

Some say the image, which reportedly underwent modifications that would be frowned upon by today's photo editors, shows an unidentified aircraft surrounded by searchlights. The notion of extraterrestrial visitors didn't come up in contemporary accounts, Nelson said, with most of the claims stemming from a single, retouched photo of the event published in the Los Angeles Times. World War II weaponry will be on display, guests can take part in a swing dance, and the night sky will light up as spotlights and fireworks are used to re-enact the chaos. Nelson's museum annually celebrates the anniversary of what's been called "the Battle of Los Angeles" and will host an expanded gala to mark the 75th year. "You think that I and these soldiers … they're all going to keep that secret? It defies logic, but whatever." But … "The general gist is that I'm part of the conspiracy," Stephen Nelson said when asked about his interactions with UFO enthusiasts on the subject. The director of the Fort MacArthur Museum in San Pedro, who is writing a book on the encounter based on research and eyewitness accounts from those firing the anti-aircraft guns, dismisses that conclusion.

It was, in fact, visited by an alien spacecraft. 25, 1942, the city was not under Japanese attack. FOX News contributed.A cursory web search will tell history buffs that despite the firing of about 1,400 anti-aircraft rounds into the dark skies above Los Angeles in the early hours of Feb. This story was reported from Los Angeles. Davis, told the New York Times in July of last year that he gave a classified briefing to the Defense Department agency in March 2020 regarding "off-world vehicles not made on this Earth." military personnel and detailed in the upcoming report, at least one scientist can attest to having observed something similar.Īstrophysicist and former consultant for the UFO program since 2007, Eric W. In regards to Ratcliffe’s comments on unexplained technology observed by U.S. The reveal of both the task force’s existence, as well as Rubio’s data request, came in a June 17 Select Committee on Intelligence report authored by Rubio on the Intelligence Authorization Act. Marco Rubio had requested a detailed analysis on the findings of the task force. In July, the Pentagon stated that the program was disbanded, but a Senate committee report from June revealed spending on a program called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.įOX Television Stations reported in June of last year that U.S. "The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified," Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault, a website dedicated to declassified government documents.Īfter the release of the videos, reports surfaced of a top-secret Pentagon program conducting classified briefings for more than a decade, analyzing various encounters between military craft and unidentified aerial vehicles. Navy has acknowledged that the three UFO videos that were released by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge and published by The New York Times are of real unidentified objects. UFO videos are footage of real unidentified objects, US Navy acknowledges military craft and satellites that have achieved forms of flight that would normally be impossible with any known human technology. Ratcliffe said there have been objects observed by U.S. RELATED: Former director of national intelligence says upcoming Pentagon UFO report reveals technology ‘we don’t have’ While the exact nature of the purported extraterrestrial threats was unknown, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe spoke with FOX News’ Maria Bartiromo in March, saying "there are a lot more sightings" than the public is aware of. When former President Donald Trump signed into law the massive $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief package in 2020, it triggered a countdown to a deadline by which the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense must provide lawmakers a report on everything they know about UFOs like the ones seen in the recently leaked footage.īuried within the thousands of pages of legislation under the "Committee Comments" section of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, a stipulation requested a report to senators on intelligence and armed services committees regarding any information surrounding UFO sightings and whether they present any potential threat. This is something that the military is very interested in, and they have been lying to the American public," Corbell added. "They are penetrating and there are incursions in our most restricted airspace around our nuclear weapons. Footage shows UFO flying off the coast of Californiaįootage released by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon shows a spherical UFO flying off the coast of San Diego.
