pre-Battle of Los Angeles

Silver gelatin halftone dossier illustration of the December 10 1941 Los Angeles wartime blackout showing a completely darkened Los Angeles cityscape silhouette at night as three Army searchlight beams sweep cold white-blue light upward into empty sky 25 miles from the waterfront while a small group of civilians stand in a dark street with hands cupped to ears hearing nothing, and a newspaper boy at the frame's edge holds the December 11 Los Angeles Times front page with the headline City's Black-out Called Success visible.

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California Sightings

1941: City’s Black-Out Called Success

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: June 1, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1941: City’s Black-Out Called Success Four days after Pearl Harbor, on the evening of December 10, 1941,...

Two-panel 1941 WWII wartime press photography dossier: left panel shows the darkened Golden Gate Bridge silhouette at night as a loose formation of unidentified aerial objects approaching from the Pacific begins wheeling and turning back southwest while Army spotters on the Marin headland watch with binoculars and field telephone and searchlights activate over the city; right panel shows three dark 1941 US Navy destroyer silhouettes departing San Francisco Bay in line at speed toward the Golden Gate as General Ryan stands on the pier with aides watching them go while a journalist writes on a notepad partially reading were not Army were not Navy were not civilian.

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California Sightings

1941: Three Naval Craft Sent Out To Hunt Plane Base

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: June 1, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1941: Three Naval Craft Sent Out To Hunt Plane Base On the evening of December 9, 1941...