Panic, Hoaxes, and UFO Myths: From the Battle of Los Angeles to the Majestic 12 Controversy

The Battle of Los Angeles UFO 100% DEBUNKED (also The Majestic-12 UFO Documents 999% DEBUNKED)

To have your pet featured in a video, upload a photo of them to the Mystorian community tab, tell me their name, and they'll appear in an upcoming video. On February 24, 1942, Air Wardens of the US Military fired 1430 anti aircraft shells at *something* in the skies over Los Angeles for over an hour. The official explanation is that this was a mistake, and "war nerves and anxiety" were to blame. Then, in the late 1980s, a Majestic-12 document surfaced that claimed that 2 alien spaceships were shot down that night, and now we have to debunk this because MJ-12 is a bunch of bulls*** #debunkingmyths #unexplained #mysteries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Sources: Brian Dunning – The Battle of Los Angeles (Skeptoid) https://skeptoid.com/episodes/171 Spotify: Skeptoid #171: The Battle of Los Angeles https://open.spotify.com/episode/75y3bAryVUKmoZceMtosV6 Brian Dunning - The Secret History of Majestic 12 (Skeptoid) https://skeptoid.com/episodes/528 Spotify: Skeptoid #528: The Secret History of Majestic 12 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3mxWgmO7G5YGhVWgGVajeg Philip J. Klass: New Evidence of MJ-12 Hoax https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1990/01/22165233/p30.pdf Philip J. Klass: MJ-12 Part 2: Further evidence that these documents are counterfeit https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1988/04/22165257/p57.pdf Steve Rose: The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/14/men-in-black-ufo-sightings-mirage-makers-movie Robert J. Durant: Will The Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up (CIA) https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7.pdf Gerald K. Haines: CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf Robert Hastings: The MJ-12 Affair – Facts, Questions, Comments https://sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm Serrc: Conspiracy Theory and the “Bodyguard of Lies”: The Bennewitz Matter, Mark D. West https://social-epistemology.com/2023/08/10/conspiracy-theory-and-the-bodyguard-of-lies-the-bennewitz-matter-mark-d-west/ Anthony Bragalia: “Majestic 12” Promotoes Supressed Study Proving UFO Crash Documents Are Hoaxes. https://www.ufoexplorations.com/mj-12-promoters-suppressed-study How Stuff Works: Majestic 12 https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/majestic-12.htm Lorraine Boissoneault: The Great Los Angeles Air Raid Terrified Citizens - Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped (Smithsonian Magazine) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/great-los-angeles-air-raid-terrified-citizenseven-though-no-bombs-were-dropped-180967890/ Brett Holman: New light on the Battle of Los Angeles (Airminded) https://airminded.org/2011/04/20/new-light-on-the-battle-of-los-angeles/ Scott Harrison: From the Archives: The 1942 Battle of L.A. (LA Times) https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-archives-1942-battle-la-20170221-story.html Reddit – MJ-12 Documents https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/1dlv3lp/los_angeles_air_raid_25_february_1942_an/ Reddit – Robert Collins https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/p4vvb5/former_us_air_force_intelligence_officer_capt/ Wikipedia: Battle of Los Angeles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles Wikipedia: Majestic 12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12 Wikipedia: Bombardment of Ellwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood Wikipedia: Bill Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moore_(ufologist) Wikipedia: UFO Cover Up? Live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Cover_Up%3F_Live ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B-Roll sourced from ClipChamp and Creative Commons: Great channel for California B-Roll: REVisuals Juneau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lclzWMfSpw4 Downtown Albuquerque New Mexico Aerial View - Unedited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIKwN-EwY4 New Mexico Mountains DJI Mavic Pro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHF8MtKYYso Beautiful Views of Taos, NM | Drone Footage [4K] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-HHO1ZUP4 time lapse sunset on Sandia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAgmlplSBM Cloudy Timelapse - Sandia Mountains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjmLUEHwoLY