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One does not have to have a great fund of imagination to appreciate implications of flying saucers blacking out military bases. If the UFO's truly have the ability to,; scramble power plants, National Defense becomes a bad joke. If, as many believe, the saucers were responsible for the power failures, was the Big Blackout a test of power or simply a way of saying, "Hello, down there; start taking us seriously?" Don't blame Con-Edison. They may have been scapegoats for a cosmic caper. 28. Strange Visitors in Exeter, New Hampshire Shortly after midnight on September 3, 1965, Officer Eugene Bertrand of the Exeter, New Hampshire police force pulled up beside a parked automobile on Route 101 near Exeter. The automobile was occupied by two nervous women, who, in between near hysterical gasps, told Officer Bertrand that they had been pursued by a bright red, flashing, airborne object that had followed them for nearly 12 miles. They had to calm down a bit before they dared to drive on. Their nerves had been shattered by the harrowing ordeal. Officer Bertrand shook his head with a wry smile as he drove away from the frightened ladies. His perceptive nose had told him that the ladies had not been drinking, but they had obviously frightened themselves into believing that some weird, glowing object had chased them. Probably just the reflection of the moon off a fender. With the newspapers carrying all those stories about people seeing flying saucers, it was no wonder that two ladies driving alone at night had convinced themselves that they were being followed by something unearthly. The policeman made a routine report of the alleged sighting and settled back in the cushions for a long night of driving on patrol. At least the two ladies had given him something to chuckle about. It got lonely just driving around Exeter.