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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: May 31, 2026

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

Two-panel 1942 WWII wartime press photography dossier for the Battle of Los Angeles: left panel shows a blacked-out Los Angeles cityscape from street level with eight to twelve Army searchlight beams converging on a large pale orange luminous form in the night sky surrounded by cherry-orange anti-aircraft shell detonations while tiny civilian silhouettes watch from below; right panel shows Air Raid Warden Katie standing at her apartment window in darkness her face lit by searchlight glow as she watches an enormous pale orange object visible above the rooftops through the window frame with anti-aircraft detonations visible beyond the roofline.

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California Sightings

1942: Battle Of Los Angeles

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 31, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1942: Battle Of Los Angeles At 2:25 in the morning on February 25, 1942, the air raid sirens...