Y2K: SECRET NAVY STUDY PREDICTS WIDESPREAD POWER FAILURES
UFO ROUNDUP Volume 4 Number 18 August 25, 1999 Editor: Joseph Trainor Masinaigan@aol.com

"A (U.S.) Navy report predicts 'probable' or 'likely' power failures in electrical and water systems for many cities because of the Year 2000 technology problem--an assessment more dire than any other made by the government."

"President Clinton's top Y2K adviser, John Koskinen, called the Navy's conclusions overly cautious, saying they assumed that major utilities would fail unless proved otherwise."

"The most recent version of the Navy study, updated about two weeks ago, predicted 'probable' or 'likely' partial failures in electric utilities that serve nearly 60 of roughly 400 Navy and Marine Corps facilities."

"The study predicted that partial electrical failures are 'likely,' for example, in Orlando, Fla.; Gulfport, Miss.;Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and nine other small to mid-size cities."

"It also predicted partial water system failures are probable in Dallas, Nashville, Houston, Baton Rouge, La., Montgomery, Ala., Tulsa, Okla. and 59 other cities."

"The study forecast partial natural gas failures as 'likely' in Albany, N.Y., Fort Worth, Texas, Pensacola, Fla., Charleston, S.C., Columbus, Ohio and Nashville, Tenn."

"The military report contrasts sharply with predictions from the White House, which weeks ago said in a report that national electrical failures are 'highly unlikely.' The White House report also said that disruptions in water service from the date rollover from 99 to 00 are 'increasingly unlikely.'"

"'The way they worked was, until you have information for contingency planning purposes, you ought to assume there was a problem,' said Koskinen, who vouched for the Navy report's authenticity."

"The Navy report was initially summarized on an Internet site run by Jim Lord, a Y2K author, who said he obtained it "from a confidential source of the highest reliability and integrity.'"

"'The military has to work from the worst case, but so do we,' Lord said. 'It's reprehensible for them to know this and keep it from us.'"

"Koskinen said the Navy wasn't witholding information, noting that it was available on a Defense Department website."

"However, the report was removed from the site about two weeks ago." Neither "Koskinen nor the department offered an explanation." (See the Minneapolis, Minn. Star-Tribune for August 20, 1999, page A10, "Many cities may experience Y2K-related failures, Navy predicts."