Not really my usual territory - I'm more of a UFO bloke - but this one's interesting because the timing is genuinely odd isn't it. Three states simultaneously, and then the announcement comes after rather than before. That's not how scheduled maintenance works, I can tell you that much.
What I find myself wondering is whether the grid failures were the cover story or whether the maintenance announcement was. Because those are two very different conspiracies and people seem to be mixing them up in this thread.
Has anyone actually mapped out the exact timestamps? Like down to the minute? Because that would settle a lot of the arguing going on here. Anyone can claim the timing was suspicious, but if someone's got documentation showing the order of events properly, that's where it gets actually compelling rather than just speculative.
Genuinely curious if anyone in those states noticed anything else unusual that night - lights, aircraft, anything like that. Asking for obvious reasons given my usual interests on this forum.