Scott, the prevailing the powercast with your host, Jane Steinberg and David Bied.

Scott, the prevailing theory and the quote-unquote modern UFO hosts Jane Steinberg and David Beetti.

Scott, the prevailing theory and the quote-unquote modern uphology field of study is that the current contemporary wave of UFO activity started in 1947.

You would take exception to that, wouldn't you?

Oh, yes.

Well, it depends on how you define wave.

Yes, in 1947 for a variety of reasons, Kenneth Arnold, Roswell, et cetera.

The phenomenon sort of surfaced in the popular mind, but I'm convinced that it's been around not only for

decades, but centuries and indeed millennia. So we go on from there. But you personally

had an experience that was your introduction to the whole field. I've had several, actually, several sightings.

The one I think you're referring to is a very famous episode,

almost a quasi-legendary episode,

that has come to be called the Battle of Los Angeles.

In February 25th and the wee hours of February 25th, and the wee hours of February 25, 1944, when a mysterious or anomalous object

that we all thought what initially was a Japanese observation plane, remember this is

less than three months after Pearl Harbor, cruised across

the skies of Southern California, actually over the western edge of it along the ocean,

and that's where I saw it, and ignored, totally, blithely ignored, over 1,400 rounds of anti-aircraft fire directed at it

and uh...

warpeded in one way or another uh... at least two squadrons of fighters that were

sent up after it

by the way the government has stout steadfastly claimed that there were no

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