Fun fact about the event in Hawaii, where a warning was mistakenly sent: A few minutes after the warning was issued the internet traffic of p*rn sites increased significantly (I think it was something around 30%). "A knight dies with his sword in his hands" I guess...
If every breathing soul, on the Hawaii island, logged into PH, it wouldn’t have increased porn views by 30%, that’s ludacris.. I wonder if ppl use any form of reasoning or basic math when reading such claims.
Looking forward to the Apri fool's episode where the title is "Did alients/ghosts do/start...." and Simon just reads the title, says "No." then episode actually ends.
My pitch is an hour long episode where evidence slowly stacks up until Simon is finally convinced aliens have landed on earth. Then he says "April Fools!"
I saw one of those paranormal true or false shows once that covered this. Their take away of the photo shown in the paper was that so many high intensity search lights meeting in the same spot could make it look like a solid object was there when in actual fact it was purely light.
It's my understanding that Japan, lacking planes capable of reaching the US and returning, launched a series of balloons carrying incendiary devices towards the U.S. The idea was to possibly start forest fires and generally spread panic in the U.S. and Canada. Almost all the balloons either ditched at sea or drifted across the country without incident. One balloon did actually land in Washington or Oregon and killed someone(s). That person or persons were the only domestic casualties of WWII.
Yep. Shortly before the war Japan discovered the jet stream and realized a balloon could make it to the US. Pretty interesting setup too. Most balloons were made of paper and had sandbags that dropped to maintain altitude. And one crashed and IIRC was discovered by a group of kids and their sunday school teacher. They were in fact the only Americans killed on American soil by enemy action in the war. Another cool bit I just remembered was how they figured out where they were from. They suspected they were from Japan but couldn't prove it. Someone took the sand out of a sandbag and looked at it under a microscope and compared it to beach sands in someones collection. They figured out the exact beach it was launched from.
I was looking for this comment. This is what went through my mind. I wonder why Katie didn't bring it up. I watched a documentary on these balloons back in the early 2000s. It said a hiker came across one of these balloons in Washington in the 90s. I also have a vague memory about a father and son finding one and it was still active decades later. I can't remember if it killed them both or just injured them. 🤷🏻♀️
Correct. The US also tried that idea and tested high altitude balloons. Some say that a few had biologic an others had chemical to test if it could be used as a weapon.. Guess where one of them crash and deformed three children.
@@Plapradnot the only killed on U.S. soil look up the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian island in Alaska or one of the many other U.S. territories that Japan attacked oh and Hawaii.
@@Jameson1776 Guessing the comment is supposed to be taken as American soil meaning the country of the United States and not a territory of the United States. Neither Hawaii or Alaska were states until 1959.
I've always thought that the apparent "object" in the famous photograph was just a confluence of all the searchlights searching in the same spot at the same time, maybe enhanced for the newspaper version.
It wasn't in LA, but there was one WW2 incident that did cause all west coast bases to go on high alert. A radioman was receiving a Japanese communication and thought it was an imminent attack on San Francisco. Turned out it was the Navajo codetalkers, which were so classified at the time that not even the brass on the other bases knew about them.
US racism at its best. Everything foreign is Japanese. The irony is Navajo isn't foreign. It is All American. English on the other hand is totally foreign.
Simon & Team could you please do a video on how to verify documents/the admissibility of evidence in court/general police standard procedure and all things of that nature, feel like it comes up often in these videos and I would love to learn about it!
Of course he could have cross verified the info released to the public via freedom of information and realized though not alien. Much of this was real.
Truthfully, as a Navy brat who’s read a lot of military documents, they are always very wordy and not everyone can spell. Particularly back in the days of typewriters. Lord, the number of pages I’ve had to retype for papers back in the day.
@@ryanbradleyrankin what are you talking about?? How are you defining modern? They didn’t care at all about spelling until it was codified in the early 1800s. But we’re talking about documents made long long after that.
lol I used to crack up about how much "official" stuff had typos in it. In Germany the word for barracks or post is Kaserne. There were a couple posts that had sandblasted signs displaying the name of the barracks, made in some woodshop, finished, painted, etc. The thing was someone added way too many S's. Kasserne and Kassserne Someone got crazy with the S's lol... I always wondered if someone realized the error but still put them up to shame/spite the person who had them made....you know how the humor in the military is hahaha.
Ahead of their time bc they understood that 90% of what the US says is lies, and the other 10% is to mislead you from the truth.... straight up evil....
1:40 - Chapter 1 - The battle of los angeles 6:55 - Chapter 2 - The UFO conspiracy 10:15 - Chapter 3 - The majestic 12 documents 14:50 - Chapter 4 - Decoding the conspiracy 23:35 - Chapter 5 - What was going on in the battle of los angeles ? 26:40 - Conclusion
One of my favorite movies is 1941, which is loosely based on this incident. Steven Spielberg at his best, and the cast was absolutely superb. It was my only idea of what had actually occurred before I checked it out in high school for some research.
UAPs aren't a joke. It's just so hard to believe most ppl can't even contemplate it actually being real. But research guys like David Grusch, Fraber, Lazar, and the Congressional hearings on the whistleblowers. There's something to it.
Once a mass panic gets going it's impossible to stop. Same thing happened at Gatwik in the UK, someone found the junked lower half of an office chair at the airport and reported it as a "crashed drone" and then a weeklong panic started. Even after it was determined to just be part of an office chair a few hours later the freakout had already gained momentum and couldn't be stopped.
Most people don't know how close the Japanese got to the West Coast. In addition to what you described, they bombed sections of coastal Oregon with the hopes of starting forest fires. Few fires were started, but occasionally, an unexploded ordinance is found. Remnants of WWII gun turret platforms and other concrete structures can still be found in San Pedro, CA.
No credible proof of Majestic 12 ever existing as a real thing. Seems like it was a hoax from the get go. A pretty darn believable hoax though. Between confirmed historical things like MKultra and Project Bluebook and Project Stargate and operations like Cointelpro? MJ12 would fit right in.
You're probably mixing up maj-12 with project bluebook. Bluebook has been confirmed, maj-12 has not, and was likely a disinformation campaign like the Dulce Base conspiracy was. It being intentional disinformation is worse than it being aliens. The US government was waging a physiological war against UFO researchers, pushing some to commit suicide. That's what should be focused on.
I feel like you need to start working on an April 1st Decoding Unknown where your writer presents a "mystery" that is very well explained. The more the Simon's writer details how mundane the event was the more Simon gets skeptical of the obvious explanation and leans harder and harder into believing the conspiracy theory and ends the episode declaring Aliens are real.
I like to watch Ancient Aliens from time to time for a laugh (because oh boy, they believe some Things). So I always get excited when Simon does a topic like this. Like, "yay! Time for the rational side!"
The movie in question should be 1941 staring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Nancy Allen, and Mickey Rourke. I maintain the actual Battle of Los Angeles was in 1992
If aliens were capable of traveling the vast interstellar distances to get here, what would they be doing with anything as primitive as nuclear fission technology on board?
Yes and apparently we reverse engineered their technology for space flight, and all we come up with is strapping someone to the top of a large amount of volatile chemicals and setting it on fire 🤔
I live in Santa Barbara and remember learning about how we were the only place in the US to be shelled during WW2. The Ritz-Carlton is right next to the Ellwood oil refinery (which still exists) now
Breaking Bad was set in New Mexico because that’s where Vince Gilligan is from. I’m sure there were tax incentives but it was always meant to be set in New Mexico.
Sigh! What a relief an episode where Simon doesn't just say "hey! There's no aliens this is just stupid silly stuff, not for my big brain" two minutes into the episode
Simon Whistler is the type that would have swore blind MK Ultra was nothing more than a conspiracy theory. He is a hack who cannot be trusted to talk about subjects such as UAP/NHI. The arrogance of the man on these subjects has been truly astonishing 🙄
Simon and basement crew! Please cover the mutilated body of Guarapiranga reservoir in Brazil! It is so interesting and very sad but I think you would do amazing writing on it
The UFO being just unidentified is spot on. I had planes fly near my house, and I saw a light one evening. I thought first it maybe a nova, for it was orange and twice brighter than Sirius. Planes usually have pure wife lighty. Then it moved slowly. I thought it was a meteor and got slightly unnerved. Meteors that big can cause a fuss. But soon it turned out to be a plane, flying lower with a very powerful headlamps of an unusual dark yellow tint. I never saw a plane with lights on like that, but perhaps it was a military transport plane, those that ferry tanks and such. Or just something new, but it was definately not interplanetary.
Simon should do a video where his writer's script is a series of sentences that will prompt tangents. No overarching story, just prompts that they know will cause him to go on tangents. He could make a whole channel CALLED Tangents.
FWIW, on the evening of 7 Dec, 1941, my grandfather, John Patrick Culliton, was leading a squadron of RCAF Supermarine Stranraers south through the US towards the Canadian west coast for ASW operations out of Comox. As they were flying over Charleston - literally on other side of the planet from Japan - the "strange" (to Yankees) biplane flying boats (with roundells TBF) were considered Japanese, and an AA barrage commenced. Mercifully for my personal existance, the AA crews were hopelessly inaccurate, and Grandpa's flight hit the deck and taxied in safely. Then the base staff got to witness a VERY experiencd RCAF Flight Lieutenant (a close friend of Charles Lindbergh among others incl. Billy Bishop VC and Roy Brown VC -dude who downed the Red Baron), unleash the invective only a very experienced Irish-Canadian bush pilot can inflict, on a poor 2-star USAAF general in charge of the defences. To summerize, the Army quickly sent a very apologetic note to the RCAF command and begged forgivness for their sins. They didn't need UFOs. A flock of seagulls would have touched off the trigger happy gunners at that time!
It's funny that I just watched the latest video on a Ghost Ship, 3/9/2024, that Katy wrote, and then found this, one that I had missed from a month ago, also by Katy, lol! The fact that it was all random, I mean UA-cam had recommended it after the ghost ship one, and I wanted one more to watch as I get ready for bed and there was others, but they were much longer ones, so I picked this one randomly, but this one is also written by Katy, just seems kind of funny to me!
I actually have a theory about this one. What if it was a weather ballon like the army said, but something more was going on. We know the japanese were weaponizing weather ballons and even a few americans died from them. What if the reason it was an all hands on deck and the us army went bat shit crazy to deal with situation was because they were worried the japanese were launching something
Yeah I always just assumed this. Its likely it because the US refused to even admit the balloon attacks were taking place because they didnt want to scare people. If I had to guess this was the actual wave of them and the others were stragglers they missed that randomly landed. Curious about when the others came down and if it goes inline with the dates here because I bet it would
@@seditt5146 Doubt it. Japan admits they only started using the balloon bombs in late 1945. It was a rushed last ditch weapon. They also used the jet stream to get them to the US. I don't think the jet stream spends that much time that far south to get them over LA. Probably just a lot of Civil Defense volunteers who had no clue what they were doing and scared crapless.
9:16 "Celestial devices" could mean "devices from the sky." or it could also mean "devices from the Orient(derogatory reference)." It may be an obscure slur these days, but it was still common enough in 1966 that the BBC chose to costume a character in Doctor Who in Oriental garb, despite the actor being clearly British, based on the story's title of "The Celestial Youmaker," when being a sci-fi show, traveling in time and space, the 'from the stars' interpretation would seem more apt.
I'm pretty sure it was started by Tim Matheson trying to get it on in a plane with Nancy Allen while being chased by John Belushi in a P-40... (If you get this reference, we can be frens)
My mom was living in Santa Monica when this happen and it scared the hell out of her. She thought the invasion was happening and was expecting to see Japanese troops storming up Santa Monica Blvd.
For future fake US documents, keep in mind that "Top Secret - Eyes Only" isn't a thing. Top Secret and Eyes Only are two separate security levels and both aren't placed on the same document. It would be akin to marking something "Classified - Confidential", it would be redundant. Classified, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret and Eyes Only are all individual security levels that build off the previous level. I had top secret clearance during my service, and only heard rumors about eyes only, so I can't be sure that actually exists, though I would guess it does, as well as other levels of clearance I don't know about.
From my understanding, which is limited considering you can't even learn about the things unless you're read in is that "Eye's only" is an older one where you can only read it. You cannot reproduce it in any way with copying or photographing.
You're thinking of Independence Day, I saw it with a guy from LA who found it hilarious that Los Angelos were ordered to stop firing at the space ship hovering overhead. He knew it was more fact than fiction.
My understanding was that it was a barrage balloon that got loose. Barrage balloons are put up to keep planes from coming in low on their bombing runs and one supposedly got loose, it came up on RADAR, someone shot at it and then everyone else started firing.
My theory: the us citizens were scared of an attack. How does the government assuage their fears? Let go some harmless, unmanned balloons or something with lights on them, let the public see them, shoot the ever loving poo out of them, then say "oops there wasnt anything there. But if there would have been, it would have definitely gone down. I mean, we were ready and did you see all that ammunition we used?" Smart and a big statement to both sides.
Fun fact about the event in Hawaii, where a warning was mistakenly sent:
A few minutes after the warning was issued the internet traffic of p*rn sites increased significantly (I think it was something around 30%). "A knight dies with his sword in his hands" I guess...
1.5 mins till impact??
Just about enough time,out of way loser!!
Legends
IF youre gonna go, might as well go after letting one go 🤷♂?
I mean, fair. If you only have a few minutes left, might as well enjoy them.
If every breathing soul, on the Hawaii island, logged into PH, it wouldn’t have increased porn views by 30%, that’s ludacris.. I wonder if ppl use any form of reasoning or basic math when reading such claims.
Looking forward to the Apri fool's episode where the title is "Did alients/ghosts do/start...." and Simon just reads the title, says "No." then episode actually ends.
"DId aliens....HOUR LONG TANGENT ABOUT A DIRTY DISH SPONGE...Where were we?? Oh, right, aliens...NO!" Credits roll.
My pitch is an hour long episode where evidence slowly stacks up until Simon is finally convinced aliens have landed on earth. Then he says "April Fools!"
What, not even a single tangent? 🤣👍
Well done Katy. You had Simon on a tangent in less than 20 seconds. LoL. Cheers from Tennessee
east, west or middle?
@@jcook693 West.
@@Hillbilly001 cool, east here
Less than 20 seconds in and Simon's already on a tangent. 😂
Yeah yeah yeah deserts
Didn't even make it through the title card
I swear I saw a 'tangent timer' on a recent vid. If that wasn't a tangent-induced hallucination i think it sould be a permanent feature
He was probably on a tangent before he turned on the camera lol
@@1ThomkroI agree I laughed so hard at that. I wish it would be in every video
I saw one of those paranormal true or false shows once that covered this. Their take away of the photo shown in the paper was that so many high intensity search lights meeting in the same spot could make it look like a solid object was there when in actual fact it was purely light.
We still test our air raid sirens here in WA state every year. Mainly used for Volcanoes now though.
Do volcanoes exist in Western Australia?
@@Pearcewreck Washington state US
I feel like even if an alien came down and landed in Washington, Simon would just be like, “Guess I was wrong about that one.” So unbothered lol
It's my understanding that Japan, lacking planes capable of reaching the US and returning, launched a series of balloons carrying incendiary devices towards the U.S. The idea was to possibly start forest fires and generally spread panic in the U.S. and Canada. Almost all the balloons either ditched at sea or drifted across the country without incident. One balloon did actually land in Washington or Oregon and killed someone(s). That person or persons were the only domestic casualties of WWII.
Yep. Shortly before the war Japan discovered the jet stream and realized a balloon could make it to the US. Pretty interesting setup too. Most balloons were made of paper and had sandbags that dropped to maintain altitude.
And one crashed and IIRC was discovered by a group of kids and their sunday school teacher. They were in fact the only Americans killed on American soil by enemy action in the war.
Another cool bit I just remembered was how they figured out where they were from. They suspected they were from Japan but couldn't prove it. Someone took the sand out of a sandbag and looked at it under a microscope and compared it to beach sands in someones collection. They figured out the exact beach it was launched from.
I was looking for this comment. This is what went through my mind. I wonder why Katie didn't bring it up. I watched a documentary on these balloons back in the early 2000s. It said a hiker came across one of these balloons in Washington in the 90s. I also have a vague memory about a father and son finding one and it was still active decades later. I can't remember if it killed them both or just injured them. 🤷🏻♀️
Correct. The US also tried that idea and tested high altitude balloons. Some say that a few had biologic an others had chemical to test if it could be used as a weapon.. Guess where one of them crash and deformed three children.
@@Plapradnot the only killed on U.S. soil look up the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian island in Alaska or one of the many other U.S. territories that Japan attacked oh and Hawaii.
@@Jameson1776 Guessing the comment is supposed to be taken as American soil meaning the country of the United States and not a territory of the United States. Neither Hawaii or Alaska were states until 1959.
I love seeing DTU pop up in my notifications. I don't even need to watch it to know it's gonna be a good time
That old-time news cast was smashing!
I've always thought that the apparent "object" in the famous photograph was just a confluence of all the searchlights searching in the same spot at the same time, maybe enhanced for the newspaper version.
Dang really on a string of aliens at the forefront of videos lately! love it!
It wasn't in LA, but there was one WW2 incident that did cause all west coast bases to go on high alert. A radioman was receiving a Japanese communication and thought it was an imminent attack on San Francisco.
Turned out it was the Navajo codetalkers, which were so classified at the time that not even the brass on the other bases knew about them.
US racism at its best. Everything foreign is Japanese. The irony is Navajo isn't foreign. It is All American. English on the other hand is totally foreign.
Not true
@lultim63 read "Code Talker" written by Chester Nez. It's the only memoir written by a surviving code talker.
@@Nick-v7b3l I’ve read it. What you said just isn’t true.
The incident that caused the west coast to go on high alert was the attack of Ellwood.
Simon & Team could you please do a video on how to verify documents/the admissibility of evidence in court/general police standard procedure and all things of that nature, feel like it comes up often in these videos and I would love to learn about it!
If you watched his casual criminalist channel you'd know the police generally fail at this lol
Of course he could have cross verified the info released to the public via freedom of information and realized though not alien. Much of this was real.
Majestic12. I love how secret government agencies have such humble names. Not pompous at all.
Truthfully, as a Navy brat who’s read a lot of military documents, they are always very wordy and not everyone can spell. Particularly back in the days of typewriters. Lord, the number of pages I’ve had to retype for papers back in the day.
This whole obsession with spelling and grammar is a relatively modern thing. As long as people vould manage and understand it was good enough.
@@ryanbradleyrankin what are you talking about?? How are you defining modern? They didn’t care at all about spelling until it was codified in the early 1800s. But we’re talking about documents made long long after that.
lol I used to crack up about how much "official" stuff had typos in it.
In Germany the word for barracks or post is Kaserne.
There were a couple posts that had sandblasted signs displaying the name of the barracks, made in some woodshop, finished, painted, etc.
The thing was someone added way too many S's.
Kasserne and Kassserne
Someone got crazy with the S's lol...
I always wondered if someone realized the error but still put them up to shame/spite the person who had them made....you know how the humor in the military is hahaha.
@@AFatalPapercut I got notified of your comment while in the midst of doing a German lesson. I think that made me laugh harder about this!
I'm all for a skeptical eye, but it's kind of amazing how much trust Simon puts in the government.
How does my boy get on tangents before even finishing the intro…I don’t care I love it 🥲
First album I bought - rage against the machine. Such an underrated band and ahead of the time politically
I saw the title of the video and immediately had Guerilla Radio playing in my head. I'm glad that album was mentioned at the beginning.
@@Shiny_Dragonite TURN THAT SH!T UP!
Ahead of their time bc they understood that 90% of what the US says is lies, and the other 10% is to mislead you from the truth.... straight up evil....
A+ video!
Great writing and analysis!
I love Katy's writing.
1:40 - Chapter 1 - The battle of los angeles
6:55 - Chapter 2 - The UFO conspiracy
10:15 - Chapter 3 - The majestic 12 documents
14:50 - Chapter 4 - Decoding the conspiracy
23:35 - Chapter 5 - What was going on in the battle of los angeles ?
26:40 - Conclusion
Weird audio glitch at 4:59 - 5:00... Creepy thing hearing Simon become Max Headroom.
One of my favorite movies is 1941, which is loosely based on this incident.
Steven Spielberg at his best, and the cast was absolutely superb.
It was my only idea of what had actually occurred before I checked it out in high school for some research.
First to my own vid, wooooo
Love your scripts, Katy. Thanks for keeping us all entertained with your in-depth explorations of the origins of complete nonsense.
UAPs aren't a joke. It's just so hard to believe most ppl can't even contemplate it actually being real. But research guys like David Grusch, Fraber, Lazar, and the Congressional hearings on the whistleblowers. There's something to it.
There is nothing nonsense about UAPs. The NRO tracks 100s of UAPs every week. They are no joke and they are in some cases officially classified.
@@mwolkoveYou sound like a glue eater
This channel does way too much coping to try and preserve a delicate worldview where aliens don't exist. You know governments lie, right?
I loved the old timey newscaster part 😂
Once a mass panic gets going it's impossible to stop. Same thing happened at Gatwik in the UK, someone found the junked lower half of an office chair at the airport and reported it as a "crashed drone" and then a weeklong panic started. Even after it was determined to just be part of an office chair a few hours later the freakout had already gained momentum and couldn't be stopped.
Most people don't know how close the Japanese got to the West Coast. In addition to what you described, they bombed sections of coastal Oregon with the hopes of starting forest fires. Few fires were started, but occasionally, an unexploded ordinance is found. Remnants of WWII gun turret platforms and other concrete structures can still be found in San Pedro, CA.
Also the balloon bombs too.
You radio news caster was spot on!
Simon I'm actually surprised "majestic 12" was a very real project it's basically what the X-Files TV show was based off of.
Also the far too short lived mid 1990s sci-fi series "Dark Skies".
@@bujin1977 Also also part of the story of the first Deus Ex game, as a secret org relating to aliens ^^ wonder where they got the idea from :P
No credible proof of Majestic 12 ever existing as a real thing. Seems like it was a hoax from the get go.
A pretty darn believable hoax though. Between confirmed historical things like MKultra and Project Bluebook and Project Stargate and operations like Cointelpro? MJ12 would fit right in.
You're probably mixing up maj-12 with project bluebook. Bluebook has been confirmed, maj-12 has not, and was likely a disinformation campaign like the Dulce Base conspiracy was. It being intentional disinformation is worse than it being aliens. The US government was waging a physiological war against UFO researchers, pushing some to commit suicide. That's what should be focused on.
Mordern world news presented in old news cast, Simon style.....New channel right there mate!
Every time Simon says “Majestic 12” I am thinking JC Denton and Deus Ex 🤣
I’m here for Simon’s tangents! 😂😂❤❤❤❤
I feel like you need to start working on an April 1st Decoding Unknown where your writer presents a "mystery" that is very well explained. The more the Simon's writer details how mundane the event was the more Simon gets skeptical of the obvious explanation and leans harder and harder into believing the conspiracy theory and ends the episode declaring Aliens are real.
It's funny that a lot of people don't realize photo editing has been around as long as photography.
4:59 what in hell was was that voice action 😂😂😂😂
I’m glad someone else noticed
I like to watch Ancient Aliens from time to time for a laugh (because oh boy, they believe some Things). So I always get excited when Simon does a topic like this. Like, "yay! Time for the rational side!"
they don't believe it, they just sell their fiction in a different way.
The movie in question should be 1941 staring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Nancy Allen, and Mickey Rourke. I maintain the actual Battle of Los Angeles was in 1992
I once saw a pink elephant in a Welsh park - upon closer inspection it turned out to be a rhododendron bush in full flower!
I once saw a green elephant in an Inland Empire park, of course it was simply a nice topiary sculpture.
I won’t be a normal video without Simon going on a tangent
All "world wide cover ups" go up in smoke when you point out that EVERY government in the world would have to work together and do it flawlessly.
The rest of the world talk about this without stigma it’s seems only in America it’s a big stigma subject
Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter would make a good episode.
If aliens were capable of traveling the vast interstellar distances to get here, what would they be doing with anything as primitive as nuclear fission technology on board?
Yes and apparently we reverse engineered their technology for space flight, and all we come up with is strapping someone to the top of a large amount of volatile chemicals and setting it on fire 🤔
Well you have to have something to make the coffee.
@@y-not
burning volatile chemicals may be the best answer to the gravity problem in physics.
Ty Catie ❤
I live in Santa Barbara and remember learning about how we were the only place in the US to be shelled during WW2. The Ritz-Carlton is right next to the Ellwood oil refinery (which still exists) now
4:14 yeah that missile alert was terrifying at the time, cuz I was overseas and my family in Hawaii, but nowadays it's a Hawaiian meme 😂
The person who fired the first round… I feel like got a slow clap from his friends later…
Breaking Bad was set in New Mexico because that’s where Vince Gilligan is from. I’m sure there were tax incentives but it was always meant to be set in New Mexico.
Sigh! What a relief an episode where Simon doesn't just say "hey! There's no aliens this is just stupid silly stuff, not for my big brain" two minutes into the episode
To be fair, he has said before that he isn't smart enough to suspend disbelief for the sake of a story
Yeah, he isnt the brightest guy. Some of his takes are more than a bit silly.
around 18:00 though lol
He should say that every time, because it's objectively true.
Simon Whistler is the type that would have swore blind MK Ultra was nothing more than a conspiracy theory. He is a hack who cannot be trusted to talk about subjects such as UAP/NHI. The arrogance of the man on these subjects has been truly astonishing 🙄
Simons voice is like warm molasses trickling with cadence & warmth. His voice is the last thing I hear before falling asleep every night.
Simon and basement crew! Please cover the mutilated body of Guarapiranga reservoir in Brazil! It is so interesting and very sad but I think you would do amazing writing on it
That was a funny when he imitated the old broadcaster tone ethic. It was deliberate as part of the schools of broadcasting. Mid- Atlantic Accent too.
The Battle of Los Angeles is an awesome Rage Against The Machine album!
I find it mind boggling that military personnel cannot and have not been able to identify a weather balloon since the 1940's. 🤔
I don't think much training is given to things that aren't relevant.
The UFO being just unidentified is spot on.
I had planes fly near my house, and I saw a light one evening. I thought first it maybe a nova, for it was orange and twice brighter than Sirius. Planes usually have pure wife lighty.
Then it moved slowly. I thought it was a meteor and got slightly unnerved. Meteors that big can cause a fuss.
But soon it turned out to be a plane, flying lower with a very powerful headlamps of an unusual dark yellow tint. I never saw a plane with lights on like that, but perhaps it was a military transport plane, those that ferry tanks and such. Or just something new, but it was definately not interplanetary.
there was a movie called Battle: LA with aliens invading LA and Marines fighting them off
Yes.
What do you think was the inspiration. :P
Simon should do a video where his writer's script is a series of sentences that will prompt tangents. No overarching story, just prompts that they know will cause him to go on tangents. He could make a whole channel CALLED Tangents.
the higher voices in audio from some older media is due to the tech of the time that created it.
0:42 there isn’t going to be any videos sponsored by the New Mexico tourist board after this
“New Mexico. Ye, ye, ye…desert” 😂
FWIW, on the evening of 7 Dec, 1941, my grandfather, John Patrick Culliton, was leading a squadron of RCAF Supermarine Stranraers south through the US towards the Canadian west coast for ASW operations out of Comox. As they were flying over Charleston - literally on other side of the planet from Japan - the "strange" (to Yankees) biplane flying boats (with roundells TBF) were considered Japanese, and an AA barrage commenced. Mercifully for my personal existance, the AA crews were hopelessly inaccurate, and Grandpa's flight hit the deck and taxied in safely. Then the base staff got to witness a VERY experiencd RCAF Flight Lieutenant (a close friend of Charles Lindbergh among others incl. Billy Bishop VC and Roy Brown VC -dude who downed the Red Baron), unleash the invective only a very experienced Irish-Canadian bush pilot can inflict, on a poor 2-star USAAF general in charge of the defences. To summerize, the Army quickly sent a very apologetic note to the RCAF command and begged forgivness for their sins.
They didn't need UFOs. A flock of seagulls would have touched off the trigger happy gunners at that time!
It's funny that I just watched the latest video on a Ghost Ship, 3/9/2024, that Katy wrote, and then found this, one that I had missed from a month ago, also by Katy, lol! The fact that it was all random, I mean UA-cam had recommended it after the ghost ship one, and I wanted one more to watch as I get ready for bed and there was others, but they were much longer ones, so I picked this one randomly, but this one is also written by Katy, just seems kind of funny to me!
🤣 You make it all okay 😂 PS I feel like you should do the black n white newsman more often. ❤️🇨🇦
We now have TANGENTCEPTION, Katie got Simon to rant about her rant that she wrote into a script. the MOST simon thing EVER! xD
I actually have a theory about this one.
What if it was a weather ballon like the army said, but something more was going on. We know the japanese were weaponizing weather ballons and even a few americans died from them. What if the reason it was an all hands on deck and the us army went bat shit crazy to deal with situation was because they were worried the japanese were launching something
Yeah I always just assumed this. Its likely it because the US refused to even admit the balloon attacks were taking place because they didnt want to scare people. If I had to guess this was the actual wave of them and the others were stragglers they missed that randomly landed. Curious about when the others came down and if it goes inline with the dates here because I bet it would
@@seditt5146 Doubt it. Japan admits they only started using the balloon bombs in late 1945. It was a rushed last ditch weapon. They also used the jet stream to get them to the US. I don't think the jet stream spends that much time that far south to get them over LA.
Probably just a lot of Civil Defense volunteers who had no clue what they were doing and scared crapless.
30 seconds in we have gone from aliens, Tennessee to Breaking Bad....
We're in for a hell of a ride with fact boy 😂
👍for ww2 newscaster voice
9:16 "Celestial devices" could mean "devices from the sky." or it could also mean "devices from the Orient(derogatory reference)." It may be an obscure slur these days, but it was still common enough in 1966 that the BBC chose to costume a character in Doctor Who in Oriental garb, despite the actor being clearly British, based on the story's title of "The Celestial Youmaker," when being a sci-fi show, traveling in time and space, the 'from the stars' interpretation would seem more apt.
I’m glad for the New Mexico change in Breaking Bad. I got tired of everything being LA, Chicago, Miami ,NYC.
Well it was going to be set in Riverside, which isn’t LA.
In WW2 there was actually ground fighting on US Soil, Battle of Attu (Alaska) it was called as far as I know.
Unfortunately the last member of my family who had lived through this in LA passed away last week. I would have loved to ask if they remembered it.
camp lazlo alarm pull clip?
I'm pretty sure it was started by Tim Matheson trying to get it on in a plane with Nancy Allen while being chased by John Belushi in a P-40...
(If you get this reference, we can be frens)
1941....hi fren
Hi fren😊
I do believe Simon is thinking of the Spielberg film 1941.
My mom was living in Santa Monica when this happen and it scared the hell out of her. She thought the invasion was happening and was expecting to see Japanese troops storming up Santa Monica Blvd.
That'd a ceiling lamp badly photoshopped in, in the thumbnail 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
For future fake US documents, keep in mind that "Top Secret - Eyes Only" isn't a thing. Top Secret and Eyes Only are two separate security levels and both aren't placed on the same document. It would be akin to marking something "Classified - Confidential", it would be redundant.
Classified, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret and Eyes Only are all individual security levels that build off the previous level. I had top secret clearance during my service, and only heard rumors about eyes only, so I can't be sure that actually exists, though I would guess it does, as well as other levels of clearance I don't know about.
From my understanding, which is limited considering you can't even learn about the things unless you're read in is that "Eye's only" is an older one where you can only read it. You cannot reproduce it in any way with copying or photographing.
You're thinking of Independence Day, I saw it with a guy from LA who found it hilarious that Los Angelos were ordered to stop firing at the space ship hovering overhead. He knew it was more fact than fiction.
As I have an ADHD mind I love Simons tangents. I'm always going off on a tangent. I loved the Life of Brian clip, one of my favourite films 😂
You need to do an episode on the von erich family
Can I have Ruby when you're finished, mate? Cheers mate. 😂Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
1:29 are you talking about Independence Day?
Only 12 seconds in and Simon is being Simon. 😂
The tangents are making these hard to get through
How about an episode on Giorgio A. Tsoukalos? (ufo guy)
My understanding was that it was a barrage balloon that got loose. Barrage balloons are put up to keep planes from coming in low on their bombing runs and one supposedly got loose, it came up on RADAR, someone shot at it and then everyone else started firing.
The History channel is calling Simon. They have a job offer.
Simon really unalived Danny. That’s crazy
“It defies logic but whatever,” is such a perfect response to conspiracy theories. I’m gonna start quoting that.
So does quantum physics. Oops.
Not Simon again! He's everywhere. 😆
Please review your video on the atlantic accent
Off topic: story about the navajo code during ww2 and the war if the worlds newscast done by orson welles.
The Movie 1941 which was loosely based on these events was both very entertaining and hugely funny.......
Battle :LA was filmed IN Shreveport Louisiana!
Battle of Los Angeles was a great war sci-fi movie from 2011, where aliens most definitely started a kerfluffle with pretty much everyone who moved :P
And it was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana!
Can we at least know what was under the block size canvas in Compton?
PLEASE COVER THE 2004 USS NIMITZ ENCOUNTER
My theory: the us citizens were scared of an attack. How does the government assuage their fears? Let go some harmless, unmanned balloons or something with lights on them, let the public see them, shoot the ever loving poo out of them, then say "oops there wasnt anything there. But if there would have been, it would have definitely gone down. I mean, we were ready and did you see all that ammunition we used?" Smart and a big statement to both sides.
Does the info ever start or is this channel just Simon doing his best Grandpa Simpson impression?
Somewhere in L.A. there is a pigeon thinking "Rather walk instead of fly tonight..."
Don’t you mean Rage for the Machine?
And yeah, there was a movie about this incident. John Belushi in 1941.
The stars at night...
How was there a movie in 1941? When this event hadn’t even happened.
@@Jameson1776 the name of the movie is called 1941. Has John Belushi, I think Dad Ackroyd, Slim Pickens and more.
@@PiratePrincessYuki oh sorry my bad. I misunderstood.