White supremacists plotted to attack the US power grid by shooting electricity stations causing millions of dollars worth of damage, FBI reveal in mistakenly unsealed affidavit
The FBI is investigating an alleged white supremacist group who was planning a power outage across the southeastern U.S. by attacking the grid
Operation 'Lights Out' was scheduled for summer 2021 when members would cut off electricity by shooting rifle rounds into power stations
The plan was told to the FBI by an informant in an affidavit from March that was mistakenly unsealed last week
It revealed an Ohio teenager, a man from Wisconsin and a Texas native who was then a Purdue University student are among those being investigated