Comments on: Glowing Orb with Tentacles Blamed for Destroying Wind Turbine

By: ted

ted — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:05:46 +0000

I had to laugh at "ball lightening". That's what they do when they neuter dogs.

By: James White

James White — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:45:53 +0000

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.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:20:09 +0000

I vote for aliens. Much more fun.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:20:18 +0000

Good journalism, Angstrom!

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

By: Shurik

Shurik — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:59:15 +0000

Ball lightning most likely

or its the flying spaghetti monster and his noodly appendages

By: wackyvorlon

wackyvorlon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:25:15 +0000

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

By: Thebes

Thebes — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:45:38 +0000

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

By: Xopl

Xopl — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:21:28 +0000

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.

By: sw

sw — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:25:29 +0000

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

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:01:49 +0000

Sorry, it was me.

By: BlessedBlogger

BlessedBlogger — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:38:14 +0000

I'm guessing ball lightening as well.

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:05:59 +0000

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

By: AI

AI — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:24:18 +0000

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.

By: Fbjoey

Fbjoey — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:26:07 +0000

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

By: Jr

Jr — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:53:57 +0000

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

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:46:23 +0000

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

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:47:20 +0000

By: Nathan Miller

Nathan Miller — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:42:38 +0000

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

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:31:26 +0000

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.

By: key

key — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:27:37 +0000

RAMEN!

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:17:24 +0000

lightning maybe

By: Urbanist

Urbanist — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:42:01 +0000

I think we just had a first verified sighting of the FSM

http://blogs.the-haleys.org/media/1/20051014-iwant2believe400x330.jpg