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    Wind Turbine hit by U.F.O

    Taken from the BBC WEBSITE (video shows the damage)
    UFO researchers are claiming damage to a Lincolnshire wind farm turbine was caused by a mystery aircraft.

    The turbine at Conisholme lost one 66ft (20m) blade and had another badly damaged in the early hours of Sunday.

    Local ufologists said they had received many reports of activity in the area and had teams searching for clues.

    Ecotricity, which owns the site, said while investigations continued they were not ruling anything out - but the extent of damage was "unique".

    The turbine is one of 20 at the Conisholme site, which has been only been fully operational since April 2008. The broken blade has been recovered and is being examined.

    Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, said the company was keeping an open mind about the incident.

    "We don't have an explanation at the moment as to what the cause was," he said.

    "We have been crawling all over it and have sent bits off for analysis to see if we can work out what caused it.

    "Until we have some idea, some plausible explanation that it was not a UFO, I don't think we should rule it out".

    He added: "To make one of these blades fall off, or to bend it, takes a lot."

    Russ Kellett, from the Flying Saucer Bureau, said witnesses had told him of activity in the area.

    "One saw what they at first thought was a low-flying aircraft on the Saturday evening and another heard a loud banging in the early hours of Sunday," he said.

    "This is the second most reports of activity we have ever had - I have had over 30 phone calls and emails.

    "To hit two of the blades, any object must have been about 170ft long."

    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."
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    Haha, sweet.
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    I love how the MoD are 'not looking into the incident'
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    Gotta love UFOlogists

    So nothing coudl hit the 2 blades unless it was at least 170ft loong ?
    and if the blades were SPINNING ?
    Or how about one blade breaks and HITS the other !
    THere a hundreds of plausible reasons and yet this article gets published with a UFO slant

    GOtta love British journalist professionalism !!!!

    I'd put up a bet on the "conclusion" will be stress fracture of blade and it hit the other.

    Bet the journo won't bother to come back on it and report the "truth"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine View Post
    Gotta love UFOlogists

    So nothing coudl hit the 2 blades unless it was at least 170ft loong ?
    and if the blades were SPINNING ?
    Or how about one blade breaks and HITS the other !
    THere a hundreds of plausible reasons and yet this article gets published with a UFO slant

    GOtta love British journalist professionalism !!!!

    I'd put up a bet on the "conclusion" will be stress fracture of blade and it hit the other.

    Bet the journo won't bother to come back on it and report the "truth"
    I think they will:

    "reportedly the wind turbine accident was caused by the failure of one of the blades, which falling apart damaged the second one. the failure was caused by extraterrestrial humanoids who purposedly cracked the first blade"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine View Post
    Gotta love UFOlogists

    So nothing coudl hit the 2 blades unless it was at least 170ft loong ?
    and if the blades were SPINNING ?
    Or how about one blade breaks and HITS the other !
    THere a hundreds of plausible reasons and yet this article gets published with a UFO slant

    GOtta love British journalist professionalism !!!!

    I'd put up a bet on the "conclusion" will be stress fracture of blade and it hit the other.

    Bet the journo won't bother to come back on it and report the "truth"
    Put yourself in the place of the reporter. Gaza is a laboratory of horror, Russia has cut gas supplies to half the continent, and you get stuck with a ****ing broken turbine in Lincolnshire. You have to sell your story somehow!
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    UFOs are so stealthy they have avoided any conclusive detection for all of human history yet they randomly run into wind turbines?
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    Quote Originally Posted by teatako View Post
    Put yourself in the place of the reporter. Gaza is a laboratory of horror, Russia has cut gas supplies to half the continent, and you get stuck with a ****ing broken turbine in Lincolnshire. You have to sell your story somehow!
    In journalism, they say, "if it bleeds it leads." And yet here we have Gaza, bloody as hell, and UFO's are leading, so apparently, it could be more appropriately inferred that if it "is mysterious and knocks wind turbines down, it leads."

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    i wonder how much a single blade costs....
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    WHat you think they're hoping that the alien UFO has fully comprehensive accident insurance for them to calim the costs against ?????
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    Quote Originally Posted by digitalcraft View Post
    UFOs are so stealthy they have avoided any conclusive detection for all of human history yet they randomly run into wind turbines?
    You should consider what the term UFO really stands for, it doesn't have to be extra terrestrial.
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    Russ Kellett, from the Flying Saucer Bureau, said witnesses had told him of activity in the area.
    yes oficially we all know what UFO really means ..... but once the Flying Saucer UFO brigade get on board you're surrounded by nutters wanting to call home
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine View Post
    yes oficially we all know what UFO really means ..... but once the Flying Saucer UFO brigade get on board you're surrounded by nutters wanting to call home
    Hahaha, so true.

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    might have been the new spec-V

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