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Saturday, March 23, 2019

What Was That Mysterious UFO Over Los Angeles Wednesday Night?

What Was The Mysterious UFO Over Los Angeles Wednesday Night

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On Wednesday night, Twitter lit up with videos and tweets from people alarmed because of an apparent fireball streaking across the skies of downtown Los Angeles.

By Brett Molina
USA TODAY
3-21-19

"What is this flying item on fire above downtown Los Angeles?" wrote Dennis Hegstad in a post on Twitter featuring the mysterious flying object.

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What is this flying item on fire above downtown Los Angeles? pic.twitter.com/3tUu0jKL8L
— dennis hegstad (@dennishegstad) March 21, 2019

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Friday, January 22, 2016

‘X-Files’ UFO Crash Lands at L.A.

By Joe Otterson and Tony Maglio
The Wrap
1-22-16

The truth is out there–and also at The Grove in Los Angeles.

Ahead of “The X-Files” event series premiere on Sunday, Fox has set up a UFO crash landing at the popular shopping complex.

“We wanted to do something big, bold, special and fun for these loyal fans to mark the return of ‘The X-Files,'” Fox TV group marketing and communications executive vice president Shannon Ryan told TheWrap. “And we thought. what better way to celebrate the return of this incredible show than to crash a UFO into the center of Los Angeles?” [...]

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Flying Humanoid UFO Anomaly Filmed Over Los Angeles | VIDEO

Credit: Fausto Perez / YouTube

By Fausto Perez
8-16-15

This Humanoid UFO was Captured by 3 different cameras at an la ufo channel event with dozens of eyewitnesses to attest to the authenticity of this sighting. in all 3 videos you see the same sequence as the ufo was recorded at the same time but through the different angle and quality of each camera ... .

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Boomerang- Shaped UFO Photographed Over Los Angeles

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California witness photographs boomerang UFO

By Roger Marsh
The Examiner
4-9-14

A Los Angeles witness reported watching and photographing a boomerang-shaped UFO in the sky about 8:30 p.m. on April 8, 2014, according to testimony in Case 55308 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside in his vehicle the object was first noticed.

"When it popped up and it was moving quickly, I knew it was a UFO," the witness stated. "The optic was really bright and it kept moving straight forward."

The witness took two photos of the object

"I was not able to see where the object left because I glanced forward to see if there was anything else in the sky. I looked back and it just disappeared." . . .

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Friday, November 08, 2013

Fireball Streaks Across LA Skies | VIDEO

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By www.cbsnews.com
11-7-13

People in Southern California witnessed a night sky surprise when an apparent meteor sent a fireball shooting across the horizon. Carter Evans reports on the social media buzz, as well as the risk that it could be the prelude to something bigger.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

The Battle of Los Angeles:
An Eyewitness Account To Be Presented This Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.

By MUFON-LA
3-15-10

Scott Littleton, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology from Occidental College, will present a remarkable eyewitness account of a mysterious flying object that "attacked" the L.A. Basin in the early 1940s.

In the early morning hours of February 25,1942, a mysterious object cruised the skies of Southern California from the Santa Monica Mountains to Orange County. Scott Littleton, who was eight years old at the time, witnessed the event and will describe for us how he and his mother stood in front of their Hermosa Beach home watching the glowing object, surrounded by searchlight beams and a profusion of exploding anti-aircraft shells, as it passed almost directly overhead. The object glided slowly and silently along the edge of the ocean at about 8,000 feet, traveling from north to south. It eventually veered inland and disappeared from view over Redondo Beach.

Littleton will discuss a number of theories that have been put forward over the years to explain what the object was: from a lone Japanese observation plane, to an errant barrage balloon, to a flock of wayward sea birds! He will then share his own conclusion with us that it was a bona fide UFO, most likely extraterrestrial in origin. Littleton will also address the rumor he came across in his research that the object had eventually crashed into the Pacific Ocean off of northern San Diego County, only to be retrieved later by the U.S Navy.

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

MY UFO EXPERIENCE:
'Flying Object' Makes Vertical Descent and Then Vanishes!

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2-5-10

Driving on the 10 freerway westbound approaching downtown LA on 2/3/10 at about 7:15 PM, I watched a flying object making a near vertical descent from about 800 feet high, before finally levelling out a bit and vanishing.

It looked far large for fireworks, and was a craft of some kind. No helicopter or small plane would survive this descent. The object - glowing red and green- seemed to be about small plane sized. This was near the 110 /10 intersection.

I watched it for a good 20 seconds before it either left my field of view or disappeared after suddenly glowing brightly.. I waited , expecting to hear an impact. Someone else must have seen it.

I drive that route once a week at that time, and have done so for three years; this was a startling thing to see, and I had time to study it.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

MY UFO EXPERIENCE: V-Shaped Craft Reported Over Los Angeles!

Reader Submitted Report
[Unedited]
5-18-09

Found your website in a random search, didn't know who I should contact about this so I'll drop you a line.

It's 1:20 a.m. 5/21...I have a rooftop patio with clear view of the LA night sky. I was sitting having a drink when I looked up and saw something unusual floating by high in the sky. It was V-shaped, with the nose leading the way, the size of a small aircraft. It had what looked like several circular nodules on it's underside, didn't look like any plane I've ever seen before, though it moved at the speed of one.

No lights on at at all, I could only see it because the lights of LA are so bright shining up on its underside, and it didn't make a sound. I'm the most skeptical person on the planet and I only had 2 beers (wasn't drunk). I've never seen anything like this and couldn't begin to say what it might be, though admittedly it could be anything.

It cruised over LA silently and disappeared in the night and I'm damned if I know what it was. Wonder if anyone else saw that tonight.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

MY UFO EXPERIENCE:
UFO Spotted Over Los Angeles

Reader Submitted Report
3-22-09

I live in Los Angeles CA. Around 9:40pm I was on my balcony looking to the north east where the spot lights of Hollywood caught my eye!

As I watched the lights move across the sky I was drawn to another light.
This one was moving in and around the clouds. At first this was a red light, assuming it was a helicopter (Common here) I watched it dance around the sky.

As I watched I noticed this craft had no strobes a chopper would have. It then moved in ways that chopper can't do! Changing positions and dropping low and out of my sight then popping up and changing colors to a vibrant blue!

After 30 seconds it vanished. I went and got my camera in the hopes I would see it again. It appeared once more and I got a short clip of it but missed the best shots of this object. I also caught a chopper that shows these are not the same aircraft.

I told the story to a buddy and he also saw a blue light high in the sky.Has anyone else reported this kinda sight in LA?

Monday, August 11, 2008

VIDEO: Has The 'Topanga Canyon - Los Angeles UFO' Been Sighted Over Oregon?

By Blake Lundstrom
6-3-08

I was the one who shot the video of the UFO over Sunriver, Oregon on Sunday, August 3 between 10:30am and 11:15am. This is not a trick. If it was I could have done a better job. I am not profiting in any way of this video. It has been given free to any and all.

The story was first featured locally on KOHD News our local ABC affiliate.

So what did I see? I do not know. I would think it is unlikely that is is men from outerspace. Maybe it is a military drone or a weather balloon. I was zoomed (Optical and Digital) all the way IN with my Sony PD150 mini dv video camera and was shooting with a tripod.

Look at some of the shots. You can see when I zoom all the way out the corner of my office building. Look how small the object is in the sky. It was barely noticeable to the naked eye. This object moved from the west (where I first noticed it) to the south, over LaPine, then flew north over Bend till it was out of sight. Would a weather balloon act like this?

Also notice in the first shot how the object is spinning and seems to have an irregular shape and a light and dark side. I am not a meteorologists but it seems to me that the upper air patterns would not be so localized.

As I watched the object, 3 or 4 airliners where flying south and this object was over twice as high as they where. I would like to think that that rules out some kids’ balloon.

So what are your theories? Who else has seen something like this? Do you have video?

The local paper up here is working on a story about this object. The reporter is attempting to contact air traffic control and maybe NORAD to see if any planes where reported in the vicinity and heading.

All I can tell you all as I saw what I saw and shot the best video I could of it considering the conditions and adrenalin.

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Oregon Man Catches UFO on Video

By Elizabeth Bishop
News10
8-6-08

SUNRIVER, OR - Home video from a man in central Oregon showing what appears to be a UFO has experts scratching their heads.

"This is odd, I said, 'I've got to go get my video camera.' So I ran upstairs to the office and grabbed my video camera and the tripod," said Blake Lundstrom. He had been enjoying the view of gliders from the Sunriver airport outside his office sunday morning when what he calls a ufo appeared out of nowhere.

"The glider was just about 1000 feet off the ground here and the object was way up in the sky up here when I first saw it pretty much we are looking due west," Lundstrom said.

He followed the object for 45 minutes as it traveled curving south and then north towards Bend, Oregon.

"It came way out here there until it became so distant and then I lost it."

Lundstrom, who owns a small private television production company in Sunriver, has been looking for answers online, thinking it might be a weather balloon but can't pinpoint what he saw.

Bob Grossfeld at the Sunriver Observatory watched the video and isn't sure either. At first glance he thought it was the planet Venus.

"A spacecraft would be a constant movement like this, a planet would be more like this. It would be very, very, very slow and it certainly wouldn't change directions so yeah anything is possible," said Grossfield.

Grossfeld used numerous Web sites to see if the space station or any satellites were in the area during that time sunday morning. nothing turned up.

He says these type of sightings aren't unusual. that same day many people in the area saw what turned out to be a fire ball just past midnight early sunday morning which illuminated the sky. the unusual part of lundstrom's sighting was the length of time the object was visible.

"There's certainly tons of things out there.. no clue..we've seen some things here theres no way we can do all the tracking, we've seen objects that are running triangles," Grossfield said.

"I said if I don't go shoot this no one is going to believe me and now I have some video footage and some people think I am crazy but it's unexplained," said Lundstrom.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Second Video of Topanga Canyon - Los Angeles UFO Emerges!

By Lolala
7-29-08

My boyfriend and I were on our balcony when I looked up and noticed a stationary object in the sky. We live east of Los Angeles where we have been among many to see UFO's of the San Gabriel Mountains. This is our fifth sighting this year but this is the first one we have on tape... and during the day. We noticed that it had it's own light source and was very still for a few minutes and then eventually coasted away. It is not a balloon or anything I have seen before. Red and white orbs zig zagging through the sky at night have been the what we've seen... until this. It was around 3pm and appeared to look like a sperm. We found this funny because we had just finished doing you know what.

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Reader Submitted Report
7-27-08

My wife, four year old child and I were swimming in our pool in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, yesterday (Saturday July 26 2008) around 4:30-4:45pm when we noticed a large very shiny silver object hovering in one position in the sky to the east of us (from Topanga), possibly over Santa Monica.

It was really strange. We are very familiar with helicopters flying directly overhead in Topanga and planes from LAX, but this was neither. It definitely wasn't a conventional plane or helicopter or blimp (we've seen the Goodyear blimp plenty of times in various places).

I thought it might be a hot air balloon at first, but it appeared to be more of an X shape that rotated, as if a plane with four wings forming a cross were slowly rotating in one position in the sky. It was also larger than I first thought, because we looked at it through binoculars (8x25W; not very powerful), and whereas when we look at planes through those you can see detail, with this it was too far away.

It stayed in roughly the same spot for about 30 minutes, rotating in one place, and we took some video, but it was too far away to be really clear. It was so silver and shiny that I thought it might have lights, but the sun was also really bright, so it may just have been reflecting that. It definitely maneuvered in an unusual way and was able to stay in the same spot. And then, after about 30 minutes of this, it moved off traveling at about the speed of a plane (which again suggests it couldn't have been a hot air balloon) to the south/south-east.

The only possible explanation I could come up with was that it was some kind of promotional stunt, possibly for the X-Files movie, which opened this weekend. It might have been flying over Santa Monica Beach, but even then it seemed too large and too unusual (and too expensive) for a promotional stunt - and if it was a promotion, it didn't achieve any publicity to my knowledge. Also it would have had to be some kind of rotating X towed by a plane, and we could see no evidence of any other craft nearby towing it. Plus the fact that it stayed in one place for so long is almost impossible to achieve with anything other than a helicopter or hot air balloon, I believe, and neither can rotate the way this was rotating.

We called our local NBC TV news department and emailed them our video, but we haven't heard back from them and I can find no other reports of the sighting, which is strange when it was so large and was in broad daylight on a very sunny Saturday afternoon.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Great L.A. Air Raid Mystery

By By Stephanie Walton
The Daily Breeze
2-20-08

Questions still abound over the Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942.

What was it that showed up on military radar screens the night of Feb. 24, 1942, prompting authorities to order a blackout and unleash an hourlong anti-aircraft barrage?

Could it have been enemy aircraft like those that attacked Pearl Harbor less than three months earlier? Was it just a weather balloon? Might it have been a UFO?

"What have we learned? Not much," said Steve Nelson, curator of the Fort MacArthur Museum in San Pedro, which housed some of the artillaryartillery used to protect the West Coast during World War II.

Decades later, it's difficult to imagine the tension gripping residents of Los Angeles and the rest of California. They were still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and worried about a similar assault on the U.S. mainland.

Their fears were realized on Feb. 23, 1942, when a Japanese submarine surfaced and fired on an oil production facility near Santa Barbara. Reports circulated that the sub then headed south, in the direction of Los Angeles.

According to historical accounts by the California State Military Museum, U.S. naval intelligence issued a warning on Feb. 24 that an attack was expected in 10 hours, but the advisory was later lifted.

Then, early on Feb. 25, radar picked up an unidentified target 120 miles away from Los Angeles.

At 2:15 a.m., anti-aircraft gun batteries were alerted and were ready to fire minutes later.

At 2:21 a.m., the regional controller ordered a blackout. Information centers were flooded with reports of enemy planes "even though the mysterious object tracked in from the sea seems to have vanished," the museum's Web site said.

At 2:43 a.m., planes were reported near Long Beach and one coastal artillery colonel spotted "about 25 planes at 12,000" feet over Los Angeles.

At 3:06 a.m., a balloon carrying a red flare was seen over Santa Monica and four batteries of anti-aircraft artillery opened fire.

Reports of what happened afterward vary.

"Probably much of the confusion came from the fact that anti-aircraft shell bursts, caught by the searchlights, were themselves mistaken for enemy planes," the museum's Web site states.

Among those anti-aircraft batteries responding were the crews at Fort MacArthur who, according to veterans' reports, fired about seven rounds of 3-inch shells from guns mounted on the upper reservation, near where the Korean Friendship Bell stands today, Nelson said.

The number and type of aircraft reportedly seen over various parts of the Los Angeles area widely varied from one to 220 and from airplanes to balloons to a blimp.

Some eyewitnesses said that there were no planes.

And some people, in later years, have claimed that the objects were UFOs.

"Although reports were conflicting and every effort is being made to ascertain the facts, it is clear that no bombs were dropped and no planes were shot down," the Western Defense Command said in a Feb. 25, 1942, Associated Press story.

Those conflicting reports included the military.

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that as many as 15 aircraft, "possibly piloted by enemy agents," had flown over Los Angeles the morning of Feb. 25, according to an Associated Press report.

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said that "reports reaching him indicated the incident was a false alarm and that extensive reconnaissance had disclosed no evidence of planes," the same story said.

Whether an enemy aircraft flew over American soil, there were several casualties due to blackout conditions.

One occurred in Long Beach, where a police sergeant driving to headquarters was killed in a head-on collision with another driver, who had just come off duty at a shipyard.

Another death was attributed to a heart attack. A third man died of injuries suffered when he walked into an automobile while trying to catch a Pacific Electric train in heavier than normal morning traffic after the all-clear was sounded.

Despite the uncertainty over the cause of the events, public officials praised the efficiency of civil defense officials, air raid wardens and anti-aircraft batteries in response to the perceived threat.

Daily activities resumed after the all-clear was signaled at 7:21 a.m. although not without some glitches.

Newspaper reports noted pupils absent from school and employees late to work that day while others went hunting for souvenirs - anti-aircraft shrapnel.