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.
Noopti wrote: » Interesting. Strange for something like that to get so damaged and there to be no explanation.
Dave! wrote: » I'm not sure what's more reliable, the Sun or the National Enquirer....
SKYNEWS wrote: » The missing blade was discovered on the ground beneath the 89m high turbine. Another blade was reported to be badly dented.
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.
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!
AnonoBoy wrote: » Weekly World News is way more trustworthified.
Dave! wrote: » Full of thruthiness?
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
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?
CreepingDeath wrote: » Not just damaged.... the broken blade is MISSING !
gambling wrote: » Something dramatic happened about 12,900 years ago, and the continent of North America was never the same.
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!
MOD said Wind Turbine was damaged by stealth bomber not by Alien UFO, on 4th January 2009.
BOFH_139 wrote: » Looks like the UFO was man-made. http://ufoblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-ufo-news-updatemod-said-wind.html
