Has the tentacle UFO got something to do with the broken blades at Conisholme?Posted on 01/07/2009 9:29:39 AM PST by BGHater
ENGINEERS from Ecotricity are working to establish how a 20m blade mysteriously fell off a turbine at Conisholme wind farm - but residents have their own conclusions. It is believed the a blade fell off the 89m turbine and another was left badly bent on Sunday January 4.
Speculation has continued amongst residents in Conisholme and the surrounding villages with some saying they saw strange flashing tentacle shaped lights above the wind farm on the night before it happened.
Mr John Harrison, Saltfleetby described how on Saturday night, January 3 he looked out of his landing window to see a 'massive ball of light' with 'tentacles going right down to the ground' over Conisholme wind farm.
"It was huge" he said "At first I thought it must have been a hole where the moon was shining through but then I saw the tentacles – it looked just like an octopus.
"It was an incredible site; I have never seen anything like it before. I have no idea what it was, all I can say is what I saw".
And although many believe the incident is an isolated one, reports of damage to wind turbines appear to be more common than people think:
* 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.
click here to see dramatic footage of a wind turbine being destroyed
Has the tentacle UFO got something to do with the broken blades at Conisholme?
It’s a definite YIKES! moment.
(and goes so well with your screen name)...
Nah, search Major Mudd, Feep, Fantasmic Features
(or not)
I haven’t got the link thingy here yet, so I apologize.
In any case, you win on the what th3 heck and other, but check out Feep. (a really bad light bulb thing)
It was a Three Stooges/Sci-Fi in Boston, ch 38. (the squeaky stair got me many times)
Thanks for getting me off pol though... and you, of course still win.
Atomic Submarine huh... another goal!
makes ya wonder how there was a camera to catch the action... unless there were other failures closely preceding it
I did find Major Mudd and Feep.
I think the Feeping creatures are cuter.
Hey wait a minute, Keanu Reeves was just in a movie telling us the aliens were mad at us for not taking care of the environment and then they do this?
Pity poor T-Boone, first the oil price crash, and now space monsters.
barbra ann
They don't know what lightning is over across the pond?
“I think the Feeping creatures are cuter.”
Yeah, but as a kid, it was more fun to have something to laugh at/about. Wasn’t into cute. For that we had Uncle Floyd.
Besides, what’s better, cute or something that makes you want to keep your feet and legs within the confines of the bed so the thing under it won’t getcha at night?
Saturday nights just aren’t the same. (didn’t know about Teddy K and the rest back then) With the awareness of age, I now realize how scary they were/are.
As an aside; “...Feeping creatures are cuter”... think you might possibly have a double entendre there. (were I female, I’d use it as a tagline)
” I once saw a tire come off a car on the expressway, probably due to loose lug nuts.”
Loose nuts cause alot of problems.
Good target selection.
Let's hope the red light cameras are next.
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