Right so I'm not normally one for jumping on the power grid stuff because half the time it's just dodgy infrastructure and people pattern-matching. But three states in that window? That's not nothing.
What bugs me more is the timing of the official story. The balloon narrative got pushed out so fast it was almost like someone had it prewritten and ready to go. I've seen similar moves before, not with grids specifically but with the MiB-adjacent cases I've looked into around the Midlands. You get a distraction story dropped right on top of something else that was building up in local reports.
Anyone actually got documentation of the outages with timestamps? Because that's where this gets interesting or falls apart. Without the timestamps its just vibes and I've wasted too many nights chasing vibes when I could've been doing actual fieldwork.
What were the three states? Someone post the specifics.