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al UFOs AND THE US EAST COAST BLACKOUT OF 1965 by David E. Wolin © 2005 a massive, hidden fortress designed to house _ of the East Coast including New York City the president and other key government offi- experienced a power blackout that left 30 cials in the event of a nuclear war or some _ million people without electricity for as sort of significant catastrophe. The under- much as 13 hours. ground bunker contains most of the critical Colonel J. Leo Bourassa was in charge of elements for survival including water, Mount Weather from its creation in the late sewage treatment and electrical generators. 1950s. The Top Secret site officially fell It has been described as an underground city ynder the control of the Office of with a man-made lake, hospitals, office Emergency Preparedness, which later buildings, roads, sidewalks, television and — pecame known as the Federal Emergency radio production studios, massive computer Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA is networks and even a crematorium. It is the agency responsible for handling disasters alleged to be able to house several thousand ji... hurricanes and earthquakes and was People if needed, but who those people responsible for dealing with the aftermath of woe is, of sanel oe Set th 9/11. Aside from directing the government's mnaty Personne” at N"ounk |) cater were response to these sort of events, FEMA is responsible for monitoring a series of devices Is . sible fi suring th . scattered throughout North America that a’so respons! om or ensuring © govern were designed to detect evidence of nuclear ment can maintain its ability to function dur- explosions. In the event of a nuclear attack, inga catastrophe. . . the monitors would transmit a signal via a From deep within the secret fortress, telegraph line to various manned locations. Bourassa became understandably convinced On November 9, 1965, the "bomb alarms" that the country was under a Soviet nuclear began sending disturbing information back attack and put the Mount Weather facility on to Mount Weather. Twenty-one of the high alert. Bourassa had taken the first steps nuclear monitoring locations had mysteri- in preparation for United States involvement ously gone offline and the display board was in an all-out nuclear war. Fortunately, the lit up with flashing yellow lights. Of even other branches of the military quickly deter- greater concern was the fact that the sensors mined the nature of the alarms and there was located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and apparently no actual activation of the Charlotte, North Carolina, all flashed red, nuclear weapons systems. The matter indicating that nuclear explosions had actu- quickly resolved itself, but is still regarded ally occurred. As this was happening, much _ by many as a very close call. United States was plunged into a myste- rious electrical blackout. Millions of people were without power for most of the night. Behind the scenes, in a secret military facility, the country was briefly poised at the brink of a nuclear war and, in case that was- n't exciting enough, all over the country there were reports of hovering UFOs... [ November 1965, the East Coast of the Emergency at Mount Weather On December 1, 1974, a TWA Boeing 727 jet crashed into a foggy Virginia mountainside, killing all 92 passengers. News reporters on the scene noticed a high- security military facility nearby and began investigating what it was used for. The Washington Post (December 2) determined that the secret base was known as Mount Weather. A military spokesman, while acknowledging the base existed, "politely declined to comment on what Mt Weather was used for, how many people work there, or how long it has been in its current use". Over several years, details did gradually emerge about Mount Weather. The base seen by reporters is situated on 434 acres of land, but that is literally just the tip of the ice- berg. Buried deep within the mountainside is 60 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2005 — JANUARY 2006