Victoria and the Corridor over the Paraná
Since the 1990s this Argentine town on the bank of the Paraná has collected so many reports of lights over the delta islands that locals call the stretch a corridor. Most sightings are made from the Rosario–Victoria bridge and the roads along the shore. The town treats it practically: there is a municipal UFO route and signposts on the way in. Sceptics point out that airways cross the delta and that temperature inversions over the wet islands are common, producing the shimmer and apparent movement of stars near the horizon. That accounts for part of the reports; the flow of them has not slowed over the years.
Los Angeles and the Barrage of 1942
On the night of 24–25 February 1942, ten weeks after Pearl Harbor, an air raid alert was sounded over Los Angeles and the anti-aircraft batteries opened fire. The shooting went on for over an hour: some 1,400 shells were fired and five people died — three in traffic accidents in the blackout, two of heart attacks. No aircraft was brought down and no wreckage was found. The next day the Los Angeles Times printed a photograph of the night sky with searchlight beams converging on a bright patch. The frame has been reprinted as evidence ever since, though the retouching on it was ordinary newspaper practice of the period. The official explanation is a weather balloon and wartime nerves.
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