Entries from LAist tagged with 'submarine'
August 23, 2008
During the UFO waves of the 1940s and '50s a new type of peculiar, possibly extraterrestrial or covert machine was mentioned, and often sighted in the murky oceans of the world. The USO, or Unidentified Submarine Object, just like the flying saucers and mystery airships of before, had begun to cause panic. Were alien life forms monitoring our shores with their advanced technology and preparing for possible attack, or was the government conducting clandestine operations......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: Weirdness In The Waters"July 18, 2008
Now here's one way to get drugs across the border and it's not the first time in recent years that this has happened. A homemade cocaine smuggling submarine was found by the Mexican Navy off the Pacific Coast this week. "The crew members said they were fishermen forced to make the journey by drug traffickers who threatened to harm their families," reports KNX1070, per the AP. Nine vessels like this have been found in the......
Continue Reading "Drug Smugglers Use Homemade Submarine"June 21, 2008
In 1947 UFO hysteria swept across the world after Kenneth Arnold's alleged sighting of peculiar disc-like objects in US skies. Reports from Los Angeles are certainly nothing new either, and government intervention or involvement is certainly not just a modern possibility. In 1956 over Burbank a strange craft was observed in the zenith by two brothers at 2:00 pm as they pottered outside in the garden of their grandparents. A 'shiny dot' appeared in the......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: When UFO Hysteria Hit LA"