Aliens crash with wind turbine?

[L0d3x]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2108149.ece

Sure seems like a unique incident to me!

[LinkandKvel]

In before, In before I BELIEVE

Only credible info that seems to be here is no trace of the blade.

[SnaFuBAR]

well isn't that something? i want to see the photographs.

[FluffyDucky™]

Wow, I believe. :)

[L0d3x]

I believe that witness is one of them...

[teh lag]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?

[FlyingStone]

Drunk driving?

[L0d3x]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?

I think they just want some attention.

[Bodzilla]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?
their women?

:p

[Hotrod]

Wow, that's pretty insane, can't wait to see what comes out of this, that is, if we do get to see that stuff.

And to why they keep crashing, maybe their ships aren't meant to be used for prolonged flight in Earth's atmosphere, or gravity.

[n00b1n8R]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?
ASSUMING THAT THIS IS REAL

Perhaps their advanced enough to come this far, but their still relatively new (says a human) to space travel (specifically, travel on worlds radically different to their own (it gravity, air temperature/composition/pressure or what have you).

And why come here?
Perhaps we're the first extraterrestrial civilisation they've found and they're performing preliminary research on us. I can't blame them for wanting to scope us out before saying hello when you consider the atrocities we do to ourselves, let alone what we'd do to a perceived threat from a sentient alien species.

/ASSUMPTION

I'd like to see more of these supposed pictures.

[Sel]

I thought the lady in the picture was an alien. Then I read the article.

[Cortexian]

I want to see the picture that the lady took of the "UFO" before I make a decision on this incident...

[MetKiller Joe]

Uh.. giant fireball? Hitting a windmill?

Hobbyist rocket gone awry? I mean, sure, hours and hours is a little on the long side, but do you really think they weren't exaggerating.

Also, if there was an alien civilization so advanced they could come to earth, why would they be flying low, for hours, and then crash land into a wind turbine?

I'm sorry, but the fact that people saw "spheres of orange light". Seriously, it is just another vague UFO sighting that could have been posted by the National Inquirer back in the states.

UFO? Bullocks.

[Jelly]

Guys, UFO != Aliens. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

[Heathen]

Cant read the article at school...
Seems interesting...
Does it seem legit?

[FRain]

Guys, UFO != Aliens. Just thought I'd throw that out there.


Correct.

Unidentified
Flying
Object.

Not aliens. Just a flying object crashed, but that can still mean there are aliens.

[Joshflighter]

I dunno if anyone here watches Star Trek... But there is a species in that show called vulcans, and they would stay and observe human kind. Hmm.. They also crashed once or twice. Didn't mean to be off-topic, but they almost sounded related. :)

[SnaFuBAR]

Hobbyist rocket gone awry?
Bahahahaaa!

FYI, the entire blade is missing, and a hobbyist rocket wouldn't have the speed or mass to do something like that. It was something in sustained flight with a decent amount of mass behind it. UFO is more plausible than your bollocks of an excuse.

Hobbyist rocket... pffft :giggle:

[TeeKup]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?

Our gravitational field is screwing with their telemetry.

/transformers

EDIT: I'll also agree with Noob on the assumption basis. Either that noob or they realize that our society is no where ready for a "first contact." Considering we still have prejudice issues with our own kind.

[MetKiller Joe]

Bahahahaaa!

FYI, the entire blade is missing, and a hobbyist rocket wouldn't have the speed or mass to do something like that. It was something in sustained flight with a decent amount of mass behind it. UFO is more plausible than your bollocks of an excuse.

Hobbyist rocket... pffft :giggle:

Yeah, you're right. You don't have to be an ass about it...

Could it have been a plane? I've seen planes on the cape which can fly for hours given sun-light or battery. Then again, I rarely see a plane whose beacon is constantly on.

[English Mobster]

Yeah, you're right. You don't have to be an ass about it...

Could it have been a plane? I've seen planes on the cape which can fly for hours given sun-light or battery. Then again, I rarely see a plane whose beacon is constantly on.
Because a hobby airplane would TOTALLY be big enough to do something like that, and a bigger airplane would SO not leave a pile of debris everywhere, not to mention there would be a search for the pilot of said plane, and air traffic control (or whatever the Brits call it) wouldn't POSSIBLY register that a plane had gone missing.
Makes perfect sense.

[mech]

A whale flew into it obviously.

[Rob Oplawar]

Bahahahaaa!

FYI, the entire blade is missing, and a hobbyist rocket wouldn't have the speed or mass to do something like that. It was something in sustained flight with a decent amount of mass behind it. UFO is more plausible than your bollocks of an excuse.

Hobbyist rocket... pffft :giggle:
Don't be so quick to dismiss that- a good friend of mine builds small rockets about a foot long that reach mach 3 in less than 4 seconds. Larger amateur rockets don't go so fast, but there's a whole lot of energy to be had in them...

I don't think that's what it was, though.


But here's my opinion: It's a wind farm, ie, it's in a windy area, ie, there will be gusts of wind, ie, you might get objects picked up by the wind from time to time. Also, the eyewitnesses seemed to me to be describing ball lightning. They said strong winds weren't likely to be to blame, and ball lightning is quite rare, but let's think about that for a second:

How unlikely is the explanation that ball lightning or a big piece of flaming debris caught up by the wind or an amateur rocket gone off course happened to strike the windmill? It sounds pretty unlikely.

Now, how unlikely is the explanation that some organism spawned somewhere outside our solar system brought some vehicle across a distance of many many light years, traveled around in our atmosphere for some indeterminate amount of time without announcing its presence in any way (or alternatively did announce its presence, but the government covered it up because that's what the government does!), crashed into a windmill, and then vanished without a trace (or was covered up again!)?
Don't make me fucking laugh!

Occam's razor. Yes, a UFO struck the windmill. I will say beyond a shadow of a doubt that the UFO was terrestrial in origin.

There is no :rolleyes: big enough.

[SnaFuBAR]

Yeah, if you look, the windmill isn't burnt. You seem to be ignoring cause and effect. If it were ball lightning, the results would be far more obvious, and i doubt it would totally evaporate a blade from this windmill without leaving scorch marks. If it were windy enough to pick up debris and crash it into the blade, well it would have to be uninhabitably windy. Think about that. How fast would the wind have to be going without a tornado, to pick up something with enough mass and strength (probably at least comparable to a small car) to rip off a blade from a windmill and then keep going.

Come on Rob, your excuse is just as laughable as anyone elses. You're not as smart as you stroke yourself to be.

[Random]

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Council health and safety officials said even the strongest gale was unlikely to be responsible. :rolleyes:

I know the video is an extreme example, which obviously didn't happen to the windmill we are talking about. However it is naive to say wind can not destroy these things.

Here are some examples of past wind turbine damage:

* April 2005: A 40m blade of a turbine on a wind farm in Berwickshire, Scotland suddenly shattered. The failure was blamed on strong winds and icy weather conditions.
* November 2006: The tip of the rotor blade of a turbine in Oldenburg, Germany was ripped off following a sudden gust of wind throwing it into a field 200m away.
* January 2007: A family narrowly avoided tragedy when a 16ft blade spun off a wind turbine and crashed through the roof of their home in Belfast.
* July 2008: A giant wind turbine between Sheffield and Rotherham was shut down using a controlled deconstruction and the blades fell to the ground after cracks in the blades appeared.
* December 2008: Shards of ice were catapulted from an 80m high turbine in Peterborough leaving residents fearing for their safety.


The simplest cause for the turbine to be destroyed is ice.

[Phopojijo]

Drunk driving?Nah... Marijuana... the blades were pretty high.

[Rob Oplawar]

You know, something just occurred to me.

Nevermind, I just realized it's stupid.

I was gonna say, something relatively small might have struck one blade while it was spinning, and that blade could have been dislodged and impacted another blade (the bent one) before being flung into the distance. But actually, I think if a blade were dislodged it would fling straight out far too quickly to strike another blade on its way out.

(fake edit) Hm, well after watching the above video, I think it might actually be reasonable to guess that the missing blade struck the bent blade on its way out.


So, in the absence of much real evidence, my best guess is that a piece of metal roofing became dislodged in a gust of wind, caught the light of the setting sun as it tumbled through the air, struck the base of one of the blades while the fan was spinning, damaging the blade enough that the immense forces it was already experiencing caused it to break off, and as it was flung away from the fan, the remaining spinning blades struck the broken one. The missing blade is lying in that field somewhere in the tall shrubs, but they haven't found it yet.



I'm not saying that's what happened or even that it's reasonable to assume that's what happened, I'm just saying it's unreasonable to even guess that aliens did it because it's so ridiculous and because there are relatively much more likely explanations. The scenario I described above might be extremely unlikely given the circumstances, but it's a lot less improbable than aliens. Gosh.


real edit: If I were investigating this, I would look at the locations where the "fiery objects" were seen. If they were spotted upwind of the windmill, I would call that good evidence in support of my "object blown in the wind" theory. If they were spotted downwind of the windmill, that would be pretty damn strong evidence against it (although come to think of it, nobody saw the windmill being struck by the "objects" at all- we're just assuming they were the cause of this. They could be entirely unrelated)

[Jelly]

Alas, it turns out that this article was poorly written. The BBC's article gives a good explanation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7817378.stm

[MetKiller Joe]

Yeah. Chunks of ice, at high velocity are likely as well as debris. (unless I missread or am taking out of context).

Cool.

[Donut]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?
fuckin rofl this made my day :XD:

[DarkHalo003]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?
Epic post of the year.

[SnaFuBAR]

It's kind of like those neighborhood belligerent assholes that go around smashing mailboxes with a large truck i guess.

[DarkHalo003]

It's kind of like those neighborhood belligerent assholes that go around smashing mailboxes with a large truck i guess.
Well this must be one fucking huge truck.lol.

[L0d3x]

Alas, it turns out that this article was poorly written. The BBC's article gives a good explanation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7817378.stm

Ah well, there go my dreams of meeting ET.

[ICEE]

Clearly gentlemen this has everything to do with the dolphins mentioned in this (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13780) thread. This is the first attack on humanity by dolphins. Here is my evidence:


The UFO was said to be in the shape of a giant octopus. Obviously, being underwater limits the resources the dolphins have at their disposal, so naturally they use the giant squids of the deep.
The blade was never found. the only explanation that springs to mind is that the dolphin agents took it for further study. Next time, the squid may very well have blades attached to it for more damage.
They have the motivation. For years, our kind has enslaved theirs for our own amusement. We belittle their echo-like form of communication with our collaborating tongues, lips and vocal cords, and we kidnap them for our theme parks, only feeding them when they have successfully performed a trick.

Gentlemen I do believe this is quite a serious threat. We must take steps to thwart the dolphin conspirators plans.

[Donut]

those unfortunate enough to see mission impossible 3: WE SAW WHAT YOU DID ETHAN HUNT.
people, they obviously fucked up the filming for MI4 and are trying to cover it up.

[FRain]

Clearly gentlemen this has everything to do with the dolphins mentioned in this (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13780) thread. This is the first attack on humanity by dolphins. Here is my evidence:


The UFO was said to be in the shape of a giant octopus. Obviously, being underwater limits the resources the dolphins have at their disposal, so naturally they use the giant squids of the deep.
The blade was never found. the only explanation that springs to mind is that the dolphin agents took it for further study. Next time, the squid may very well have blades attached to it for more damage.
They have the motivation. For years, our kind has enslaved theirs for our own amusement. We belittle their echo-like form of communication with our collaborating tongues, lips and vocal cords, and we kidnap them for our theme parks, only feeding them when they have successfully performed a trick.

Gentlemen I do believe this is quite a serious threat. We must take steps to thwart the dolphin conspirators plans.

Clearly, Bodzilla watches WAY too much sxePhil.
I know that's sarcastic but I watch Phil, too and he had a story about that.
Although that is a true story.

Also:

Remember.

UFO != Aliens.

UFO = Random flying object / Unidentified flying object.

[Bodzilla]

you can never ever watch too much phil :awesome:

[kid908]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?

LMAO :lmao:

They never learned to land.

[ultama121]

This has potential to be awesome.

Also,

"With the tentacles it looked just like an octopus.”
"With the tentacles it looked just like
"With the tentacles it
the tentacles
tentaclesHrm...??

[Xetsuei]

I remember watching a thing on the History Channel on UFOs, and one supposedly landed near a military base. Some people went out to it and actually got up close to it and touched it, and then it flew off. They said the air around it felt electrically charged.

Couple months later I saw a show on the Discovery Channel on a guy who was trying to figure out how UFOs worked. I don't remember exactly how it worked but he made a miniature model that ionized (don't know if that's the correct term, but the same thing as the UFO ^ there) the air around it and levitated. Although it did use way to much electricity to be practical. This really doesn't have anything to do with this, but I thought it was sorta cool we might be getting close to alien (or top secret military) technology.

[Limited]

Strange things happen in the north of England, lots of supposed ufo's happen there, I do find it strange that residents said they saw a speeding light across the sky, same day the turbine was damaged. One of the remaining blades is bent, where as the other remaining is in perfect shape, therefore I think something hit it at speed as it only managed to hit 2 of the 3 blades while it was spinning.

Also the picture the old 'alien' lady took, is the one circled in the picture:
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00701/SNN0805GX1_280_701978j.jpg
Bright light? Ever though of the sun maybe?

[Random]

This has potential to be awesome.

Also,
Hrm...??

FSM ...

[TeeKup]

I remember watching a thing on the History Channel on UFOs, and one supposedly landed near a military base. Some people went out to it and actually got up close to it and touched it, and then it flew off. They said the air around it felt electrically charged.

Ion Lifter Technology?

[Xetsuei]

Pretty sure that was it, yeah.

[NuggetWarmer]

It was a rock. Case closed. :D

[kid908]

It was a rock. Case closed. :D

lmao if that is the actual result.

[Chainsy]

Ok..... So why in the picture does the nub look singed? If it was traveling fast enough that the friction would caused the metal to singe, and leave no trace, the object would have to be moving at an extremely fast past to keep the blade still pushed into the UFO as it hit the blade from the flat blunt side, and seeing as it had to be small not to knock the entire thing down or hit the other two, the resulting hit with the shown singed end would have made it without a possibility lose control. This is jsut what I think, and it is based off of human knowledge, maybe they have shields or advanced stablizers, no idea. Also in the picture it shows the turbine facing towards the camera- while the other two face the opposite direction, so it would be said that the force of a probably concrete reinforced pole turned in the gorund without any slant at all? Not to mention how the bent blade is bent in a way that it would have had to been facing a completely opposite direction (the way the other two are facing) but would have been impossible because it would have collided with the far right one. Also on top of this how did it have the speed to go so fast it singed the metal from friction, but does not even leave a scratch on the bent one? And it would be impossible from the other way it is bent, as it shows it blocking the torn off one. This is just the crash though.
Onto the old lady, the eye witness, and lets see what is wrong with her:

1. She is old
2. She wears thick glasses, meaning bad eye sight
3. She is a women

I believe there is life out there, as for us to be the only form of sentinent life in a infintely expanding uniferse makes any probability, even if its a 1000000000 to one, as common as the sun rising on our planet, but no I do not believe anything logical caused this, just by looking over it for 5 minutes.

[Rob Oplawar]

HA!

Ah Chains, you're always there to give me a good laugh.

[SnaFuBAR]

This has potential to be awesome.

Also,
Hrm...??
heh, crysis aliens.

[paladin]

It was me.

[nick3d]

it was meant to of been some RAF aircraft which the RAF are gonna use for bombin afghanistan or summit, thats what it said in "the sun"

[=sw=warlord]

disposal, so naturally they use the giant squids of the deep.
The blade was never found. the only explanation that springs to mind is that the dolphin agents took it for further study. Next time, the squid may very well have blades attached to it for more damage.



I wondered how long it would take for someone to realise the entire blade is missing.
How do you loose a 65foot fiberglass blade?

[SnaFuBAR]

it was meant to of been some RAF aircraft which the RAF are gonna use for bombin afghanistan or summit, thats what it said in "the sun"
except it couldn't be, because it's a prototype UAV. If the RAF had a prototype UAV crash into a windmill (yeah right, they fly high altitude) they'd be there recovering materials, as there was debris left. They also tried to say that the slow moving orbs of light people saw were fireworks from someone's 80th birthday. :lmao:

[ICEE]

I wondered how long it would take for someone to realise the entire blade is missing.
How do you loose a 65foot fiberglass blade?


My post was meant to be entirely satirical >.>

[Rob Oplawar]

It was noted in the BBC article that the blade is actually *not* missing. It hadn't been found at the time the first article was written, but it was eventually found nearby.

[Ki11a_FTW]

a large tree hit it

[Kornman00]

If these aliens are so advanced that they can keep sending shit here from the massive distance between their planet and ours, how come they keep crashing?
Probably because...they're actually human :aaaaa:

[Apoc4lypse]

meh, its just another sign that the Apoc4lypse is amoung... o wait.. :dance:


My theory...

Malfunctioning Wind Turbine looks like a UFO. (these things are pretty high right...)

Ok so, something broke in the motor and caused the said "ball of light" idk about the tentacles tho, but they sounds like made up dramatization to me tbh. The broken motor or turbine or what ever caused some wierd flare of light (I've seen transformers on electrical poles cause wierd orb looking lights due to malfunctions and then clouds or what ever beeing in the way could magnify it) Wind turbines are pretty tall, so it could have easily looked like some object hovering in the sky right near the windturbines.

What ever it was that was broken on it and was causing the orb of light then probably led to one of the blades to fly off, the speed at which the turbine was moving was fast enough for the other blade to strike the blade that was flying off which caused extensive damage to the other blade.

This is just a proposed scenerio, they should look at the other damaged blade that there and look to see if it was bent due to heat, or some other manner, if this is the case then the probability of it being a UFO is higher, if it has gashes and is scratched up its more likely that the blade fell off and hit that blade on the way out. The reason its missing is because of the velocity at which it was thrown at and they havent found it yet.

Basically ROB's story with a more likely cause for the "orbs of light". It was probably something flaring up on the actual turbine within the generator that caused the light.

Of course I'd love for it to be a UFO and the other broken blade was really bent into that shape due to extreme heat from some extra terrestrial craft, and it stole the other blade for shits and giggles.

"(Aliens): Lol, lets steel the wind turbine blade, the humans will be like wtf yo."

E: yea if they did find the other blade then it probably just broke off on its own and hit the other blade...

[ICEE]

Seriously? orb of light coming from a malfunctioning motor? The thing isn't filled with TNT, its not going to explode just because it broke inside. that shit happens in the movies.

[Jelly]

It doesn't have a motor. The insides of those things are pretty much completely empty except for a turbine and some cables.

[Rob Oplawar]

Why not? Things explode all the time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJrg5U6eMcs).

[=sw=warlord]

It doesn't have a motor.
No, it has a generator instead, although the only difference is the generator converts kinetic energy to electrical instead of electrical to kinetic.