A wind turbine in England has been destroyed, and one of it’s 65 foot long blades is missing in a strange case locals are blaming on UFO’s.
Locals started reporting strange “flashing orangey-yellow spheres over Lincolnshire” the evening before the mystery destruction. Then at 4am, locals heard a “massive bang” and reported lights in the vicinity of the noise. By dawn, what you see in the above picture was what remained, and the missing blade on the wind turbine was no where to be found.
Just for good measure, some locals claim the UFO’s had arms like an Octopus!
According to one media rag, local authorities can’t explain what occurred with the wind turbine. Health and safety officials said even the strongest gale could not have caused the damage and are calling it a “unique incident.” The wind farm company Ecotricity said “We don’t know what caused the problem. We are investigating.”
One witness, Dorothy Williams, reported seeing an object skimming above the road she was driving on. Whatever it was headed off in the direction of the windmills. Hours later around 4AM her husband was awoken by an almight bang.
It is reported that another witness has pictures of the explosion resulting from the collision. We await their release!
UFO researchers are naturally “very excited” with the incident. Notably the reports of UFO’s in the area came in before the wind turbine was destroyed. Records show there were no aircraft in the area at the time of the initial UFO reports, or at the time of the incident.
Note from Bruce: Although the initial reports of the UFO reported to the SUN newspaper sound rather like yet more Chinese Lanterns, clearly a small paper fire balloon did not cause the damage to this turbine. The mystery is afoot!
BBC News Report UFO Claim Over Wind Farm Damage
Note 2 from Bruce: The MOD has onces again wheeled out this tired line
The Ministry of Defence said it was not looking into the incident.
A spokesman said: "The MoD examines reports solely to establish whether UK airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised military activity.
"Unless there's evidence of a potential threat, there's no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported."
It is rare that I find myself in agreement with the right wing propaganda paper 'The Sun'. Yet I do agree with their statement on this that the MOD position is no longer tenable. In the last year UFO have almost detroyed two police helicopters and flown low over a UK military base. Now they have seemingly destroyed equipment that supplies important energy concerns. It is time the MOD got up off their ass and actually did something! [not just in secret either]
Was this a UFO?
Perhaps not. But I am interested in knowing what caused it anyway.
Latest news: Site sealed amidst speculation of secret Gov. plane incolved in crash.
Well I must admit that now the MOD are feeding speculation regarding a secret plane hitting the turbine I am getting suspicious. Although I was very sceptical this is starting to smack of a real cover up.
Why the hell would a Stealth Bomber end up hitting a wind turbine in an area known to be a wind farm?
Why was it flying so low over the area?
Why is the site suddenly out of bounds if nothing other than wind turbine fragments are on the ground?
Why has the MOD shifted tack from its standard position and allowed rampant speculation of secret craft being involved?
Why have engineers still got no sensible mundane answer after two weeks of analysis?
Does this Taranis really look like a big ball of light with tentacles trailing behind it?
By Bruce











“Oy, Stu! Watch me ‘it that windmill wid me pint!”
<WHAM!>
<blade disintegrates, failsafe shuts down turbine before it spins wildly out of control>
“Bloody ‘ell!”
“S’alright, old chap! Jus’ tell ‘em them flashy lights was ‘round it tonight! Them UFOs and such, royt?”
“Royt!! Bloody brilliant!”
— Darth Continent · Jan 8, 02:06 PM · #
Cause: drunk alien driving/flying a spaceship :P
— dfdvgd · Jan 8, 06:49 PM · #
Would you like my boring mundane opinion?
In reference to my year spent studying Design Engineering at University. My guess would be a stress fracture across the grain due to a micro flaw in the crystalline metal structures at a microscopic level. The snapped blade hit the second blade thus severely damaging it. The blade was then sent flying and is either some distance away or has been removed from the scene by an interested passer by (scrap metal value?).
— Bruce · Jan 8, 07:42 PM · #
Bloody hell folks, this was due to a hot-shot RAF Tornado pilot doing “Nap of the Earth” training. The tip of the blade was ingested in the intake and entire blade sheared off. The second bent blade was due to the rotation of the propeller as it struck the underbelly of the Tornado. The pilot saw the anti-collision light on top of the generator thinking that was the absolute top of the obstruction. Unfortunately for his aircraft it was not. He was able to limp the aircraft home on 1 engine and the turbine blade remained skewered through the other.
If you believe me you are as dense as Bruce, above and his pseudo-scientific analysis based on 1 year of university where he hasn’t even gotten past his prerequisite work.
Ha. There.
— BloodyHell · Jan 8, 07:55 PM · #
BBC seems to indicate the missing blade WAS located: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7817378.stm “The broken blade has been recovered and is being examined.”
— Dave · Jan 8, 09:20 PM · #
Bloodyhell,
I was trying to be rather tongue in cheek lol
I spent one year on the course and was thrown off as I failed to attend enough of the lectures and tutorials. I spent the whole year drunk and stoned. The only thing I remember is looking through a special electron microscope whilst the most boring man in the world spoke excitedly about stress fractures on metal grains.
All I saw was a grey blur. All I heard was meaningless sounds.
I would like to thing that the Ecotricity engineer would have spotted something like this after three days analysis rather than leaving it to a Uni drop out with only one engineering related memory lol.
P.s. I like your idea better!
— Bruce · Jan 8, 10:18 PM · #
Hate to be a killjoy but the blade was found at the base of the turbine.
— ben · Jan 8, 10:47 PM · #
Hi Ben,
Not to worry that changes little. Some articles did wrongly say that the blade was missing, and yes that would have been more exciting. I suppose the thought of some poor Venusian with 30ft of steel blade stuck through his cockpit made for an interesting mental picture.
That said the original mystery remains. What hit this machine and caused the damage?
— Bruce · Jan 8, 11:49 PM · #
Well it seems my tongue in cheek idea may not be so far out after all. To quote a friend:
Nick posted at 22:26 on 08 January
“I’ve just heard from a wind turbine technician that the most probable reason is that one blade worked its way loose, fell off and hit the other. Apparently, the bolts have to be regularly tightened.
Of course I realise that this probably most rational explanation will probably be rejected by many. – but I guess that’s just a risk I have to take :-P”
— Bruce · Jan 9, 09:32 AM · #
Daily Mail, nasty rag that it is, suggests that MOD insiders said this was an unmanned secret aircraft. Follow link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1108973/Unmanned-stealth-bomber-UFO-responsible-destroying-wind-turbine.html
— Bruce · Jan 10, 12:22 PM · #
“Just for good measure, some locals claim the UFO’s had arms like an Octopus!”
Flying Spaghetti Monster?
— Markoff Chaney · Jan 10, 03:56 PM · #
I guess this still isn’t the smoking gun; forensics are better than the New Mexico days. Might help.
— Rob Wallace Film Music · Jan 19, 01:45 AM · #
dfdvgd put it nicely earlier and it is the logical explanation and now that we now know that the blade was found at the scene then its case closed.
— Willy Brown balls · Feb 8, 05:08 PM · #
Well, would you look at that. Metal Fatigue is the answer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/11/wind-turbine-mystery
— limey · Feb 17, 02:40 PM · #