June 24th, 1947. A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold takes a detour over the Cascade Mountains and sees nine objects moving at impossible speeds. He tries to describe what he saw. A reporter writes down the wrong word. And the next eighty years of human history are rewritten.

Tonight, Walter J. Brennan tells the true story of the sighting that launched the modern UFO era - and the misquote that defined it.

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Beyond the Veil is a storytelling podcast about real UFO sightings, encounters, and unexplained incidents. New episodes weekly.

February 1942. Just eleven weeks after Pearl Harbor. A blacked-out city. Fourteen hundred anti-aircraft shells. And one slow-moving object the United States Army could not stop.

Tonight, Walter J. Brennan tells the true story of the Battle of Los Angeles - and the night the modern UFO era really began.

Pull your chair closer to the fire.

Beyond the Veil is a storytelling podcast about real UFO sightings, encounters, and unexplained incidents. New episodes weekly.