The National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) has several Geosynchronous Orbiting Satellites in orbit watching the Earths weather and environment. On November 21, 1999 at 14:45 hours one of the satellites caught an amazing photo of a UFO at an estimated hundred miles above the Earth off the state of Washington.

One of the satellites is designed to detect water vapour or clouds from space and when its camera was zoomed in it was apparent that the craft was giving off vapour.

The possibility of a computer error causing the image was completely ruled out . The UFO was present for several minutes and was a structure which radiated heat  in the infrared spectrum.

It was obviously very large.

Similar photos were taken on June 8 , 1995 over South America

The Los Angeles Air Raid

On the 25th February 1942 ,less than 3 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, tension was running high on the Pacific Coast of the U.S.A. -the Military could not rule out an aerial attack on the continental U.S.A.

At 2:25 a.m. air raid sirens sounded over Los Angeles and by 3:16 a.m. the city was blacked out with anti-aircraft batteries firing at  "unidentified aircraft" approaching from  over the Pacific Ocean.

As searchlights pursued them it seemed there were at least two types of "aircraft" involved.

Many witnesses saw small , fast moving objects - red or silver in colour, which flying in formation dodged their way through anti-aircraft salvos at speeds up to 5 miles per second or 18000 m.p.h.

However , there was also a large object that remained stationary for sometime - this object was caught in search lights over Culver City and photographed. Eventually the large disc type object moved at a slower speed to Santa Monica and then south to Long Beach. It then was lost  to sight. This large object seemingly took numerous direct hits from the anti-aircraft batteries who ceased firing at 4:14 a.m.

In all 1430 12.8lb shells were fired but no craft were downed and no bombs were dropped.

George C. Marshall, General of the Armies, informed President F.D. Roosevelt on 26th February that 15 unidentified aircraft had been involved but details of his official report were vastly different to those given by eye witnesses - his description of the speed and behavior of the unidentified craft were worryingly at variance and it is non - sensical to suggest that enemy aircraft would display their lights etc whilst on a "bombing raid".

It has long been speculated that the Military knew all along that the craft were "unusual" because in the 50 minute time space between

the craft being first detected and the opening up of the anti-aircraft barrage, no aircraft (of the 4th Interceptor Command) were sent to engage the intruders.

In fact the US Department of  Defense strenuously denied having any record of the event until 1987. They have never explained why.

An original photo taken of a UFO (amongst search lights and exploding shells) involved in the Los Angeles Air Raid.