claims that UFO struck wind turbine

[redsocks]

Hi Guys, Some pretty impressive pictures in the sun newspaper today claiming that a UFO struck a wind turbine on a wind farm in Lincolnshire.Apparently there is no explanation as to the cause to the damaged blades apart from some people actually seeing the UFO hit it!! whatever did hit it must have been big to bend the blades like that.


Redsocks

[redsocks]

[quote="Silvertop"]Puzzling that one of the blades is missing!

[url]http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2108149.ece[/url][/quote]

Agree sivertop,theres some pretty strong evidence there, people saw the lights,filmed the lights,and now like you say the blade is missing.What I find interesting about this is what Nick Pope said that there may be some evidence of what hit the turbine left on it.I cant help but think that if the power firm find something unusual left on the blades the MOD will be straight on it and we will never know,we all know how it works......


Redsocks

[redsocks]

Apparently the blade has now been found,but still no explanation as to how the wind turbine was damaged........

[time4truth]

Must admit IF (?) ANYTHING discoverd we wont be told a thing

[redsocks]

Must admit IF (?) ANYTHING discoverd we wont be told a thing

Agree with this totally,It has been reported now that the MOD claim that a test bomber plane could have hit it!.As there is no explanation The cover up has started already...............

[time4truth]

so does the tARANIS dRONE GO hYPERSONIC? AND THATS WHAT CAUSED THE PEOPLE TO SEE "LIGHTS IN THE SKY"??

[time4truth]

PS IM GONA GOOGLE IT ! SORRY

[slipX]

Whatever hit it should have left its wreckage or bits of itself all over the ground. Also I 'd like to see a photo of the 'missing' blade if indeed it has been found.

[puddlepirate]

From the BBC News website on Thursday 8th Jan (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/linc ... 817378.stm)

The broken blade has been recovered and is being examined.

So there appears not to be any mysterious 'missing' blade - it was lying the ground somewhere nearby

[redsocks]

From the BBC News website on Thursday 8th Jan (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/linc ... 817378.stm)

The broken blade has been recovered and is being examined.

So there appears not to be any mysterious 'missing' blade - it was lying the ground somewhere nearby

Hi Puddle,
Yes I heard this that they had found the blade....I did think that maybe ice build up on the blade caused it to break off and strike the other blades,but I understand that when these wind turbines detect frost/ice ie 0 deg they turn themselves off,it was well under freezing that night so theres no way the blade was running and if it just fell off whilst static would it have caused that much damage to the other blades?? intrigued to hear an explanation to this but my guess is that its weather related.why did the MOD start to spin a drone/test aircraft incident???

Redsocks

[puddlepirate]

Hi Redsocks

No idea why 'MoD insiders' have suggested Taranis. However, knowing the Daily Mail it was probably an off the cuff comment made in jest but overheard by a journalist and immediately elevated to an entirely unwarranted status.......

Analysis of the broken / damaged parts should reveal the cause. I'm not an engineer but at a guess it was probably nothing more than additional weight incurred by ice build up that imposed a load on the blade. If there happened to be a minor stress fracture at the root of the blade then the increased load combined with the very cold temperature could have accelerated the failure. The broken blade might not have fallen away cleanly but might have oscillated for a second or two, repeatedly striking and damaging the second blade before finally falling clear. I suspect that even if the turbine was stopped by the blade breaking away, it would not have come to an immediate dead stop but a rolling halt that took a couple of seconds and because of the clockwise motion of the blades the broken blade would have fallen back against the second blade...

[Deep Purple]

I initially thought that blade failure may have caused the incident, bit reports of being hit by a drone smack of cover up/ Any thing hiting the blade and sheering it off and bending the other one would have crashed if it were even a large aircraft. It is also surpising that the couldnt find the sheered blade straightaway, you would have thought it was in close proximity if it had just structurally failed.
I have not posted for a while as I consider that some members are involved in the cover up
( not John Burroughs) and would urge people to step back from squabbling over the tiny detail and look at the over all circumstances.
It would be great for a starting point for the witnesses to name everyone they can remember as present on the base at the time ( not even connnected to the RFI). Then from this point we can start to work backwards to find out what really happended.
Hearsay such as " I knew the bloke in the ARRS who said it was all a joke" is not useful.
We dont know who the bloke was or why he said it was a joke.
A number of old witnessess have come out from the woodwork--- some maybe plausible some not. A huge amount of detail in some areas and in others -- nothing--- Think about it. Somebody must have an interest in this to make them creep out after all these years so regularly? Ask yourself why? Look away from the fine detail. Something very strange happened here

[time4truth]

If the Drone supposed to be secret why would MOD come out and say- thats what it was?? Why not plump for weather/ice?? much less hassle!!

[redsocks]

I initially thought that blade failure may have caused the incident, bit reports of being hit by a drone smack of cover up/ Any thing hiting the blade and sheering it off and bending the other one would have crashed if it were even a large aircraft. It is also surpising that the couldnt find the sheered blade straightaway, you would have thought it was in close proximity if it had just structurally failed.
I have not posted for a while as I consider that some members are involved in the cover up
( not John Burroughs) and would urge people to step back from squabbling over the tiny detail and look at the over all circumstances.
It would be great for a starting point for the witnesses to name everyone they can remember as present on the base at the time ( not even connnected to the RFI). Then from this point we can start to work backwards to find out what really happended.
Hearsay such as " I knew the bloke in the ARRS who said it was all a joke" is not useful.
We dont know who the bloke was or why he said it was a joke.
A number of old witnessess have come out from the woodwork--- some maybe plausible some not. A huge amount of detail in some areas and in others -- nothing--- Think about it. Somebody must have an interest in this to make them creep out after all these years so regularly? Ask yourself why? Look away from the fine detail. Something very strange happened here

The fact that the blade seemed to be carried some distance is a puzzle,those things are pretty big and heavy,surely if it snapped of it would be right under the wind turbine.....
As for RFI Deep well its still here "just" but lets just say people arnt as daft as some people think they are,I dont speak alone here(theres plenty here who think the same) when I say that the RFI has proberly had its day theres only so much sane people can endure.As for the ARRS guy saying it was a joke is fact both Obs and I have been in contacted with this particular person and the reason why he doesent want to be named is because he has come forward on this subject elsewhere and got bad abuse from the so called key witnesses,like I say Obs knows the guy well and can vouch for me on this.

Redsocks

[puddlepirate]

Daft as it might sound perhaps the blade fell into long(ish) grass was was covered by a slight fall of snow - or heavy frost. After all the blades are usually coloured white. Or maybe the motion of the rotor and the impact (if there was such an impact) with the second blade caused it to travel a greater distance. I doubt the blades are that heavy in relation to their size and are probably made of an aluminium or fibreglass/carbon fibre skin over a frame - something akin to an aircraft wing. Given the second blade was distorted rather than broken into fragments (from memory fibreglass has very little elasticity so breaks rather than bends), it was probably made of aluminium.

There must be yards of stuff about the construction of wind turbine blades on the 'net.

[Wolf]

I think this one is purely based on the fact that someone has a grudge against the turbine company and decided to either damage it or steal a blade for the metal.

Wolf

[Admin]

I think this one is purely based on the fact that someone has a grudge against the turbine company and decided to either damage it or steal a blade for the metal.

Wolf

Quite possibly. Apparently the locals see the wind turbines as eyesores.

[puddlepirate]

The company's website suggests that something similar in weight to a dead cow would have caused the damage.......flying pigs perhaps? Sabotage by hacked off locals after a few bevvies in the pub? Who knows....

[redsocks]

I think this one is purely based on the fact that someone has a grudge against the turbine company and decided to either damage it or steal a blade for the metal.

Wolf

Hi Wolf,

For me the damage just doesent look like it was caused by vandalism,I doubt that the turbine could have been climed so the only alternative if it was attacked was that something was thrown at the blades which again is hard to believe,something causing that damage must have been big,it simply wouldnt have been possible to launch something at the blades big enough to cause that damage.Apparently ice/weather damage has been eliminated, I guess thou its possible that the blade could have simply fell off and hit the other blades!! we will have to see what the German manufacturer comes up with as they have taken the parts away for testing.

Redsocks

[AdrianF]

Here is some gratuitous turbine footage, I doubt the Lincolnshire one was spinning at all though, given the weather conditions.


There were several ufo reports on the east coast just prior to this, but most seemed to coincidentally happen around the time of the New Year fireworks...hmmm

Adrian