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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hello everyone, my name is Preston Dennett and welcome to
- 0:04Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. I call
- 0:07Speaker 1: this episode UFOs over Los Angeles International Airport. In case
- 0:13Speaker 1: you don't know it, airports all across the world are
- 0:16Speaker 1: being visited by UFOs and LAX here in Southern California
- 0:21Speaker 1: is at the top of the list. In fact, I've
- 0:24Speaker 1: documented almost a dozen cases in which UFOs have hovered
- 0:28Speaker 1: directly over this airport. starting all the way to the
- 0:33Speaker 1: early 1950s, pretty much up to the present day. I
- 0:38Speaker 1: will say that LAX Airport is the third busiest airport
- 0:42Speaker 1: in the world and at one point transported more than
- 0:46Speaker 1: 80 million people in just one year. So this is
- 0:51Speaker 1: a very busy airport and is among, like I said,
- 0:56Speaker 1: the most visited in terms of UFOs as well. So
- 1:01Speaker 1: let's just get started on these very interesting cases because
- 1:05Speaker 1: I think they have something important to reveal about the
- 1:08Speaker 1: nature of the UFO phenomenon. And the earliest case I
- 1:12Speaker 1: could find occurred on July 15th, 1952. For four consecutive nights,
- 1:20Speaker 1: dozens of witnesses observed unidentified craft directly over LAX. These
- 1:25Speaker 1: objects would brazenly approach to within a quarter mile of
- 1:29Speaker 1: the control tower's and hover in place for minutes at
- 1:32Speaker 1: a time. One witness was a major Los Angeles aircraft
- 1:37Speaker 1: company principal who insisted upon being anonymous, and he wrote
- 1:43Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper, and I quote, I
- 1:47Speaker 1: am amazed at the increasing audacity of the strange disc-like
- 1:52Speaker 1: objects seen in the sky over the Los Angeles Airport
- 1:56Speaker 1: Control Tower. For four nights running, they've been seen at
- 2:00Speaker 1: the same time, between 7 and 8 p.m., and the
- 2:04Speaker 1: same place. On the last occasion, three of them hung
- 2:08Speaker 1: poised for five minutes by the clock. So that's the
- 2:12Speaker 1: first case, and again, it's certainly not the last. It
- 2:15Speaker 1: was 14 years later that another case occurred on April 3, 1966.
- 2:23Speaker 1: There were several witnesses, including a helicopter pilot, who observed, quote,
- 2:28Speaker 1: an oblong object with several pairs of lights, end quote,
- 2:33Speaker 1: hovering almost directly over the airport at only a few
- 2:37Speaker 1: thousand feet of altitude. After hovering there for some minutes,
- 2:42Speaker 1: the objects darted away. Seven years later, UFOs were back
- 2:48Speaker 1: over LAX. This next incident occurred on April 1, 1973.
- 2:52Speaker 1: It was around dawn when several residents of Hollywood... reported
- 2:59Speaker 1: seeing a disk-like object glowing and spinning and moving like, quote,
- 3:06Speaker 1: a cork bobbing on the ocean. This is typical UFO movement.
- 3:13Speaker 1: And this object was on a direct course towards Los
- 3:17Speaker 1: Angeles International Airport. So there you go, another report. And
- 3:24Speaker 1: it was just three years later when the UFOs were
- 3:26Speaker 1: back over LAX. On March 23, 1977, a gentleman by
- 3:33Speaker 1: the name of Mark Hogan, who worked as a cargo
- 3:37Speaker 1: handler at LAX Airport, saw what he described as a
- 3:41Speaker 1: tear-drop or tin-can-shaped object which came in over the ocean
- 3:48Speaker 1: from the direction of Catalina Island and flew in formation
- 3:52Speaker 1: over the airport runways. The object had two fixed lights
- 3:56Speaker 1: on it, he said. March Air Force Base, which is nearby,
- 4:00Speaker 1: was contacted, but they denied any knowledge of this incident.
- 4:05Speaker 1: They said it did not appear on their radar. They
- 4:08Speaker 1: knew nothing about it, nor were they conducting any type
- 4:11Speaker 1: of rocket tests. I will say that LAX is along
- 4:17Speaker 1: the Santa Catalina Channel, which is a huge magnet for
- 4:22Speaker 1: UFO activity. That could be a factor here, but in
- 4:25Speaker 1: these cases, these objects are coming right over the airport itself,
- 4:31Speaker 1: as if they want to be seen or certainly are
- 4:33Speaker 1: showing no fear of being seen. Another case occurred almost
- 4:39Speaker 1: 20 years later, 18 actually, in 1995, when an anonymous
- 4:45Speaker 1: air traffic controller at LAX itself revealed that during his
- 4:51Speaker 1: six years of employment as a leading controller handling restricted airspace,
- 4:57Speaker 1: he heard numerous accounts of UFO sightings and received several
- 5:03Speaker 1: reports firsthand from pilots. And one of them occurred in 1992,
- 5:07Speaker 1: he says. This was actually on August 5th, 1992. And
- 5:09Speaker 1: as he says, and I quote, Northeast of LAX, a
- 5:11Speaker 1: UAL 747 on climb out at about 24,000 feet suddenly said,
- 5:27Speaker 1: Do you show something went right under us? We didn't.
- 5:31Speaker 1: There was absolutely nothing on radar. The pilot said it
- 5:35Speaker 1: went right by us, opposite direction, about three times the
- 5:38Speaker 1: normal closure rate, which normally is 900 knots. We pulled
- 5:43Speaker 1: up the primary radar, raw radar returns, and there was
- 5:46Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. The pilot said it was, quote, kind of
- 5:50Speaker 1: like a rocket, but with something on top, and it
- 5:53Speaker 1: was about the size of an F-16. I got on
- 5:57Speaker 1: the landline to the lower controller to warn him for
- 6:01Speaker 1: subsequent aircraft. The only restricted area had no activity at
- 6:07Speaker 1: those altitudes, and there were no military aircraft in the area.
- 6:12Speaker 1: We told the supervisor, and he just said, Huh. We
- 6:16Speaker 1: just shook our heads and mostly forgot about it, though
- 6:19Speaker 1: the pilot did make a report on it, and it
- 6:22Speaker 1: appeared in Aviation Week and Space Technologies. This is a
- 6:28Speaker 1: major magazine, and this magazine article actually described the sighting.
- 6:34Speaker 1: As the article says, and I quote, The pilot and
- 6:38Speaker 1: co-pilot of United Flight 934 with a heavy passenger load
- 6:44Speaker 1: from Los Angeles to London said they saw an unusual
- 6:48Speaker 1: aircraft coming directly at them and pass under the 747
- 6:51Speaker 1: by an estimated 500 to 1,000 feet. The incident occurred
- 6:57Speaker 1: near Georgia Air Force Base at about 1.45 p.m. on
- 7:01Speaker 1: August 5th. The 747 was at 23,000 feet, departing from
- 7:07Speaker 1: Los Angeles International Airport on a heading of about 40
- 7:12Speaker 1: degrees magnetic. The several-second sighting gave the crew the impression
- 7:18Speaker 1: that the other aircraft was a lifting body configuration, and
- 7:22Speaker 1: they described it as looking like the forward fuselage of
- 7:26Speaker 1: a Lockheed SR-71, without wings, but with a tail of sorts.
- 7:32Speaker 1: They estimated the size as similar to an F-16. Defense
- 7:39Speaker 1: Department and Air Force officials said last week that it
- 7:43Speaker 1: was not one of their secret projects. So this is
- 7:47Speaker 1: apparently just one of several sightings this air traffic controller
- 7:52Speaker 1: at LAX said that he was privy to. Something is
- 7:56Speaker 1: clearly going on here. And another incident occurred around this
- 8:01Speaker 1: same time on February 17, 1995 at 2.48 p.m. I
- 8:08Speaker 1: actually interviewed this witness firsthand. He's a municipal park worker
- 8:13Speaker 1: by the name of Brian Forrest. And he was on
- 8:18Speaker 1: or next to the airport grounds on February On his
- 8:21Speaker 1: normal route, when he looked up and observed what he
- 8:25Speaker 1: described as a large black object hovering over Imperial Highway
- 8:30Speaker 1: about 200 feet up in the air, practically right over
- 8:34Speaker 1: Los Angeles Airport. He said it was less than a
- 8:38Speaker 1: mile distant and it was very obvious to him that
- 8:41Speaker 1: something very strange was hovering there. As Brian Forrest says,
- 8:46Speaker 1: and I quote, it was about 200 to 300 feet
- 8:48Speaker 1: in the air. I know the distance because I drove
- 8:52Speaker 1: it in a car. The way I was able to
- 8:54Speaker 1: tell it was approximately over there is a jet was
- 8:57Speaker 1: taking off behind it. The pilot had to see this thing.
- 9:02Speaker 1: I figured the people in the air control tower had
- 9:04Speaker 1: to see it. It was shaped along the lines of
- 9:07Speaker 1: a dark cylinder. Well, not a cylinder, more of a
- 9:11Speaker 1: cone with a rounded top and bottom. Not pointed, but rounded,
- 9:16Speaker 1: the bigger part being at the top. where you might
- 9:19Speaker 1: think of it as an acorn-type shape. I would say
- 9:23Speaker 1: it was approximately the size of a single-car garage turned
- 9:27Speaker 1: on end. It did not move. It just stayed there.
- 9:31Speaker 1: It was the strangest thing, because I've never seen anything
- 9:34Speaker 1: like that. Your mind immediately goes, It's a helicopter. It's
- 9:39Speaker 1: a balloon. It's a... It's a... No, it's not that.
- 9:43Speaker 1: And I just kept staring at it. It did not move.
- 9:47Speaker 1: This jet... was taking off behind it. Brian Forrest did
- 9:52Speaker 1: notice another strange detail, as he says, the strangest thing
- 9:57Speaker 1: is I think about it now in retrospect is it's
- 10:01Speaker 1: as though it was in focus but almost slightly out
- 10:05Speaker 1: of focus everything else was clear as a bell but
- 10:09Speaker 1: imagine a canvas with fresh paint on it and you
- 10:11Speaker 1: went up and down and slightly smudged it just a
- 10:14Speaker 1: bit it was in focus but almost slightly out I
- 10:19Speaker 1: found that interesting because this is something other witnesses have
- 10:22Speaker 1: told me about their sightings. So Brian Forrest also remarked
- 10:28Speaker 1: other details that UFO researchers look for, including the immobility
- 10:33Speaker 1: of the object and the total lack of reflection. And
- 10:37Speaker 1: as Brian says, and again I quote, you just don't
- 10:40Speaker 1: see things there in the sky without some apparent reason,
- 10:44Speaker 1: something holding it up, or it's drifting or moving in
- 10:47Speaker 1: some way. But just to see it there and not
- 10:50Speaker 1: move at all, it was like a rock. It didn't move.
- 10:53Speaker 1: It was like a part of the sky. It was
- 10:55Speaker 1: the strangest thing. There were no details. The object was
- 10:59Speaker 1: completely black. No reflection on its surface. So after realizing
- 11:05Speaker 1: that this object was unidentified, he rushed back inside to
- 11:09Speaker 1: get another witness. But by the time he returned, this
- 11:13Speaker 1: object was gone. And he's absolutely convinced he saw a
- 11:17Speaker 1: genuine UFO. As Brian says, and I quote, it was
- 11:22Speaker 1: like looking at a piece of the Twilight Zone. It
- 11:24Speaker 1: was a real weird moment. And he did get some
- 11:29Speaker 1: corroboration when one week later, the Orange County Register printed
- 11:33Speaker 1: an article titled, Neighbors Encounter Unidentifiable Object. And it detailed
- 11:41Speaker 1: the sighting of a dark, strangely shaped object hovering in
- 11:46Speaker 1: the sky just south of LAX. And there were various
- 11:50Speaker 1: descriptions from witnesses, including, quote, dark oblong objects, a Model
- 11:57Speaker 1: T hit by a freight train, or a piece of
- 12:02Speaker 1: junk hanging from an invisible balloon. One witness gave a
- 12:07Speaker 1: description that was pretty much identical to Brian's, saying, it
- 12:12Speaker 1: was a cylinder, black, turning and rotating in the sky
- 12:16Speaker 1: it was two months later in 1995 april that there
- 12:22Speaker 1: was another sighting over lax and again i was able
- 12:27Speaker 1: to interview the witness firsthand the witness is a lady
- 12:32Speaker 1: by the name of pat brown a massage therapist from
- 12:36Speaker 1: panorama city she was driving along the freeway directly next
- 12:41Speaker 1: to Los Angeles International Airport. This was around 3 p.m.,
- 12:47Speaker 1: so during daylight hours, when she saw something so strange
- 12:51Speaker 1: and so unusual that it was instantly obvious to her
- 12:54Speaker 1: that this was a UFO. She described it as an
- 12:58Speaker 1: enormous golden sphere gliding slightly downward over the airport. And
- 13:05Speaker 1: I'll just let Pat Brown describe this sighting in her
- 13:08Speaker 1: own words. As she says, and I quote, I was
- 13:11Speaker 1: driving down the 405, and I got off the freeway
- 13:14Speaker 1: at that Howard Hughes exit, and I was looking up
- 13:17Speaker 1: at the sky, and the sky was crystal clear blue.
- 13:21Speaker 1: And then, all of a sudden, there was a big
- 13:24Speaker 1: gold ship. And it was obvious it was a ship.
- 13:27Speaker 1: It was gold, and it was circular. It was like
- 13:31Speaker 1: an airplane that was coming in for a landing at LAX.
- 13:34Speaker 1: Not as large as the Southwest Airlines. That's one of
- 13:37Speaker 1: the smaller planes. was maybe two-thirds the size of a
- 13:41Speaker 1: Southwest airline. It was just seconds that I was able
- 13:45Speaker 1: to see it. It was obvious to me because I
- 13:48Speaker 1: saw it, and really, on this exit, there aren't a
- 13:51Speaker 1: lot of cars, so there was no one to my right,
- 13:54Speaker 1: no one in front of me that I was aware of,
- 13:56Speaker 1: and I didn't check behind me. It was just there,
- 13:58Speaker 1: and then it wasn't there. And it was really interesting
- 14:02Speaker 1: because it was on a 45-degree angle, like it was
- 14:05Speaker 1: coming in for something. Pat Brown is a contactee, has
- 14:11Speaker 1: had a number of sightings, and was visited by gray
- 14:14Speaker 1: ETs and taken on board. So for her, this was,
- 14:18Speaker 1: I don't want to say normal, but it's definitely something
- 14:21Speaker 1: she's experienced before, and she was very much impressed that
- 14:25Speaker 1: this was a UFO. But what really impressed her was
- 14:28Speaker 1: this location directly over LAX. What is going on here?
- 14:34Speaker 1: Why are there so many sightings over LAX? probably the
- 14:38Speaker 1: granddaddy of all the LAX airport encounters, occurred in April
- 14:46Speaker 1: of 1997, when literally dozens of witnesses called the news,
- 14:52Speaker 1: called various radio stations, called the police, reporting seeing red
- 14:57Speaker 1: lights over the airport. That evening, it was covered on
- 15:03Speaker 1: the evening news. I remember watching the report. It was
- 15:07Speaker 1: very tongue-in-cheek, very brief. They mostly just sort of ridiculed
- 15:11Speaker 1: the witnesses, but they did provide descriptions from firsthand witnesses
- 15:17Speaker 1: who described these as red lights or strange lights that, quote,
- 15:23Speaker 1: hovered over the airport. And reportedly, they were seen on radar.
- 15:30Speaker 1: So the reporting on this incident was somewhat incomplete. and
- 15:37Speaker 1: not a true and proper investigation. But they certainly did
- 15:43Speaker 1: verify that this incident did take place. I talked to
- 15:47Speaker 1: one witness firsthand. He declined a formal interview, but said
- 15:51Speaker 1: that he did see the lights himself and that they
- 15:54Speaker 1: weren't very bright, but they were absolutely obvious. And he
- 15:59Speaker 1: estimated that they were quite low, maybe a few thousand
- 16:03Speaker 1: feet high, And he watched them for several minutes before
- 16:07Speaker 1: they disappeared. So year after year, UFOs are coming and
- 16:12Speaker 1: visiting LAX. And here is yet another case, which occurred
- 16:17Speaker 1: on March 31st, 1999. This occurred just after midnight when
- 16:24Speaker 1: a police helicopter and crew were flying immediately adjacent to
- 16:30Speaker 1: LAX over the city of Carson. and they were circling
- 16:34Speaker 1: their target location at a 500 feet of altitude when
- 16:39Speaker 1: the pilot shouted out that a, quote, orange ball of
- 16:43Speaker 1: light was an estimated two miles ahead of them and
- 16:46Speaker 1: approaching fast. This ball of light raced towards the observers,
- 16:52Speaker 1: changed direction, and moved at right angles. The helicopter pilot
- 16:58Speaker 1: aimed the helicopter so that they could see this object
- 17:02Speaker 1: and keep it in view. And as one of the
- 17:04Speaker 1: crewmen says, and I quote, the object then changed direction again,
- 17:09Speaker 1: accelerated and headed directly at the door of the helicopter.
- 17:15Speaker 1: And the crewman admitted that he was so startled that
- 17:18Speaker 1: he pressed both the radio and the intercom and shouted
- 17:22Speaker 1: out an expletive. As the crewman says, and I quote,
- 17:26Speaker 1: the object got within 200 feet of the aircraft and
- 17:30Speaker 1: then changed direction again. flying to the north at a
- 17:33Speaker 1: very high rate of speed and out of view. This
- 17:38Speaker 1: crewman is absolutely insistent that this was a genuine UFO,
- 17:43Speaker 1: and as he says, I hope you don't think I'm
- 17:45Speaker 1: a nut, but I've been around and involved in aviation
- 17:49Speaker 1: for a long time. I've never seen anything like this.
- 17:53Speaker 1: The texture, the shape, the movement, the speed changes, and
- 17:57Speaker 1: the drastic angles all added up to it not being
- 18:01Speaker 1: being anything that I have seen before. So he was
- 18:05Speaker 1: so impressed by this that he ended up calling New Fork,
- 18:10Speaker 1: the National UFO Reporting Center, and reporting his sighting. He
- 18:14Speaker 1: thought it was that important. It's another amazing case, which
- 18:18Speaker 1: shows how close these objects get not only to LAX itself,
- 18:24Speaker 1: but to the actual aircraft. I mean, planes... And helicopters
- 18:29Speaker 1: do not approach to within 100 feet of each other.
- 18:32Speaker 1: That would be called a near collision and would cause
- 18:36Speaker 1: a huge investigation. And yet these objects are coming right
- 18:40Speaker 1: up to these objects and hovering right over the airport itself.
- 18:46Speaker 1: It's really quite amazing. And another case came not much longer.
- 18:53Speaker 1: It was on July 23rd. 2002. And this is a
- 18:59Speaker 1: really interesting sighting. It occurred exactly at 10 p.m. when
- 19:05Speaker 1: more than a dozen witnesses, including a UFO researcher, MUFON
- 19:12Speaker 1: State Section Director for Los Angeles, Mark Hunziker, all observed
- 19:19Speaker 1: a large triangular-shaped UFO with red lights. and it moved
- 19:24Speaker 1: directly over the southwestern end of Los Angeles International Airport,
- 19:30Speaker 1: heading out towards the Santa Catalina Channel. Mark Hunziker, being
- 19:37Speaker 1: a UFO researcher, was very familiar with astronomy and aircraft
- 19:44Speaker 1: and the air flight patterns over LAX, and he was
- 19:51Speaker 1: in Marina Del Rey just north of LAX when his
- 19:54Speaker 1: neighbor alerted him to the object he looked overhead and
- 19:59Speaker 1: he described this object as being quote a brightly lit
- 20:03Speaker 1: array of lights which looked like they were configured to
- 20:06Speaker 1: what appeared to be a central jet aircraft However, when
- 20:11Speaker 1: he looked closer, he realized the shape was wrong and
- 20:14Speaker 1: the object was covered with red lights. So not a
- 20:18Speaker 1: standard aircraft. And more than a dozen witnesses from neighboring
- 20:24Speaker 1: communities observed this same object. And allegedly one witness captured
- 20:30Speaker 1: this object on videotape, an analysis of which showed this
- 20:35Speaker 1: to be a large triangular shaped craft. The final case
- 20:41Speaker 1: I found was relatively recent. This occurred on November 27, 2003,
- 20:48Speaker 1: when a resident of Los Angeles who prefers to remain
- 20:51Speaker 1: anonymous was driving along the 110 freeway, this is directly
- 20:56Speaker 1: north of LAX, and he was watching the incoming planes
- 21:00Speaker 1: line up when he saw, quote, an anomalous craft crossing
- 21:05Speaker 1: over the approach path to LAX. He says this craft
- 21:11Speaker 1: appeared to be a very large triangular-shaped object with several
- 21:16Speaker 1: lights underneath it. He carefully observed this craft as it
- 21:20Speaker 1: moved northeast directly over the airport. He was so impressed
- 21:24Speaker 1: by it that he later investigated all the flights that
- 21:27Speaker 1: took place that day at that time and was unable
- 21:31Speaker 1: to find any corresponding match. So again, he remains convinced
- 21:36Speaker 1: that this was a genuine UFO object And he reported
- 21:39Speaker 1: his sighting in detail to the National UFO Reporting Center.
- 21:45Speaker 1: So there's almost a dozen cases. I know there are more.
- 21:48Speaker 1: Most people do not report these sightings. And a number
- 21:52Speaker 1: of other sightings could be listed because they were in
- 21:55Speaker 1: the same general area, the Santa Catalina Channel. It's hugely active.
- 22:02Speaker 1: So this is probably part of that whole complex of sightings.
- 22:06Speaker 1: But what's really interesting about these sightings is how close
- 22:09Speaker 1: they are getting to LAX. And I think this shows
- 22:13Speaker 1: that UFOs are purposefully showing themselves. Normally, sightings are pretty
- 22:19Speaker 1: evasive and not wanting to be seen. But in these cases,
- 22:24Speaker 1: it's clear that they are sort of showing themselves off.
- 22:29Speaker 1: I first covered this series of events in my book,
- 22:32Speaker 1: UFOs Over California. But after finding more events, I did
- 22:37Speaker 1: another write-up in my book, Undersea UFO Base. LAX is
- 22:44Speaker 1: definitely being visited by UFOs. It's been going on for decades.
- 22:51Speaker 1: So I am pretty confident it's going to happen again.
- 22:55Speaker 1: And again, airports all over the world are being visited.
- 22:59Speaker 1: As far as I know, none have had the number
- 23:02Speaker 1: of sightings. that LAX has had. That's another reason why
- 23:06Speaker 1: I wanted to do this presentation for you today. Because
- 23:12Speaker 1: LAX is really at the top of the list in
- 23:14Speaker 1: terms of airports being visited by UFOs. But this is
- 23:18Speaker 1: definitely a thing. Something is going on here. It's got
- 23:22Speaker 1: something important to say about how UFOs behave. And that's
- 23:26Speaker 1: why I wanted to do this episode for you today.
- 23:30Speaker 1: I hope you've enjoyed it. I really want to thank
- 23:32Speaker 1: you once again for watching. I really appreciate it. And
- 23:36Speaker 1: as I like to say, keep asking questions, keep searching
- 23:41Speaker 1: for the truth, and most importantly, keep having fun.