So, i actually think this was in another lemmino video but this thing happened recently, when they had a blackout in LA people reported strange dots in the sky to the police; it was the first time theyd ever seen the milky way
Hahaha, well as a matter fact the blackout was an effort to conceal the city so in case of an invasion that could help protect heavily populated areas or even make the invaders to not know if the hay arrived or not, also the lumminic contamination of a city would make it difficult for the army to know what to shoot at.
It’s especially funny when you know that they’re all hamming it up for the camera/radio. You can find bloopers from old black and white movies and the actors slip into their regular voices when they laugh at their mistakes.
Imagine you and a few other guys launch a weather balloon, you're all chillin watching it go up... The all of a sudden the entire city goes dark and the entire coastal AA defense starts lighting up your little weather balloon. lmao
Just imagine a group of scientist made a time travelling machine and decided to go solve this mystery and went back in time only to realize it was them who made the scenario happen.
Kyrie For Mvp I was with hundreds of other disaster recovery guys at an oil camp outside of Ft Mac while the fire was still underway. 2 a.m. The fire turned and came back towards camp apparently and alarms went off to roust ppl to the muster points. No one saw me, and I saw no one standing out in underwear, cuz i slept thru it. Sure, not booms and all but if you ever heard the muster alarm u would be equally surprised someone sleeping thru it. Yup, that was me. I would relate to the guy sleeping thru this "battle"...
It may seem like an impossibility for balloons to survive the intense AA fire, however there are 2 things to consider: 1) According to a British research published in 2003, during the Battle of Britain, it took over 20,000 rounds of AA fire to shoot down 1 aircraft. This was because there were only 3 ways to shoot down an aircraft - hitting directly, using a timer fuze to detonate and using a fuze that detonate at a specific altitude. All 3 were very inaccurate (especially at night) such that some claim the actual number of AA rounds to shot down 1 aircraft was more than 100,000 rounds. All this changed when the Allies in 1943 started using... 2) VT fuze (proximity fuse) which was able to detect (using radio waves reflected from target) its proximity to the target and detonate at the closest range. All this before integrated circuits or digital processors were invented. This device was so secret it was not declassified until 1954. An example of how effective the VT fuze is, when the US first tested the VT fuze they had planned for the test to last 2 days where the new fuze were to be used against 3 radio controlled drones. All 3 drones were destroyed on the first day with only 4 shots. During the Battle of Los Angeles, the US had no VT fuze and fired approximately 1,400 AA rounds, so it is well within the realm of possibility for the balloons to escape damage.
But there is also the pressure waves of a shell exploding. You make good points for shooting down an aircraft made of wood or metal but a balloon would likely shatter after an hour of shelling due to the intense pressure forcing the air inside the balloon around.
@@sayhallo3769 I assume that most of that pressure just pushed the balloon around. Also the pressure from small AA fire is not huge and given that not an awful lot exploded near the balloon (probably) it's quite likely that it didn't have a huge effect
@@sayhallo3769True, but it could also be that the composition of shells wasn’t able to cause shockwaves that big. Depending on the AA guns used, these could range anywhere from 20mm Oerlikons and 40mm Bofors to 90mm m1s firing from all around LA. This mix of smaller and large calibers may have simply not caused large enough explosions at a common enough time. Another possibility is mixing AP and HE shells; AP shells don’t have the same explosive filler as HE shells and would cause less destructive explosions as they went off. This would count for the massive quantity of shells as well as the inability to shoot down the balloon.
@@Palgineer Standard American AA batteries were before the war ramped up were 40mm "Chicago Pianos", 127mm HE guns, as well as many small arms fire like 20mm oerlikons. Depending on the size of the balloon, a single near miss 40mm or 127mm would likely cause it to rupture and pop.
I do agree, seems he had those senses of a pro Video editor. You know, doing such a thing like this with 19min long of videos i think i must work harder to reach this level
I feel like this is a classic case of pure fear, 3am, soldiers are tired and scared of an attack. If you look up on a dark night with no lighting around it's not hard to see things that aren't there
@MrcabooseVG Geez! You've watched the video and you've decided to make such comment? How people like you don't forget to breathe? There WAS something in the sky and there's no doubt in that. It's just no one could conclude what it was.
@@drumm4173 and they will continue to do so because these alien fetishists only hear what they want to hear. i recently learned from a video of one of those people, they even think led streetlights which change their color due to failing components in the streetlights indicate that something is coming *smh* and yes i regret checking what they had to say about that in the comments, it might have pushed me to write a comment about their nonsense.
and unlike other youtubers, the maturity he achieved lowered his upload frequency. He used to upload twice a month once (as I recall). Now we get one in 2 month if we are lucky...
AA shells had a fuse to explode at set altitudes. It's perfectly possible the direct hits that guy thought he saw were just explosions happening in the same line of sight, but not on the object.
Wouldn’t they have known if they hit something or not bc they set them, they know when it supposed to go off. Could’ve seen explosions higher up and some random ones lower with the shadow of the objects being shown in the explosion.
Honestly its a doomed if you do doomed if you dont situation. If they didnt fire and it was an enemy aircraft than the city would of potentially been bombed.
@@jayjaypotato The longest the time between each video the longest was the research for it. As Prasad said it's worth the wait, Lemmino has done an outstanding job with this videos
This is one of these kinds of scenarios where I actually believe it was entirely a mistake on the military’s part. No cover up, just an oopsie. Someone got scared by a balloon or something
I also think that some of the military personnel- such as the air-raid warden- might have been embarrassed that they weren't able to hit a balloon, and lied about hitting it
@@shooterDiseaseunbelievably saddening on how most of the us citizens don't even know that stars exist and that people on other countries can still see them to this day
AA guns: we'll turn you into scrap punk!! OPEN FIRE!, ALL WEAPONS, CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR!!!! Balloon: jeez, a little hardcore aren't we??
Biktor V88 I just imagine the army looking at the “balloon” “Sir. They’re here.” “I see” *looks out the window* “So, you have chosen death. There’s nothing I can do for you now
Hitting objects with anti-aircraft shells back in the day was extremely hard. Proximity fuses (which would explode on proximity to an object and thus make getting a hit easier) were still in development in this stage and highly classified.
Still, the sheer amount of daka would’ve definitely destroyed at least a single target. Think of german AA in the late war. With failing equipment, starved and inexperienced soldiers, AA still downed huge numbers of bombers and fighters.
Aliens: *visits earth for the first time during the height of ww2 on accident* “let’s go say hi” Aliens 3 hours later: nope nope nope nope nobody go there
they prolly been planning how to approach earth safely for so long then finally come and immediately get hit w over 1000 anti aircraft rounds haha. they definitely comin back in the future and fucking our shit up lmao
I've always thought it was obvious that the photo just shows the confluence of multiple searchlights. You can see that when just two beams cross, the diamond shaped part where they intersect is brighter. Now make six or seven from lights arranged in a circle, and you end up with a single super bright blob with multiple angular edges.
Yeah I remember back in the day it was something like this Top TEN memes!!!: 10 - Derp face (xD) 9 - Poker face!!! WOW LOL 8 - ROFLCOPTER WHAAAT? 7 - FUCK YEAH WOOHOO SO COOL LOL 6 - LIKE A BOSS!!! LOVE THAT MEME GUYS 5 - PROBLEM OFFICER??? 4 - Forever Alone (IMPORTANT: don't be a forever alone!) 3 - Funny cat fales!!! LEL!!! 2 - Dog (YES I LIKE DOGS MORE THAN CATS COME AT ME LOL XD) 1 - MICHAEL BAYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 He's come a pretty long way.
Yeah its always funny to me how everyone associates the abbreviation "UFO" with aliens and it explicitly being a disc shaped object with a transparent dome on top
I really appreciate the fact LEMMiNO acknowledges his misinterpretation on a previous episode/channel. I've always appreciated his high degree of research but am now growing to appreciate his transparency and introspection. Kudos LEMMiNO!!!
Greetings, I agree. The report was objective and well reported. Fine presentation. Your acknowledged correction will also keep you in good stead with your public. Keep up the good work LEMMiNO!!!
It's also not true that there was mass panic about a Japanese invasion of the US mainland, so maybe there will be a correction. The Japanese never had anything close to the capabilities of landing troops on the West Coast, and articles from after Pearl Harbor, interviews, vox pops, opinion polls, etc., reflect that very few people were seriously worried about a Japanese invasion (for good reason).
@Cory L it was a missed opportunity for them if they did hear about it. Imagine the panic in the coastal cities if Japan had announced they had the equivalent of "stealth" planes and had tested them that night.
The alien in your backyard lol you don’t understand the states that people build and different aggressive cultures, you’re comfortable within you tech biased world and forget the whole of human history people were fighting to survive and you think other cultures think like you, idiot
My grandmother was 2 years old and living in Los Angeles at the time of the “battle”, and although she doesn’t remember it, my great grandmother was always skeptical of it due to her hearing no planes whatsoever. It would have been so cool to talk to her about it and get a first hand account of what happened that strange night
You could be describing a brick wall on a black screen with no music and still make it interesting. But even then the topics you choose are so curious, I love it! Keep up the great work.
Yeah even though it's kind of exhausting for me to follow a 20 minute video like this, since I am from Germany, you make it worth the effort. Appreciate your well made videos!
@@tbhbananas9922 They do die, they die when they become unfunny. They may be resurrected but, as of right now, "ok boomer" is extraordinarily dead and decomposed. So yes, it is dead, and memes can die. Uncultured swine.
why does everyone criticize him for taking so long to make his videos? They are beautifully scripted and edited and i believe they are worth the wait also, he most likely goes to school like college so he has to be very busy 12/21/18 edit: god dayum thanks to everyone for liking this 6/13/19 4AM : Time flies dude its crazy; and props to lemmino; still watchin him🃏
Me: "That was a good video. I wonder what the comments say" Everyone: "I'm gonna format my comment like this and make a joke slightly different than the last guys!" Every single time
This is what social media has become... brainwashed trolls with no originality. The internet was supposed to make us more informed. I feel bad for this generation, no wonder they are so depressed.
Mr3344555 and breathing life into it by adding professional animation and editing while properly and clearly narrating? Recycling doesn’t justify your saltiness.
Imagine wondering the empty space for centuries to finally find a planet with life. You're excited, words can't describe your happiness. Then when you land the ground starts flashing white / yellow and things start zipping by your ship
Alien: Finally, a planet with intelligent life, let's go talk to them. Planet with intelligent life: starts shooting at them Alien: Damn these natives rude asf.
Lemmino Greetings, Its been a couple years since I have watched your video - Battle of L.A. Well, I am still blown away by your fine report, narration, high production values, etc., etc. &etc. I just sent it off to some friends in my email group. Its just too good to keep it secret. :-) Don't stop doing what you do best! Videos.
I look up Lemmino on TH-cam at least once a week to see if he uploaded and TH-cam just “forgot” to give me a notification again... but here we are. It’s been too long, bro!
@@julzyboy8960 wait, ya lost me. Adding upbeat music to a nuclear detonation makes them a, and I quote: "Soulless ignorant apathetic fuck." What? This itself requires a Lemmino documentary.
@@SomethingSunnyside A nuclear detonation on top of a populated city is pretty much hell on Earth and yet some people feel the need to play such cute music with it, it's just disgusting but even more so confusing to me.
I love the animations he makes to make you understand the story better. Such animations take lots of time to make and they're not really essential to the video. But he does this anyway because he loves what he does...
The photographs of the event are night photos, which means that they were long exposure pictures. So, the "object" that people see in the spotlights, was just a blob of distorted light from a long film exposure that is needed to capture night photography. This is a fun mystery that I've been interested in for years, but the reality is, that if an object of any kind was truly lit up with those large lights, many more people would have clearly seen it, and there would've been far more certain reports than the vague reports that actually came in. Some saw planes, some balloons, others a blimp, some more saw bag shaped objects, but most saw nothing. This event is lost to time, and the true series of events that created it will never be known, but it was most likely misunderstandings, miscommunications, misidentifying, and fear. And, once the first shells were fired, it exasperated the entire situation.
It is known that the Japanese had a better understanding of air currents than the US did, and used balloons with timer-released bombs released from Japan to attack the US mainland. Most just floated over forests on the west coast and did no damage. Some downed balloons were recovered in Oregon.
they wanted meteoroloical data that could in any way benefit them in case of an attack. dumb, yeah, but they guys doing were probably innocent of the idea of it causing a false alarm. I only learned that by pausing and reading at 13:38, it seems like an important detail he left out.
hogwash, this is why you question everything and this is why you don't eyeball it and this SERVICEMAN BURNSIDE WHY YOU WAIT FOR THE COMPUTER TO GIVE YOU A FIRING SOLUTION, YOU ARE NOT A COWBOY FIRING FROM THE HIP!! ^sorry, I couldn't resist using that....
i heard once that "carrot" is a way to trick german pilots to eat carrots in order to see better at dark rather than letting them get suspicious on brits has figured radar or night vision on planes or something like that lol.
I mean think of any aggressive lower intelligent animals there first thing to do is to fight something that makes them feel threatened so of course we would shoot at them who knows it really doesn’t matter because we wouldn’t be able to do anything to aliens
I often like to muse about how strange aliens would find us. I picture this alien mom telling a bedtime story about a spaceman, going "then he came across this bizarre creature - it had two eyes, two arms, two legs, two ears, and only one nose!"
Aliens just came to borrow some materials then got greeted with a barrage of bullets. They never came back and told the entire neighborhood, we were a bad neighbor
If it was a slow-moving target visible to the naked eye, hours of anti-aircraft shells would have definitely landed solid hits, especially with the increased armament due to wartime concerns. As such, either it was somethings that could withstand such hits, or, as occum's razor would suggest, it was nothing.
They said it was going 200 MPH first... this whole thing seems strange. Idiots hadn’t invented cell phones yet! if this happened in 2021 with different technology, we’d know what happened
@@37thousand Yeah, those idiots like you and me. Because YOU didn't invent the cellphone either, unless you are an old ex-Soviet scientist or some shit.
*Quality > Quantity* all the way for me. I prefer quality but what's sad is that quantity has taken youtube over and you really have to survive by making quantity over quality. I would rather have quality but youtube and most TH-cam audience doesnt care about these videos anymore. I miss the old days. *Nostalgia*
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Thanks I’ve been waiting 2 years for this
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False alarm, they weren't weird lights. The blackout just allowed LA to see stars for the first time
lmfaooo
okay this is gold
So, i actually think this was in another lemmino video but this thing happened recently, when they had a blackout in LA people reported strange dots in the sky to the police; it was the first time theyd ever seen the milky way
@@whocares8567 holy shit that's really sad
Hahaha, well as a matter fact the blackout was an effort to conceal the city so in case of an invasion that could help protect heavily populated areas or even make the invaders to not know if the hay arrived or not, also the lumminic contamination of a city would make it difficult for the army to know what to shoot at.
I love that 40’s accent all the people from the recordings have
They actually gave it a name...the Mid-Atlantic accent.
Me too!!!
@@bobbyg9587 yes, it was supposed to promote globalization and integration because it used the "best" of both American and British accents.
Internet Explorer is just so slow that it's not used to how we talk yet
It’s especially funny when you know that they’re all hamming it up for the camera/radio. You can find bloopers from old black and white movies and the actors slip into their regular voices when they laugh at their mistakes.
Imagine you and a few other guys launch a weather balloon, you're all chillin watching it go up... The all of a sudden the entire city goes dark and the entire coastal AA defense starts lighting up your little weather balloon. lmao
Mobius One nigga your username is the fucking goat
this comment deserves more likes
Rip chopper
Yeah, a bullet proof baloon
@@Lucky-sh1dm damn that brang me back to the old ps2 days...
apparently there are 5 deaths. 3 due to panicked car driving, and 2 due to heart attacks.
Rip
Coffin music starts
"Panicked car driving."
What a L.A. way to go...
When people are dying without looking or shoting at them, thats when you know
@@carlosvalerochavez3045you know the thing you know, you know?
Just imagine a group of scientist made a time travelling machine and decided to go solve this mystery and went back in time only to realize it was them who made the scenario happen.
Dammmm son.
That's deep 🤣🤣🤣
Shit, I thought as well. What if? 🤔
@@fuuoshi8559 do you like fried pork chops sandwiches...there is someone behind you 😯
@@bernardoprovenzanno9487 yo wtf
Azelinus wait what
Imagine being some dude enjoying a ride in a hot air balloon late at night and suddenly being attacked with AA flak
imagine being so dumb to do this in the middle of World War II
@@loveinlatin especially just after pearl harbor flying in the middle of the night
@@loveinlatin Good point!
OfficialEpic222
The guy: Nice time right...?
The guy: Wait... What’s that sound?
*Spotlights and AA Flak gun sounds*
The guy: *Oh no.*
That be funny
Bruh imagine that one person who just slept through the whole thing and woke up the next day like wtf happened last night?
Kyrie For Mvp I was with hundreds of other disaster recovery guys at an oil camp outside of Ft Mac while the fire was still underway. 2 a.m. The fire turned and came back towards camp apparently and alarms went off to roust ppl to the muster points.
No one saw me, and I saw no one standing out in underwear, cuz i slept thru it.
Sure, not booms and all but if you ever heard the muster alarm u would be equally surprised someone sleeping thru it.
Yup, that was me.
I would relate to the guy sleeping thru this "battle"...
And everybody's all, come on man you should have seen it. But they never say what it was, just that it was wild
@@bsc4344 Guns r a lot louder tho so bruh but u may be deaf or determine sleeper or ur a deep sleeper
@@walter3534 Im that kind lf deep sleeper soo ye I would've slept through it
B Sc but this was...in 1942? how tf are you alive to tell this tale?
It may seem like an impossibility for balloons to survive the intense AA fire, however there are 2 things to consider:
1) According to a British research published in 2003, during the Battle of Britain, it took over 20,000 rounds of AA fire to shoot down 1 aircraft. This was because there were only 3 ways to shoot down an aircraft - hitting directly, using a timer fuze to detonate and using a fuze that detonate at a specific altitude. All 3 were very inaccurate (especially at night) such that some claim the actual number of AA rounds to shot down 1 aircraft was more than 100,000 rounds. All this changed when the Allies in 1943 started using...
2) VT fuze (proximity fuse) which was able to detect (using radio waves reflected from target) its proximity to the target and detonate at the closest range. All this before integrated circuits or digital processors were invented. This device was so secret it was not declassified until 1954. An example of how effective the VT fuze is, when the US first tested the VT fuze they had planned for the test to last 2 days where the new fuze were to be used against 3 radio controlled drones. All 3 drones were destroyed on the first day with only 4 shots.
During the Battle of Los Angeles, the US had no VT fuze and fired approximately 1,400 AA rounds, so it is well within the realm of possibility for the balloons to escape damage.
But there is also the pressure waves of a shell exploding. You make good points for shooting down an aircraft made of wood or metal but a balloon would likely shatter after an hour of shelling due to the intense pressure forcing the air inside the balloon around.
@@sayhallo3769 i did not consider that holy shit, you two are smart
@@sayhallo3769 I assume that most of that pressure just pushed the balloon around. Also the pressure from small AA fire is not huge and given that not an awful lot exploded near the balloon (probably) it's quite likely that it didn't have a huge effect
@@sayhallo3769True, but it could also be that the composition of shells wasn’t able to cause shockwaves that big. Depending on the AA guns used, these could range anywhere from 20mm Oerlikons and 40mm Bofors to 90mm m1s firing from all around LA. This mix of smaller and large calibers may have simply not caused large enough explosions at a common enough time. Another possibility is mixing AP and HE shells; AP shells don’t have the same explosive filler as HE shells and would cause less destructive explosions as they went off. This would count for the massive quantity of shells as well as the inability to shoot down the balloon.
@@Palgineer Standard American AA batteries were before the war ramped up were 40mm "Chicago Pianos", 127mm HE guns, as well as many small arms fire like 20mm oerlikons. Depending on the size of the balloon, a single near miss 40mm or 127mm would likely cause it to rupture and pop.
The quality of this video is honestly in my opinion better than those documentaries on Televison. This proves that
quality > quantity is true.
quantity have it own quality.
Xenokio ....his editing ability is amazing. He is definitely a pro with the best equipment.
I do agree, seems he had those senses of a pro Video editor.
You know, doing such a thing like this with 19min long of videos
i think i must work harder to reach this level
whoops Lemmino fanboy alert. can't wait to see Lemmin's next video coming out next december about a trending topic from 2015
You see the Cicada 3301 video yet?
I feel like this is a classic case of pure fear, 3am, soldiers are tired and scared of an attack. If you look up on a dark night with no lighting around it's not hard to see things that aren't there
@秘 SYREX 秘 Hey, want to let you know that America isn't the only country that speaks English. Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful day! 🙏😁😁
With zero city lights, and the moon at waxing gibbous (just over half full) it would have been fairly easy to see that night.
@秘 SYREX 秘 you gotta work on that grammer my man
THAT many soldiers?
@MrcabooseVG Geez! You've watched the video and you've decided to make such comment? How people like you don't forget to breathe?
There WAS something in the sky and there's no doubt in that. It's just no one could conclude what it was.
Whatever happened, someone definitely got fired.
lol
lol
Xd
Lmaoo
Fired at, you mean
Friendly reminder, a UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, not an alien spaceship.
Yeah, no shit.
Alternatively, use Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) to refer something mysterious flying
thanks so many people think that it does mean alien spaceship
@@drumm4173 and they will continue to do so because these alien fetishists only hear what they want to hear. i recently learned from a video of one of those people, they even think led streetlights which change their color due to failing components in the streetlights indicate that something is coming *smh* and yes i regret checking what they had to say about that in the comments, it might have pushed me to write a comment about their nonsense.
@@thomasmoser7382 elaborate
See you again next year
Yeah but its worth the wait
You mean in December 2018 because he has to make the top 10 facts 2018 video
Stop it get some help.
Quality > Quantity
He doesn't "have" to make anything, it's a gift from a god; consider it a privilege.
I love how an amateur channel (Top 10 memes) became a top notch quality channel (Lemmino)
John Wayne Lee This channel used to be called Top 10 memes?
Yep. He even references it when he uses it as an example.
"Much like my old channel name, it was mistake."
and unlike other youtubers, the maturity he achieved lowered his upload frequency. He used to upload twice a month once (as I recall). Now we get one in 2 month if we are lucky...
Sadman Pranto
Quality over quantity in this case.
Wasnt it "Top 10 facts"? And he just made a top 10 video about memes
I do not deserve to watch this for free
Agreed! This content is top notch for sure
@DepressoExpresso aids*
@@krylatich lmao
Prob using paid WiFi, phone/computer and possibly electricity, trust me not free xD
@DepressoExpresso this dude has NO ADS during his videos, like wth, If he did, I would support him
This deserves to be a TH-cam Red Show
AA shells had a fuse to explode at set altitudes. It's perfectly possible the direct hits that guy thought he saw were just explosions happening in the same line of sight, but not on the object.
But proximity fuses were still under development at the time, weren't they?
@@bajszosjozsef4850 A proximity fuse is designed to explode when it gets close to an aircraft, not when it reaches a certain altitude.
@@bajszosjozsef4850yes, they wouldn’t enter service until the very end of the war.
Wouldn’t they have known if they hit something or not bc they set them, they know when it supposed to go off. Could’ve seen explosions higher up and some random ones lower with the shadow of the objects being shown in the explosion.
the army said fuses were set to mAX ALTITUDE FOR THE GUNS@@Idontwantahandle6669
Officer-it’s a balloon
Army man- did you just say enemy zeppelin?
Officer-no it’s a bal-
Army man- FIRE!!!
"army man", are we playing with toys
Blimps are balloons zeppelins are not the japanese also didn’t use zeppelins the nazis did
@@jennyfisher3765 you mean the Germans? Not every single German in ww2 was a raging Nazi, most weren't.
Fids Vids I’m not stupid. The zeppelin was invented by NAZIS.
@@jennyfisher3765 ok but you said it was "used by the Nazis".
Weather balloon: *exists*
US military: “So anyway, I started blasting.”
Dude 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
War with weather balloons. Army: get your air soft guns.
MO' DAKA!
Weather Balloon: "What the fuck did _I_ do?!"
it was probably a test
Honestly its a doomed if you do doomed if you dont situation. If they didnt fire and it was an enemy aircraft than the city would of potentially been bombed.
He uploads 3 months after his latest video but it always is worth the wait :)
it really isnt despite how much I like him its too long
still better than Jon Tron
@@jayjaypotato The longest the time between each video the longest was the research for it. As Prasad said it's worth the wait, Lemmino has done an outstanding job with this videos
quality>>>>>quantity
On Lemminos video on himself he tells us about how long it takes to make a video and it does take a while. So i do agree it's worth the wait.
This is one of these kinds of scenarios where I actually believe it was entirely a mistake on the military’s part. No cover up, just an oopsie. Someone got scared by a balloon or something
Normally I’d agree with you but that photo of the spotlights all over the city on one spot gives me chills
dude predicted the future
Goofy ah mfers shoot empty air
I also think that some of the military personnel- such as the air-raid warden- might have been embarrassed that they weren't able to hit a balloon, and lied about hitting it
@@shooterDiseaseunbelievably saddening on how most of the us citizens don't even know that stars exist and that people on other countries can still see them to this day
"Nothing was found on ground other than shrapnel"
Well, after being fired upon by over 1000 rounds of AA, I would consider myself a shrapnel too lol.
@John Barber Fool.
@@guigo6892 Fool.
@@reenactor_1052 Fool.
@@guigo6892 Fool.
@@marianemonticalvo8736 foOL.
*balloon flies over city*
Army: So, you have chosen death.
Balloon: Your AA fire is nothing! Bow before me mortals!
AA guns: we'll turn you into scrap punk!! OPEN FIRE!, ALL WEAPONS, CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR!!!!
Balloon: jeez, a little hardcore aren't we??
@@LalitKumar-cu5iu AA Guns: we counted on balloon to be passive...we counted wrong
Pillar men theme starts playing
Biktor V88
I just imagine the army looking at the “balloon”
“Sir. They’re here.”
“I see”
*looks out the window*
“So, you have chosen death.
There’s nothing I can do for you now
*Army open fires at a bird thinking it was an enemy airship*
Eᴛʜᴀɴ *bird: yo wtf*
XD
*[GONE WRONG]*
*[GONE SEXUAL]*
*[POLICE CALLED]*
Hitting objects with anti-aircraft shells back in the day was extremely hard. Proximity fuses (which would explode on proximity to an object and thus make getting a hit easier) were still in development in this stage and highly classified.
Still, the sheer amount of daka would’ve definitely destroyed at least a single target. Think of german AA in the late war. With failing equipment, starved and inexperienced soldiers, AA still downed huge numbers of bombers and fighters.
@@gage2189 late in the war they did have Proximity fuses.
@@kristinagraversgaard5328 tell that to the original commenter!
@@kristinagraversgaard5328 the Germans didn't.
@@mnxs the germans are not Americans, so, what exactly is your point?
Aliens: *visits earth for the first time during the height of ww2 on accident* “let’s go say hi”
Aliens 3 hours later: nope nope nope nope nobody go there
That would be funny if that was all they've been tryna do
they prolly been planning how to approach earth safely for so long then finally come and immediately get hit w over 1000 anti aircraft rounds haha. they definitely comin back in the future and fucking our shit up lmao
Just gonna nope right out of this one
Ikr
Do you honestly believe that a race advanced enough to travel the stars are going to be concerned or affected by our triple A fire? Hmmmm...
yup he was abducted by aliens. Thats why he wasnt uploading videos latly, but im happy to see new video of his.
For it was only hours, for us it was months, this abduction thing is always confusing.
@@rafaelalodio5116 agree
He posts when he feels like it
One of the highest quality channels you deserve more subs and views tbh
Of course not, the Goverment took him
Same time next year then lads?
Loll yupp pretty much dude. Guess we will see him for the top 10 2019 facts video
Dude's the Jontron of educational channels lol
Pigdem why is he going??
Learn math man it wasant 1 year ago it was only 3 months ago when you heard hes voice.
Yep
I've always thought it was obvious that the photo just shows the confluence of multiple searchlights. You can see that when just two beams cross, the diamond shaped part where they intersect is brighter. Now make six or seven from lights arranged in a circle, and you end up with a single super bright blob with multiple angular edges.
Indeed, I've dome exactly this with modern lights for concerts
Top 10 memes to these high quality videos.
We've come far
Yeah I remember back in the day it was something like this
Top TEN memes!!!:
10 - Derp face (xD)
9 - Poker face!!! WOW LOL
8 - ROFLCOPTER WHAAAT?
7 - FUCK YEAH WOOHOO SO COOL LOL
6 - LIKE A BOSS!!! LOVE THAT MEME GUYS
5 - PROBLEM OFFICER???
4 - Forever Alone (IMPORTANT: don't be a forever alone!)
3 - Funny cat fales!!! LEL!!!
2 - Dog (YES I LIKE DOGS MORE THAN CATS COME AT ME LOL XD)
1 - MICHAEL BAYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
He's come a pretty long way.
“We”
Indeed.
Just to be clear, a UFO could be a damn flying pig.
Unidentified
Flying
Object
Yeah its always funny to me how everyone associates the abbreviation "UFO" with aliens and it explicitly being a disc shaped object with a transparent dome on top
"I have no idea what that thing is. It must be aliens!!"
Ohh here we go, smart arse alert.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION, DID YOU KNOW THAT RAIN IS WET.
RESUME POINTING OUT THE OBVIOUS LIKE A 12 YEAR OLD IN 3, 2..
@@positronundervolt4799 the obvious is not obvious to the ignorant
@@positronundervolt4799 rain is not wet
The aliens decided to talk to us during our largest war in history, and on one of the most protected city’s on the west coast, at night.
🤣😂
...high five!
I dont think they are very smart aliens
Or maybe they didn’t know we were at war
@@starmada105 They must do research first then visit or this happens
My grandfather died telling ppl about this night. Everyone just ignored him. So to see TH-cam videos about this 20 years later is mind blowing to me.
What did he think happened?
My grandma too. She was a little girl living in east LA and she told me stories about the night the air raid sirens went off
These videos are so incredible, I wish you got more praise than you do - truly a channel "out of this world" ;) - a Dane
Kakio His videos are amongst the the greatest on TH-cam, in my opinion.
Hello there SLAKIO, how's it going
Takes as much time as you but produces much better videos
He doesn't need compliments from a DANE.
Ur language sucks
I really appreciate the fact LEMMiNO acknowledges his misinterpretation on a previous episode/channel. I've always appreciated his high degree of research but am now growing to appreciate his transparency and introspection. Kudos LEMMiNO!!!
Greetings,
I agree. The report was objective and well reported. Fine presentation. Your acknowledged correction will also keep you in good stead with your public. Keep up the good work LEMMiNO!!!
It's also not true that there was mass panic about a Japanese invasion of the US mainland, so maybe there will be a correction. The Japanese never had anything close to the capabilities of landing troops on the West Coast, and articles from after Pearl Harbor, interviews, vox pops, opinion polls, etc., reflect that very few people were seriously worried about a Japanese invasion (for good reason).
Unlike infographic show who constantly denies Tankman is government fear propaganda.
@@yuri-cruiter9676 Wait.... Tankman from Newgrounds?
in my country we say "kefes" so kefes to you lummino
Soldier: Yo what is that?
America: Idk, shoot it and see what happens
Riley definitely not a world war going on so they definitely wouldn’t be more cautious
Cmon man those troops were stationed in LA, probably have been waiting for something to light up for months
@American Patriot you truly showed your intelligence.
@American Patriot
Orange man bad
@American Patriot Well your wrong considering this was in the 40s not 2020.
old radar systems seem to think everything is bad except the stuff that is actually bad
I can just picture Japan hearing about this shortly after and just being like.. wut?
NANI?!
Poor Japanese
XD
@@dg798 poor?
@Cory L it was a missed opportunity for them if they did hear about it. Imagine the panic in the coastal cities if Japan had announced they had the equivalent of "stealth" planes and had tested them that night.
The man makes 20 minutes feel like 20 seconds.
Deadass
Wait this was 20 minutes?
I wish it felt like 60 because now I'm sad that it's over
@@ChapuleTaylor do u have anger issues?
@@WeAMknn y'all needa chill
All these could be avoided if it happened in the morning
But of course our mysterious “attackers” had to attack in the cover of night.
@@rr-dy5ij Sneaky sneaky "attacker" or UFO...
관심법으로 보면 되지 않는가?
They could have avoided this if they had just used NORD VPN.
The alien in your backyard lol you don’t understand the states that people build and different aggressive cultures, you’re comfortable within you tech biased world and forget the whole of human history people were fighting to survive and you think other cultures think like you, idiot
My grandmother was 2 years old and living in Los Angeles at the time of the “battle”, and although she doesn’t remember it, my great grandmother was always skeptical of it due to her hearing no planes whatsoever. It would have been so cool to talk to her about it and get a first hand account of what happened that strange night
Did your great grandmother ever say what she thought it was?
Alien : I COME IN PEACE
Goverment : light em up bois
Earthlings: You leave in pieces
We had just been thru Pearl Harbor so...
UFO: imma fly over Los Angeles
US army: GET THE F*** OFF MY PROPERTY >:(
YOU PICKED THE WRONG EARTH FOOL!
Me: Using what is currently the most tired joke on youtube.
Everyone else on the internet: Suicide.
You could be describing a brick wall on a black screen with no music and still make it interesting. But even then the topics you choose are so curious, I love it! Keep up the great work.
Totally agree
Yeah even though it's kind of exhausting for me to follow a 20 minute video like this, since I am from Germany, you make it worth the effort. Appreciate your well made videos!
It is a known fact that all the dislikes on LEMMINOS videos are from bots, no human being can dislike such great content.
Agent M-838 a small percentage of that is actually correct, as its TH-cam trying to balance out the dislike like ratio.
Dog In A Aeroplane i actually believe that , haha
its actually austrailians liking the video upside down
Its probably all the danish people he offended
@@jekim1865 Probably
Fantastic video. Love this stuff 🧐
Hello checkmark
Oh look, a verified account
Hello checkmark
Ayy, AcidGlow.
wassup checkmark
Just remember U.F.O. doesn't mean its an alien spaceship as default.
ok boomer
Tbh Bananas dead meme
@@tbhbananas9922 dead meme x2
OpenCube sorry but memes don’t die bye
@@tbhbananas9922 They do die, they die when they become unfunny. They may be resurrected but, as of right now, "ok boomer" is extraordinarily dead and decomposed. So yes, it is dead, and memes can die. Uncultured swine.
why does everyone criticize him for taking so long to make his videos? They are beautifully scripted and edited and i believe they are worth the wait also, he most likely goes to school like college so he has to be very busy
12/21/18 edit: god dayum thanks to everyone for liking this
6/13/19 4AM : Time flies dude its crazy; and props to lemmino; still watchin him🃏
It's a running joke.
r/wooosh?
They’re good, but they could almost certainly be done in the exact same way in way less time.
Well said. Agree
he tries to get 100% fact , plus hes got part time jobs etc because his youtube account is not "mainstream"
Thank you for the awesome content. See you in a few months.
Worth the wait
your name seems very appropriate to your comment
General: Hold your fire.
Artillery: SOMEONE SAID FIRE!!!
*bang boom bang bang pshew takadatakada booom*
I missed your voice
kutko
Same
k
Quality >>>>>> Quantity
EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
LEMMiNO is my inspiration behind creating infotainment videos as good as I can.
SideNote ay I like yo vids
Your videos are really interesting. I like them a lot
Thanks man!
SideNote :D congrats on 1k btw
When i saw my notification say lemmino posted i screamed, YES YES YES!!!!!
I was yelling at my phone because it froze when I got the lemmino notification
A-are you going to do the ORA ORA thing?
Me neither...But it's a common practice at the time.
yes yes yes daddy likes
Bruh me too 😅😅😅
Me: "That was a good video. I wonder what the comments say"
Everyone: "I'm gonna format my comment like this and make a joke slightly different than the last guys!"
Every single time
This is what social media has become... brainwashed trolls with no originality. The internet was supposed to make us more informed. I feel bad for this generation, no wonder they are so depressed.
So fucking tired of this unoriginal and pathetic type of joke god damn it
You realise that you are part of the problem now right?
A. Yuuki it’s always the same fucking same template with a twist of the “joke”
@@RawUndergroundMusic Ok Boomer
You're such an inspiration
Recycling wiki articles? Yeah that's inspiring
Mr3344555 and breathing life into it by adding professional animation and editing while properly and clearly narrating? Recycling doesn’t justify your saltiness.
DAVIS
MarTin Shorlux what are you, 4?
ay nice profile pic
Lemino your research is always in-depth when it comes to documentings things like this. Keep up the good work bro
Imagine wondering the empty space for centuries to finally find a planet with life. You're excited, words can't describe your happiness. Then when you land the ground starts flashing white / yellow and things start zipping by your ship
Alien: Finally, a planet with intelligent life, let's go talk to them.
Planet with intelligent life: starts shooting at them
Alien: Damn these natives rude asf.
Every time Lemmino uploads its like a christmas present
Facts.
Nah man it's much better than that!
Literally
*he is alive*
gnome child
@@ayylmaotv how are you verified what the fuck
How do you edit ''he is alive'' ? I only subscribed today. I guess it's long and far between!?
@@ayylmaotv what verified or wtf?
this is why the aliens never talk to us.
There's a lot of reasons for aliens not to talk to us
One of which is cause by ice age baby
@@jackspedicy1904 the damn ice age baby
Not yet at least, we are still to animalistic and primal to them
I can do math.
Lemmino Greetings,
Its been a couple years since I have watched your video - Battle of L.A. Well, I am still blown away by your fine report, narration, high production values, etc., etc. &etc. I just sent it off to some friends in my email group. Its just too good to keep it secret. :-)
Don't stop doing what you do best! Videos.
I'm new here but judging by the comments you don't upload often. That's okay with me. I'll happily wait for this level of quality.
For you to realize the extent he goes to confirm a fact, his video "Eight Spiders" is a good representation of it. :)
Quality, not quantity.
This should be the slogan of the channel.
That's right my man
Never stop doing this man I love your channel soo much
LEMMiNO is hella underrated for the quality content he releases, this man needs a diamond play button.
I look up Lemmino on TH-cam at least once a week to see if he uploaded and TH-cam just “forgot” to give me a notification again... but here we are. It’s been too long, bro!
Yesterday before the upload I literally said the same and came to the page and nothing. Then later that day we have a new lemmino video.
You have the same actions as I lol
Sometimes even checking the subreddit for that matter.
Lemmino is the only youtuber I turned my notifications on for.
I Lift Things Up And Put Them D
7:15 That is the most upbeat musical accompaniment to a mushroom cloud I've ever heard.
That's what happens when someone is a soulless ignorant apathetic fuck. What can you do?
@@julzyboy8960 Lol, who are you even talking about?
@@julzyboy8960 wait, ya lost me. Adding upbeat music to a nuclear detonation makes them a, and I quote: "Soulless ignorant apathetic fuck." What?
This itself requires a Lemmino documentary.
@@SomethingSunnyside he's probably a Japanese facist that is salty that Japan lost WWII.
@@SomethingSunnyside A nuclear detonation on top of a populated city is pretty much hell on Earth and yet some people feel the need to play such cute music with it, it's just disgusting but even more so confusing to me.
I love the animations he makes to make you understand the story better. Such animations take lots of time to make and they're not really essential to the video. But he does this anyway because he loves what he does...
Hey! I'm your subscriber. Awesome content. Keep it up!!
The photographs of the event are night photos, which means that they were long exposure pictures. So, the "object" that people see in the spotlights, was just a blob of distorted light from a long film exposure that is needed to capture night photography. This is a fun mystery that I've been interested in for years, but the reality is, that if an object of any kind was truly lit up with those large lights, many more people would have clearly seen it, and there would've been far more certain reports than the vague reports that actually came in. Some saw planes, some balloons, others a blimp, some more saw bag shaped objects, but most saw nothing. This event is lost to time, and the true series of events that created it will never be known, but it was most likely misunderstandings, miscommunications, misidentifying, and fear. And, once the first shells were fired, it exasperated the entire situation.
Oh! Those poor,poor birds.....this changed the migration route For Sure
Byron Lee 🤣
Yep,flying isn't the pleasure it used to be.
Damn this is probabaly why man
😂😂 Their like: Heck no we are taking that route ever again.
I thought you were dead Byron 😱
Alien: "I come in PEACE"
US Army: "PEACE was never an OPTION"
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👽
✨this sent me to orbit ✨
@@ghosthound17 If i had the Chance to meet you right now u wouldn't see the Next morning
US Army: You come in peace, you'll leave in pieces.
OPEN FIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRREEEE!!!🤣🤣
It is known that the Japanese had a better understanding of air currents than the US did, and used balloons with timer-released bombs released from Japan to attack the US mainland. Most just floated over forests on the west coast and did no damage. Some downed balloons were recovered in Oregon.
True, but the first flight of such a weapon was in 1944, this incident above LA happened in early 1942.
@@OGPatriot03 that's just a gap of 2 years, countries have concealed secret technology before
One exploded onto a group of students tho
They where planning on dropping balloons with the plague also. Operation cherry blossom
@@Eireann. Wow, that is *quite* a choice of name.
Dude the music effects you put in your videos just give chills!!!
why the hell they release balloon on emergency times when enemy planes might fly over the city?
they wanted meteoroloical data that could in any way benefit them in case of an attack. dumb, yeah, but they guys doing were probably innocent of the idea of it causing a false alarm. I only learned that by pausing and reading at 13:38, it seems like an important detail he left out.
@@Inexpressable Thanks for pointing that out. I love how they even mentioned that the AA gunners were happy to get to fire some rounds.
To start shit
A weather balloon moving 25 miles in 30 minutes, meaning 50 miles per hour? Calling BS on that one.
Prank gone wrong. Just like the gas balloons that start forestall fires.
Dad, are you coming back for real this time?
Lol
I'm gonna buy some milk real quick,aight
To this day birds no longer migrate to the US
Birds aren't real.
@@swim_ad name says everything.
@@awkncs I thought so, too.
American Ugly what made you come to that ?
Doctor Vincent birds aren’t real
Your channel is a breath of fresh air in a world with "ancient aliens" in it.
Top10Memes was the best mistake ever
hahahaha, it was a bridge to an amazing content creator.
Only OGs remember that
Ahh, the good old days.
Yeah...
I Remember Those Days
Peakay The channel name was originally called Top ten memes
This man should have his own show
Aren't we watching it right now?
Yeah, he does.
own show which has 1 ep per year? lol
This is why you eat your carrots, kids
Ridz it’s 3am in the winter, it’s as dark as it gets
The Looinrims if they ate their carrots they would’ve seen what it is
hogwash, this is why you question everything and this is why you don't eyeball it and this SERVICEMAN BURNSIDE WHY YOU WAIT FOR THE COMPUTER TO GIVE YOU A FIRING SOLUTION, YOU ARE NOT A COWBOY FIRING FROM THE HIP!!
^sorry, I couldn't resist using that....
æugh
i heard once that "carrot" is a way to trick german pilots to eat carrots in order to see better at dark rather than letting them get suspicious on brits has figured radar or night vision on planes or something like that lol.
Imagine chilling in your blimp then you get shot down by 50 artillery cannons
Knowing your upload schedule, the next video is going to be Top Ten Facts: 2018
In 2019
Literally my fav youtuber and also the definition of quality over quantity
@@zell3332 along with kurzgesagt
It's like Christmas when lemmino uploads
Equally good and equally rare
AbuHagag that’s probably the next time he’ll upload hehe
Anyone else binging lemmino cuz they have nothing else to do?
Yup
@@sabaaras bro his videos are f*****ing awesome
I have homework to do but yeah I'm binging him 😂
Yes
@Mark Omega u need hlp
“Much like much channel name at the time […] was a mistake”
Lmao, who remembers Lemmino’s channel being named “Top 10 memes”
i just found out about this channel, what a Christmas gift.
@Tyler Durden Sir, you are a New Year's gift, Big big thank you.
you like it huh ? yea i know what you like
J English ik this is kinda random but if you like basketball watch jxmmyhighroller or rusty buckets. Trust me you won't regret it
The king is back.
White*
he was never gone
Bunny I also thought he said black
Saying "may never be truly resolved" as opposed to "unsolved" because we all know who takes that cake
?
lol
They'll sue him lol
The ghoul Boys ™
One of the few things in Buzzfeed I genuinely like
Imagine you making your first Weather Balloon, you're proud. And then a whole city blacks out and Flak guns fired at your Balloon.
I would curse at the sky
And hoping to be stricken by zeus
Imagine being an alien and learning about how humanity made so many things like music and art stuff, then going to visit them but getting shot at
I mean think of any aggressive lower intelligent animals there first thing to do is to fight something that makes them feel threatened so of course we would shoot at them who knows it really doesn’t matter because we wouldn’t be able to do anything to aliens
“These people are craycray, I’m never going back there!”
"these people are crazy, guess we can't play checkers we gotta play chess"
See yall next year
Twae KUMA7 ay I'll see ya then
Byyyye
His content is worth the wait
;^(
Humans are weird creatures with these conspiracy theories.
But aliens are weirder.
Hah, nice joke
I often like to muse about how strange aliens would find us. I picture this alien mom telling a bedtime story about a spaceman, going "then he came across this bizarre creature - it had two eyes, two arms, two legs, two ears, and only one nose!"
Aliens COULD be wierd
Imagine you're human and you let every little thing make you paranoid about aliens among you.
How would you know
This, and the intro of the video was one of my favorite of this channel
"Shells could be seen bursting near the object, but none seemed to hit it". Doesn't sound like any balloon I'm familiar with.
Exactly
The balloon could have had a bulletproof exterior.
Didnt four military pilots, radar just recently catch a tic tac ufo off the coast of California?
Lmao, it should take one anti aircraft missile to take it out.
@@steventipton7369 There weren't any anti aircraft missiles in service at that time.
Aliens just came to borrow some materials then got greeted with a barrage of bullets. They never came back and told the entire neighborhood, we were a bad neighbor
I mean if it was aliens its kinda unfortunate they came at a time of war.
When are not having us a little war though? I mean us humans, not just the US.
@@Mutedmouth i mean if all things go peacefully in the future it could end but i guess its not likely
No more major wars, but conflicts will always happen.
Oh yeah i wonder why they came in the time of war, Did sombody not tell them
11/10 quality, you out did yourself again :D PLZ keep doing doing what you do best!!!!
I appreciate your factual format without spin. Keep it that way.
All your videos are fantastic and you make it look effortless
Lemmino - you are one talented bastard
Siim Maran I agree!
talent or hard work? both different and not always synonymous
If it was a slow-moving target visible to the naked eye, hours of anti-aircraft shells would have definitely landed solid hits, especially with the increased armament due to wartime concerns. As such, either it was somethings that could withstand such hits, or, as occum's razor would suggest, it was nothing.
If it was visible to the naked eye they would’ve seen it was a balloon and not fired at it
or they were crap shots.
They said it was going 200 MPH first... this whole thing seems strange. Idiots hadn’t invented cell phones yet! if this happened in 2021 with different technology, we’d know what happened
@@37thousand Yeah, those idiots like you and me. Because YOU didn't invent the cellphone either, unless you are an old ex-Soviet scientist or some shit.
If it was nothing, why did the Army say that it was a balloon? Why wouldn't they say it was nothing?
*Quality > Quantity* all the way for me. I prefer quality but what's sad is that quantity has taken youtube over and you really have to survive by making quantity over quality. I would rather have quality but youtube and most TH-cam audience doesnt care about these videos anymore. I miss the old days. *Nostalgia*
Your videos never cease to amaze me!