(pun courtesy of The Sun, who have made it their lead)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2108149.eceThere's a bit of confusion (hey, what a surprise)
A woman motorist told how she saw a UFO zoom towards the wind farm and strike the 290ft turbine.
Dorothy Willows — who lives half a mile from the scene of the hit-and-run — was in her car when “strange lights” loomed in the evening sky.
She was among dozens who spotted the mysterious flashing orangey-yellow spheres over Lincolnshire — where the turbine was left wrecked. Dorothy, of Louth, said: “The lights were moving across the sky towards the wind farm. Then I saw a low flying object. It was skimming across the sky towards the turbines.”
Hours later there was an almighty smash.
Dorothy said: “My husband Stephen was woken at 4am by the bang.”
Afterwards there was no trace of one of the turbine’s three huge 65ft blades — ripped off in the collision.
Another was left twisted and useless. Other locals told how the lights looked like balls of flames. Lesley Whittingham, 71, even managed to photograph it — and said: “It looked like a giant explosion in the air.”
So, Dorothy 'saw it ... strike the turbine' in the evening, half a mile away; but hours later there was an almighty smash which woke her husband at 4am. A spooky slowing of the speed of sound to less than a tenth of a mile an hour too???
If that's Lesley's photo in the circle, then it wasn't taken as 4am - the sky is too light. The Sun is lying when it says there was no trace of one blade - the turbine owners found it on the ground, next to the turbine (they were interviewed on radio this morning).
But it's true that the cause is still unidentified. The weather was fairly clam at the time - neither high winds, nor a storm in which you might get lightning.