Weird Los Angeles: Weirdness In The Waters

During the UFO waves of the 1940s and '50s a new type of peculiar, possibly extraterrestrial or covert machine was mentioned, and often sighted in the murky oceans of the world. The USO, or Unidentified Submarine Object, just like the flying saucers and mystery airships of before, had begun to cause panic.

Were alien life forms monitoring our shores with their advanced technology and preparing for possible attack, or was the government conducting clandestine operations beneath the surface ? Or was another country secretly invading and spying on us ?

On the dawn of July 28th 1962 off Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, several crew and the captain of a fishing boat were unsettled by mysterious lights that appeared below the surface but boldly approached the eerie glow. As they neared the captain observed through binoculars and was amazed to see several men working on a submarine-like object. The sub had no markings whatsoever, was a grey in colour and from it was protruding a strange structure with a light on which the men appeared to be tampering with. There were five mysterious men, two dressed in dark trousers and white shirts, two adorned in all white and another in a sky-blue jump suit. The captain stated, "We passed a beam about a quarter-mile and I was certain it was a submarine..."