Did Aliens Start the Battle of Los Angeles?

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  • čas přidán 29. 01. 2024
  • Uncover the secrets of "The Battle of Los Angeles," a mysterious 1942 event that shook America. Dive into the panic, blackout orders, and anti-aircraft chaos in this gripping historical exploration!
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Komentáře • 511

  • @MountainCry
    @MountainCry Před 4 měsíci +217

    Less than 20 seconds in and Simon's already on a tangent. 😂

    • @LazyKatze
      @LazyKatze Před 4 měsíci +10

      Yeah yeah yeah deserts

    • @Heyitsallgoodman
      @Heyitsallgoodman Před 4 měsíci +13

      Didn't even make it through the title card

    • @1Thomkro
      @1Thomkro Před 4 měsíci +19

      I swear I saw a 'tangent timer' on a recent vid. If that wasn't a tangent-induced hallucination i think it sould be a permanent feature

    • @michaelmayhem350
      @michaelmayhem350 Před 4 měsíci +7

      He was probably on a tangent before he turned on the camera lol

    • @michaelmayhem350
      @michaelmayhem350 Před 4 měsíci +6

      ​@@1ThomkroI agree I laughed so hard at that. I wish it would be in every video

  • @vonwux
    @vonwux Před 4 měsíci +66

    Looking forward to the Apri fool's episode where the title is "Did alients/ghosts do/start...." and Simon just reads the title, says "No." then episode actually ends.

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad Před 4 měsíci +11

      "DId aliens....HOUR LONG TANGENT ABOUT A DIRTY DISH SPONGE...Where were we?? Oh, right, aliens...NO!" Credits roll.

    • @trikepilot101
      @trikepilot101 Před 4 měsíci +5

      My pitch is an hour long episode where evidence slowly stacks up until Simon is finally convinced aliens have landed on earth. Then he says "April Fools!"

    • @elfpimp1
      @elfpimp1 Před 4 měsíci

      What, not even a single tangent? 🤣👍

  • @KaiNeknete2012
    @KaiNeknete2012 Před 4 měsíci +51

    Fun fact about the event in Hawaii, where a warning was mistakenly sent:
    A few minutes after the warning was issued the internet traffic of p*rn sites increased significantly (I think it was something around 30%). "A knight dies with his sword in his hands" I guess...

    • @bravesirrobin5839
      @bravesirrobin5839 Před 4 měsíci

      1.5 mins till impact??
      Just about enough time,out of way loser!!

    • @thejason755
      @thejason755 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Legends

    • @joshuawargo6446
      @joshuawargo6446 Před 3 měsíci +3

      IF youre gonna go, might as well go after letting one go 🤷‍♂?

    • @Narangarath
      @Narangarath Před 3 měsíci +1

      I mean, fair. If you only have a few minutes left, might as well enjoy them.

    • @FiveMCity
      @FiveMCity Před 3 měsíci

      If every breathing soul, on the Hawaii island, logged into PH, it wouldn’t have increased porn views by 30%, that’s ludacris.. I wonder if ppl use any form of reasoning or basic math when reading such claims.

  • @Hillbilly001
    @Hillbilly001 Před 4 měsíci +71

    Well done Katy. You had Simon on a tangent in less than 20 seconds. LoL. Cheers from Tennessee

    • @jcook693
      @jcook693 Před 4 měsíci +1

      east, west or middle?

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 Před 4 měsíci

      @@jcook693 West.

    • @jcook693
      @jcook693 Před 4 měsíci

      @@Hillbilly001 cool, east here

  • @ukmediawarrior
    @ukmediawarrior Před 4 měsíci +12

    I saw one of those paranormal true or false shows once that covered this. Their take away of the photo shown in the paper was that so many high intensity search lights meeting in the same spot could make it look like a solid object was there when in actual fact it was purely light.

  • @kimymarie596
    @kimymarie596 Před 4 měsíci +21

    I feel like even if an alien came down and landed in Washington, Simon would just be like, “Guess I was wrong about that one.” So unbothered lol

  • @jacara1981
    @jacara1981 Před 4 měsíci +17

    We still test our air raid sirens here in WA state every year. Mainly used for Volcanoes now though.

    • @Pearcewreck
      @Pearcewreck Před 4 měsíci +2

      Do volcanoes exist in Western Australia?

    • @jacara1981
      @jacara1981 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@Pearcewreck Washington state US

  • @JohnDrummondPhoto
    @JohnDrummondPhoto Před 4 měsíci +28

    It's my understanding that Japan, lacking planes capable of reaching the US and returning, launched a series of balloons carrying incendiary devices towards the U.S. The idea was to possibly start forest fires and generally spread panic in the U.S. and Canada. Almost all the balloons either ditched at sea or drifted across the country without incident. One balloon did actually land in Washington or Oregon and killed someone(s). That person or persons were the only domestic casualties of WWII.

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad Před 4 měsíci +16

      Yep. Shortly before the war Japan discovered the jet stream and realized a balloon could make it to the US. Pretty interesting setup too. Most balloons were made of paper and had sandbags that dropped to maintain altitude.
      And one crashed and IIRC was discovered by a group of kids and their sunday school teacher. They were in fact the only Americans killed on American soil by enemy action in the war.
      Another cool bit I just remembered was how they figured out where they were from. They suspected they were from Japan but couldn't prove it. Someone took the sand out of a sandbag and looked at it under a microscope and compared it to beach sands in someones collection. They figured out the exact beach it was launched from.

    • @jrmckim
      @jrmckim Před 4 měsíci +9

      I was looking for this comment. This is what went through my mind. I wonder why Katie didn't bring it up. I watched a documentary on these balloons back in the early 2000s. It said a hiker came across one of these balloons in Washington in the 90s. I also have a vague memory about a father and son finding one and it was still active decades later. I can't remember if it killed them both or just injured them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @robumf
      @robumf Před 4 měsíci +2

      Correct. The US also tried that idea and tested high altitude balloons. Some say that a few had biologic an others had chemical to test if it could be used as a weapon.. Guess where one of them crash and deformed three children.

    • @Jameson1776
      @Jameson1776 Před 4 měsíci +5

      @@Plapradnot the only killed on U.S. soil look up the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian island in Alaska or one of the many other U.S. territories that Japan attacked oh and Hawaii.

    • @Sir_Scrumpalicious
      @Sir_Scrumpalicious Před 4 měsíci +7

      @@Jameson1776 Guessing the comment is supposed to be taken as American soil meaning the country of the United States and not a territory of the United States. Neither Hawaii or Alaska were states until 1959.

  • @katwitanruna
    @katwitanruna Před 4 měsíci +30

    Truthfully, as a Navy brat who’s read a lot of military documents, they are always very wordy and not everyone can spell. Particularly back in the days of typewriters. Lord, the number of pages I’ve had to retype for papers back in the day.

    • @ryanbradleyrankin
      @ryanbradleyrankin Před 4 měsíci +3

      This whole obsession with spelling and grammar is a relatively modern thing. As long as people vould manage and understand it was good enough.

    • @katwitanruna
      @katwitanruna Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@ryanbradleyrankin what are you talking about?? How are you defining modern? They didn’t care at all about spelling until it was codified in the early 1800s. But we’re talking about documents made long long after that.

    • @AFatalPapercut
      @AFatalPapercut Před 4 měsíci +1

      lol I used to crack up about how much "official" stuff had typos in it.
      In Germany the word for barracks or post is Kaserne.
      There were a couple posts that had sandblasted signs displaying the name of the barracks, made in some woodshop, finished, painted, etc.
      The thing was someone added way too many S's.
      Kasserne and Kassserne
      Someone got crazy with the S's lol...
      I always wondered if someone realized the error but still put them up to shame/spite the person who had them made....you know how the humor in the military is hahaha.

    • @katwitanruna
      @katwitanruna Před 4 měsíci

      @@AFatalPapercut I got notified of your comment while in the midst of doing a German lesson. I think that made me laugh harder about this!

  • @impostersyndrome3898
    @impostersyndrome3898 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I'm all for a skeptical eye, but it's kind of amazing how much trust Simon puts in the government.

  • @user-ri5fe7ti6i
    @user-ri5fe7ti6i Před 4 měsíci +60

    It wasn't in LA, but there was one WW2 incident that did cause all west coast bases to go on high alert. A radioman was receiving a Japanese communication and thought it was an imminent attack on San Francisco.
    Turned out it was the Navajo codetalkers, which were so classified at the time that not even the brass on the other bases knew about them.

    • @blitzofchaosgaming6737
      @blitzofchaosgaming6737 Před 4 měsíci

      US racism at its best. Everything foreign is Japanese. The irony is Navajo isn't foreign. It is All American. English on the other hand is totally foreign.

    • @IuItim
      @IuItim Před 4 měsíci

      Not true

    • @user-ri5fe7ti6i
      @user-ri5fe7ti6i Před 4 měsíci +5

      ​@lultim63 read "Code Talker" written by Chester Nez. It's the only memoir written by a surviving code talker.

    • @IuItim
      @IuItim Před 4 měsíci

      @@user-ri5fe7ti6i I’ve read it. What you said just isn’t true.

    • @IuItim
      @IuItim Před 4 měsíci

      The incident that caused the west coast to go on high alert was the attack of Ellwood.

  • @cages_eu607
    @cages_eu607 Před 4 měsíci +21

    How does my boy get on tangents before even finishing the intro…I don’t care I love it 🥲

  • @keithwalmsley1830
    @keithwalmsley1830 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I've always thought that the apparent "object" in the famous photograph was just a confluence of all the searchlights searching in the same spot at the same time, maybe enhanced for the newspaper version.

  • @Guypersondraws
    @Guypersondraws Před 4 měsíci +16

    I love seeing DTU pop up in my notifications. I don't even need to watch it to know it's gonna be a good time

  • @tjhayes5801
    @tjhayes5801 Před 4 měsíci +5

    First album I bought - rage against the machine. Such an underrated band and ahead of the time politically

    • @Shiny_Dragonite
      @Shiny_Dragonite Před 4 měsíci +1

      I saw the title of the video and immediately had Guerilla Radio playing in my head. I'm glad that album was mentioned at the beginning.

    • @TimJohniLL88
      @TimJohniLL88 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@Shiny_Dragonite TURN THAT SH!T UP!

    • @gomahklawm4446
      @gomahklawm4446 Před 3 měsíci

      Ahead of their time bc they understood that 90% of what the US says is lies, and the other 10% is to mislead you from the truth.... straight up evil....

  • @rquinn0111
    @rquinn0111 Před 4 měsíci +8

    That old-time news cast was smashing!

  • @imadeafunny2109
    @imadeafunny2109 Před 4 měsíci +13

    Simon & Team could you please do a video on how to verify documents/the admissibility of evidence in court/general police standard procedure and all things of that nature, feel like it comes up often in these videos and I would love to learn about it!

    • @michaelmayhem350
      @michaelmayhem350 Před 4 měsíci +6

      If you watched his casual criminalist channel you'd know the police generally fail at this lol

    • @WeAretheMatrix31
      @WeAretheMatrix31 Před 3 měsíci

      Of course he could have cross verified the info released to the public via freedom of information and realized though not alien. Much of this was real.

  • @kevinfoster1138
    @kevinfoster1138 Před 4 měsíci +16

    Simon I'm actually surprised "majestic 12" was a very real project it's basically what the X-Files TV show was based off of.

    • @bujin1977
      @bujin1977 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Also the far too short lived mid 1990s sci-fi series "Dark Skies".

    • @Stayvasaur
      @Stayvasaur Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@bujin1977 Also also part of the story of the first Deus Ex game, as a secret org relating to aliens ^^ wonder where they got the idea from :P

    • @TheStephaneAdam
      @TheStephaneAdam Před 4 měsíci

      No credible proof of Majestic 12 ever existing as a real thing. Seems like it was a hoax from the get go.
      A pretty darn believable hoax though. Between confirmed historical things like MKultra and Project Bluebook and Project Stargate and operations like Cointelpro? MJ12 would fit right in.

    • @99EKjohn
      @99EKjohn Před 4 měsíci

      You're probably mixing up maj-12 with project bluebook. Bluebook has been confirmed, maj-12 has not, and was likely a disinformation campaign like the Dulce Base conspiracy was. It being intentional disinformation is worse than it being aliens. The US government was waging a physiological war against UFO researchers, pushing some to commit suicide. That's what should be focused on.

  • @PatchesRNG
    @PatchesRNG Před 4 měsíci +13

    Dang really on a string of aliens at the forefront of videos lately! love it!

  • @chadfanton9994
    @chadfanton9994 Před 4 měsíci +14

    Thank you guys! I’ve been waiting for Simon’s videos all morning!

  • @sonjialeyva
    @sonjialeyva Před 4 měsíci +3

    Most people don't know how close the Japanese got to the West Coast. In addition to what you described, they bombed sections of coastal Oregon with the hopes of starting forest fires. Few fires were started, but occasionally, an unexploded ordinance is found. Remnants of WWII gun turret platforms and other concrete structures can still be found in San Pedro, CA.

  • @nateklein7084
    @nateklein7084 Před 4 měsíci +8

    I'm pretty sure it was started by Tim Matheson trying to get it on in a plane with Nancy Allen while being chased by John Belushi in a P-40...
    (If you get this reference, we can be frens)

  • @mringasa1848
    @mringasa1848 Před 4 měsíci +3

    One of my favorite movies is 1941, which is loosely based on this incident.
    Steven Spielberg at his best, and the cast was absolutely superb.
    It was my only idea of what had actually occurred before I checked it out in high school for some research.

  • @Cat-kz1ur
    @Cat-kz1ur Před 4 měsíci +3

    I like to watch Ancient Aliens from time to time for a laugh (because oh boy, they believe some Things). So I always get excited when Simon does a topic like this. Like, "yay! Time for the rational side!"

    • @tripsaplenty1227
      @tripsaplenty1227 Před 3 měsíci

      they don't believe it, they just sell their fiction in a different way.

  • @katywatson4940
    @katywatson4940 Před 4 měsíci +16

    First to my own vid, wooooo

    • @mwolkove
      @mwolkove Před 4 měsíci +4

      Love your scripts, Katy. Thanks for keeping us all entertained with your in-depth explorations of the origins of complete nonsense.

    • @ryandavis4448
      @ryandavis4448 Před 3 měsíci

      UAPs aren't a joke. It's just so hard to believe most ppl can't even contemplate it actually being real. But research guys like David Grusch, Fraber, Lazar, and the Congressional hearings on the whistleblowers. There's something to it.

    • @Meditation409
      @Meditation409 Před 3 měsíci +1

      There is nothing nonsense about UAPs. The NRO tracks 100s of UAPs every week. They are no joke and they are in some cases officially classified.

  • @WhichDoctor1
    @WhichDoctor1 Před 4 měsíci +8

    If aliens were capable of traveling the vast interstellar distances to get here, what would they be doing with anything as primitive as nuclear fission technology on board?

    • @y-not
      @y-not Před 4 měsíci +2

      Yes and apparently we reverse engineered their technology for space flight, and all we come up with is strapping someone to the top of a large amount of volatile chemicals and setting it on fire 🤔

    • @vetinaris1297
      @vetinaris1297 Před 4 měsíci

      Well you have to have something to make the coffee.

    • @tripsaplenty1227
      @tripsaplenty1227 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@y-not
      burning volatile chemicals may be the best answer to the gravity problem in physics.

  • @ktmggg
    @ktmggg Před 3 měsíci +1

    Majestic12. I love how secret government agencies have such humble names. Not pompous at all.

  • @saundafish
    @saundafish Před 4 měsíci +2

    I loved the old timey newscaster part 😂

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 4 měsíci +2

    A+ video!
    Great writing and analysis!

  • @MonkeySimius
    @MonkeySimius Před 4 měsíci +3

    I feel like you need to start working on an April 1st Decoding Unknown where your writer presents a "mystery" that is very well explained. The more the Simon's writer details how mundane the event was the more Simon gets skeptical of the obvious explanation and leans harder and harder into believing the conspiracy theory and ends the episode declaring Aliens are real.

  • @BardovBacchus
    @BardovBacchus Před 4 měsíci +2

    The movie in question should be 1941 staring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Nancy Allen, and Mickey Rourke. I maintain the actual Battle of Los Angeles was in 1992

  • @Wonderwhoopin
    @Wonderwhoopin Před 4 měsíci +2

    4:59 what in hell was was that voice action 😂😂😂😂

  • @cameronmadden8723
    @cameronmadden8723 Před 4 měsíci +5

    👍for ww2 newscaster voice

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 4 měsíci +2

    1:40 - Chapter 1 - The battle of los angeles
    6:55 - Chapter 2 - The UFO conspiracy
    10:15 - Chapter 3 - The majestic 12 documents
    14:50 - Chapter 4 - Decoding the conspiracy
    23:35 - Chapter 5 - What was going on in the battle of los angeles ?
    26:40 - Conclusion

  • @Bethgael
    @Bethgael Před 4 měsíci +2

    I love Katy's writing.

  • @ayjay579
    @ayjay579 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Breaking Bad was set in New Mexico because that’s where Vince Gilligan is from. I’m sure there were tax incentives but it was always meant to be set in New Mexico.

  • @N1ghtF1re
    @N1ghtF1re Před 4 měsíci +2

    For future fake US documents, keep in mind that "Top Secret - Eyes Only" isn't a thing. Top Secret and Eyes Only are two separate security levels and both aren't placed on the same document. It would be akin to marking something "Classified - Confidential", it would be redundant.
    Classified, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret and Eyes Only are all individual security levels that build off the previous level. I had top secret clearance during my service, and only heard rumors about eyes only, so I can't be sure that actually exists, though I would guess it does, as well as other levels of clearance I don't know about.

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad Před 4 měsíci +3

      From my understanding, which is limited considering you can't even learn about the things unless you're read in is that "Eye's only" is an older one where you can only read it. You cannot reproduce it in any way with copying or photographing.

  • @cameronmadden8723
    @cameronmadden8723 Před 4 měsíci +28

    Sigh! What a relief an episode where Simon doesn't just say "hey! There's no aliens this is just stupid silly stuff, not for my big brain" two minutes into the episode

    • @manassrivastava9816
      @manassrivastava9816 Před 4 měsíci

      To be fair, he has said before that he isn't smart enough to suspend disbelief for the sake of a story

    • @justinbarton247
      @justinbarton247 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Yeah, he isnt the brightest guy. Some of his takes are more than a bit silly.

    • @13orrax
      @13orrax Před 4 měsíci

      around 18:00 though lol

    • @ClockworkEngineer
      @ClockworkEngineer Před 4 měsíci +2

      He should say that every time, because it's objectively true.

    • @ThatDogBarkz
      @ThatDogBarkz Před 4 měsíci

      Simon Whistler is the type that would have swore blind MK Ultra was nothing more than a conspiracy theory. He is a hack who cannot be trusted to talk about subjects such as UAP/NHI. The arrogance of the man on these subjects has been truly astonishing 🙄

  • @atomicskull6405
    @atomicskull6405 Před 4 měsíci

    Once a mass panic gets going it's impossible to stop. Same thing happened at Gatwik in the UK, someone found the junked lower half of an office chair at the airport and reported it as a "crashed drone" and then a weeklong panic started. Even after it was determined to just be part of an office chair a few hours later the freakout had already gained momentum and couldn't be stopped.

  • @kevintischer
    @kevintischer Před 4 měsíci +9

    there was a movie called Battle: LA with aliens invading LA and Marines fighting them off

    • @1aatlas
      @1aatlas Před 4 měsíci

      Yes.
      What do you think was the inspiration. :P

  • @anbu94
    @anbu94 Před 4 měsíci +2

    All "world wide cover ups" go up in smoke when you point out that EVERY government in the world would have to work together and do it flawlessly.

  • @zogar8526
    @zogar8526 Před 4 měsíci +17

    The one thing I always say about claims of ETs is that we'd never see them.
    In all these cases the crafts are clearly trying to stay hidden. Trying to get away. They don't want to be found. With the stealth abilities we have now on earth, we can get in and out over enemy capitols without anyone ever knowing we were there. And that is what the public knows about.
    Now imagine the stealth capabilities of a species advanced enough to safely travel the distance between the srats. We'd never see any trace of them, at all. I can't say with 100% certainty that aliens have never visited us. But I can say with 100% certainty that we've never seen any evidence or hint of it.

    • @royg2840
      @royg2840 Před 4 měsíci

      Those aliens only visit people who will not be believed. I do believe that aliens, as in from another planet, exist. The fact that any would make it to earth is VERY unlikely. Travel between the stars would be like needing to travel from Hawaii to Australia by way of Cape Horn and the only means of transportation you have is a tricycle.

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Před 4 měsíci +1

      I disagree. I think they can make mistakes just like anything can. I do agree that 99% of the time we won't see them or have any idea what's going on with them.
      However, I do believe they may have had crashes that weren't reached in time before native species like humans get in on it all. It's also possible that they aren't AS far ahead of humans as we think, and they were only a bit ahead back in the 50s of where we will be in the next 50 years. So, they're consistently a certain chunk of "time" ahead of us in terms of technological advancement. You know? I still think they've made mistakes and had accidents, though.

    • @banksuvladimir
      @banksuvladimir Před 4 měsíci

      I think there’s the possibility that they wouldn’t care about us seeing them send a little probe down to take a closer look every now and again.
      Consider the facts, and these are facts whether they’re aliens or not; our military has seen unidentified objects doing crazy maneuvers beyond our tech’s capability. Has this caused any big widespread problem? No, it’s eaten a few news cycles up (usually as an excuse to distract from more pressing matters) and caused a few people to scratch their heads. MAYBE even a serious military investigation of the event on some level, but probably one that goes absolutely nowhere.
      These things could very well not be aliens, I’m not saying they are, but what I am saying is that it demonstrates that if it were, it’s apparently not that big of a deal to us, so why even waste effort with a cloaking device or super duper stealth tech when you know they have about as much chance of getting shot down by us as that unconnected tribe has of shooting down a jetliner with their bows and arrows, and that it’s not really going to interfere seriously with the species they’re observing?

    • @mw9297
      @mw9297 Před 4 měsíci

      It’s not like they’ve captured/discovered craft somehow. 👽🛸

    • @zogar8526
      @zogar8526 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@ElysetheEevee no, that simply wouldn't happen. You can't travel the distances between stars without being advanced to a point we'd never detect them at all. And they sure as hell wouldn't crash, not after making it between the stars. And nothing here could possibly bring them down, considering what they'd have to endure to get here. It is a simple, and irrefutable fact.

  • @stevenpope940
    @stevenpope940 Před 4 měsíci

    You radio news caster was spot on!

  • @lazarussolomon3541
    @lazarussolomon3541 Před 4 měsíci +4

    I actually have a theory about this one.
    What if it was a weather ballon like the army said, but something more was going on. We know the japanese were weaponizing weather ballons and even a few americans died from them. What if the reason it was an all hands on deck and the us army went bat shit crazy to deal with situation was because they were worried the japanese were launching something

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yeah I always just assumed this. Its likely it because the US refused to even admit the balloon attacks were taking place because they didnt want to scare people. If I had to guess this was the actual wave of them and the others were stragglers they missed that randomly landed. Curious about when the others came down and if it goes inline with the dates here because I bet it would

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@seditt5146 Doubt it. Japan admits they only started using the balloon bombs in late 1945. It was a rushed last ditch weapon. They also used the jet stream to get them to the US. I don't think the jet stream spends that much time that far south to get them over LA.
      Probably just a lot of Civil Defense volunteers who had no clue what they were doing and scared crapless.

  • @kimbradshaw1480
    @kimbradshaw1480 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I once saw a pink elephant in a Welsh park - upon closer inspection it turned out to be a rhododendron bush in full flower!

    • @fredk.2001
      @fredk.2001 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I once saw a green elephant in an Inland Empire park, of course it was simply a nice topiary sculpture.

  • @valolafson6035
    @valolafson6035 Před 4 měsíci +1

    It's funny that a lot of people don't realize photo editing has been around as long as photography.

  • @eskandare1968
    @eskandare1968 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Weird audio glitch at 4:59 - 5:00... Creepy thing hearing Simon become Max Headroom.

  • @GreenAcresIIGA
    @GreenAcresIIGA Před 4 měsíci +1

    I’m here for Simon’s tangents! 😂😂❤❤❤❤

  • @kandreasworld4374
    @kandreasworld4374 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I find it mind boggling that military personnel cannot and have not been able to identify a weather balloon since the 1940's. 🤔

    • @vetinaris1297
      @vetinaris1297 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I don't think much training is given to things that aren't relevant.

  • @camrennik9512
    @camrennik9512 Před 4 měsíci

    Simons voice is like warm molasses trickling with cadence & warmth. His voice is the last thing I hear before falling asleep every night.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 4 měsíci +1

    The Battle of Los Angeles is an awesome Rage Against The Machine album!

  • @laurenmm62017
    @laurenmm62017 Před 4 měsíci +1

    4:14 yeah that missile alert was terrifying at the time, cuz I was overseas and my family in Hawaii, but nowadays it's a Hawaiian meme 😂

  • @Pissedoffdetective
    @Pissedoffdetective Před 4 měsíci

    The most amusing thing about this vid is that Simon has done at least 3 vids on the LA air raid already.

  • @daisyjoy242
    @daisyjoy242 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I won’t be a normal video without Simon going on a tangent

  • @HughTube-ni6kb
    @HughTube-ni6kb Před 4 měsíci +1

    FWIW, on the evening of 7 Dec, 1941, my grandfather, John Patrick Culliton, was leading a squadron of RCAF Supermarine Stranraers south through the US towards the Canadian west coast for ASW operations out of Comox. As they were flying over Charleston - literally on other side of the planet from Japan - the "strange" (to Yankees) biplane flying boats (with roundells TBF) were considered Japanese, and an AA barrage commenced. Mercifully for my personal existance, the AA crews were hopelessly inaccurate, and Grandpa's flight hit the deck and taxied in safely. Then the base staff got to witness a VERY experiencd RCAF Flight Lieutenant (a close friend of Charles Lindbergh among others incl. Billy Bishop VC and Roy Brown VC -dude who downed the Red Baron), unleash the invective only a very experienced Irish-Canadian bush pilot can inflict, on a poor 2-star USAAF general in charge of the defences. To summerize, the Army quickly sent a very apologetic note to the RCAF command and begged forgivness for their sins.
    They didn't need UFOs. A flock of seagulls would have touched off the trigger happy gunners at that time!

  • @131Beda
    @131Beda Před 4 měsíci +1

    Mordern world news presented in old news cast, Simon style.....New channel right there mate!

  • @colorbugoriginals4457
    @colorbugoriginals4457 Před 4 měsíci +1

    the higher voices in audio from some older media is due to the tech of the time that created it.

  • @gabrielgettman825
    @gabrielgettman825 Před 4 měsíci

    I live in Santa Barbara and remember learning about how we were the only place in the US to be shelled during WW2. The Ritz-Carlton is right next to the Ellwood oil refinery (which still exists) now

  • @user-hh4bq2pe8s
    @user-hh4bq2pe8s Před 4 měsíci +1

    Ty Catie ❤

  • @claytondennis8034
    @claytondennis8034 Před 4 měsíci

    Simon should do a video where his writer's script is a series of sentences that will prompt tangents. No overarching story, just prompts that they know will cause him to go on tangents. He could make a whole channel CALLED Tangents.

  • @Caleb1874ya
    @Caleb1874ya Před 4 měsíci +1

    The person who fired the first round… I feel like got a slow clap from his friends later…

  • @jordanw9204
    @jordanw9204 Před 3 měsíci

    30 seconds in we have gone from aliens, Tennessee to Breaking Bad....
    We're in for a hell of a ride with fact boy 😂

  • @capkarr
    @capkarr Před 3 měsíci

    That was a funny when he imitated the old broadcaster tone ethic. It was deliberate as part of the schools of broadcasting. Mid- Atlantic Accent too.

  • @joshuawargo6446
    @joshuawargo6446 Před 3 měsíci

    We now have TANGENTCEPTION, Katie got Simon to rant about her rant that she wrote into a script. the MOST simon thing EVER! xD

  • @twistanturnu529
    @twistanturnu529 Před 4 měsíci

    Simon and basement crew! Please cover the mutilated body of Guarapiranga reservoir in Brazil! It is so interesting and very sad but I think you would do amazing writing on it

  • @moirarussell1950
    @moirarussell1950 Před 4 měsíci +1

    🤣 You make it all okay 😂 PS I feel like you should do the black n white newsman more often. ❤️🇨🇦

  • @balazsvarga1823
    @balazsvarga1823 Před 4 měsíci

    The UFO being just unidentified is spot on.
    I had planes fly near my house, and I saw a light one evening. I thought first it maybe a nova, for it was orange and twice brighter than Sirius. Planes usually have pure wife lighty.
    Then it moved slowly. I thought it was a meteor and got slightly unnerved. Meteors that big can cause a fuss.
    But soon it turned out to be a plane, flying lower with a very powerful headlamps of an unusual dark yellow tint. I never saw a plane with lights on like that, but perhaps it was a military transport plane, those that ferry tanks and such. Or just something new, but it was definately not interplanetary.

  • @GIBBO4182
    @GIBBO4182 Před 4 měsíci +5

    0:42 there isn’t going to be any videos sponsored by the New Mexico tourist board after this
    “New Mexico. Ye, ye, ye…desert” 😂

  • @mushroomGdog77
    @mushroomGdog77 Před 4 měsíci

    Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter would make a good episode.

  • @louisefindlay2594
    @louisefindlay2594 Před 4 měsíci

    As I have an ADHD mind I love Simons tangents. I'm always going off on a tangent. I loved the Life of Brian clip, one of my favourite films 😂

  • @toastnjam7384
    @toastnjam7384 Před 3 měsíci

    My mom was living in Santa Monica when this happen and it scared the hell out of her. She thought the invasion was happening and was expecting to see Japanese troops storming up Santa Monica Blvd.

  • @Pirategod23
    @Pirategod23 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I’m glad for the New Mexico change in Breaking Bad. I got tired of everything being LA, Chicago, Miami ,NYC.

    • @gestaposantaclaus
      @gestaposantaclaus Před 4 měsíci

      Well it was going to be set in Riverside, which isn’t LA.

  • @nikkicat254
    @nikkicat254 Před 2 měsíci

    It's funny that I just watched the latest video on a Ghost Ship, 3/9/2024, that Katy wrote, and then found this, one that I had missed from a month ago, also by Katy, lol! The fact that it was all random, I mean CZcams had recommended it after the ghost ship one, and I wanted one more to watch as I get ready for bed and there was others, but they were much longer ones, so I picked this one randomly, but this one is also written by Katy, just seems kind of funny to me!

  • @curtislindsey1736
    @curtislindsey1736 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Spoiler Alert! No they did not. 😂😂😂

  • @andrewdreasler428
    @andrewdreasler428 Před 4 měsíci

    9:16 "Celestial devices" could mean "devices from the sky." or it could also mean "devices from the Orient(derogatory reference)." It may be an obscure slur these days, but it was still common enough in 1966 that the BBC chose to costume a character in Doctor Who in Oriental garb, despite the actor being clearly British, based on the story's title of "The Celestial Youmaker," when being a sci-fi show, traveling in time and space, the 'from the stars' interpretation would seem more apt.

  • @autumnjohansen3910
    @autumnjohansen3910 Před 4 měsíci

    Unfortunately the last member of my family who had lived through this in LA passed away last week. I would have loved to ask if they remembered it.

  • @kimbradshaw1480
    @kimbradshaw1480 Před 4 měsíci

    You're thinking of Independence Day, I saw it with a guy from LA who found it hilarious that Los Angelos were ordered to stop firing at the space ship hovering overhead. He knew it was more fact than fiction.

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I'm predicting Simon doesn't know this ufo incident and then doesn't believe it was aliens.. 😉

  • @WilliamBrownMBA
    @WilliamBrownMBA Před 4 měsíci

    My understanding was that it was a barrage balloon that got loose. Barrage balloons are put up to keep planes from coming in low on their bombing runs and one supposedly got loose, it came up on RADAR, someone shot at it and then everyone else started firing.

  • @tressal4967
    @tressal4967 Před 4 měsíci +1

    My theory: the us citizens were scared of an attack. How does the government assuage their fears? Let go some harmless, unmanned balloons or something with lights on them, let the public see them, shoot the ever loving poo out of them, then say "oops there wasnt anything there. But if there would have been, it would have definitely gone down. I mean, we were ready and did you see all that ammunition we used?" Smart and a big statement to both sides.

  • @josefstrauss9017
    @josefstrauss9017 Před 4 měsíci

    In WW2 there was actually ground fighting on US Soil, Battle of Attu (Alaska) it was called as far as I know.

  • @ShandiNicole1982
    @ShandiNicole1982 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Don’t you mean Rage for the Machine?
    And yeah, there was a movie about this incident. John Belushi in 1941.

    • @toospooky051
      @toospooky051 Před 4 měsíci +1

      The stars at night...

    • @Jameson1776
      @Jameson1776 Před 4 měsíci

      How was there a movie in 1941? When this event hadn’t even happened.

    • @ShandiNicole1982
      @ShandiNicole1982 Před 4 měsíci

      @@Jameson1776 the name of the movie is called 1941. Has John Belushi, I think Dad Ackroyd, Slim Pickens and more.

    • @Jameson1776
      @Jameson1776 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@ShandiNicole1982 oh sorry my bad. I misunderstood.

  • @Ufo2__energy_freedom
    @Ufo2__energy_freedom Před 3 měsíci +3

    Alex kowaliuk here it's funny how Simon is reading this and keeps telling himself it's not real every couple minutes well no Simon this is real we do have craft that didn't originat on this planet I know it can't be true but it is 😂😂

  • @olencone4005
    @olencone4005 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Battle of Los Angeles was a great war sci-fi movie from 2011, where aliens most definitely started a kerfluffle with pretty much everyone who moved :P

    • @jackseney571
      @jackseney571 Před 4 měsíci

      And it was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana!

  • @user-um6up4ox9d
    @user-um6up4ox9d Před 4 měsíci

    How about an episode on Giorgio A. Tsoukalos? (ufo guy)

  • @jcook693
    @jcook693 Před 4 měsíci

    camp lazlo alarm pull clip?

  • @gwynn2528
    @gwynn2528 Před 3 měsíci

    I just had some mouth surgery so I cannot laugh properly and I think the people around me just thought I was omitting wails of pain over that pigeon story. Lololol

  • @DLight616
    @DLight616 Před 4 měsíci

    You need to do an episode on the von erich family

  • @amaccama3267
    @amaccama3267 Před 4 měsíci

    The History channel is calling Simon. They have a job offer.

  • @gabriellavedier9650
    @gabriellavedier9650 Před 4 měsíci

    The Battle of Los Angeles and the MJ-12 connection are crucial to the internet.
    Sort of.
    In the anime series "Serial Experiments Lain" a misdirection plot point regard one of the real people supposedly part of Majestic Twelve. The connection to Roswell and other supposed alien technology was further attached to (I believe) Dr. Vannevar Bush, who allegedly intended to use the technology to create the Xanadu system. Xanadu would be a collection of geostationary satellites that would beam signals down to publically available terminals, and those satellites would house, essentially, the collective knowledge of humanity. Basically, orbital Wikipedia. That was one of the precursor ideas for the web. I believe Dr. Bush really did propose that, which is neat.

  • @zeroreyortsed3624
    @zeroreyortsed3624 Před 3 měsíci

    When i was in highschool i actually printed out a copy of the Majestic 7 document. At the time i was a teenager and wanted to believe in it.
    Didn't take me long to figure out it was a forgery. After doing some research.

  • @smithcj218
    @smithcj218 Před 3 měsíci

    The Movie 1941 which was loosely based on these events was both very entertaining and hugely funny.......

  • @patriciaaturner289
    @patriciaaturner289 Před 4 měsíci

    I do believe Simon is thinking of the Spielberg film 1941.

  • @pettycrockerx9855
    @pettycrockerx9855 Před 4 měsíci

    Two tangents in the first 30 seconds has to be a record 😂

  • @charmaintrout174
    @charmaintrout174 Před 4 měsíci

    Only 12 seconds in and Simon is being Simon. 😂

  • @TommygunNG
    @TommygunNG Před 4 měsíci

    I took a bus across New Mexico coming home from some military training. It was nothing but miles and miles of miles and miles.

  • @AFullerSoundstudio
    @AFullerSoundstudio Před 4 měsíci

    The tangents are making these hard to get through

  • @headsetlucky13
    @headsetlucky13 Před 4 měsíci

    Please review your video on the atlantic accent

  • @stevelee5724
    @stevelee5724 Před 4 měsíci

    Can I have Ruby when you're finished, mate? Cheers mate. 😂Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿

  • @exploatores
    @exploatores Před 4 měsíci

    my guess would be that a real top secreat document would something like "TS/ stella polaris arcive nr 1234-5"or if even more secreat "TS/1234-5"