FlashForward: more than just a flight of fancy?

Is everyone in the world about to black out for precisely 137 seconds? Monkey only asks after about 100 starlings died in unexplained circumstances in Somerset after tumbling from the sky for no apparent reason. Not unlike the incident in Channel Five's FlashForward , when a whole load of crows kept simultaneously snuffing it, particularly this memorable incident in the Ganwar region of Somalia in, er ... 1991. Okay, so they're starlings not crows, so maybe the blackout will only last for 53 seconds. If only we had the FBI's Mark Benford to help us out. While you're at it, Benford, can you solve the even bigger mystery – when is FlashForward going to return to Channel Five?