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As government officials and industry experts in Canada and the United States attempt to pinpoint the cause of Thursday's massive power blackout, there is one possibility that has escaped investigation: a close encounter of the third kind.
In the days following North America's last major blackout, on Nov. 9, 1965, reports of UFO sightings down the Eastern seaboard convinced some people that visitors from outer space had flicked an interglactic off-switch.