There are many aspects to the UFO and alien question, but the notion that they are here for our raw materials, a consequence of which seemingly results in mass power blackouts, is one that is often left unaddressed. The fact is, there are many such accounts on record indicating that these seemingly otherworldly vehicles are not only using our own power reserves for their own propulsion systems (we might assume) but are also extracting water from our rivers and even water towers, often thousands of gallons at a time.
Before we move on to explore some of these cases of UFOs not only near water, but of them seemingly extracting it for their own ends, we will turn our attention to just some of the encounters on record that detail UFOs and mysterious power blackouts, including them appearing to use our own energy resources as a power supply.
Perhaps the best place to start would be with arguably the most famous alleged UFO blackout case that occurred in November 1965, a series of bizarre incidents that are loosely referred to as the 1965 East Coast UFO Power Blackouts, at least in UFO circles.
What is certain is that at around 5:30 pm on November 9th, 1965, New York City’s power supply suddenly failed, and the entire city was plunged into total darkness. Authorities were perplexed as to what had caused the power failure, as they received no indications of such an occurrence (although it later came to light that an “unusual flow of current” was experienced just north of the main power plant’s location). Compounding matters was that only several minutes later, the entire eastern seaboard of the United States lost power, followed quickly by several regions of southeast Canada.
In fact, it was Canadian investigators who immediately notified their United States counterparts that they had detected a “huge surge of electricity flowing in the opposite direction to the normal flow at that time”, dismissing American assertions that the fault was likely a power line near Niagara Falls. Although a joint US-Canadian investigation was set up, they were unable to establish a cause for the sudden widespread fault, even going as far as to say in their conclusions that it simply “should not have happened”. However, when the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) conducted its own investigation of the blackouts, it uncovered some remarkable details.
One of these accounts came from a private pilot, Weldon Ross, who claimed he witnessed a “strange, red fireball-type object” that hovered in the air before rising from the power lines below him. He was flying to Hancock Field at the time of the sighting, which also occurred right before the first blackout took hold. Moreover, Ross’s account was corroborated by Robert Walsh, an employee at Hancock Field, who happened to be arranging some emergency lighting as the incident in question was unfolding. These blackouts, however, were not limited to November 9th, nor were they limited to the United States. What’s more, almost all of the strange power blackouts that followed in the months after the East Coast incident occurred around the same time as a surge of UFO reports.
On the evening of November 15th, 1965, for example, following a run of UFO reports in what had been a very active year for UFO reports in the United Kingdom, London suffered multiple widespread power failures. Four days later, on the evening of November 19th, on the other side of the world, similar power system failures hit Lima in Peru. Although there were no widespread power failures reported, on the evening of November 26th, in St. Paul, Minnesota, multiple residents, as well as several police officers, reported seeing several strange, blue objects overhead, while at the same time also experiencing a sudden draining of car headlights and batteries, as well as interference on car radios. Between December 2nd and December 4th, Texas and New Mexico experienced several widespread blackouts, and on December 26th, large portions of Buenos Aires in Argentina also completely lost power. Several weeks later, one evening in January 1966, several regions of southern Italy were plunged into darkness for several hours, with no explanation ever offered for the sudden power cut by authorities.
These incidents – in the pre-Internet days, remember – might have been forgotten about had it not been for a UFO symposium held in the summer of 1968 at the request of the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the US House of Representatives, during which the 1965 East Coast blackouts were examined, with some of the most remarkable testimony offered by Dr. James E. McDonald from the University of Arizona. He stated that “UFOs have been seen hovering over power facilities” on multiple occasions, and that power blackouts often followed these sightings. He also detailed several witness reports from residents of New York City from the night of the blackout, including details from one resident who saw a “strange object” hovering overhead before shooting off into the distance a second before the power suddenly failed. Similarly, five residents of Syracuse reported seeing a hovering spherical object in the moments after the blackout. Even more intriguing, Dr. McDonald offered that the Federal Power Commission had received “dozens of (UFO) sighting reports” on the evening of November 9th, the night of the blackout, as well as reports from across the wider New England area.
Dr. McDonald also went on to state that there were some “slightly disturbing coincidences” that deserved deeper consideration and investigation, not least as no explanation of any kind had been offered regarding the sudden power surge that appeared to have caused the blackout. Incidentally, three years later, in 1971, Dr. James McDonald tragically took his own life. Make of that what you will.
Whatever the truth regarding the East Coast blackouts and whether or not they were connected to UFO activity in the area or not, there are many other similar encounters on record. If we go back just short of a decade, for example, to Rome in August 1958, multiple residents reported seeing a strange, large object make its way over the city. Moments later, the city was plunged into total darkness as the power system failed. With all of the lights extinguished on the ground, multiple residents of the city looked up in awe as the glowing object continued on its way. Less than a year later, in the summer of 1959, an almost identical event unfolded in Salta, Argentina. At around the same time, in August 1959, in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a large, unknown object passed directly over the transmission lines of the local power station. As it did so, the automatic power keys switched to the “off” position. They remained locked there until the mysterious object had moved away, at which point, they switched back on.
Just short of a decade and a half later, and eight years after the East Coast blackout incident, one night in 1973 in Ontario, Canada, one of the most intriguing and thought-provoking encounters involving UFOs and power supplies occurred. On the night in question, Art Larabie arrived at his home on Kukagami Lake Road after visiting his wife in the hospital. He had been at work the entire day before the visit, and now, at a little after 10 pm, he was so exhausted that he went straight to bed. He was so tired he could hardly remember his head hitting the pillow and was almost immediately in a deep sleep. He was, though, dragged from his slumber shortly after midnight by the sound of his panicked neighbor banging on his front door. In fact, his neighbor was knocking so loudly in their attempts to wake him that they “nearly knocked the door down!”
Realizing something truly out of the ordinary must have happened to cause such a reaction in his neighbor, Art pulled himself out of bed and made his way to the front door. His neighbor immediately urged him to “come outside and see” the bizarre object that was hovering just above the nearby powerlines. Art initially dismissed his neighbor’s concerns, stating the “object” was likely nothing more than the Moon. His neighbor, however, insisted the object was far stranger than that, and eventually Art followed him outside.
Almost as soon as he had done so, he could see a “massive object” that was glowing like a lightbulb between 500 and 1000 feet away, hovering approximately 40 feet above the powerlines, its width spanning three of the poles the lines were attached to. Stranger still, a tether of some sort stretched down from the object and connected to one of the power lines. Art couldn’t escape the feeling that the object – whatever it was – was draining the power from the lines and taking it on board, almost as if it was charging itself up.
The two men remained where they were, each in complete awe at the bizarre aerial display in front of them. Then, after around 25 minutes, the object suddenly shot away into the distance and disappeared. In fact, the object vanished so quickly that neither of the men could recall actually seeing it leave. However, when they looked at the powerlines directly below where the object had been hovering, they could see that the lines were now strangely illuminated, so much so that they cast a brightness to the ground below.
The following morning, Art visited his other neighbor to ask if she had witnessed anything from the previous evening. She said that she hadn’t seen the object itself, but that she was awakened in the middle of the night by an intense light that filled her bedroom for several minutes. She told Art that she had been “groggy” from being woken up, and believed that the brightness was down to “the kids leaving the lights on,” and, ultimately, she went back to sleep. It was only now, as Art told her of the strange events he and his other neighbor had witnessed, that she realized she, too, had caught a glimpse of the otherworldly events of the previous evening.
Just what the object was, where it came from, and whether it was taking power directly from the powerlines remains open to debate. The incident, however, adds another layer of nuance to the UFO and alien mysteries.
During the early 1990s, Puerto Rico, arguably one of the most active locations for UFO sightings on the planet, experienced several strange power blackouts that appeared to be connected to UFO sightings. On the evening of October 2nd, 1991, for example, hundreds of residents were plunged into total darkness for around half an hour as the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) suddenly failed. At the same time, a PREPA engineer, Ramon Montalvo, witnessed several strange lights hovering above the plant “the minute the power was cut off!”
Following this insinuation that an object of otherworldly origin might have been responsible for the power cut, Lieutenant Rafael Rodriguez, a Lajas police officer, offered that the lights Montalvo saw were likely nothing more than reflections from the surface of the nearby lagoon. However, when authorities attempted to prove that Rodriguez was correct by setting up large reflectors on the crest of Mount Candelaria, their experiment actually proved the opposite, with no reflections visible on the surface of the water from what would have been Montalvo’s viewpoint. Ultimately, no official explanation was given for the strange power blackout.
Around six months later, in mid-1992, in Trujillo Alto, another bizarre incident took place. Late on the night in question, residents were woken by a monstrous noise and a bizarre but captivating blue glow that washed over almost the entire city. Looking out of their windows and looking up from the streets, residents of the city watched in awe as the light changed color, going through “almost all the colors in the spectrum”, while, at the same time, two bizarre searchlights appeared and scanned the ground below, as if looking for something. At some point during these bizarre events, witnesses began to notice that the object behind the glow was hovering directly over one of the nearby power stations. In fact, as more and more residents focused on the object itself, they could see that it was “drawing electricity” from the power station, with some witnesses even recalling seeing sparks flying between the power plant and the object above.
The object remained visible for several hours. However, the following morning, several intriguing discoveries were made at the power station itself, not least that the transformer terminals had become completely molten. Moreover, investigators were perplexed as to why the breakers had failed to act and shut off such a huge loss of current. In total, it was estimated that the incident had cost almost a quarter of a million dollars in terms of damage and energy reserves.
In more recent times, during the summer of 2001, a similar UFO blackout case hit the small village of Nanesti in Romania. While authorities and media outlets either didn’t mention or played down the apparent UFO aspect of the power outage, Gheorghe Cohal and Catalin Banica from the Association for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (ASFAN) outlet immediately highlighted the potential connection, and their investigation into the incident provided by far the most detailed account of the strange events.
It was during the evening of June 30th, 2001, at around 10:30 pm, when a motorist who just happened to be driving through the village (most accounts state he was a resident of Bucharest) suddenly spotted a strange, glowing light overhead. He watched this glowing object for several moments before making a report to a local media station. Sparked by this report, several journalists and local television crews arrived in the small village the following day, with reports going out from residents on various media platforms, and ultimately, drawing the attention of the two previously mentioned ASFAN investigators.
It came to light that at the time the motorist had spotted the strange object over the town, most of the local residents were at home watching an extremely popular television show on the national station TVR1. It was while they were watching this program (ASFAN spoke with over 50 residents) that the town’s power supply suddenly cut out. Power outages were relatively common in Nanesti, but, generally speaking, only lasted a minute or two. This time, though, after several minutes without power, many residents began to sense that this power cut was different somehow, and many of them ventured outside. When they did so, most immediately noticed the bizarre, red, glowing, round-shaped object overhead. They recalled that it moved slowly before coming to a sudden stop and then rotating on its axis. As they looked on, the object seemed to transform itself into a ring that was divided by a yellow hue, which then descended toward the ground.
Then, when it came to around 1000 feet from the ground, the object began to ascend once more, its spinning movements clearly visible to those below. It eventually returned to its original position before repeating the descent and the ascent. It did this several times, suggesting to investigators that the object, or the intelligence behind it, was either investigating the villagers or had decided to put on a purposeful display. As midnight arrived, and with the power still not restored, several of the villagers returned inside their respective homes. Others, on the other hand, remained outside in case any further aerial displays took place. Investigators, though, discovered other witnesses who further corroborated what had been seen by residents of Nanesti.
Many of these were in the cultural center of the town, attending the wedding reception of the son of the village manager. The reception itself was in full swing by the time the power suddenly went out, leaving the bride and groom, and their guests, in total darkness. By midnight, with many of the guests preparing to leave, the hosts contacted the Vulturu power planet to ask about the outage and when they expected power to be restored. To their confusion, they were informed that this particular power plant (even though it provided power to the area) was functioning normally, and that the issue could be with another nearby power plant in the Focsani region. By 2 am, the power was restored, and with many of the wedding guests still at the cultural center, they continued with their celebrations. In the days that followed, however, several intriguing details came to light concerning the power supply to the affected region on the night in question.
Renel, for example, investigated the source of electricity distribution to the village that night and discovered that there were no recorded faults with either of the power plants. And while one charred transformer was discovered at one of the power plants, a blackout across such a wide area and for such a long time could not be attributed to a single charred transformer. Moreover, there is still the issue of just what caused the charring in the first place. Of course, given the multiple witnesses to the bizarre aerial object witnessed overhead at the same time as the power cut, we would be irresponsible not to assume that there is a likely connection between the two.
Perhaps of more concern than UFOs syphoning energy straight from our power stations or causing power systems to temporarily go down is the notion of UFOs extracting water for their own needs, not least because of our own need for it, combined with the fact that it appears to be extremely rare in the known cosmos.
Arguably one of the most intriguing of these accounts unfolded in the early hours of September 30th, 1980, at the White Acres property near Rosedale in Victoria, Australia. At around 1 am on the night in question, the 54-year-old caretaker of the farm was dragged from sleep by a sound that he likened to “a screeching whistle” that was coming from outside. At the same time, as he shook off the grogginess of sleep, he could hear the agitation of the cattle, clearly telling him that something untoward was taking place. He dragged himself from bed and, still wearing his nightclothes, ventured to the back door of the property where the commotion seemed to be coming from. He opened the door and stepped outside onto the wooden rail. As he did so, he saw a bizarre “domed, disc-shaped object” with orange and blue flashing lights moving across his field from left to right in his vision. He estimated that this strange craft was no more than ten feet from the ground and was approximately 500 feet from him. He further estimated that it was around 25 feet in width.
He continued to watch as the object moved precisely across his land, negotiating several trees and outbuildings as it did so. As he watched, he noted that although the object was brightly lit underneath and “gave out light at its own height”, it didn’t illuminate the ground below (a detail that shows up in numerous other UFO accounts). Then, the object came to a sudden stop directly above a concrete 10,000-gallon water tower. It then descended and came to a stop only a short distance from the structure.
At this point, the caretaker rushed back inside the house, threw on some clothes, and jumped onto his Suzuki 100 motorbike before racing across the fields towards the water tank in order to take a closer look. There had been several cases of cattle rustling in recent months, and, despite the truly bizarre nature of the events he was witnessing, the caretaker still hadn’t dismissed that this bizarre object could be somehow connected to the cattle rustlers. When he came to a gate, he quickly jumped off the bike and proceeded to open it. As he did so, he caught sight of one of the cattle nearby. He recalled seeing the fear in the cow’s eyes, and also noticed that it was “frothing at the mouth”, such was the anxiousness it was clearly feeling. With the gate open, he got back on the bike and set off once more. When he was no more than 50 yards from where the object was hovering, he brought the bike to a stop and got off once more. He immediately noticed a bizarre sensation running through his body, making him feel like he was “like a jelly on a plate”. He also noted that the whistling noise was much louder than it had been previously, likely due to his being much closer to the strange craft. In fact, the volume of the noise was so loud that he was forced to cover his ears. From this vantage point, he could see that the top of the craft was dome-shaped and white in color, while the bottom half was orange and featured several “circular windows or lights”.
Then, the whistling noise changed into “an awful scream”, while at the same time, a strange, black tube emerged from the craft’s underside. The tube began to extend, and as it did so, a “loud bang” was audible, quickly followed by a sudden rush of hot air that was so powerful it almost knocked the caretaker off his feet. The caretaker looked up and could now see the craft ascending slowly, the black tube still connected to its underside. After several seconds, the object came to a stop and went completely silent. At this point, the tube was no longer visible. However, a downpour of items, including stones, rocks, and cape weed, began falling to the ground. A moment later, the object began moving to the east.
The caretaker restarted the bike’s engine and rode to where the object had been hovering only moments earlier. He could clearly see a strange “ring of black” on the ground directly below where it had hovered. He looked up once more, just in time to see the strange craft disappear into the night sky. At this point, the caretaker felt a strange mixture of confusion, exhilaration, and excitement. He started the bike’s engine once more and rode straight back to the house. As he walked into the property, he noted that the clock on the wall declared it was 1:50 am. As he prepared himself a cup of coffee, however, he happened to glance at his wristwatch and discovered it had stopped at 1:10 am. He reset the watch to the correct time, and it appeared to be working as it should. However, only ten minutes later, it had stopped once more. It would be several days before the wristwatch worked properly.
After draining the coffee cup, he returned to bed, although he remained fully clothed and slept very little. By 5 am, he ventured back outside to the paddock where he had witnessed the UFO. The black ring was still clearly visible on the ground. Moreover, in daylight, he could clearly see that the grass had been pressed flat in an anticlockwise direction, with all of the flowers within the circle no longer there. He could also see six “spoke marks” that matched exactly the spokes he recalled seeing on the craft’s underside. He continued along the path the object had taken, noting that there was various “debris” left on the ground, the debris that he had heard falling the previous evening. He considered that the long tube he had witnessed extending from the object had likely used suction to take up what it wanted from below before discarding what it didn’t. This was seemingly confirmed to him when he examined the water tank shortly after. The entire contents – all 10,000 gallons of water – were now completely gone, presumably taken by the strange craft.
Following the arrival of the farm owner later that morning, the caretaker reported the bizarre encounter to the Gippsland Times newspaper, which ran a front-page story on it the following day, in their October 1st, 1980 edition. Later that morning, while the caretaker continued to examine the site, he was approached by a passing truck driver. He stated that the previous evening, at around 1 am, he had pulled to the side of the road to rest for a short while. He had also noticed a strange object following his truck for some time before he decided to bring his vehicle to a stop. When he did so, the object continued on and into the caretaker’s field.
Although the true motivations of the intelligence behind this strange craft, as indeed just what that intelligence might be and where they came from or went to, all remain open for debate. It appears clear, however, that the target of the UFO that evening was the water tank on the White Acre property. Despite the presumed advanced nature of this object, we might consider whether water is required in the same way that we require water for a car. Or might it be that water is utilized in ways we wouldn’t understand for some kind of highly advanced propulsion system? What is certain is that even the draining of the tank suggests advanced technology. It was discovered that the tube had seemingly pierced the water tank from beneath, and algae was discovered on the sides and roof of the tank, suggesting that these had been somehow separated before the water was drained. Even more remarkably, it would, generally speaking, usually take around three days to fully drain the entire tank of its contents, something this otherworldly object achieved in less than an hour.
A decade earlier, at around 10:30 pm on the evening of August 15th, 1970, near Good Hart, Michigan, another case involving water and UFOs unfolded, this one much more disturbing. According to the files of Michigan Ufology Central, on the night in question, the anonymous witness was staying at their parents’ home when they felt a sudden and compelling urge to drive to the banks of Lake Michigan and watch the night sky. It was while they were looking skyward that they noticed a particularly bright light that was not only moving but appeared to be descending. Alert that they were watching something out of the ordinary, the witness raised their telescope to their eye. Magnified, the witness could make out many finer details. The “light”, for example, was a disc-shaped object that had orange, yellow, green, and blue lights on its exterior. They could also make out what appeared to be windows, with light emanating from them. Stranger still, the witness could see what appeared to be several figures inside the craft, who appeared to be manipulating some kind of controls. Within moments, the object came to a stop on the water’s edge around 100 feet from where the witness stood. He remained where he was for around 15 minutes before finally deciding to approach the craft.
Almost as soon as he began towards it, he noticed that the air felt decidedly different; hotter somehow. Despite this, he continued on. Then, when he was around 50 feet from the object, he heard a metallic, mechanical sound. He stopped immediately. From where he was, he could see a ramp-like structure extending from the side of the craft towards the ground. At this point, the witness felt an urge to approach the craft, almost as if something had taken control of his body and mind, and he began approaching it once more, eventually stepping onto the ramp. A moment after he had done so, the side of the craft seemed to disappear, revealing an opening in its exterior. He proceeded through this opening and stepped inside the craft, finding himself in a strange room with terracotta-colored stone walls, from which a soft glow appeared to emanate, lighting the room. He recalled that the temperature was relatively cool, and he further recalled aromas that were similar to cinnamon and sage.
At this point, he scanned his surroundings, noting that the room appeared to stretch around a corridor in both directions, while also noting there were various levers and other doorways along the way. He continued, opting to go left when he came to the corners. As he did so, he noticed that the aroma of cinnamon and sage got decidedly stronger. He eventually came to a door that stopped his progression. When he turned, however, he realized that another door had closed behind him. He looked down at the floor and realized he was standing on a transparent section through which he could see a part of Lake Michigan, as well as the Big Rock Nuclear Plant. His attention then turned to a window in the wall. He peered through it and saw several humanoid figures with oversized heads on the other side of it, all of whom were manipulating controls on some kind of panel. Each of the figures wore the same style tight-fitting suit, and each had a strange blue glow to them. Then, without warning, one of the figures turned and looked directly at him. When it did so, the witness could see it had no nose, large cheekbones, and large, black eyes.
Moments later, a strange vision appeared in his mind, a vision that the witness realized had been put there by this strange entity. He was now looking at himself, but from this mysterious figure’s perspective. The next thing he realized was that he was being led into a different room and then placed into a bizarre chair. A short time after that, “rapid 3D images” ran through his mind, quicker than his conscious mind could process them. Then, one of the strange creatures approached him and seemingly spoke to him telepathically. In its hand, it had a strange cube that was filled with a clear blue liquid, which he was instructed to drink. Although this figure passed on much information directly into the witness’s mind, he could only remember small pieces of information, the most important being that these apparent alien entities were visiting Earth primarily for its water supply. His next memory following this was of waking up on the water’s edge, where he had first spotted the strange object.
Four years earlier, on the afternoon of July 5th, 1966, in Port Jervis, New York, two friends were driving home after spending the day fishing when they spotted a particularly quiet and scenic spot near the roadside. Realizing it would be an ideal spot to spend an extra hour trying to make a catch, they brought the vehicle to a stop and quickly retrieved their fishing gear before heading to the water’s edge. It was as they were casting their lines into the water that they noticed a bizarre, oval-shaped object appear just above the surface. Moreover, it was heading in their direction. They both looked on in shock as the object continued to approach. They recalled that the strange craft had a “rusty brown” exterior with a “matte to purple finish”, as well as several portholes around the edge, out of which shone a “green fluorescent light”.
Then, an already strange situation turned even stranger. From the object’s underside, two “purple pinkish beams of light” appeared and began to “sweep” from side to side, breaking the water’s surface, as if the object was searching for something under the water. The more the two men looked, however, the more they could see that these beams of light had a “solid substance” about them, and rather than searching for something, it appeared as though the object was “sucking up the water” through these tube-like beams. As it did so, the object continued in the pair’s direction, eventually getting so close that they could see two figures inside the craft, each of which had a “leathery, wrinkled face” and “large pointed ears”. After several moments, the object disappeared as quickly as it arrived.
Only several months later, at around 4 pm one afternoon in January 1967, an anonymous witness was sitting in his boat on the Old River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when he noticed a strange object appear in the overcast sky. Moreover, the object was heading in his direction. Realizing he had his camera with him, he immediately reached for it and began trying to get the object in the viewfinder. When he did so, he saw the object beginning “a rather slow turn to the right”. He pressed down on the shutter and captured the object at a 45-degree angle. Then, before he could capture another picture, the object simply vanished. As bizarre as the events were, he put the incident out of his mind and went back to checking his fishing lines. Several hours later, though, it seemed the object had returned.
At around 9 pm, the witness became aware of a strange noise, similar to a “huge vacuum cleaner (that was) running full blast”. Curious, he cautiously moved his boat to where the sound appeared to be coming from. However, try as he might, he was unable to find the source of this unsettling noise. He eventually returned to the main port, by which time, the disturbing noise had stopped. He secured his equipment and decided to turn in for the evening.
The next morning, he sat out as usual to his preferred spot on the water. However, as he guided his boat there, he noticed several dead fish were floating on the surface. In fact, the further he went onto the water, the more dead fish he discovered. A little perplexed at this discovery, he returned his boat to the port and decided to practice target shooting with his hunting rifle at the edge of the water. After shooting for several minutes, all the while keeping the Old River in his sight, he noticed that the crows in the trees began “chattering like crazy”. He immediately shifted his focus in the direction of the cacophony and immediately noticed the strange object he had witnessed the previous afternoon. And once more, it was heading in his direction. As he had done the previous day, he reached for his camera and attempted to capture as many shots as he could. However, after managing to take one picture, the object moved upward “like an elevator” and disappeared, this time for good.
There are many other UFO and alien encounters involving the taking of water supplies, many of which are documented in the book UFOs and Water: Physical Effects of UFOs on Water through Accounts by Eyewitnesses by Carl W. Feindt.
At around 2 pm on June 12th, 1981, for example, truck driver Robert Gomez was driving his water truck near Alice, Texas. He had just made a delivery and had around 165 gallons of water in the tank, with zero pressure on the gauge. The radio was playing loudly as he headed down the highway when he suddenly became aware of a strange object in the sky ahead of him. To begin with, he thought the object was nothing but an airplane. However, as he watched, the bizarre craft suddenly increased dramatically in brightness before it stopped dead and hovered motionless overhead. Gomez could now see that the object was disc-shaped and glowed a “brilliant white”, while also having a “dark ring” around the edge and a “dark inner ring” around the center. He also noted that the top section was dome-shaped.
By now, Gomez noticed that the truck was slowing down, causing him to press down on the accelerator. However, no matter how hard he did so, it seemed to have no effect. At the same time, the radio turned into a burst of static. Realizing he was in the middle of a truly bizarre situation, he reached for his CB radio (which was seemingly still working) and contacted the dispatcher to inform them of what he was seeing and experiencing. As he was doing so, the object suddenly shot directly upward into the clouds and disappeared.
As perplexed as he was by the whole affair, he continued with his journey, eventually arriving at Alice. By the time he had arrived, the radio had resumed working again. However, as he turned off the engine and stepped out of the truck’s cabin, he noticed the concerned look on the face of one of the maintenance men, who was focused on the back of the vehicle. Gomez approached him, and the maintenance man pointed to his valve at the back of the truck that was “smoking”, as if it had experienced intense heat. Moreover, as Gomez examined the truck, he noticed that the pressure gauge, which had previously been at zero, was now showing 55 points of pressure. He opened the valve to release whatever water was left inside. However, when he did so, he realized that the tank was completely empty. Whether the water was somehow taken by the mysterious object before it disappeared into the clouds or whether the truck somehow heated up as a consequence of the encounter is open for debate.
Just short of four years later, at around midnight on the evening of April 26th, 1985, in Gomoub in Namibia, 12-year-old Hannetjie was at home, unwell with a fever. She had just gotten out of bed to get some medicine from her mother when she noticed a “strange phenomenon” out of the window, which she later described as looking like a “round ball” that was slightly “bigger than the headlight of a motorbike” and had what appeared to be “several little stars” inside that sparkled brightly. The object itself seemed to move in complete silence as it eventually disappeared into the distance. Moreover, Hannetjie noticed that each of the family’s pet dogs was exceptionally quiet, as if they too had picked up on the strange aerial anomaly. The bizarre events, though, were far from over.
The following afternoon, one of the farmhands arrived at the property, and he had a remarkable account to tell the owners from the previous evening. He claimed that as he was guarding the sheep (as per his duties), a strange “glowing red ball” appeared overhead and proceeded to “drink” the water from the Lower Dam. Moreover, all of the sheep appeared to be extremely agitated while the glowing red object was present, and refused to go anywhere near the water afterward. When the dam was examined a short time later, it was found to be completely dry.
Another bizarre encounter can be found in the research files of Thiago Luiz Ticchetti. The incident in question unfolded around 1 am on August 21st, 1999, in Cubatao, São Paulo, Brazil, when resident Robert Rabelo noticed a huge object in the night sky as he drove to the Water Treatment Station. Upon his arrival, he found three other witnesses, all of whom also noticed the strange aerial vehicle. To begin with, they speculated that there might be a short circuit on the plant’s energy towers. However, when one of them climbed the tower to see if this was the case, they realized the glowing object was much higher, so they had to dismiss this suggestion.
They continued to observe the bizarre craft, eventually noticing that it was a dark, triangular craft, at least the size of a football field, with three red lights on its underside, and what appeared to be one larger red light on the top. Then, without warning, “lots of flashes, hundreds of white flashes” began and then disappeared almost instantly. Following this, a bright yellow ball-like object exited from the triangular craft and headed off into the distance. After around 20 minutes, the triangular vehicle disappeared, seemingly into thin air. Just what the mission of this object, including the smaller, yellow object, might have been remains open to debate. That it appeared directly over a water treatment facility, though, given the many other accounts we have examined here, is certainly interesting.
Just short of two years later, according to the research files of Albert Rosales, another intriguing incident occurred in Brazil, this one near the Tocantins River. On the evening of March 22nd, 2001, Vinicius Da Silva and Marta Rosenthal were returning home from a fishing trip when they felt a jolt from their vehicle that appeared to come from one of the wheels. Suspecting a blown tire, they pulled the vehicle to the side of the road. Vinicius examined the tires, finding all of them to be completely undamaged. It was as he was doing so when Marta suddenly let out a scream. He immediately turned to her and saw she was pointing to the right-hand side of the road. There, only several feet away, was a bizarre “metallic object” that had “small windows along its edge”. Moments later, the pair could see a strange figure, approximately four feet tall, standing in front of the craft. In the strange figure’s hand was what appeared to be a hose. From what the witnesses could tell, the figure was using the hose to draw water out of the river. After two or three minutes, the figure pulled the hose out of the water and went back inside the object. A moment later, the object rose into the air slowly, glowing brightly as it did so. Then, it shot directly upwards and disappeared into the evening sky.
The cases we have examined here are just a small number of UFO encounters on record that detail extracting water or affecting power supplies. Indeed, we might ask, particularly where water is concerned, if at least part of the reason these seemingly otherworldly travelers visit Earth is to extract water. As bizarre as this might sound, it makes a certain amount of sense. If we assume that these strange craft do belong to a space-traveling civilization for a moment, then, upon reaching our part of the Universe, although liquid water can be found on certain moons, Earth is the only place where stable liquid water can be found on the surface, which could make our planet a very attractive, perhaps even necessary, location.
Where, might we ask, though, do power blackouts and apparent stealing of energy reserves reside in all of this? The key element here is electricity. Many researchers have suggested that these seemingly otherworldly crafts might use some form of electromagnetic propulsion system. Furthermore, the Earth’s magnetic field might interfere with these propulsion systems, leading to many of the sightings around the world. In extreme cases, this interference could result in crashes, such as the Roswell incident, which many believe marked the beginning of the Modern UFO Era.
Ultimately, though, we might ask if these objects are regularly visiting our planet not so much to study human beings or other life forms here, but for crucial raw materials. If this is the case, the outlook for humanity in the face of these alien visitations perhaps looks a little bleak and uncertain. We might consider how we as a race might conduct ourselves if we needed valuable materials and resources from the cosmos (assuming we had the technology to harvest such materials from space). Would we take what we needed regardless of the consequences to other life? The answer to that question, if we are being honest, should make us all uncomfortable.
