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What was this object that triggered a US invasion alert in Los Angeles during WWII? A special collaboration with AllTimeConspiracies... watch it now! Did Aliens Abduct This Pilot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_k5g...

Late in the evening of February 24, 1942, sirens blasted throughout Los Angeles County, warning its 3 million residents that an air raid was eminent. It was only three months after the devastating Japanese sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor that prompted the United States to enter World War II, and citizens and military officials alike feared another strike on the country’s West Coast.

When the alarm sounded, thousands of air raid wardens were dispatched, ushering people into bomb shelters and ensuring that everybody observed the mandatory blackout that would veil Los Angeles from the supposed threat of enemy aircraft overhead. During the night, 9-tons of anti-aircraft artillery shells were fired over the city at suspected enemy planes, but by dawn the firing stopped and there was scant evidence of any enemy presence or attempted attack.

The US Military dismissed the chaos as a simple false alarm, but as newspapers continued to report on the story and more witnesses described what they saw in the sky that night, it felt that the official explanation was unsatisfactory. Tensions were only heightened on February 26th when the Los Angeles Times published this photo, showing several searchlight beams converging on an unidentified object in the sky.

The event has since become known as the Battle of Los Angeles, and it remains one of the most mysterious and unexplained incidents of World War II. Were there enemy planes in the sky that night? If there were, why were the anti-aircraft batteries completely ineffective? What was the unidentified object the military saw on radars, and how did it disappear?

When history reflects on Pearl Harbor, the attack is often remembered as a strictly aerial battle. But there was another, much smaller group of Japanese soldiers who were extensively trained for a little-known second phase of attacks to correspond with the air raids. This mission was comprised of ten men making up a secret and elite midget submarine force. Called the “Special Attack Naval Unit,” they would ultimately be unsuccessful, and yet even their failure wouldn’t go as planned. Tasked with destroying his own submarine, one of those men would instead accidentally pass-out and become the first Japanese POW of World War II.

It was late into the night of December 6, 1941. America did not know it yet, but it would awake the next morning to find itself under siege. On the morning of December 7, the Pearl Harbor Naval Base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu would be bombarded with a series of surprise attacks from Japanese aircraft. It would be the final straw that drew the U.S. out of its isolationism and into the global scuffle of World War II.