The Battle of Los Angeles: 69 Years Later, Still No Explanation -- CULVER CITY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

The Battle of Los Angeles: 69 Years Later, Still No Explanation -- CULVER CITY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --: "Beginning shortly after 2 am on February 25, and throughout the night, unidentified objects were reported over Los Angeles and the threat was so unusual that air raid sirens were sounded, and a total blackout was ordered. At 3:16 am, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing 12.8-pound antiaircraft shells at the objects – more than 1,400 shells were fired over the next 58 minutes as the objects moved south, from Santa Monica to Long Beach.

'The obvious thought was that these were Japanese bombers come to attack the United States,' says UFO expert Bill Birnes, publisher of UFO magazine. 'But it wasn't. They were flying too high. And the astounding thing was, not one artillery shell could hit the craft – out of all the hundreds of shells that were fired. People outside that night swore that it was neither a plane nor a balloon – it was a UFO. It floated, it glided. And to this day, nobody can explain what that craft was, why our anti-aircraft guns couldn't hit it – it's a mystery that's never been resolved.'"