Baltimore News-Post February 26 1942. Original Newspaper (34 Pages). “Enemy Agents flew Planes over California—Stimson”. Many dozed off again while 12,000 air raid wardens reported faithfully to their posts, most of them expecting nothing more than a dress rehearsal for a possible future event – an invasion of the United States by Japan. At 3:36, however, they were shocked and their slumbering families rudely roused again, this time by sounds unfamiliar to most Americans outside the military services. The roar of the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade’s antiaircraft batteries jolted them out of bed and before they could get to the windows the flashing 12.8 pound shells were detonating with a heavy, ominous boomp – boomp – boomp and the steel was already raining down. All radio stations had been ordered off the air at 3:08. But the news was being written with fingers of light three miles high on a clear star-studded blackboard 30 miles long. FATE MAGAZINE: World War II UFO Scare. In the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, suddenly appearing out of nowhere, but most likely doing so only after dropping out of the night sky initially from a steep angle out over the Pacific on a curving south to east trajectory, a huge object of unknown origin, possibly with protective detection devices on, at a lower altitude levels off. The object continues on a trajectory east toward the city of Los Angeles at ultra high speed barely skimming the water just above the surface. At 120 miles out, the object most likely picks up electronic probes from the Army long range listening apparatus or rudimentary early radar and retracts it’s entry shields, reducing it’s speed to a near crawl some 50 miles out, turning inland somewhere near Point Dume. It then turned south in the gap in the mountains around Sepulveda Boulevard and Mullholland Drive coming in BEHIND the aimed direction of the majority of the anti-aircraft guns and any possible radar or long range listening devices. In a continuing steeply angled climb out of the Santa Monica mountains the object curved slightly to the east around and well above the 511 foot altitude of Baldwin Hills in what appeared to be a concerted effort to stay away from all the potential aircraft and armament associated with Mines Field (now LAX). The object turned westward toward the ocean coming out over the aircraft manufacturing plants near the El Segundo tank farm, then, dropping altitude, south along the coast. Earlier, as the unidentified target continued on it’s apparent approach toward the Los Angeles area only to disappear behind the mountains inland west along the coast, the air raid warning system regional controller, still jittery from the oil refinery attack in the same general area only a few hours before, ordered the newly installed antiaircraft batteries to go to Green Alert — ready to fire. Wonderful birthday gift with topical news from home and abroad including numerous photographs, stories, fashion and adverts. We have a collection of these stunning newspapers, book reviews and magazines from the 1920’s 1930’s 1940’s 1950’s 1960’s 1970’s for January, February, March, April, May, June, July August, September, October, November and December. Covering most dates in any given month. We also have an extensive archive of American and Canadian newspapers, magazines and book reviews covering most of the United States. Some of the titles include: New York Times, Post, Sun, Herald, Tribune, Journal of Commerce, Kansas City Star, Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Washington Times, Star, Baltimore, WSJ and many more titles. PROFESSIONAL, HIGH QUALITY PACKING, AS WE STRIVE TO DELIVER YOUR ITEM IN THE BEST POSSIBLE CONDITION.