Old News from the Past

Another slow day for UFOs. There is a story by Nick Pope, who has emerged as the "leading expert on the unexplained", as he puts it on his website about an UFO incident at the end of March in 1993 that occurred in the UK. It is online at the San Francisco Sentinel:

Sentinel Story

The Coast-To-Coast AM radio show had an interesting guest, Timothy Good, who called in from London and talked about Roswell being only one in a series of shoot-down incidents of "disc shaped" objects that were fired upon from apparent "alien" observations of V-2 flights that had begun in New Mexico using what he called "captured" German scientists. That word "captured" is a kind of new historical interpretation itself since historical accounts have the German scientists looking to surrender themselves to the Americans. He followed up with a related story of how Harry Truman had ordered an investigation what were claimed to be numerous crashes of military and civilian aircraft that occurred at the same time. George Knapp, the Sunday night host of Coast-To-Coast this week, was a little breathless when he teased the listeners before break with the new concept of a shooting war between the aliens and the humans.

It was a complete shock to the editors. And after 50 years (Timothy Good was talking about 1947) it will be hard to verify these tales of yesterday. He also claimed that something was shot down in the skies over Los Angeles during the post-Pearl Harbor jitters that ended up the civilian forces shooting at some object in the sky in early '42. Mr Good speculated that something unusual was in fact shot down, which was also news, since there were no indications in any available historical accounts that anything came down except for wayward artillery shells from the nervous gunners. We will have to peek at the new book Mr. Good has to find out what historical sources he used, though he did mention a good friend who had a collection of news clippings from the era. It is even more remarkable how this has been overlooked for all these years.

Those of you who saw the big-budget comic film 1942 with John Belushi, will remember the trigger-happy characters who comedically reprised the real night of panic when Los Angeles went into a full scale alert and people did not get much sleep. Check the Wikipedia entry for more details:

Battle of Los Angeles - 1942 Wikipedia entry