| The Battle of Los Angeles is an event that is often | | | | immediately began to surface. Having absolutely no |
| unheard of or forgotten. However, it could be the | | | | answers as to what the UFO was initially, the military |
| most important event in the history of alien | | | | soon came forward with an explanation. You guessed |
| experiences. The year was 1942 shortly after our | | | | it. A weather balloon. Our military had engaged in |
| country had entered the war. The military spotted an | | | | battle with a balloon. In this battle, that they had |
| unidentified flying object over the city and | | | | apparently lost, nobody seemed to notice, even with |
| immediately assumed that it was a Japanese aircraft. | | | | multiple spotlights that they were firing at a weather |
| There was a blackout in the city as the air raid sirens | | | | balloon. They were also unable to bring down this |
| were sounded and the military positioned itself for | | | | balloon, even with the awesome firepower unleashed |
| attack. Spotlights flooded the craft and the assault | | | | upon it. Tough balloon? Or something else? Five years |
| began. For what some say was over an hour | | | | later, the most famous alleged U.F.O. crash in history |
| (although other reports say 20 minutes) our military | | | | occurred in Roswell, NM. The government was there |
| unleashed a firestorm of bullets and anti- aircraft | | | | to pick up the pieces and once again, let the public |
| artillery at the alien spacecraft. However, they were | | | | know that it was nothing more than a weather |
| unsuccessful at bringing down the strange object in | | | | balloon that had crashed that day. Something seems |
| the sky. At least one person in the area died of | | | | strange about both of these occurrences and it |
| heart failure because of the panic brought forth from | | | | seems like the public has been left in the dark. What |
| this object. | | | | do you think? |
| A cease fire was eventually called and the questions | | | | |