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Sun, Jan 11, 2009

Did UFOs Attack A Wind Turbine?

Rumors Fly After Residents Witness Strange Lights In Sky

It doesn't seem to take much to set rumors flying about UFOs, and the recent damage to a UK wind turbine generated plenty.

Last week, a 300-foot-tall turbine near Conisholme, England was somehow damaged, losing one of its nearly 70-foot-long blades. Ecotricity Managing Director Dale Vince said, "We have been crawling all over it and have sent bits off for analysis to see if we can work out what caused it. To make one of these blades fall off, or to bend it, takes a lot."

Local media covering the incident responded with numerous eyewitness accounts, describing objects seen the night the turbine was damaged as "mysterious flashing orangey-yellow spheres" and a "massive ball of light" with "tentacles going right down to the ground."

Newspaper journalist Emily Bell shed some light on the mystery lights, saying a pyrotechnics display that she had helped set up for her father's birthday party that evening was a scant two miles away from the turbine, Bloomberg reported.

German turbine manufacturer Enercon has examined some of the damaged parts from the turbine. Company spokesman Henri Joppien said, "It was not a flying object, ice or extreme wind gusts. There is no general defect or manufacturer's problem. All the rest is speculation."

FMI: www.ecotricity.co.uk, www.enercon.de

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