By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Raise your hand if you knew that Columbia Pictures’ upcoming alien invasion film “Battle: L.A.” was based on an actual, historical event?
Put your hand down, conspiracy theorists. And take that tin foil off of your head.
As the studio ramps up for the launch of Jonathan Liebesman’s “Battle,” it’s simultaneously spreading the word that this science-fiction blockbuster, while decidedly fictional, isn’t as far-fetched as modern audiences might be led to believe.
That’s because an actual event, dubbed “The Battle of Los Angeles,” occurred 69 years ago today in the skies over Southern California. The strange occurrence took place during the night between Feb. 24-25, 1942, and they remained unsolved to this day.
Here’s what happened. The United States military was on high alert, given the fact that Pearl Harbor had been attacked months prior to this “battle.” Shortly after 2 a.
Hollywoodnews.com: Raise your hand if you knew that Columbia Pictures’ upcoming alien invasion film “Battle: L.A.” was based on an actual, historical event?
Put your hand down, conspiracy theorists. And take that tin foil off of your head.
As the studio ramps up for the launch of Jonathan Liebesman’s “Battle,” it’s simultaneously spreading the word that this science-fiction blockbuster, while decidedly fictional, isn’t as far-fetched as modern audiences might be led to believe.
That’s because an actual event, dubbed “The Battle of Los Angeles,” occurred 69 years ago today in the skies over Southern California. The strange occurrence took place during the night between Feb. 24-25, 1942, and they remained unsolved to this day.
Here’s what happened. The United States military was on high alert, given the fact that Pearl Harbor had been attacked months prior to this “battle.” Shortly after 2 a.
- 2/25/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Tomorrow marks the 69th anniversary of The Battle of Los Angeles, which remains one of the strangest events of WWII and is still a mystery to this day. The event took place during the night between February 24-25, 1942. Never fully explained, these events remain shrouded in mystery and the subject of intense speculation. Beginning shortly after 2 am on February 25, and throughout the night, unidentified objects were reported over Los Angeles and the threat was so unusual that air raid sirens were sounded, and a total blackout was ordered. At 3:16 am, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing 12.8-pound antiaircraft shells at the objects – more than 1,400 shells were fired over the next 58 minutes as the objects moved south, from Santa Monica to Long Beach. “The obvious thought was that these were Japanese bombers come to attack the United States,” says UFO expert Bill Birnes, publisher of UFO magazine. “But it wasn’t.
- 2/23/2011
- LRMonline.com
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