‘Battle: Los Angeles’: Did we fire the first shot in an alien invasion? | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times

‘Battle: Los Angeles’: Did we fire the first shot in an alien invasion? | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times: "Sony’s upcoming alien invasion flick “Battle: Los Angeles” posits an apocalyptic scenario in which the City of Angels is the last of the world’s major cities left standing after marauding extraterrestrials invade from the heavens. It’s also based on a true story. Sort of.

As the Los Angeles Times reported on Feb. 26, 1942, unidentified aircraft were spotted over Southern California skies — news that couldn’t have come at a worse time. Japanese war planes had attacked Pearl Harbor just two months before, and the West Coast was on edge, fearing the same fate, when the military opened fire on whatever was hovering in the early morning darkness. Panic ensued."