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Trying to verify this. So far I found this but have not confirmed it's legit in any way:

Edit 1: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | archive.org

Edit 2: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | Vuink - Repost of article found in Edit 1.

Edit 3: USS Langley (CV-1) | World War II

On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines.[5][19] On 8 December, following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.[20]

Edit 4: This detailed history of the ship does not mention anything about firing at Venus:

Langley I (CV-1) | Naval History and Heritage Command

This is the kind of thing I think of when I hear the UFO people imply that information from pilots must be accurate, because they're experts. Fuck no. Experts make mistakes all the time. Sometimes things just get confusing and you make mistakes.

I’ll never forgive the Japanese

"It's a Japanese balloon! Shoot it down!"

"No, it's Venus."

"It's a Roman god, shoot her down!"

In 1960 the US DEW Line mistakenly thought the Soviet Union had launched a nuclear strike when it detected the moon rising. Luckily cooler heads prevailed when the radar operators quickly realized both the reported launch locations and target locations were crescent shapes and moving east to west as the moon rose.

Did they hit it?

Some time after that incident a known Japanese spy walked right by a military checkpoint by simply goatse.
("Is that the Japanese spy we are looking for?" - "Don't be silly, that is clearly Uranus, if we make another mistake like that we will never hear the end it it.")

Here is another time the US military freaked out because the sky was falling: Battle of Los Angeles - Wikipedia https://share.google/ntpPS43yYjepiUWFs

We can’t let the protomolecule get a foothold

Venus doesn't look like a ball in the sky like that. It looks like a bright star.

The moon is what might look like something relatively balloon sized, but Venus? Nope.

Gtfo with this disinfo

Visions of Golden Dome.