12 Frightening Tales of Alien Encounters

12 Frightening Tales of Alien Encounters — page 1 — accidents A Saucer Hovers Over Los Angeles gunfire glowed like fireworks The Battle of Los Angeles had begun On February 25 1942 at 2 00 a m air raid sirens and antiaircraft fire cut through the calm sky around Los Angeles California Searchlights arced across the clouds Flashes of light from The United States entered World War II 1939 1945 weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor Hawaii The country was not prepared for another attack The military took immediate action when an unidentified object It is unclear what was in the sky the night of the Battle of Los Angeles 1,440 Estimated rounds of ammunition fired by the military at the unidentified object The sighting occurred on February 25 1942 several months after the attack on Pearl Harbor The object was a pale orange color and moved slowly over Los Angeles California Antiaircraft weapons were fired at the object The only damage came from traffic

12 Frightening Tales of Alien Encounters — page 2 — taken place in Los Angeles But many minor traffic incidents were reported There had also been one death Someone suffered heart failure because of the excitement The United States was on was seen over high alert after the the city bombing at Pearl Harbor Eyewitnesses claimed to see a large pale orange object hovering and moving slowly over the sky Antiaircraft weapons were fired Nothing stopped the object Though it appeared to be hit it remained undamaged Newspaper reports of the incident were scarce The navy insisted there was no evidence of enemy aircraft The US government continues to claim that the object was a weather balloon Many people do not believe this argument The mystery of the object in the sky over Los Angeles may never be solved The shooting stopped at dawn The mysterious aircraft was nowhere to be seen No major damage had

12 Frightening Tales of Alien Encounters — page 3 — spotted Flying Saucers Sighted Over Mount Rainier On June 24 1947 former World War II pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted something strange above Washington's Mount Rainier Arnold was flying at an altitude of 9 200 feet 2 800 m Then a bright light startled him At first all he saw was a distant DC 4 aircraft Seconds later Arnold saw nine objects flying diagonally between his airplane and Mount Rainier He ruled out several possible explanations It Kenneth Arnold center looks at a photo of a UFO that he

12 Frightening Tales of Alien Encounters — page 4 — saucer 1,700 Speed in miles per hour 2 736 km h that Arnold estimated the disks were traveling Kenneth Arnold was a former World War II pilot He saw nine disks flying diagonally above Mount Rainier in Washington on June 24 1947 Similar sightings were reported after Arnold's account Arnold's sighting coined the term flying saucer was not reflections from his windows The objects estimated speed also meant it was not a flock of geese same shape and size They saw them above Idaho ten days after Arnold's sighting Arnold saw the mysterious objects near Mount Rainier in Washington Arnold concluded what he saw was most likely military aircraft They were performing experimental flight operations The army denied this They claimed that Arnold was seeing things The publicity surrounding Arnold's account sparked similar sightings Someone on nearby Mount Adams reported seeing the same objects at about the same time A United Airlines crew claimed to have seen nine flying disks of the The disks Arnold saw in the sky soon became the first widely reported unidentified flying objects UFOs in US history Arnold's description of the disks even led to the introduction of the term flying

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