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UFO Claim Over Wind Farm Damage

Posted January 08, 2009 8:48 AM

From BBC News | Technology | World Edition:

UFO enthusiasts are claiming damage to a Lincolnshire wind farm turbine was caused by a mystery aircraft. The turbine at Conisholme lost one 66ft (20m) blade and another was badly damaged in the early hours of Sunday. County councillor for the area Robert Palmer said he had seen a "round, white light that seemed to be hovering".

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01/08/2009 9:03 AM

haha, I have also seen ufo and taken a photo to ufo newsletters. but later, I found its only a flight's jet wash.

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01/08/2009 10:22 AM

This guy was seen in Lincolnshire around the same time.

Coincidence? I think not.

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01/08/2009 12:26 PM

That photograph is CLEARLY a hoax.

Everyone knows that no life-form which values logic can exist in Washington DC.

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01/08/2009 12:39 PM

Remember, he's only visiting. A long visit, to be sure, but what's four years to him? Those guys live a looong time. (Let's just hope he doesn't go into Pon Farr while he's here. I've heard its pretty tough on foreign policy, among other things.)

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01/09/2009 1:56 AM

N O S ** T Sherlock

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01/09/2009 8:10 AM

Could Ice build up have caused the failure?
...and could the Ice fracturing resulted in strange lights?
I know there are some strange luminescent effects asociated with crystals...sort of Ice peizo ?

I dunno I just a Cat...prrr zzzzz
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01/09/2009 9:58 AM

I want to believe...

...but it ain't easy! Could it have been those blokes who 'fessed up to creating the crop circles with a board and some rope?

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01/10/2009 2:33 PM

A board the size of a cow?

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01/09/2009 10:50 AM

Sorry about that, my inertial guidance gyro has been on the fritz and I can't afford to fix it on human wages.I would send a check for the repairs but it is drawn on the first intergalactic (plasma) bank on Titan II.And they don't have a fax,you would have to hand deliver it.Also they pay in a slimy liquid form of IG cash.

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01/09/2009 9:47 PM

UFOs use frequency engineering to build the outer UFO shell, so when they hit some thing it is totaly imersed in the UFOs frequency and emerges undamaged as it passes through the UFO, so this could not be impact damage caused through hitting a UFO.

Newspapers never get the facts right

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01/09/2009 9:55 PM

No, those are the requirements specs. We've said it before and we'll say it again:

Stay Away From Those Marketing Guys!

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01/10/2009 9:37 AM

you seem to know a lot about the vehicular design of our,oops,alien spacecraft.although you are talking about the high end ,intergalactic suv type,not your run of the mill piece of crap,gremlin class planet hopper cheapo special.

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01/10/2009 1:41 PM

Would that be the same alien race that made all those beautiful crop circles that abounded the English countryside some time ago?

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01/10/2009 4:23 PM

Wish they'd come back soon, too (I loved their show!), but they're still on tour and won't be back for another 4.4 million years, local time.

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01/12/2009 8:46 AM

Alien race? I heard it was two artists who dreamed it up in a pub that did those?!?

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01/12/2009 11:58 AM

No no...it ws 2 Aliens in a pub.
See those two green guys huddled up in the corner?
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01/12/2009 12:31 PM

Those guys ain't aliens, Del. They just ate Today's Special, that's all.

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01/12/2009 1:23 PM

PMSL...

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01/12/2009 1:19 PM

That's right, blame it on the Irish, you furry git!

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01/12/2009 1:24 PM

tee hee...

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