ufo ? hits wind turbine

[pete8tch]

Was totally disinterested in this headline , till i saw the damage done, somethings given it a clout and the blade is supposedly missing.

go on then , best guess for the cause?.

not little green men i dont think tho lol.

[BigW]

I seen the lights that have been reported in Scotland last week, never reported it, wouldnt know where to but they were very strange, the only way I can describe it is like a fireball in the sky, too low, slow and dim for a meteor but most def not a plane or fireworks. I seen four lights at seperate times over two nights all starting in the same place, moving to the same place then going dim.

Somebody caught it on camera and its the same thing I seen and had some friends over the first night i seen it and called them out and they seen it too. Very weird.

[BigW]

As for the turbine, the suggested reason is that the de-icer may have failled and a chunk of ice may have fallen off the other rotor and hit it, but seemingly it has a shear strength of 10 tonnes, Mass x gravity x height plus the fact it may have been rotating at the time increasing the momentum makes it sound a little more feasible.

[Kandy]

Classic case of ball lightning from the description.

ball lightning - Google Image Search

[simonsheil]

No cause other than the fact they are useless stupid things that know they are no good and so try to kill themselves.

[BigW]

Classic case of ball lightning from the description.

ball lightning - Google Image Search

looked more like this YouTube - OVNI - Bonnybridge, Escocia (25-10-1995)

[jec]

I believe in aliens

[rigsby]

Shower of sparks, probably pikies removing blade with gas axe!!!Missing blade will now be weighed in for scrap!!

[simonsheil]

Shower of sparks, probably pikies removing blade with gas axe!!!Missing blade will now be weighed in for scrap!!

Barely worth it now the price had dropped so much.

[pete8tch]

doubt it , think these things are carbon fibre .

ah thats it , barry boys have nicked it for the worlds biggest spoiler.

[RobClubley]

doubt it , think these things are carbon fibre .

ah thats it , barry boys have nicked it for the worlds biggest spoiler.

:rofl:

[Royston]

UFO my ar5e! it's them pi55ed up BA Pilots again....

[Allams Skoda]

As mentioned above sounds to me light ball lightning.

But you never know!

Still would like to know where the 60 odd foot blade has gone though.

[Skodaboy1983]

Seen this on Scottish Tv's Five thirty show, a bit sceptical I think it's just mother nature doing something weird.

As for the wind turbine, not sure what hit that!

[jec]

News are now saying it was a Taranis jet that hit it

[David 8]

I believe in aliens

Somehow that doesn't suprise me :P

[BigW]

doubt it , think these things are carbon fibre .

Some have carbon cores, some GRP with alloy skins.The majority, and especially all the big ones like this are alloy, hence the bending I would think.

[Kandy]

Sounds like the plane is the most likely answer then!

I guess the blade was either stuck to the plane or it spun off (could have gone a long way at even at a low rotational speed) and could well have completely embedded itself in the ground too.

[lightweight]

I think it will be something simple..

Water managed to get into the 'missing' blade either through cracking or a bad join. It froze and the forces of the spinning blade eventually caused it to break away.

The following blade made contact and was bent.

Andy

[MudPuppy]

Turbines have been known to twist out of shape and collapse due to high winds speeds, and sometimes the motors inside catch fire also (one of the reasons why they are only operated within a particular wind-speed range, and are stopped automatically if wind speed goes above the optimum range).

I'm surveying on a proposed wind farm site in a couple of weeks, I'll look out for anything out of the ordinary and report back

[pete8tch]

I'm surveying on a proposed wind farm site in a couple of weeks, I'll look out for anything out of the ordinary and report back

if your hear a whooshing noise or a bright light appears .. RLF

wheres 60 feet of blade gone though , thats a bloody big piece to be missing.

maybe it was Hancock ?:P

[MudPuppy]

I hear plenty of whooshing noises - once I was on top of a mountain and I heard a helicopter (forget what kind it was) and it was that close I waved to the pilot and he waved back :eek:

A few times I've had wing-dip saluts from tornados, Jaguars, F16s, BAe Hawks etc ...

No UFOs yet :( but that would be my best day at work ever

[pete8tch]

I hear plenty of whooshing noises - once I was on top of a mountain and I heard a helicopter (forget what kind it was) and it was that close I waved to the pilot and he waved back :eek:

A few times I've had wing-dip saluts from tornados, Jaguars, F16s, BAe Hawks etc ...

No UFOs yet :( but that would be my best day at work ever

or your last ...... dododoooooodooo:rofl:..cue x files music.

bye bye ...maybe lol.

[daveyonthemove]

I find it hard to beleive it was a UFO that did that damage, but i also find it hard to beleive that there is nothing else out there except us.

I was in a RAF Seaking flying over the Lake district a few years back and was happily sat in the open door taking pics of the mountains and countryside and got a few good pics. I uploaded them to my PC a few days later and noticed a weird looking object in one of them, so i sent it off to be analysed.

I can't find the original pic as it could have been lost after a hard drive faluire, but here is the pic i received back by email.

Not everyone will beleive in this and will have their own expert opinion, i still don't know what it was that was in my pic (i never noticed anything when the pic was taken) but i haven't altered the pic in anyway....

[Sonic_Vrs]

Its almost certainly an alien.

After negotiating millions of miles through dynamic environments like asteroid belts at no doubt light speed its always possible they would have crashed into a slowing moving, 60ft, white inanimate object...