UFO damages wind turbine – Aliens not alternative energy fans?
Wind farms with hundreds of wind turbines spinning away are becoming a more common sight around the UK in this enlightened, environmentally friendly time. But while fans of low-energy or green technologies love them, it seems aliens aren’t quite as keen. Surely that’s the only explanation for why a UFO is thought to have crashed into a turbine in Lincolnshire on Sunday night.
Before we continue with this intriguing story, I suppose I should disclose that I do believe in life on other planets. Yes, I’m a kook, and maybe a bit gullible with it. But I actually think people who believe Earth is the only planet in the universe with intelligent life on are the messed-up ones. Do you know how many planets there are? With this in mind…
According to BBC News, two wind turbines at a wind farm in Conisholme, Lincolnshire were hit damaged on Sunday night, and the cause of the damage is unknown. Coinciding with the time the damage was done, many people in the area reported seeing hovering lights or glowing orbs. Which to my mind count as a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object).
Ecotricity, the company that owns the site, is continuing its investigation but admits the damage is unique. One turbine suffered a badly damaged blade while another lost one altogether. Considering the blades are around 20 meters long, the cause of the damage must be something large.
The Flying Saucer Bureau, a group dedicated to ufology, reported receiving 30 calls or emails from local residents of unusual activity in the skies the night before the damage was reported. The people who reported the strange lights weren’t all kooks either, with Robert Palmer, chairman of East Lindsey District Council being one of those who admitted to seeing the orbs and was keeping an open mind as to what they were.
There are of course some less alien explanations for the damage. Dr Peter Schubel, from the University of Nottingham claims it could have been ice flying from a neighboring turbine. Other possible explanations are falling ice (frozen urine) from a passing plane, a meteorite, or simple metal fatigue. But none of these possible causes explains the lights seen by local residents.
The Ministry of Defence isn’t concerned enough to investigate, but ufologists are keeping a close eye on the case to see if a viable alternative explanation is found. I wouldn’t rule out alien activity although why intelligent beings would travel halfway across the universe to damage a wind turbine isn’t immediately clear. Maybe they just aren’t fans of alternative energy.
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Perhaps it could have been Ball Lightning?
January 10th, 2009
From what I can remember of ball lightening, it would have been a long lightening bolt, suddenly changing direction and forming a ball for a very short (a second or 2 maybe?) and then striking at whatever. Ball lightening is VERY rare and doesn’t account for the multiple glowing orbs reported. Also the lightening bolt attached to the ball would have been very visible so it would have been recognised as ball lightening.
February 10th, 2009
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