Glowing Orb with Tentacles Blamed for Destroying Wind Turbine

By Queuebot in Paranormal on Jan 10, 2009 at 12:42 am

What on (or out of) Earth could have destroyed this wind turbine in Lincolnshire, UK? In a strange incident, half a dozen residents reported mysterious glowing orbs in the sky before the turbine was wrecked.

Matthew Moore of Telegraph has the story of the incident that baffled engineers:

“It sounds unbelievable but actually we don’t have any explanation at the moment,” said Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, the energy company which owns the wind farm at Conisholme near Louth.

At least half a dozen Lincolnshire residents reported seeing the orange-yellow spheres, which some witnesses claimed were trailing octopus-like “tentacles”.

(Photo: Newsteam)

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  2. SenorMysterioso
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 1:17 am

    lightning maybe

  4. AJ
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 1:31 am

    Maybe ball lightning.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

    But a person seeing, from 1.5 miles away at night, a “low-flying object skimming across the sky towards the turbines” sounds like a small airplane and an over-active imagination.

  5. Nathan Miller
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 1:42 am

    Either way, T. Boone Pickens is gonna be pissed.

  6. SenorMysterioso
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 2:47 am

    ha

  7. Dale
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 4:46 am

    Normally I’d have said Chinese Lanterns but I doubt theyd have taken out a wind turbine

  8. Jr
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 5:53 am

    probably lightning.
    in fact, there’re loads of reasons you could think of before “aliens” even come into the equation.

  9. Fbjoey
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 6:26 am

    I live in Lincolnshire and the local paper has information from a Ministry of Defence about it being test runs for a new stealth bomber. Not sure how true that is but its pretty cool

  10. AI
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    If it was a stealth bomber (or any other aircraft) the amazing thing would be that the countryside around the turbine isn’t littered with pieces of aircraft debris.

    A lightning strike is possible except there haven’t been the meterological conditions in the area for …well several weeks at least. Given the recent weather conditions, the most likely explanation is ice formation causing structural failure, with the blade that separated from the turbine catching the bent blade as it came away.

  11. Angstrom
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 10:05 am

    yep, certainly a UFO..

    erm, or fireworks.

    The Guardian is able to reveal one possible explanation. Late on Saturday night, the Guardian’s director of digital content, Emily Bell, was a mere two miles from the Ecotricity plant when she witnessed an unusual light show in the night sky: the firework display she and her brother had arranged in their parents’ garden to mark their father Peter’s 80th birthday.

    “There were several roman candles, and some of those ones which are orange and have the little blue dots when they go off,” Bell said yesterday. Because it’s so flat in that part of the world, you can see for miles and miles.”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/09/wind-turbine-ufo

  12. BlessedBlogger
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    I’m guessing ball lightening as well.

  13. Thlayli
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Sorry, it was me.

  14. sw
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    angstrom, i don’t think roman candles could have wrecked a wind turbine

  15. Xopl
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    Sounds to me like the generator inside of the wind turbine was shorting out… arcing electricity, then kaboom. Transformers do this when animals crawl inside of them.

  16. Thebes
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Ummm, turns out Not in My Backyard is, in this case, not in Cthulhu’s backyard?

  17. wackyvorlon
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Couldn’t possibly be the turbine overrunning, while producing excessive electricity, failing with arcing and tearing itself apart?

  18. Shurik
    Jan 10th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Ball lightning most likely

    or its the flying spaghetti monster and his noodly appendages

  19. Johnny Cat
    Jan 11th, 2009 at 1:20 am

    Good journalism, Angstrom! :)

    And as we see here, the fireworks weren’t necessarily the culprit.

  20. Christophe
    Jan 11th, 2009 at 2:20 am

    I vote for aliens. Much more fun.

  21. James White
    Jan 11th, 2009 at 3:45 am

    Of course it is a manifestation of His Noodly Appendage. Perhaps he was smiting the spindly thing for being a graven image made in imitation of his own perfect shape? No, I think the FSM is more tolerant that that. More like a bit too much tomato sauce and liquor chocolates, given the time of year.

  22. ted
    Jan 12th, 2009 at 12:05 am

    I had to laugh at “ball lightening”. That’s what they do when they neuter dogs.


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