Sightings: Shutdown Of Electric Power In Our Car.

Editor's Note:

This was originally written by Gaines M. Crook in August 2004 and is presented as a "historical document". Therefore, no effort has been made to update or correct subsequent discoveries, research, or investigations.

This report was found among the "electronic documents" recovered after Mr. Crook's death in 2013. I have slightly reformatted the paragraphs for legibility. 

The reference to the "Poynting (power flow) vector" has been touched upon in previous writings posted here and will be touched upon again in other items yet to be posted. Mr. Crook believed that this was a "clue" to how UFOs "do what they do". 

The term "Adversary" was coined by Mr. Crook to indicate what I believe was his belief that the "intelligence" behind UFOs is at the least 'amoral' or possibly actively "immoral" in its dealings with Humankind.

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One Sunday afternoon, the date of which I am not sure but I think it was late summer or fall of 1973, my wife and I went to the Antelope Valley and ended up at the trash dump. There was something fascinating about the place. We hiked around the place looking at all of the UFO “signs” and enjoyed the clean air and open spaces. When it was time to go home, the car wouldn’t start. The battery appeared to be completely dead.

Now, there was not any light or other load switched on in the car and we had been there only a couple of hours. I recall one time when, at work, I left the headlights on all day and the car still started when I started home that night. Something else occurred to me My HP-35 scientific calculator was in the car but it had not been used since it had been charged. I checked it and found that the nickel cadmium rechargeable batteries were also dead. This had never happened before or since, either!

Finally, someone came by and gave us a jump start. By this time, it was almost dark. Usually, if a car battery is run down by some battery drain while the car is not running, as soon as the engine warms up, it is safe to turn on the headlights for the alternator will furnish enough power to charge the battery, power the ignition and operate the lights. After we had driven a reasonable distance, I switched on the lights and the engine died and we were back with the same problem as before. It was now getting too dark to drive without lights. After a while, someone came along and gave us another jump start but I was afraid to turn on the lights again for fear the engine would stop again. The battery charge indicator indicated that the alternator was not charging.

We had a battery operated lantern in the car and by holding the lantern out the left window; I started again at about 5 miles per hour. The lantern was very dim also, and it normally had a reasonably bright beam. We continued in this manner. Our destination was a building which was once a country schoolhouse on highway 138, about 10 miles or more from where we were stranded, which had a pay phone out front. From this phone, we called our son, Mark and asked him to take the battery out of our other car and bring it to us there. When he arrived, we exchanged batteries and the car started immediately and the battery charged normally!

At the time, it was generally accepted by followers of UFO literature that UFOs have some means to stop electrical devices from operating, but I do not recall trying to reason out what had happened to us in any detail, and how it could have been connected to UFOs. Much later I do remember reasoning that the one thing that could have explained what happened to our car was that some force had partially nullified the flow of electrical power over a small volume of space and controlling the amount of total current that could flow, so there was just enough to power the car’s ignition.

Now in order to do this, the controlling agency would need to be invisible and traveling with us, and it was over 25 years before I could imagine that such a thing was possible. I know that in order to control the flow of electric power, the Poynting (power flow) vector must be overcome.

The next day when I took the battery back to Sears to get it checked, the Sears technician was upset with me for wasting his time by bringing in an obviously charged and operational battery in to be checked!

Looking back on the whole situation, I cannot help but conclude that we were led by the “adversary” for unknown reasons, to discover this “nest” of UFO activity. Only now, over 35 years later, am I beginning to realize significant cross correlation of some of these findings.

I have thought many times that what the UFO enigma needs is an applicable “Rosetta Stone”.