergeant they don’t really trust and a female Air Force communications expert to team up, kick butt, rescue civilians and win back L.A from some heavily armed and definitely unfriendly alien invaders.
Do movies about aliens tend to result in more reported UFO sightings? MUFON website creator Mark Easter thinks the films “make people pay more attention so more people are reporting seeing something”.
What can you and your buds do? Get out those telescopes and high powered binoculars and keep watching the skies! And check out Battle L.A. on March 11th.
