Possible FSM sighting? Could ‘Tentacle’ UFO Have Destroyed UK Wind Turbine?

[The Straight Story]

Could ‘Tentacle’ UFO Have Destroyed UK Wind Turbine?

Several residents of a remote English village have reported sightings of a bizarre tentacle-shaped UFO above a local wind farm, on the night before a wind turbine was mysteriously destroyed.

Engineers from energy suppier Ecotricity are investigating why a blade more than 20 meters (66 ft) long fell off the turbine at a wind farm in Conisholme Fen, Lincolnshire, early on Sunday morning. In the meantime, locals are coming to their own conclusions after many of them saw strange flashing tentacle shaped lights above the wind farm on the night before the damage occurred.

John Harrison, a resident of nearby Saltfleetby, said he looked out of his window on Saturday night to see “a massive ball of light,” and “tentacles going right down to the ground” over the site. “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”.



http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/06/could-tentacle-ufo-have-destroyed-uk-wind-turbine/

[jobycom]

1. In other news, giant fish-shaped submarine spotted just before shark attack.

Giant boulder shaped UFO spotted just before house below a cliff was flattened!
Giant spatula-shaped UFO spotted just before pancake flipped at the IHOP!

[opihimoimoi]

2. Can I have some of that shit??? Man....what a vision.....

[TK421]

3. That's odd

sounds like something right out of a sci-fi novel

[Skidmore]

4. The great spaghetti god has returned!

[Taverner]

5. Experimental Aircraft being tested at Lockerbie

This stuff happens all the time

[Arctic Dave]

6. The FSM has returned. Quick, toast some garlic bread!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. "E.T. Farm Harm"

(pun courtesy of The Sun, who have made it their lead)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2108149.ece

There'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.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. I know there's not a lot to do out in the fens, but geez. n/t

[foo_bar]

9. an E.T. shaped like a wind turbine, makes perfect sense.

I guess this is when Occam's comes to bear (as in Ockham of Surrey), or ought to, but once you render a wind turbine monster w/Vagina Dentata of Sauron you've pretty much joined the ranks of Batboy anyway. Still, look for spinning echinoderm aliens to enter the zeitgeist like a crappy flying saucer in the 1950s.

[MilesColtrane]

10. Cthulhu hates alternative energy?

Cheney must be a big fan.

[shadowknows69]

11. Well a wind farm could be extremely dangerous to something with a lot of tentacles

I think it was self defense.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Dastardly Guardian/Financial Times hoax played on Sun with fireworks

The Guardian News & Media director of digital content, Emily Bell, would like to make it clear that her family had no part in damaging any of those 65ft multimillion-pound turbine blades - but she can help explain those "massive balls of light with tentacles going right down to the ground", as one onlooker described them to the Sun.

Those mysterious lights were actually the fireworks Emily's brother Tim had bought at the local garden centre for the 80th birthday party of dad Peter Bell. "It was a medium-sized fireworks display with absolutely no ballistics, and the fireworks were mostly dropping over my parents' house. But we were laughing that we could have broken the wind turbine," jested Emily.

"There we are in the middle of a scoop and we're beaten to it by a red-top tabloid," said Emily's mother Bridget, 74. Emily's husband Ed Crooks was also beaten to the story – and he's the energy editor of the Financial Times.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/jan/08/windpower-thesun