New Series 282: Countless thousands of Southland residents, many of whom were late to work because of the traffic tie-up during the black out, rubbed their eyes sleepily yesterday and agreed that regardless of the question of how “real” the air raid alarm may have been, it was “a great show” and “well worth losing a few hours’ sleep.” The black- out was not without its casualties, however.

                                         1/01/2022 from Hatonn/jonur (ns282)

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… Countless thousands of Southland residents, many of whom were late to work because of the traffic tie-up during the black out, rubbed their eyes sleepily yesterday and agreed that regardless of the question of how “real” the air raid alarm may have been, it was “a great show” and “well worth losing a few hours’ sleep.”

The black- out was not without its casualties, however.  A State Guardsman died of a heart attack while driving an ammunition truck.  Heart failure also accounted for the death of an air raid warden on duty.  A woman was killed in a car-truck collision in Arcadia, and a Long Beach policeman was killed in a traffic crash enroute to duty.  Much of the firing appeared to come from the vicinity of aircraft plants along the coastal area of Santa Monica, Inglewood, Southwest Los Angeles, and Long Beach.  [Hatonn:  Again, imagine the carnage with everyone running in the streets in total and complete PANIC.  A total collapse of the social infrastructure will instantly depopulate your nations, and world.  This will be the Native American prophecy called The Time of Kalie or “Chaos”.  Your Hopi “Indian” Brothers have prophesied this very hour, as you move into physical manifested presence of The Bird Tribes—“The Space People”.  For goodness sakes, precious ones, THEY remember how they got here—you merely have forgotten.  This is what we are about here.]

In its front page editorial, the Times said: “In view of the considerable public excitement and confusion caused by yesterday morning’s supposed enemy air raid over this area and its spectacular official accompaniments, it seems to the Times that more specific public information should be forthcoming from government sources on the subject, if only to clarify their own conflicting statements about it.”

“According to the Associated Press, Secretary Knox intimated that reports of enemy air activity in the Pacific Coastal Region might be due largely to jittery nerves!  Whose nerves, Mr. Knox?  The publics or the Army’s?”

The following is an excerpt of an article appeared in Fate Magazine.  Our special thanks to Bill Oliver of UFO*BC for transcribing and bringing it to our attention.

WORLD WAR II

UFO SCARE

By Paul T. Collins

Fate Magazine July, 1987

On Wednesday, February 25, 1942, as war raged in Europe and Asia, at least a million Southern Californians awoke to the scream of air-raid sirens at Los Angeles County cities blacked out at 2:25 A.M.  Many dozed off again while 12,000 air raid wardens reported faithfully to their posts, most of them expecting nothing more than a dress rehearsal for a possible future event—an invasion of the United States by Japan.  At 3:36 A.M., however, they were shocked and their slumbering families rudely roused again, this time by sound unfamiliar to most Americans outside the military services.  The roar of the 37^th Coast Artillery Brigade’s antiaircraft batteries jolted them out of bed and before they could get to the windows the flashing 12.8 pound shells were detonating with a heavy, ominous boom—boom—boom and the steel was already raining down.  All radio stations had been ordered off the air at 3:08.  But the news was being written with fingers of light three miles high on a clear star-studded blackboard 30 miles long.

The firing continued intermittently until 4:14 A.M.  Unexploded shells destroyed pavement, homes and public buildings, three persons were killed and three died of heart attacks directly attributable to the one hour barrage.  Several persons were injured by shrapnel.  A dairy herd was hit but only a few cows were casualties.  The blackout was lifted and sirens screamed all clear at 7:21.

The shooting stopped but the shouting had hardly begun.  Military men who never flinched at the roar of rifles now shook at the prospect of facing the press.  [H:  Back in the day, the “PRESS” was everything to this fledgling nation, birthed under God.  But today, it is in 100% control by the Zionist Jews.  And This Source is the only place, now, where the truth is separated from the lies.]  While they probably could not be blamed for what had happened, they did have some reason for distress.  The thing they had been shooting at could not be identified.

Caught by searchlights and captured in photographs, was an object big enough to dwarf an apartment house.  Experienced lighter-then-air (dirigible) specialists doubted it could be a Japanese blimp because the Japanese had no known source of helium, and hydrogen was much too dangerous to use under combat conditions.

Whatever it was, it was a sitting duck for the guns of the 37^th.  Photographs showed shells bursting all around it.  A Los Angeles Herald Express staffer said he was sure many hit it directly.  He was amazed it had not been shot down.

The object that triggered the air raid alarm had drawn 1430 rounds of ammunition from the coast artillery, to no effect.  When it moved at all the object had proceeded at a leisurely pace over the coastal cities between Santa Monica and Long Beach, taking about 30 minutes of actual flight time to move 20 miles; then it disappeared from view.

You can well imagine with what chagrin public information officers answered press queries.  The Pasadena Office of the Southern California Sector of the Army Western Defense Command simply announced that no enemy aircraft had been identified, no craft was shot down, no bombs were dropped, and none of our interceptors left the ground to pursue the intruder.

Soon thereafter US Navy Secretary Frank Knox announced that no planes had been sighted.  The coastal firing had been triggered, he said, by a false alarm and jittery nerves.  He also suggested that some war industries along the coast might have to be moved inland to points invulnerable to attacks from enemy submarines and carrier-based planes

The press responded with scathing editorials, many on page one, calling attention to the loss of life and denouncing the use of the coast artillery to fire at phantoms.  The Los Angeles Times demanded a full explanation from Washington.  The Long Beach Telegram complained that government officials who all along had wanted to move the industries were manipulating the affair for propaganda purposes.  And the Long Beach Independent charged:

“There is a mysterious reticence about the whole affair and it appears some form of censorship is trying to halt discussion of the matter.  [H:  This is the beginning of your so-called “Majestic-12” ruling body that determines all the public is to be told about, UFOs and their German origin.  Six men from your military—INCLUDING Eisenhower—and six “civilians”, such as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger—make up “MJ-Twelve”.  This “secret government”, within your own government, is what controls your world when all is said and done.]

Although it was red-hot news not one national radio commentator gave it more than passing.  This is the kind of reticence that is making the American people gravely suspect the motives and competence of those whom they have charged with the conduct of the war.”  The Independent had good reason to question the competence of some of the personnel responsible for our coastal defense operations as well as the integrity and motives of our highest government officials.  Only 36 hours before the Long Beach air raid, a gigantic Japanese submarine had surfaced close to shore 12 miles north of Santa Barbara and in 25 minutes of unchallenged firing lobbed 25 five-inch shells at the petroleum refinery in the Ellwood oil field.  The Fourth Interceptor command, although aware of the sub’s attack, ordered a blackout from Ventura to Goleta but sent no planes out to sink it.  Not one shot was fired at the sub.

After the Ellwood incident had alerted all the West Coast defense posts to possible repeat attacks, these units were sensitive to anticipated invasion attempts.  By Wednesday morning in the Los Angeles area they were ready to open fire on a boy’s kite if it in any way resembled a plane or a balloon.  Secretary of War Henry Stimson praised the 37^th Coast Artillery for this attitude.  It is better to be a little too alert than not alert enough, he said.  At the same time delicately suggested that it might have been a good idea to send some of our planes up to identify the invading aircraft before shooting at them.

Planes of the Fourth Interceptor Command were, in fact, warming up on the runways waiting for orders to go up and interview the unknown intruders.  Why, everybody was asking, were they not ordered to go into action during the 51-minute period between the first air-raid alert at 2:25 A.M. and the first artillery firing at 3:16 A.M.?

Against this background of embarrassing indecision and confusion, Army Western Defense Command obviously had to say something fast.  Spokesmen told reporters that from one to 50 planes had been sighted, thus giving themselves ample latitude in which to adjust future stories to fit whatever propaganda requirements might arise in the next few days.

When eyewitness reports from thousands searching the skies with binoculars under the bright lights of the coast artillery verified the presence of one enormous, unidentifiable, indestructible object—but not the presence of large numbers of planes—the press releases were gradually scaled downward.  A week later General Mark Clark acknowledged that army listening posts had detected what they thought were five light planes approaching the coast on the night of the air-raid.  No interceptors, he said, had been sent out to engage them because there had been no mass attack.

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“Happy New Year”, even though the actual change-over began August 17, 1987—and you are currently in your 34^th year—past what you count as “the Year 2000”.  So, you are obviously on “borrowed time”, as your saying goes, and you should thank God and His Lighted HOSTS for seeing you through another holiday season.  Let us re-commission our commitment to serve our brethren, and show him/her the Way.”

Hatonn moving to stand-by, Salu!