Seems like UFO articles on mainstream websites are on the rise. Here's one from MSN.
This bit by a skeptic is particularly funny;
What's in the sky? Some skeptics, like McGaha, believe that the Stephenville, Phoenix, and many other sightings can be attributed to military aircraft and evasion or illumination flares. Flares have a long association with UFO sightings. One night in late February 1942, the sky over Southern California lit up with strange blinking lights near various defense plants. In what has become known as the Battle of Los Angeles, the Navy unloaded four batteries of antiaircraft artillery at what turned out to be a balloon carrying a red flare.
Never heard the "balloon-flare" explanation before in relation to the 'Battle of Los Angeles.' I think on this occasion the skeptic McGaha fails miserably. A balloon can't take much punishment, and American anti-aircraft batteries fired some 2000 shells at the UFO. (Anti-aircraft shells explode and send out shrapnel.) You would think after a few well placed rounds the balloon would be perforated. The gunners did report "direct hits" at the time. In light of these facts, McGaha's argument is completely idiotic, though funny in a "I don't want to believe" kind of way.
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