PHBiscoff Frappe
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Shortly after the U.S. joined World War II, there was an air attack over Los Angeles after an unidentified flying object was seen. At that time, newspapers published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up to conceal an actual invasion by enemy airplanes. When documenting the incident, the United States Coast Artillery Association identified a weather balloon as the cause of the hysteria. They concluded that once the firing started, imagination created all kinds of targets in the sky and everyone joined in. Because of the chaos, three people died in car accidents and two died of heart attacks.
