The “Battle of Los Angeles,” also called the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, was a major wartime air-defense incident that occurred during the night of February 24–25, 1942. It took place less than three months after Pearl Harbor and only two days after a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood oil facilities near Santa Barbara. In … Read more

The Aurora, Texas, incident is among the earliest and most enduring alleged UFO-crash accounts in American history. It reportedly occurred shortly after 6:00 a.m. on April 17, 1897, during the widely reported “mystery airship” wave of 1896–1897, several years before the Wright brothers’ first powered flight. According to an April 19, 1897 article in the … Read more