Narrator: Los Angeles, California --
known for Hollywood, Disneyland,
and as America's most famous ufo hot spot.
Dennett: Los Angeles is a major ufo hot spot.
The activity here is constant and seems to be escalating.
Narrator: From the 1800s
to one of the most deadly ufo battles of all time,
this Southern California Metropolis experiences it all,
including lights in the sky
and unexplained objects in the ocean.
These sightings mystify the city to this day.
Are they truly coming from the heavens above,
or is there something off the coast of California
that we have yet to discover?
Narrator: What do they want?
Why are they here?
The answers to these questions
will change the way we see the city of angels forever.
Join us as the shocking source of L.A.'s alien invasion
is unsealed.
Secret files hidden from the public for decades,
detailing every ufo account, are now available to the public.
We are about to uncover the truth
behind these classified documents.
Find out what the government doesn't want you to know.
"Unsealed: Alien files" --
exposing the biggest secrets on planet earth.
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November 1896,
seven years before the Wright brothers achieve human flight.
Los Angeles is a small mining community of 50,000 people
when local newspapers report mysterious sightings
in the skies of California.
It is the beginning of a phenomenon.
People were scared
with what they were reading in the newspapers
and even seeing in the skies above their heads,
because again, you didn't have anything to compare it to.
Narrator: They are described as metallic, featureless objects
nearly 125 feet long that hover in the night sky.
The sightings soon move down the California coastline
to the budding Metropolis of Los Angeles.
Greenewald: This happened years before l.A.X. Was ever a dream.
Human flight had not even taken place yet.
Whatever was in the skies above our heads
was absolutely unexplainable.
Dennett: This started a gigantic ufo wave,
which involved not only sightings,
but ufos chasing cars down the road,
ufos landing, a number of abduction cases.
It was really an extraordinary ufo wave
of pretty much unprecedented proportions.
Narrator: Sightings and accounts of attempted alien abduction
are rampant until 1896.
But the phenomenon exists to this day.
June 14, 1992.
Police switchboards in Los Angeles
are flooded with calls
describing a very unusual sighting.
Dennett: Normally, when someone sees a ufo,
there's maybe one or two ufos.
What's really unique about this situation in topanga canyon
is the number of ufos that were seen.
I'm not talking 10 or 20.
We're talking literally hundreds.
Narrator: Encountering multiple ufos is a very rare occurrence,
but what truly makes this sighting unique
is how common it is in Los Angeles.
There are regions on this planet
that seem to be a magnet for ufo sightings.
In a short period of time, hundreds,
if not sometimes thousands of cases are reported.
We call these ufo hot spots.
Narrator: These hot spots span the globe --
Beijing, China, brussels, Belgium,
Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California.
Dennett: Los Angeles is a major ufo hot spot.
The national ufo reporting service in Washington,
the mutual ufo network,
each receive reports on a daily basis.
And we've got over 5,000 reports for California alone.
Narrator: But one element makes L.A.
Unlike any other hot spot on the globe --
a history of encounters
occurring from Los Angeles to long beach
and out to catalina island.
Together, these locations form an activity-rich area
that has become known as the devil's triangle of the west.
Greenewald: Ufo sightings over Los Angeles
have occurred pretty much since the inception of Los Angeles
as a city itself.
They started in the late 19th century,
and they continue all the way to this day.
Dennett: Now that Los Angeles is this huge, sprawling megalopolis,
we are having, you know, tens of thousands of reports
of ufos coming in --
so many that, you know, we can't handle them.
Narrator: But one event in particular made worldwide history
the night we went to war with a ufo.
Coming up next, the battle of Los Angeles has just begun,
revealing the most crucial evidence
of a ufo conflict in our history...
Dennett: This is the first time
that the U.S. military has opened fire on a ufo.
We did not know what this object was.
Narrator: ...And possibly exposing the true purpose of this hot spot.
How do ufos get back and forth from outer space?
The answer is they don't. They're right here in L.A.
Narrator: This is "unsealed: Alien files" --
exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
Narrator: Welcome back to "unsealed: Alien files."
Widespread sightings from the 1800s to the present
have earned Los Angeles, California,
the unique title of a ufo hot spot.
Where are these craft coming from?
Narrator: But why is this sprawling Metropolis,
the second-largest city in the U.S.,
victim of an apparent alien invasion?
The answer dates back over 50 years.
Unsealed case file -- the battle of Los Angeles.
February 25, 1942.
Only three months after the attack on pearl harbor,
the city of Los Angeles is on the razor's edge.
Greenewald: We had just entered world war ii.
Los Angeles was fearing another pearl-harbor-type attack
but in Los Angeles itself.
People were afraid they were next.
Narrator: But on the night of February 25th,
their fears become a reality.
Suddenly, in the dead of night,
100,000 people are awakened in a startling citywide blackout.
[ Air-raid siren blares ]
Air-raid sirens begin to blow,
and citizens emerge from their homes
to witness something in the skies over Los Angeles.
The city appears to be under attack.
Nobody knows what this unidentified object is,
and the military steps in and does what it does best --
it tries to bring it down.
Man: Antiaircraft guns run into action
against unidentified aircraft in the Los Angeles area.
Search lights closely follow the object down the coast
and get it centered in their glare.
The military converged on the scene.
They focused search lights on it,
and they actually tried to shoot it down.
Narrator: The soldiers at fort macarthur
fire more than 1,400 antiaircraft shells
in a barrage that should cripple even the strongest aircraft,
but the object appears unscathed.
Greenewald: No matter what the military throws at this object,
we can't penetrate whatever is protecting it.
We can't bring it down.
Dennett: This sighting is called the battle of Los Angeles
for a reason.
There was shrapnel falling.
This was a total blackout, so there was virtual panic.
Actually, five people died.
It was a big, big deal.
This was a state of war we were in.
After 1,400 rounds are fired at this thing,
presumably, it was undamaged
because it just simply flew away
out of the sight of the spotlights.
Dennett: We were continually shooting at this object
when it just drifted off back to the ocean
over the way that it had arrived.
Narrator: What invaded Los Angeles that night,
and why couldn't we destroy it?
Was it a Japanese war plane,
or could it have been a craft from another world?
Birnes: Even today, people will tell you it never happened.
"It was a bunch of people panicking."
Wrong.
Go back to February 1942,
and look at the headlines in the L.A. times.
It was a real object.
Narrator: Is this photograph
from the next morning's Los Angeles times
proof that the craft we went to war with
was not of earthly origin?
Dennett: If you look at this photo, you can clearly see
this very large, round, glowing object.
You can actually see the rounds of ammunition
exploding next to it.
It's a remarkable photograph
that shows what's clearly an unexplained object of some kind.
I think the best theory that we have, honestly,
is an extraterrestrial craft.
Narrator: The day after the battle of Los Angeles,
president Franklin d. Roosevelt
receives a secret memorandum detailing the event.
It wasn't until years later, actually,
through the freedom of information act
that we were able to get a copy of this memorandum,
which basically proves that this event did,
in fact, take place.
Narrator: Shortly after Roosevelt reviews the report,
a statement is released to the general public,
one that tells a different story entirely.
The military can't identify what exactly this object was,
but they had to explain it to the public.
What do they do?
They simply claim it was a balloon.
When you look at how much firepower
was thrown at that thing and nothing touched it,
that's not any type of balloon that exists even today.
So you can't just simply dismiss this event
with the military's explanation
because it doesn't make sense.
Narrator: Countless experts deny
that any balloon could withstand such an attack,
but the U.S. military sticks to their explanation to this day.
But for those who were there that night,
the question remains,
where did the craft come from, and where did it go?
In the decade to come,
demands for an explanation would be met with government silence.
In 1947, Truman signed the national security act,
which essentially concealed events like this
and potentially future ufo events
from the public's eye.
Narrator: It wouldn't be until over a decade later
that a charismatic young president would take office
and demand that the truth be made public,
a demand that may have cost him his life.
Coming up next...
Military officials expose an incident,
taking alien contact in Southern California to the next level.
And evidence that the 1942 battle of Los Angeles
may not be our last --
a secret so shocking, the government may kill for it.
This is "unsealed: Alien files" --
exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
Narrator: Welcome back to "unsealed: Alien files."
Since 1896, random sightings of unidentified objects
have caused Los Angeles to be known worldwide
as a ufo hot spot.
L.A.'s most famous encounter took place in 1942,
when the city witnessed a military attempt
to gun down an unknown craft,
but the true identity of who invaded California skies
that night has never been revealed.
You, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear...
I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear
that I will faithfully execute
the office of president of the United States.
Two decades later, newly-elected president John f. Kennedy
allegedly writes NASA,
asking for ufo information to solve the enigma.
10 days later, he was shot and killed -- assassinated.
This ufo subject was so top secret
that even at the presidential level,
he had trouble finding out the truth.
Kennedy was a transitional president,
a potential to really change the course of the 20th century.
And what we have learned is that his private agenda
was a lot more radical than people knew at the time.
He had big plans.
Narrator: Could the need for ufo secrecy
have led to the assassination of a president?
A year later, we may have received an answer.
[ Crowd cheering ]
In 1964, at the height of the cold war,
officer in charge Robert Jacobs heads the photographic squadron
at vandenberg air force base in lompoc, California.
Robert Jacobs is one of the more important witnesses
that have come forward
from out of the military and agencies and even NASA
with experiences regarding events
that seem to clearly indicate an extraterrestrial presence here.
Narrator: According to Jacobs,
his mission was to film an atlas missile test
through all three stages of flight off the coast of big sur,
hours north of Los Angeles.
The atlas
was an intercontinental ballistic missile, or icbm,
developed and deployed by the U.S. military
to deliver a warhead 100 times more powerful
than the bomb dropped over Nagasaki.
The missile he would film was outfitted with a dummy warhead.
It was his job to actually track this vandenberg missile
that was shot off, and he was filming it.
And he did his job just as he was ordered to do.
The missile failed. It mysteriously failed.
Narrator: In his story, lieutenant Jacobs states
he returned to vandenberg with the film to be developed.
Immediately following their processing,
Jacobs was ordered to report to his superior officer.
Dennett: He was called into his superior's office,
major mansmann,
and there were two plain-clothes people there
who wanted to question him about what had occurred.
And they showed him, actually,
the film he took of this missile being shot.
This is where it gets really interesting.
Narrator: According to lieutenant Jacobs,
at this stage, a saucer-shaped craft entered the frame.
It's maneuvering around this rocket,
which is traveling at many thousands of Miles an hour,
and all of a sudden, it shoots a beam of light
into the warhead at the tip of the missile,
moves around, does another one, moves around, does another one,
and the warhead falls off.
Narrator: The agents in the room take the footage,
and Jacobs is told by his ranking officer
that he is never to speak of the incident again.
Could it be that Robert Jacobs and his team
witnessed an alien presence defending their territory
off the coast of Southern California?
Like the battle of 1942,
this encounter exposes an alien craft
seeming to protect the border
between California's land and sea.
Perhaps our most recent encounter
can answer what these craft may be protecting.
Unsealed case file -- the hidden ufo portal.
On November 8, 2010, an event occurred,
striking fear in the heart of Los Angeles.
An unidentified object came from the ocean
and launched over the city up into the sky.
When the military was asked about it,
they had no idea what it was.
They couldn't identify it.
The Pentagon,
which usually gives an explanation for a ufo event,
this time didn't have one.
Birnes: So remember, there's always a discrepancy
between what the military tells you it knows
and what the military really knows.
So all we have to go on is the military said they knew nothing,
but witnesses definitely saw a missile
coming out of the pacific.
Narrator: But the images captured on tape by L.A. locals
reveal a much deeper secret.
When the object's source is triangulated,
it is shown to have launched
right from the center of Los Angeles' devil's triangle.
It's origin -- what many believe
is a ufo portal off the coast of Los Angeles.
The fascinating thing is it might mean
there's an underwater base in the pacific ocean
or in Santa Monica bay
or in the redondo trench off Southern California.
That has tremendous implications,
because when people say,
"how do ufos get back and forth from outer space?"
The answer is they don't.
They're right here in L.A.
Narrator: Is it possible that an extraterrestrial base
is located under the water just outside Los Angeles?
If so, why has it never been found?
Could it be that this ufo portal is the evidence of an alien city
just off the coast of California,
a city that has only just now been discovered?
Coming up next...
A recent scientific discovery reveals that extraterrestrials
may not just be hiding beneath our waves
but within the earth itself.
This is "unsealed: Alien files" --
exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
Narrator: Welcome back to "unsealed: Alien files."
Los Angeles.
From the sightings of 1895
to the battle of Los Angeles and present-day encounters,
the secret behind this ufo hot spot
may be that aliens have been among us the entire time.
Maybe instead of coming from above,
they're simply off the coast of California.
Narrator: In 2010,
scientists revealed this thermal image of structures
discovered on the ocean floor off the shore of Los Angeles.
It's a photo of strange, dome-like structures,
and that whole area is the size of a football field.
Narrator: Could this be part of an alien city beneath the sea?
This photo shows exactly what they would need --
a structure big enough to house a base or even a city.
Narrator: Los Angeles has always been known as a paradise of beaches,
but in the future, it may be known
as the place we discovered aliens right beneath our waves.
This is "unsealed: Alien files."