Atlanta Airport Crippled by Blackout.
The world's busiest airport, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International, was hit with a nearly 11-hour long power outage, stranding passengers and disrupting flights across the country. The outage started with a fire in a Georgia Power underground electrical facility, damaging two substations that served the airport - including the redundant system that would've provided backup power. Toxic fumes prevented workers from entering the facility to conduct emergency repairs. 1,000 flights in and out of Atlanta - which is Delta's primary hub - were canceled, and travel delays are expected to continue throughout Monday.
Star Wars Forces Way to Box Office Records.
The Last Jedi, the ninth major motion film in the Star Wars cinematic universe and the sequel to 2017's The Force Awakens, was the top debut of the year, bringing in $220M domestically. The haul makes it the second best domestic opening ever right behind...its predecessor, The Force Awakens (2015's Jurassic World comes in third with a $208M opening weekend). The film, led by indie director Rian Johnson (who has reportedly been tapped for a new trilogy separate from the Last Jedi story line), rode a wave of praise, with critics lauding his break (potential spoilers) from past Star Wars stereotypes and an emphasis on new heroes.
Pentagon Actively Investigates UFOs.
According to reports over the weekend (NYT paywall), the Pentagon has carried on a decades-long program to investigate US Air Force encounters with what are classified as unidentified flying objects. The program, known as Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was funded at the behest of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) at $22M over five years. At a practical level, the program was a channel for Air Force and Navy pilots to report observations of aircraft they could not identify. Luis Elizondo, the career intelligence official who ran the program before it ended in 2012, described scores of unexplained sightings by military pilots of aircraft with capabilities far beyond what is currently considered aerodynamically possible. At least one video from a F/A-18F Super Hornet was released.
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