00:00An entire city in complete darkness, and right at that moment things began to appear in the sky that no one else could see.
00:06has been able to explain.
00:07They called it a blackout, but what happened in those 25 hours goes beyond any power outage.
00:13What really caused the strangest power outage in New York history?
00:17And most unsettling of all, what was moving on the rooftops while it was dark?
00:22Summer of 1977. New York was a pressure cooker.
00:27Inflation was rising, unemployment was hitting hard, and a heat wave was stifling millions.
00:32The tension was palpable. The city was on the verge of chaos.
00:36And nobody imagined that that night, something even more disturbing was about to happen.
00:40At 9:36 p.m., lightning struck the Buchanan substation in the northern part of the state.
00:45Minutes later, another lightning strike hit near Indian Point, in what appeared to be a simple storm.
00:50It ended up triggering the collapse of the entire New York electrical system.
00:54In less than an hour, more than 8 million people were left completely in the dark.
00:58But this is where the strange details begin.
01:00Conedison engineers knew that the system had protocols to prevent that collapse.
01:06Even with several cascading failures, backup lines should have kept part of the network operational.
01:11And yet, everything went dark, but not at the same time.
01:14Nor in the same way; some areas were left without electricity in seconds.
01:18Others blinked for minutes as if something was interfering from the outside.
01:23In an interview lost in the archives, a maintenance technician, who wished to remain anonymous, stated,
01:27The orders didn't respond; we were sending signals.
01:30And nothing happened.
01:32It was as if someone had taken control of the system from somewhere else.
01:35During the chaos, the looting, the alarms that couldn't sound, some began to look up.
01:41And that's where the testimonies begin.
01:43A woman in Brooklyn described a metallic sphere floating above her building.
01:49A taxi driver in the Bronx swore he saw a line of static lights moving in formation.
01:54An amateur pilot reported to the radio.
01:57There are unidentified objects flying without lights, but we see them by their reflection in the clouds.
02:02An amateur radio recording circulated months later.
02:05In it, a nervous voice says,
02:07No, ma, I can't guarantee anything.
02:09But there's something parked over Manhattan.
02:11It doesn't move.
02:12It's been there for minutes.
02:13It has no sound.
02:14Days later, the press only talked about the looting.
02:17Almost no media outlets mentioned the reports of strange lights.
02:20But a rumor began to circulate in UFO research forums.
02:23Witnesses had been visited by people who identified themselves as government officials.
02:28They were asked to remain silent.
02:29And some recorders and cameras even mysteriously disappeared.
02:33Years later, a partial FBI report was declassified.
02:38One of the pages mentions an anomalous aerial event over the metropolitan area between 10 and 11 pm.
02:45The following page is completely censored.
02:48In 1994, an internal technical report from Con Edison was briefly leaked to the press.
02:53It contained information about something disturbing.
02:55During the blackout, some substations did not respond to internal electrical signals,
03:00but they did register external activity.
03:02As if an external source were manipulating the systems.
03:05And there is one last detail, almost forgotten.
03:07Several witnesses claim they saw areas illuminated from the sky,
03:10although there was no full moon, nor helicopters,
03:13just a white, still light, which went out minutes before the power mysteriously returned.
03:20So if someone or something took advantage of that blackout to study the city or to move around unseen,
03:26They say it was just a simple power outage.
03:27But amidst lights in the sky, jammed technology, and crossed-out pages.
03:31It really was just that; this is not the only event that raises more questions than answers.
03:36And tell me, what do you think really happened that night?
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