Did anyone else notice the cell towers that went dark right before the Ohio train derailment?

Right so I've been down this rabbit hole for about three days now and my sleep schedule is absolutely destroyed, cheers for that.

The tower blackout thing is interesting but what I keep coming back to is the timing - not just the towers but apparently there were reports of weird aerial lights in the area the night before. Could be nothing. Could be everything. I've seen similar patterns with a few UK incidents where comms infrastructure went quiet right before something major and nobody ever explains why.

What I genuinely want to know is whether anyone has actual documentation of which towers, what times, because right now its all screenshots of screenshots and thats not gonna convince anyone. Anyone on here done proper FOIA type requests on the US side? We dont have the same access here obviously but some of you American lot must have more options.

Don't dismiss this one too fast is all I'm saying.

The tower blackout angle gets raised every time there's a major incident and it almost never holds up when you actually map the outage data against the timeline properly. What specific towers are you talking about, do you have the FCC outage logs or are you going by social media screenshots? Because there's a massive difference between a tower going dark and a tower simply being overwhelmed by traffic volume, which is what typically happens when thousands of people in a rural area suddenly all reach for thier phones at once. I've looked at similar claims around Lac-Mégantic and a couple of other rail disasters and the "coordinated blackout" narrative usually falls apart once you get the actual cell carrier data rather than relying on anecdotal reports.