- Millions of people were without power on August 14th
and 15th. The exact cause of the Blackout as of now has not been found.
I suggest that UFO activity should be examined as one of the possible causes
for the Blackout and satellite data may provide proof of this possibility.
The Canadian Prime Minister claimed the blackout started with a lightening
strike at a power plant at Niagara, New York, but investigation has ruled
out lightening as the cause, since there are thousands of lightening strikes
each day and the system is well protected. The nation's fourth largest
investor-owned electric system, serving 4.3 million customers, First Energy
Corp., which is at the center of the blackout investigation says its high-voltage
line failures could not have triggered the event, claiming there were numerous
unusual power swings elsewhere in the Midwest hours earlier. First Energy
spokesman, Todd Schneider said, "What happened ... is much more complex
than a few tripped power lines in our system, the utility's data showed
unusual conditions, including strange fluctuations of voltage, in the Midwest
grid "as early as noon" Thursday, more than three hours before
the First Energy lines failed. The blackout hit its peak at 4:11 p.m. EDT.
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- A federal task force of US and Canadian officials will
investigate the power blackout and determine how to keep it from happening
again. There was still no clear sense of what triggered the breakdown
and sweltering in summer heat from southern New England to Michigan. The
preliminary investigation focused on an electrical transmission loop that
encircles Lake Erie. No one was sure where the blackout was triggered,
although investigators have been intrigued by a series of interruptions
on five power lines in the Cleveland area during the hour before the massive
blackout began. The North America Electric Reliability Council states,
"Two minutes after the last of the Cleveland-area line problems there
were power swings noted in Canada and the Eastern US.'' They cautioned,
"It's not clear if these events caused the wider blackout or were
a consequence of other events.'' "We never anticipated we could
have a cascading outage of this magnitude and speed", said Gent, chief
of NERC, the organization charged with assessing the dependability of the
nation's electric grids. If the problem began in Ohio or Michigan, as
speculated, it should never have reached Manhattan, complained New York
Gov. George Pataki, adding that the grid was supposed to be designed to
isolate such problems. It may be weeks, before solid answers emerge, said
Gent. The answer appeared to be somewhere on what is called the Lake Erie
Loop.
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- About the time power was disrupted, technicians noticed
a stunning development on the northern leg of the loop, some 300 megawatts
of electricity moving east abruptly reversed course and within seconds
500 megawatts of power suddenly were moving west. Electricity flows on
its easiest path, so it is believed the change in direction was caused
by a sudden reduction in power somewhere on the line at the western end
of the loop, investigators suggested. Michehl Gent states, "This
was a big swing back and forth, throughout the grid system, power levels
began to fluctuate. That caused generators and other systems to trip across
the region to protect equipment." More than 100 power plants, including
22 nuclear reactors in the US and in Canada, shut down, to protect themselves
against power surges, officials said. But, what triggered the shift of
electricity flow, and where?
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- This is where UFO intervention should be examined. Numerous
UFO reports are related to power outages. In last weeks Filer's Files #33,
Minnesota - two saucers knocked out electricity near the Iowa border on
August 5, 2003, at 5:30 AM. The witness saw two saucer shaped UFOs that
fried the solid state-switching unit in his well. The local electrical
provider came out and found a problem with a transformer and also had to
replace a section of underground cable on the road where the witness saw
the two saucers. George Ritter who fought in Vietnam with the 5th Special
Forces videotaped during the Blackout large cylinder shaped UFOs near Fostoria,
Ohio only thirty miles from Lake Eire. Sam Sherman the President of Independent
International Pictures also had a UFO sighting in New Jersey on August
15, 2003, that is detailed later in these files. The average UFO has shown
it has the energy equivalent to a power station. They are frequently seen
hovering above power plants and power lines often when the power fails.
I contacted transmission line experts who admitted it was possible for
large amounts of electricity to be taken from these lines without their
knowledge.
- Geomagnetic storms are another possibility but NASA's
spaceweather site Dr. Tony Phillips stated, "Readers have asked if
solar activity could be responsible for the widespread blackout in the
eastern US and Canada. Not likely. There were no strong solar flares or
geomagnetic activity yesterday to trigger the outage."
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- Many readers may remember the largest previous blackout
in history, The Great Northeast Blackout on November 9, 1965, when the
power system failed at 5:16 PM, and 30 million people in Ontario, New England,
New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania were without electricity for 13
hours. The event started at the Ontario - New York border, near Niagara
Falls when a single transmission line from a Niagara Falls generating
station tripped. Five other transmission lines overloaded and tripped within
2.5 seconds, isolating Niagara Station 1,800 MW generators that became
unstable and shut down. The Northeast Power System became unstable and
failed within seconds. A Niagara Falls faulty automatic relay device was
blamed. However; there is evidence that UFOs may have contributed to the
power failures. A month later in December, the grid systems failed in Texas
and New Mexico, after UFOs were observed.
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- Dr. James E. McDonald, a noted physicist submitted a
report to the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics on July 29,
1968, during Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects. He states,
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- "Then there are scattered instances in which substantial
power distribution systems have failed at or very near the time of observation
of aerial phenomena similar, broadly speaking, to one or another UFO phenomenon.
I have personally checked on several such instances and am satisfied that
the coincidence of UFO observation and power outage did at least occur.
Whether there is a causal connection here, and in which direction it may
run, remains quite uncertain. Even during the large Northeast blackout,
November 9, 1965, there were many UFO observations, several of which I
have personally checked. I have inquired at the Federal Power Commission
to secure data that might illuminate the basic question of whether these
are merely fortuitous, but the data available are inadequate to permit
any definite conclusions. In other parts of the world there have, also,
been reports of system outages coincident with UFO sightings. Again, the
evidence is quite unclear as to causal relations."
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- The largest wave of UFO sightings occurred in 1965. From
coast to coast strange low flying objects were reported almost nightly
by people of all ages and walks of life. These sketches compiled by a NICAP
researcher represent a small sample of hundreds of investigated cases in
which truly unknown objects were judged to have been involved. As the year
progressed the number of reports rose dramatically. On the night of August
2, thousands of people in 4 Midwestern states witnessed spectacular aerial
displays by large formations of UFOs. That same night a multicolored disc
was photographed in Tulsa, Oklahoma while several persons watched it perform
low altitude maneuvers. This picture was extensively analyzed, pronounced
authentic, and later published by Life magazine and many newspapers. But
the year's most incredible development was yet to come. On the evening
of November 9 hundreds of UFO sightings were reported throughout the northeast.
In New York State luminous objects were seen hovering over 3 very significant
locations. New York City, a Syracuse relay station, and a Niagara Falls
power plant.
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- Within moments of the Syracuse sighting 9 northeastern
states and parts of Canada experienced the largest power failure in history.
Media accounts including those by NBC news, The Associated Press, and some
local papers openly reported the UFO sightings and in a few cases suggested
that they be investigated as a possible cause of the blackout. However,
before this speculation could gain much momentum the Federal Power Commission
announced that the problem had been caused by a broken relay in a Canadian
power plant. This answer was accepted by the press and public and the UFO
angle was quickly forgotten. But, the official explanation was untrue.
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- Major Keyhoe reports that a private investigation by
the utilities industry later concluded that the relay had NOT broken, but
had been tripped by a huge, unexplainable surge of power. The only major
paper which attempted to follow up on a possible UFO connection with the
outage was the Boston Record America. But the paper's editors told a NICAP
investigator that shortly after publishing this account of the Niagara
Falls sighting they had been called by an Air Force officer at the Pentagon
and severely reprimanded for printing the story. In any event, the public
at large remained unaware of the presence of UFOs during the Great Northeast
Blackout.
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- Filer's Files urges Congress to investigate the possibility
that UFOs contributed to the Blackout. Videos and other evidence will be
presented if needed. See http://www.georgefiler.com/
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