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.

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...

Less than 20 seconds in and Simon's already on a tangent. 😂

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.

Well done Katy. You had Simon on a tangent in less than 20 seconds. LoL. Cheers from Tennessee

We still test our air raid sirens here in WA state every year. Mainly used for Volcanoes now though.

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.

I'm all for a skeptical eye, but it's kind of amazing how much trust Simon puts in the government.

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.

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.

How does my boy get on tangents before even finishing the intro…I don’t care I love it 🥲

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

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!

That old-time news cast was smashing!

First album I bought - rage against the machine. Such an underrated band and ahead of the time politically

Dang really on a string of aliens at the forefront of videos lately! love it!

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.

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.

Majestic12. I love how secret government agencies have such humble names. Not pompous at all.

Thank you guys! I’ve been waiting for Simon’s videos all morning!

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)

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.

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!"

I loved the old timey newscaster part 😂

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

First to my own vid, wooooo

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

4:59 what in hell was was that voice action 😂😂😂😂

I love Katy's writing.

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?

A+ video! Great writing and analysis!

Weird audio glitch at 4:59 - 5:00... Creepy thing hearing Simon become Max Headroom.

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 won’t be a normal video without Simon going on a tangent

👍for ww2 newscaster voice

The most amusing thing about this vid is that Simon has done at least 3 vids on the LA air raid already.

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.

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 😂

I once saw a pink elephant in a Welsh park - upon closer inspection it turned out to be a rhododendron bush in full flower!

You radio news caster was spot on!

Simons voice is like warm molasses trickling with cadence & warmth. His voice is the last thing I hear before falling asleep every night.

I’m here for Simon’s tangents! 😂😂❤❤❤❤

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

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.

Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter would make a good episode.

It's funny that a lot of people don't realize photo editing has been around as long as photography.

Ty Catie ❤

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 one thing I always say about claims of ETs is that we'd never see them. In all these cases the crafts are clearly trying to stay hidden. Trying to get away. They don't want to be found. With the stealth abilities we have now on earth, we can get in and out over enemy capitols without anyone ever knowing we were there. And that is what the public knows about. Now imagine the stealth capabilities of a species advanced enough to safely travel the distance between the srats. We'd never see any trace of them, at all. I can't say with 100% certainty that aliens have never visited us. But I can say with 100% certainty that we've never seen any evidence or hint of it.

30 seconds in we have gone from aliens, Tennessee to Breaking Bad.... We're in for a hell of a ride with fact boy 😂

there was a movie called Battle: LA with aliens invading LA and Marines fighting them off

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!

The Battle of Los Angeles is an awesome Rage Against The Machine album!

Mordern world news presented in old news cast, Simon style.....New channel right there mate!

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.

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.

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 KZfaq 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!

We now have TANGENTCEPTION, Katie got Simon to rant about her rant that she wrote into a script. the MOST simon thing EVER! xD

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

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.

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

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

I find it mind boggling that military personnel cannot and have not been able to identify a weather balloon since the 1940's. 🤔

🤣 You make it all okay 😂 PS I feel like you should do the black n white newsman more often. ❤️🇨🇦

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 😂

the higher voices in audio from some older media is due to the tech of the time that created it.

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.

The person who fired the first round… I feel like got a slow clap from his friends later…

In WW2 there was actually ground fighting on US Soil, Battle of Attu (Alaska) it was called as far as I know.

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” 😂

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.

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.

I’m glad for the New Mexico change in Breaking Bad. I got tired of everything being LA, Chicago, Miami ,NYC.

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.

13:36 ufo-nut on the card ahahahahahh

I do believe Simon is thinking of the Spielberg film 1941.

The Movie 1941 which was loosely based on these events was both very entertaining and hugely funny.......

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.

Can I have Ruby when you're finished, mate? Cheers mate. 😂Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿

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

The tangents are making these hard to get through

Don’t you mean Rage for the Machine? And yeah, there was a movie about this incident. John Belushi in 1941.

When i was in highschool i actually printed out a copy of the Majestic 7 document. At the time i was a teenager and wanted to believe in it. Didn't take me long to figure out it was a forgery. After doing some research.

Two tangents in the first 30 seconds has to be a record 😂

Dear Simon: Lima, Perú has been invaded by martians. You'll find them at every corner. Most importantly, people are calm because they come in peace. And they come in strawberry, lúcuma, coconut and other flavours as well.

The only way I can listen to Simon is if I play the video at 0.75 speed. Which is why I usually pass on watching him.

Off topic: story about the navajo code during ww2 and the war if the worlds newscast done by orson welles.

I took a bus across New Mexico coming home from some military training. It was nothing but miles and miles of miles and miles.

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.

Not Simon again! He's everywhere. 😆

Only 12 seconds in and Simon is being Simon. 😂

Somewhere in L.A. there is a pigeon thinking "Rather walk instead of fly tonight..."

The History channel is calling Simon. They have a job offer.

my guess would be that a real top secreat document would something like "TS/ stella polaris arcive nr 1234-5"or if even more secreat "TS/1234-5"

I just had some mouth surgery so I cannot laugh properly and I think the people around me just thought I was omitting wails of pain over that pigeon story. Lololol

That'd a ceiling lamp badly photoshopped in, in the thumbnail 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

My mother lived in Santa Monica during this. She and her family hid in their house during the firing. The next day she saw some cars with damage. I guess whatever goes up comes down.

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