ARE UFOs CAUSING MASSIVE POWER
BLACKOUTS WORLDWIDE?
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Files
November 9,
1965 - The BIG one in the
Northeastern United States
July 13,
1977 - New York City and Long
Island
DID UFOs CAUSE A MASSIVE BLACKOUT IN 1965?
On the evening of November 9, 1965, at approximately 5:00 P.M., a
main circuit breaker at the hydroelectric power station at St.
Catherine's, Ontario tripped open for no apparent reason. This caused
a cascading power surge and resulting failure in all of the main
power stations and substations along the grid serving the
Northeastern U.S. and southeastern Ontario, resulting in one of the
greatest blackouts in U.S history, leaving over 30 million customers
in the dark for over 12 hours.
Just prior to and during the cascading power failure, there were
many reports of UFO's streaking to the east from Ohio and western New
York State, and were seen hovering over the main power distribution
stations in the lower Hudson Valley area which service the New York
City area and Long Island. The UFO's then reportedly streaked off at
great speed toward the east, and were not seen again.
All investigations conducted to attempt to explain why this
breaker, which cost $2.50, tripped open were unsuccessful in
pinpointing a cause. The part was examined extensively, and it was
determined that there was nothing wrong with it; it was functioning
properly.
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UFOs RETURN TO NEW YORK IN 1977?
by Cathy Zylka
On July 13, 1977, a similar situation occured when a substation
serving New York City and Long Island suddenly failed just after 9:00
P.M. This substation, located in Buchanan, N.Y., in Rockland County,
distributed power to the New York City and Long Island areas from one
of the nuclear reactors at the Indian Point nuclear power station.
This time, almost 24 hours elaped until power was fully restored.
Subsequent investigations blamed the entire failure on lightning
storms which were in the vicinity of Buchanan that evening. The
report stated that 3 bolts of lightning were responsible for knocking
out all of the power for New York City and Long Island, which of
course, seemed quite preposterous.
Upon further investigation, however, there were reports of UFO sightings in the Buchanan and Indian
Point areas just prior to the massive power failure.
Seconds before the outage, a cargo plane pilot spotted what he
described as a ball of fire above a main power line between Syracuse
and Niagara Falls, NY. Also, several years after the outage occurred,
the Adam Beck Power Plant admitted that "hundreds of phone calls" had
been made reporting unidentified flying objects above the power plant
on the night that the outage happened. Originally, this was denied by
the power plant. You may recall that the Adam Beck Power Plant was
identified as "the cause" for the outage...a "faulty relay"
supposedly. So IMHO, I think it is quite reasonable for people to
question whether or not there was an "unidentified flying object"
activity in the vacinity. Certainly, this current power outage
strikes incredible similarities to the outage of 1965 in the
northeast.
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DID UFOs CAUSE BLACKOUTS IN THE
WESTERN U.S. IN 1996?
Blackout #1 -
July 2, 1996
From the What? Magazine archives
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 10:29:26 -0400
Investigators are trying to determine what caused a massive power
outage that created chaos across 15 Western states yesterday. Utility
companies say it will take at least 24 to 48 hours before they know
what caused a circuit breaker on a key power grid to shut down. An
Energy Department official said there was no evidence of sabotage but
added that nothing has yet been ruled out as a cause. The outage left
as many as 2 million people from Southern California to Canada
without electricity. By early this morning, power had been restored
virtually throughout the region.
Jack Grimes (Ibmgmd@epix.net) writes to say that his local radio
station reported that an employee at an unknown power substation
(obviously on the west coast) saw two UFO disks in the sky around the
time of the outage.
The day after the blackout on July 3, a "glowing red object" was
observed in Urbana, Onio, traveling from north to south. One of the
witnesses was a former USAF officer who has had extensive training in
aircraft identification. The officer said that the UFO was surrounded
by five F-14 interceptors. The UFO soon vanished, leaving the
interceptors circling around in search of the missing object. On the
same day, a cone-shaped object was sighted on the Ohio-Indiana state
line south of Paulding, Ohio.
The outage was officially said to have been caused by a "power
line touching a tree".
Blackout #2 - August 10, 1996
In an article called Power Outage Darkens West, Matt Drudge
reported that a second massive power outage had occurred on August
10, 1996.
- 3:48 PM PT the electricity
snapped.
- Over 15 million without power
- A massive power outage has struck a
widespread area of California, with reports of lost electricity
coming in from as far as the Mexican border to Oregon and as far
east as Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.
- Power has been cut from San Diego to Bend,
Oregon and east to Tucson, Arizona and to the Texas
panhandle.
- The outage appeared to be intermittent,
affecting some areas, with others getting power back
quickly.
- This marks the second massive power outage
in as many months. The source of the electrical breakdown is not
known.
Comments on the Internet regarding this second outage show that
like the first massive power outage, this one
did not have a believable explanation, nor did the outage
affect only the US.
- 10 Aug 96: Power is back on in Phoenix for
many. Some never lost it and some still waiting.
- 10 Aug 96: CNN on-line reports 5 western
states affected, some areas flickered, some still without power at
8 PM... New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Cal, and Oregon. Power
service spokesman, I believe from, Las Vegas, says that it is
probably weather related, read too much AC, but not weather
caused.
- 11 Aug 96: Major power companies on the
west coast are reporting that a fire in CA took out a single
communications line which caused blackouts in six states. Power
was out for ten hours or more in some areas.
- 12 Aug 96: Our Australia news network, the
last I heard of it, did not report the cause of the power outage
in USA. Coincidentally, Malaysia was reported to have suffered a
blackout (the biggest of its kind) to the whole country (Both
Peninsular and eastern islands!) just last Saturday. That outage
lasted more than 12 hrs and officials are still investigating the
incident with assistance from an external consultant
party.
- 12 Aug 96 The power outage did affect
Vancouver, WA as a blackout in some areas. In Portland, we had a
serious brownout, lights went real dim, nother state somewhere I
forget, the weather was so hot that the lines expanded and sagged
low enough to touch the tops of the trees, which caused a short.
The part I don't buy is that part where the lines could expand and
sag that much, because I know they know how to prevent
that.
- 13 Aug 96: Writing in from Fresno, CA. The
scuttlebutt here is that the overall instability in the Pacific
Intertie is nowhere near being cured or stabilized. We might
expect another large power outage or few because of the high heat
and any grid anomaly (such as a squirrel, forest fire or windstorm
shorting the line during high demand). Central California is
facing 2 more days of 110 degree heat (10 degrees above
normal).
An explaination of sorts was given by California's PG&E, "The
latest blackout apparently originated with a brush fire underneath a
transmission line forming part of the Pacific Northwest Intertie."
The blackout was similar to a July 2 outage in the West. Both
were caused by a fault on the Pacific Northwest Intertie, the
electricity grid connecting Western states.
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MEANWHILE, IN THE SKIES...
Reprinted from UFO
Roundup, volume 1, number 27 - August 18, 1996
edited by Masinaigan
WISCONSIN MAN SEES F-16 IN PURSUIT OF WHITE UFO
If you're on the streets of Stanley, Wisconsin, USA between the
hours of 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Central time, you're liable to run into
UFO buff John K., out for his nightly walk. Stanley is a small town
in north central Wisconsin, 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Eau
Claire and 165 miles (264 kilometers) west of Wausau.
"On Friday night (August 9, 1996), I was walking up a street that
faces due east," John K. reported. "August can really exhibit
beautiful clear skies, and this (night) was one of them. I was just
gazing upward and taking in the panorama when I saw this white light
which seemed to be almost 'floating' (the closest I can describe it)
across the sky, heading northward. I stopped walking, for I thought
the motion was just an illusion caused by my own motion. Well, I
stopped but the white light didn't. I'm not too good at judging
altitudes and speed, but the light was way up there, seemingly right
in between the stars. My guess is that it had to be at least 30,000
to 40,000 feet. The object's speed was probably between 100 and 200
miles per hour. It had to be a craft of some sort because it was an
exceptionally clear sky. The object would sort of dip toward the
east, then slip back into a northward direction. The weirdest thing
is that after ten seconds of watching this thing,it simply
disappeared."
"I didn't think too much about it, except that it was strange, so
I kept walking up the hill. I stopped about halfway and looked
upward, and saw an F-16, or what I took to be an F-16. It was going
pretty slowly (usually by the time you hear them, they're gone.) The
F-16 was at about half the altitude of the white object and heading
east. When I reached the top of the hill, it had banked and was
heading north in the path of the object."
"On Saturday night (August 10, 1996) I was on the other side of
town and saw something rather unusual. Once again it was about 10
p.m. but I was heading south this time and saw the same kind of
bright white object heading at a very slow pace toward the southeast.
The strange thing is that it was being flanked by an F-16 (which was
practically above my position) about five miles to the north of it
(the UFO), maintaining the same airspeed."
John points out that the UFO seemed to be headed in the direction
of Fort McCoy.
This is the first UFO sighting in Stanley, Wisconsin since
October 1995. For a month, residents reported seeing F-16s flying
combat air patrols over the town. On one occasion, an F-16 circled
downtown Stanley three times, as if searching for something. The
October 1995 flap began when the police department in nearby Chippewa
Falls, 26 miles east of Stanley, received numerous reports of "a
star" that literally "dropped into the atmosphere and zigzagged to
below treetop levels."
LARGE SAUCER APPEARS OVER GUARABIRA
The Brazilian "Sertao" or Northeast is again the site of a UFO
flap. During the early afternoon of Saturday, August 10, 1996, a
large metallic saucer, about 50 meters (165 feet) in diameter,
startled two women on the outskirts of Guarabira, a town in the state
of Paraiba. This is the third sighting of a daylight disc this year,
with previous sightings in April and June.
According to Oriel Farias, a ufologist from Joao Pessoa, the UFO,
"um grande objeto em forma de disco," descended slowly from a
cloudless sky and hovered above a sugar cane field. Lights circled
the equator of the saucer, and there was a large bright light in the
center of the disc's underside. The women watched the UFO for several
minutes before it rocketed straight up into the sky.
Just after 5 p.m., residents spotted another, smaller UFO high in
the sky, with a bright white light emanating from it."
The day's most spectacular sighting came after dark, Farias
reported. At around 9 p.m., Guarabira residents spotted three UFOs or
"objetos de forma triangulares" (objects of triangular shape). "They
appeared all at the same instant," Farias said. At first, the UFOs
"went slowly through the sky" but then "they began zigzagging through
the sky." The display lasted several minutes.
On Sunday, August 11, ufologists from Joao Pessoa visited
Guarabira and interviewed the eyewitnesses. They also tested the soil
at the field where the saucer hovered, Farias said, and "found strong
traces of magnetism."
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SAUCER RAMS ELECTRICAL TOWER IN CHILE
Reprinted from UFO
Roundup, volume 2, number 20 - May 17, 1997
edited by Jim Trainor.
On Friday, May 9, 1997, the TV news program MegaNoticias on
Channel 9 in Santiago de Chile stated that a massive blackout eight
days earlier had been caused by a UFO.
On the night of Thursday, May 1, 1997, residents of Jahuel, a
town in the Andes of central Chile, told MegaNoticias that "a big
glowing disc rammed one of the high-voltage (electrical transmission)
towers, and all the lights went out. Then it flew straight up into
the sky until it disappeared."
The May 1 outage killed all electrical power in th metropolitan
Santiago area all the way north to Arica, leaving 60 percent of the
country in darkness. The blackout lasted for about one hour.
The Fuerzas Aereas de Chile (FACh), the Chilean Air Force, denied
the Channel 9 story and refused to comment on the May 1 blackout.
(Muchas gracias a Luis Sanchez Perry para esas noticias.)
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PURPLE SKY FLASH CAUSES BLACKOUT IN KENTUCKY
Reprinted from UFO
Roundup, volume 3, number 5 - February, 1998
edited by Jim Trainor.
On Tuesday, January 27, 1998, at 6:40 p.m., two young men driving
in a pickup truck on Nicholasville Road in Lexington, Kentucky
(population 225,336) saw a strange "purple flash" light up the sky.
For five minutes, electricity in Fayette Mall and in homes near
the Jessamine County line between Highway 27 and Clay Mills Road "was
flashing on and off and finally went off" completely after the
mysterious flash.
A power outage was also reported at the Southpoint subdivision,
located between Fayette Mall and Nicholasville.
The young men "were coming home about 6:40 p.m. when a purple
flash above the clouds happened. His friend's truck lost its power,
and a 'neon thing' he has on his gearshift. It didn't glow any more
during the flash. After the flash went away, he tried to get power
back, and the electricity came back on."
Lexington is in north central Kentucky on Highways 27 and 68
approximately 79 miles (126 kilometers) of Louisville. (Many thanks
to Steve Wilson Sr. for this report.)
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UFOs CAUSE
TWO MORE BLACKOUTS IN BARILOCHE, ARGENTINA
Two more unexplained power failures blacked out Bariloche in
April at the same time people reported seeing UFOs passing overhead.
The city, also known as San Carlos de Bariloche, is a popular
resort in the Andes of Argentina. Located on the south shore of Lago
(Lake) Nahuel Huapi, the city is about 1,040 kilometers (650 miles)
southwest of Buenos Aires.
The first in the series of inexplicable blackouts took place
Sunday, April 12, 1998 when witnesses reported seeing two UFOs "fuse
together" over Cerro Carbon (hill).
On Tuesday night, April 14, 1998, "a great part of the city was
totally darkened." Cooperativa Electricidade de Bariloche (CEB), the
city's power company, traced the source of the blackout to the
transmission lines along the Avenida Bustico near the transformer
substation at Puerto Moreno. CEB said the sobrecorriente (power
surge) "was five to six times greater than normal."
In the barrio Melipal, eyewitness Julio Posse stated, "I saw an
interesting glow to the east of the Cerro Otto (hill). With my family
I saw it from my yard. My sons shouted, 'Papa, the OVNIs!' (Spanish
acronym for UFOs--J.T.) All I said was 'Yes, the OVNIs.'"
According to the newspaper Diario La Manana del Sur, "Officially
no one has cited the word OVNI. But, to all of the questions, no one
(at CEB) can explain the phenomenon. The lines were hit with a charge
of 1,050 amperes. The automatic meters at the transformer substation
Los Cipresales indicated the same surge at the moment during which
witnesses sighted OVNIs last Sunday in the skies over Bariloche."
CEB spokesman Luis Baigorria said, "At present we do not have an
explanation that can determine the cause of the surge."
Claudio Campo, an engineer for CEB, said, "That which occurred
Tuesday night was identical to the incident Sunday. But in this case
it was reported by the meters at the substation in Puerto Moreno."
The third blackout occurred Thursday night, April 16, 1998. Again
Bariloche was completely blacked out for several hours.
Meanwhile reports of UFO sightings poured in from the Lago Nahuel
Huapi shore and the hills and valleys east of Bariloche.
A man named Zuber "videotaped an OVNI about 15 kilometers from
home, near School #255 at the intersection of Rutas 23 and 237. His
three-minute tape shows a great black object with a light that
'shines intently and incessantly' with twinkling red, blue, yellow
and green lights. The object can be seen with better clarity when he
zooms in. A slight luminous halo surrounds the object."
Zuber's Sony camcorder tape was aired on Canal (Channel) 6's
noontime news broadcast in Bariloche the following day.
Other witnesses reported seeing "two or three OVNIs" flying
eastward over the city towards Cerro Leon" hill. (See the Argentinian
newspapers Diario la Manana del Sur for April 15, 1998 and Diario Rio
Negro for April 17, 1998, "Filmaron un OVNI Cerca del Cerro Leon en
Bariloche." Muchas gracias a Carlos Iurchuk para esas noticias.)
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UFOs
CONNECTED TO BLACKOUT IN
AIX-EN-PROVENCE
Reprinted from UFO
Roundup, volume 3, number 20 - May 17, 1998
edited by Jim Trainor.
On Wednesday, April 22, 1998, at 4:30 a.m., G. Betrand, a night
watchman from Bapaume, was making his rounds at a store on the Rue du
College in Arras. "The night was beautiful," he reported, "No wind,
no clouds."
"During my walk around the outside of the building, I noticed in
the sky a luminous point which moved about. I kept my eyes on it for
a dozen seconds. At first I thought it was an airplane, but there
were no bright lights along the wings, nor directional lights."
"This (object) was like a great whitish 'star,' much quicker than
an airplane, but very much slower than a meteorite. It was bizarre. I
believe that the luminous mass was a little bigger than a millimeter
at arm's length. It seemed to me that the luminous mass was moving
from Dainville toward Ste. Catherine (i.e. from southwest to
northeast--J.T.) over the suburbs of Arras, but this cannot be
verified. All at once, it disappeared, and I saw nothing more."
Arras is a city in the department Pas de Calais 182 kilometers
(95 miles) north of Paris.
Six hours earlier, on Tuesday, April 21, 1998, at 10:02 p.m., a
mysterious blackout shut off all the electricity in the city of
Aix-en-Provence.
Mme. G. Lydie, who lives in Digne-les-Bains, said she had just
begun to watch a movie on Canal France 2 when the TV and all the
lights in the house went out.
Ironically, the movie was I Married an Alien.
"Researching information in the local press during the days
following, I found no mention of the incident," Mme. Lydie reported.
"Finding that astonishing, I contacted a number of French
journalists. They confirmed that nothing had happened. I then called
several of my relatives, and they told me that there had indeed been
a blackout, and it was confined only to Aix-en-Provence."
Aix-en-Provence is near France's Mediterranean coast, located in
the department Bouches-du-Rhone about 48 kilometers (30 miles)
northeast of Marseilles.
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