UPDATE: UFO Not Responsible for UK Wind Turbine Wreckage
In a news update that should surprise no one, officials now say that the destruction of a £1 million wind turbine in the UK last month was not caused by a UFO. Despite local reports of a “massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground”, the turbine’s manufacturer believes that material fatigue is responsible for a 65 foot blade flying off the device.
According to Ecotricity’s website, the “interim report has concluded that bolts securing the blade to the hub of the turbine failed due to ‘material fatigue’. The bolts used to attached the blade to the hub of the turbine exhibited classic signs of fatigue failure.” Ecotricity owns the turbine farm in question.
The company plans on releasing the entire manufacturer’s report in a few weeks, at which point all conspiracy theories may or may not be put to rest.
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The damage to the turbine could not have been caused by metal fatigue to bolts. Metal fatigue would indeed cause a blade to become loose and fly off, however, there is no way that the falling blade could bend the adjacent blade to the degree shown in the existing close up photographs of the damage. A falling blade will fall to the ground, or, if the blades are rotating in the wind, the blade will be projected away from the main body of the turbine before crashing to the earth. However, a falling blade could not account for the extreme bending damage shown in the photograph on the blade positioned next to the missing one. This could only have resulted from considerable force being applied to the blade on or around the middle section along its length, and this damage seems to have been done while the blades were in a fixed, static position. There are also long scratching marks down the length of the bent blade. These are the result of a rough surface being dragged along its length. The damage shown in the close up photographs was definitely caused by an aerial object coming into contact with the turbine.However, I would expect the company that make them to downplay the incident and release a statement saying something along the lines of metal fatigue. The last thing any respectable business needs is a ufo controversy around its neck. It should be quite obvious to anyone involved in the engineering game, that there is more than metal fatigue going on in those pictures alone.
The damage to the turbine could not have been caused by metal fatigue to bolts. Metal fatigue would indeed cause a blade to become loose and fly off, however, there is no way that the falling blade could bend the adjacent blade to the degree shown in the existing close up photographs of the damage. A falling blade will fall to the ground, or, if the blades are rotating in the wind, the blade will be projected away from the main body of the turbine before crashing to the earth. However, a falling blade could not account for the extreme bending damage shown in the photograph on the blade positioned next to the missing one. This could only have resulted from considerable force being applied to the blade on or around the middle section along its length, and this damage seems to have been done while the blades were in a fixed, static position. There are also long scratching marks down the length of the bent blade. These are the result of a rough surface being dragged along its length. The damage shown in the close up photographs was definitely caused by an aerial object coming into contact with the turbine.However, I would expect the company that make them to downplay the incident and release a statement saying something along the lines of metal fatigue. The last thing any respectable business needs is a ufo controversy around its neck. It should be quite obvious to anyone involved in the engineering game, that there is more than metal fatigue going on in those pictures alone.
Did you see the Hutchinson(sp) Effect in the video “Tesla: the Race to Zero Point Energy”? Watch what happens to the various materials when this inventor (in Canada) exposes them to the waves of energy. It’s possible that energies from a UFO craft could cause materials to fatigue. A friend of mind witnessed the ‘take off’ of a craft over a lake in California and simultaneously, a huge branch of a tree cracked and broke off nearly injuring or killing a camper.