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In reply to the discussion: UFO Hearing totally erased all other coverage. Not. [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)52. UFOs associated with power outages.
First, though: The original The Day the Earth Stood Still is a great movie. The one with John Wick is good, too.
As for turning off the juice, few may remember the Great Northeast Blackout had a UFO component:
NEW YORK SKIES
Nov. 9, 1965 Did UFOs Turn the Lights Off?
Cheryl Costa
Syracuse New Times, Aug. 26, 2016
The time was about quarter after 5 p.m. on the Nov. 9, 1965. I was upstairs in my room listening to my ham radio when my mother shouted up to me asking, What was I doing. I was a 13-year-old ham radio operator, so naturally if the house lights flickered it was usually blamed on me and my army surplus radio equipment. This time is wasnt me, the lights in the house were browning out and it scared the heck out of my mother who was home alone with three kids.
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In the days that followed, the scope of the disruption was reported and vast. New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and parts of Ontario, Canada, were largely in the dark. Over 30 million people were affected.
In the end, a technical task force blamed the whole thing on an over-current relay that had been set too low for normal operation.
But theres another side of the story that usually gets hushed up: UFOs. There were reports all over the Northeast and right here in the Syracuse area that seemed to suggest that a formation of UFOs were seen over high tension wires and loitering around electrical sub-stations.
HERE ARE SOME OF THOSE REPORTS HIGHLIGHTS:
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. a Middletown, New York, resident reported seeing a ball of bright, green light in the sky.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. a Jersey City, New Jersey, resident reported seeing a bright object moving from north to south over Manhattan. Then over lower Manhattan, the object shot straight up at extreme velocity.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, reported a bright fire ball traveling east to west.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. an Orchestra Conductor on a flight between Syracuse and Rochester observed a bright light descend toward Central New York.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. a Camillus, New York, house wife reported a huge, dome-shaped object near a local sub station about five minutes before the blackout.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. Cicero, New York, a local pilot in a small plane reported seeing a huge, bright light hover near the high tension wires crossing the Mohawk River.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. personnel from the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Plant in Ontario, Canada, reported four strange lights over the power plant.
Nov. 9, 1965: At 5 p.m. residents near the Niagara Falls power station reported seeing a huge, glowing object hovering over the power station.
Source: https://www.syracusenewtimes.com/nov-9-1965-did-ufos-turn-the-lights-off/
All that used to be science fiction. EMP is one ticket. Who knows the other ways?
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The key to this whole question is a movie from 1950s, "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Stuart G
May 2022
#35
When asked if any UAP reports included multiple types of data, they went dark.
Kid Berwyn
May 2022
#19
They have been here, & looked us over. Decided humans not "smart enough" to have contact with.
Stuart G
May 2022
#11
Ore to the point, public reports of UFOs and aliens tend to mirror the movies they've seen recently
brooklynite
May 2022
#64
Our phones are designed for portraits, close up pictures of us in everyday life
Mr. Sparkle
May 2022
#31
Unless there is an Alien invasion , the odds of a small number of professional photographers
Mr. Sparkle
May 2022
#57
Yes, posted before, But the key to this whole question is a movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Stuart G
May 2022
#36
Well, that's an interesting hypothesis - that films are convincing people they understand aliens
muriel_volestrangler
May 2022
#62
I don't know why it still surprises me how many people vehemently reject this topic
anarch
May 2022
#39
I think the government knows more than that, but the government is not going to tell it all.
Stuart G
May 2022
#55
I'm guessing people "reject this topic" because there's no evidence to support it...
brooklynite
May 2022
#56
Thanks, Kid, and hang in there! Amazing how "This is real" from the military (2017) gets forgotten
librechik
May 2022
#87