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"Los Angeles Air Raid"
The first incident involving unidentified aerial phenomena to spark a government investigation. Various radio reports and visual sightings of luminous objects in the sky over the Los Angeles area, on the night of February 24-25, 1942, culminated in the firing of 1,430 anti-aircraft shells. Although the incident has never been conclusively explained, it seems reasonable to assume that "war jitters" may have been at least partly to blame. Only two days earlier, a Japanese submarine had surfaced north of Santa Barbara and shelled fuel storage tanks for 20 minutes, while on the same evening President F. D. Roosevelt made a nationwide broadcast warning that nowhere in the United States was safe from enemy action.
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