Title: BATTLE: LOS ANGELES - In Theaters 3.11.11 Source:
[None] URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55CgPUu-ENA Published:Feb 26, 2011 Author:Staff Post Date:2011-02-26 11:13:40 by Horse Keywords:None Views:556 Comments:48
#4. To: Eric Stratton, christine, farmfriend, abraxas, HAPPY2BEME-4UM, wudidiz, TwentyTwelve, All (#1)(Edited)
Actually the producer of the movie, which is a documentary based on actual historical footage, is a Mexican American by the name of Jose' Escamilla. I'm familiar with him from his earlier work on a different phenomena.
This is a real event, dubbed "The Battle of Los Angeles", which took place in 1942 after the onset of WWII. The object, which was quite large, was fired on by multiple anti-aircraft batteries and was attacked by Army-Airforce fighters. All of course to no avail. It even made the papers at the time, but due to wartime censorship did not receive the coverage it should have. It is still the largest mass sighting of a an unexplained flying object on record as it was seen by tens of thousands.
I think it is our particular cultural conceit that we somehow think that this little speck of sand on the edge of a galaxy made up of hundreds of millions of stars in a universe made up of hundreds of millions of galaxies is the only place where intelligent life has ever arisen. As for a star faring culture hundreds to thousands of years in advance of us technologically - why should they bother with one little dot inhabited by a bunch of primitives? We are likely viewed with little difference from our view of the tribes of the remote Amazon or New Guinea. A curiosity and little more.