Mainstream Historian Attempts to Explain the ‘Battle of LA’ UFO Conspiracy Theory of February 1942

Article by Chris Bradford                                                      July 19, 2021                                                                   (the-sun.com)

• In February 1942, just weeks after the Japanese air force attacked Pearl Harbor, officials received warnings over a 10 hour period that mainland Los Angeles could be under siege by Japanese forces. Eye-witnesses claimed to have seen and taken photos of the bright lights of the extraterrestrial craft in the skies over Los Angeles.

• Troops were stationed with anti-aircraft guns on the top of buildings. Officers opened fire but nothing was in the sky. The military fired 1400 rounds of ammo at the cluster of hovering objects. Residents in LA could just see smoke and pieces of shrapnel raining down on them, but there was no enemy aircraft in sight. John G Murphy, of the Coastal Artillery Corps, wrote: “Imagination could have easily disclosed many shapes in the sky in the midst of that weird symphony of noise and color.”

• The ‘Battle of LA’ came at a time when rumors of potential Japanese attacks were rife. The day before the alleged ‘battle’, southern California was placed under a blackout. Some soldiers alleged they saw planes, claiming one crash-landed in Hollywood. Charles Patrick, a coastal artilleryman, said: “I could barely see the planes but they were up there all right. I could see six planes and shells were bursting around them.” Five people were killed – three in car accidents and two by heart attack.

• Army officials first claimed that what these soldiers and civilians saw was commercial aircraft “sent by Japan” that passed over LA. The Office of Air Force History debunked this theory in 1983, claiming instead that these were not planes but a weather balloon that had drifted over LA. Secretary of War Henry Stimson admitted that no enemy planes had flown over Los Angeles. After the war, Japanese officials confirmed that it had never sent military aircraft over LA during World War II.

• Expert and historian Kathryn “Kate” Dorsch said she wouldn’t describe the incident as a “UFO sighting” or even “critical to the history of the UFO debate”. Dorsch argues that the “modern UFO” phenomenon can be traced back to 1947 following the alleged sightings by Kenneth Arnold in Washington State and in Roswell, New Mexico. This was a result of the public’s exposure to the “unprecedented” developments and “major breakthroughs” in manned and unmanned aerial technologies, said Dorsch, along with a “confluence of post-WWII anxieties, geopolitical tensions, and social concerns” such as the “V2 rocket attacks on London and the unleashing of the atomic bomb”. Similarly, World War II military pilots would see red or orange glowing objects they called ‘foo fighters’ that would stalk their aircraft before suddenly ‘disappearing’.

• [Editor’s Note]   This article is a mere continuation of the deep state government policy of denial and ridicule about UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence. This amazingly myopic recounting of the February 1942 UFO incident over Los Angeles parrots the false talking points of Rockefeller/deep state university text books that blithely explain away not just the “Battle of LA” but the UFO phenomenon entirely. So-called ‘historians’ like Kathryn Dorsch first decide what their conclusion will be – in this case that there is no such thing as UFOs or extraterrestrials – and then cherry pick their facts and quotes to build the desired narrative. Dorch is not so much a historian as she is a mind-controlled deep state propagandist.

Yes, a small fleet of UFOs did appear over Los Angeles that night/morning of the 24th-25th of February 1942. Hundreds of witnesses saw them. Two of the craft were shot down, recovered by the US Navy off shore and the Army inland respectively, and both were taken to Wright Army Airfield in Ohio for study.

Historians that cling to the deep state narrative denying and debunking the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials have become rather pitiful. No one believes them anymore. Once the long presence of UFOs and extraterrestrials has been definitively proven and accepted – which is not too far off – these charlatans who call themselves ‘academics’ and ‘experts’ will have lost all credibility, and ‘historians’ such as Kathryn Dorsch will need to find a new line of work.

Eye-witnesses claim they saw a mystery object flying in the sky in February 1942 – just weeks after the Japanese air force attacked Pearl Harbor.

Officials received a warning that mainland Los Angeles could be under siege by Japanese forces over a 10 hour period in 1942.

Officers fired rounds of artillery from .50 caliber machine guns into the sky in anticipation that enemy planes would land.

There were no planes but the incident fueled conspiracies about a potential UFO sighting as some reportedly saw a “mysterious” flying object, according to History.

Army officials tried to say that commercial aircraft “sent by Japan” passed over the LA skyline but

the Office of Air Force History debunked the theory in 1983 – adding a weather balloon was launched to help with the winds.

Believers say photos of the bright lights reportedly “prove” the phenomenon was an extraterrestrial craft.

Meanwhile, expert and historian Kathryn Dorsch said she wouldn’t describe the incident as a “UFO sighting” or “critical to the history of the UFO debate”.

She told The Sun: “I also wouldn’t talk about it in the same terms as I would later sightings. The post-1947 UFO is a very particular kind of thing that depends on a confluence of post-WWII anxieties, geopolitical tensions, and social concerns.”

In an article for Foreign Policy, Dorsch argues that the “modern UFO” can be traced back to 1947 following the alleged sightings by Kenneth Arnold in the Cascade Mountains near Washington State.

She said the world wars had led to “unprecedented” developments and “major breakthroughs” in the likes of manned and unmanned aerial technologies.

‘DEBUNKED’

Dorsch wrote: “The appearance of a strange and potentially deadly object in the skies was a resonant idea in the wake of the V2 rocket attacks on London and the unleashing of the atomic bomb.”

She referred to the collapse of the US relationship with the Soviet Union as Americans saw a “new alien challenger”.

1947 also saw the creation of the Air Forces as an independent branch of the military.

The term “foo fighters” was often used by pilots during World War II to describe potential UFOs and mysterious sightings.

Pilots reported such objects would stalk their aircraft and would glow red or orange. They would then make a wild turn before disappearing.

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