Engines and radios die

A car stalls with its lights out at Loch Raven; a dashboard dims and a phone fuse blows at Dardanelle; an engine, phone and windows die at Port Jervis; police radios go dead at Ussy-sur-Marne. The effect stops when the object leaves.

Cases
4
Countries
4
Span
1958–2009
Found by
Cross-match

The cases

  1. 1958Loch Raven Reservoir car-stall case (26 October 1958)On the night of 26 October 1958 two men driving across the Loch Raven Reservoir bridge near Baltimore saw a 100-ft egg-shaped object hovering over the bridge.
  2. 1994Ussy-sur-Marne: a triangle over a gendarmerie carAt 2:47 a.m.
  3. 2009B-1-size triangle near Arkansas Nuclear One power linesOn 20 April 2009 a nurse driving near Dardanelle and Mount Nebo, Arkansas, by the Arkansas Nuclear One power lines, saw a dark triangle the size of a B-1 bomber with rotating metallic-blue lights come within about 100 feet.
  4. 2009200-ft rotating cigar stops a car at Port JervisOn 25 November 2009 at Port Jervis, New York, a slowly rotating cigar-shaped object about 200 feet long with five lights passed over a car.

What if?

If the effect is real, the object carries a field strong enough to stop ignition and radio circuits nearby.

What would settle it

Vehicle and radio inspections made soon after each event.

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Sources include war.gov/ufo (PURSUE), the FBI Vault, NASA and ASU Apollo archives, congressional testimony and the witnesses' own words. Each case links to its sources.A research project by Igor France · updated 1 November 2026 · Privacy