UFO hits wind turbine in Louth

Myxomatosis

Louth, Lincolnshire that is.

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GhostInTheRuins

Could they have possibly made the old woman look creepier? I doubt it.

Mr Magnolia

If it was in 'The Sun' it must be true.

Quazzie

hit by a UFO.

Locals were woken by the 4am smash after strange lights were spotted streaking towards the 290ft-tall generator on a wind farm.



Baffled power chiefs said of the smash in Conisholme, Lincs: “We have a team investigating.” There was no trace of the missing blade. A UFO expert said: “We are very excited.”
A woman motorist told how she saw a UFO zoom towards the wind farm and strike the 290ft turbine.


Dorothy Willows — who lives half a mile from the scene of the hit-and-run — was in her car when “strange lights” loomed in the evening sky.
She was among dozens who spotted the mysterious flashing orangey-yellow spheres over Lincolnshire — where the turbine was left wrecked. Dorothy, of Louth, said: “The lights were moving across the sky towards the wind farm. Then I saw a low flying object. It was skimming across the sky towards the turbines.”
Hours later there was an almighty smash.
Dorothy said: “My husband Stephen was woken at 4am by the bang.”
Afterwards there was no trace of one of the turbine’s three huge 65ft blades — ripped off in the collision.
Another was left twisted and useless. Other locals told how the lights looked like balls of flames. Lesley Whittingham, 71, even managed to photograph it — and said: “It looked like a giant explosion in the air.”


John Harrison, another witness, described how he looked out of his landing window and saw a “massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground” over the wind farm. He said: “It was huge. With the tentacles it looked just like an octopus.”
The object that struck the turbine at Conisholme near Louth on Sunday dodged others surrounding it — and last night experts had no explanation for what it was. There were NO reports of any aircraft collisions.
Council health and safety officials said even the strongest gale was unlikely to be responsible.
The damage was described by the Health and Safety Executive as a “unique incident”.
Wind farm company Ecotricity admitted: “We don’t know what caused the problem. We are investigating.”

UFO expert Russ Kellett, of Flying Saucer Review, told how dozens of reports of mystery objects poured in before the crash.
He said: “Balls of light were seen in the sky and the MoD has no explanation. We are very, very excited about this.”
Last night the incident was the talk of the internet. It was dubbed the “Octopus UFO” because of the tentacles and how the lights appeared joined in formation.
The MoD said of the latest scare: “Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, there is no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting.

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Noopti

Interesting.
Strange for something like that to get so damaged and there to be no explanation.

themadchef

"A UFO expert said: “We are very excited"



As he unzips his trousers in record time.

CreepingDeath

Noopti wrote: »

Interesting.
Strange for something like that to get so damaged and there to be no explanation.

Not just damaged.... the broken blade is MISSING !

Quote from that page : There was no trace of the missing blade

Try making that disappear without leaving tracks from a mobile crane truck.

So it seems that aliens do have women drivers....
Or they nicked the turbine for spare parts / materials.

ScumLord

Noopti wrote: »

Interesting.
Strange for something like that to get so damaged and there to be no explanation.

They gave a perfectly plausible explanation in the news article. Aliums!

I think this is a good thing. If aliums can get that drunk then there's hope for us yet.

Dave!

I'm not sure what's more reliable, the Sun or the National Enquirer....

AnonoBoy

Dave! wrote: »

I'm not sure what's more reliable, the Sun or the National Enquirer....

Weekly World News is way more trustworthified.

dlofnep

The Sun - Louth, Lincolnshire

Today, something completely unbelievable happened. Without a smidgen of evidence, we at the good faith institute of the Sun Newspaper will report it!

garytuohy

it is featured on sky news now

Sleipnir

SKYNEWS wrote: »

The missing blade was discovered on the ground beneath the 89m high turbine. Another blade was reported to be badly dented.

But....that's not possible because The Sun said it had vanished!???

The aliens must have put it back while The Sun's reporter was getting a rasher sandwich.

ShooterSF

Sleipnir wrote: »

But....that's not possible because The Sun said it had vanished!???

The aliens must have put it back while The Sun's reporter was getting a rasher sandwich.

Possible. Or the Aliens have gained control of Sky in an effort to tarnish The Sun's impeccable reputation. Fooling people into thinking they exaggerated a story :eek:

Now there's a scary thought!

Noopti

ShooterSF wrote: »

Possible. Or the Aliens have gained control of Sky in an effort to tarnish The Sun's impeccable reputation. Fooling people into thinking they exaggerated a story :eek:

Now there's a scary thought!

Murdoch is an alien. I thought that was common knowledge. :rolleyes:

If the blade was found nearby, then the turbine could have just destroyed itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOO7YdrFXkM

Dave!

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Weekly World News is way more trustworthified.

Full of truthiness?

AnonoBoy

Dave! wrote: »

Full of thruthiness?

Aye. And moraldasity.

Setun

This is the same newspaper that has a front page headline about the person who won the euro milions a couple of years go. What new angle can they bring to the story? Well, her grandson thinks she's mean with her money.

Gospel truths there exposed by the sun.

The guy

Noopti wrote: »

Murdoch is an alien. I thought that was common knowledge. :rolleyes:

If the blade was found nearby, then the turbine could have just destroyed itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOO7YdrFXkM

Well, we're not going to take the right logical choice, we're going to assume it was the work of beings from other galaxies and make up terrible stories about bright balls of flames which leave no heat mark.

IvySlayer

OK, they fly across the galaxy into our solar system, past all our planets, into our atmosphere undetected and they can't avoid a big spinning thing in the sky?

ScumLord

IvySlayer wrote: »

OK, they fly across the galaxy into our solar system, past all our planets, into our atmosphere undetected and they can't avoid a big spinning thing in the sky?

Accidents happen.

Galvasean

It was just a DKIT student's assignment gone awry.

Biggins

Personally, I suspect that it was hit by yet another Irish polician flying out of the country before more crap hits the fan.
...O' hang on... too late... It has hit it!

gambling

Something dramatic happened about 12,900 years ago, and the continent of North America was never the same. A thriving culture of Paleo-Americans, known as the Clovis people, vanished seemingly overnight. Gone, too, were most of the largest animals: horses, camels, lions, mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, ground sloths and giant armadillos.
In just the last few years, there has arisen a controversial scientific hypothesis to explain this chain of events, and it involves an extraterrestrial calamity: a comet, broken into fragments, turning the sky ablaze, sending a shock wave across the landscape and scorching forests, creatures, people and anything exposed to the heavenly fire.
Now the proponents of this apocalyptic scenario say they have found a new line of evidence: nanodiamonds. They say they have found these tiny structures across North America in sediments from 12,900 years ago, and they argue that the diamonds had to have been formed by a high-temperature, high-pressure event, such as a cometary impact.

GhostInTheRuins

welcome to boards, nice start

Turd Ferguson

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Not just damaged.... the broken blade is MISSING !

Amy Winehouse has it. She needs a blade that big to cut up the HUGE crack rocks she buys.

CreepingDeath

gambling wrote: »

Something dramatic happened about 12,900 years ago, and the continent of North America was never the same.

Bush's anchestors must've arrived.

HouseHippo

dlofnep wrote: »

The Sun - Louth, Lincolnshire

Today, something completely unbelievable happened. Without a smidgen of evidence, we at the good faith institute of the Sun Newspaper will report it!

Along with sky news,rte news and tv 3 news.

BaconZombie

Looks like the UFO was man-made.

MOD said Wind Turbine was damaged by stealth bomber not by Alien UFO, on 4th January 2009.

http://ufoblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-ufo-news-updatemod-said-wind.html

Collie D

Must have been a female alien at the controls. Manages to fly a bazillion light years and then can't land/park properly

OctavarIan

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Looks like the UFO was man-made. http://ufoblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-ufo-news-updatemod-said-wind.html

Any source that's not some random blog by a person who can't write?

Although if it was a stealth bomber they should probably spend some of that research money on pilot training...

Fringe

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Looks like the UFO was man-made.



http://ufoblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-ufo-news-updatemod-said-wind.html

It's a government conspiracy!!!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Where are those idiots that thin the Sun is a trustworthy newspaper and serves a purpose NOW?

P.

CreepingDeath

BOFH_139 wrote: »

MOD said Wind Turbine was damaged by stealth bomber not by Alien UFO, on 4th January 2009.

Yep, a cover up.

Sounds like the Stealth Bomber was chasing the UFO !

Davidius

Sorry about that. My future self was coming to visit me and had a problem with his time capsule. He accidently put too much energy in, sort of created a small localised "end of the world" at his arrival spot.

I'll try not to make that **** up a year from now.

Davidius

Davidius wrote: »

Sorry about that. My future self was coming to visit me and had a problem with his time capsule. He accidently put too much energy in, sort of created a small localised "end of the world" at his arrival spot.

I'll try not to make that **** up a year from now.

Did that LHC ever go wrong and kill us then?

And whats my boards.ie post count like in ten years?

DarkJager

The LHC caused the recession if you must know. Although I will give it a second chance to redeem itself when I steal it and turn it on just under the surface of Poland...

galwayrush

Ronaldo ran into it on his way to training.:D
Feck, imagine if footballers started flying instead of driving.

ScumLord

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Looks like the UFO was man-made.



http://ufoblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-ufo-news-updatemod-said-wind.html

They should have stuck to bombers that fly high up, really they make much better sense.

BaconZombie

But they are no good for surveillance.

ScumLord wrote: »

They should have stuck to bombers that fly high up, really they make much better sense.

MizzLolly

I hope the alien wasn't hurt in the crash

CreepingDeath

MizzLolly wrote: »

I hope the alien wasn't hurt in the crash

There's probably a few kids with BMX bikes who took the extra-terrestrial in, while he built a crude transmitter to signal the ship to come back for him.

Honey-ec

Oy vey. Was it a Sky Lantern again?

MizzLolly

CreepingDeath wrote: »

There's probably a few kids with BMX bikes who took the extra-terrestrial in, while he built a crude transmitter to signal the ship to come back for him.

*phew*.. now I can breathe easy..