Has anybody gone up there and tried to gather some evidence as to what hit it?

Whatever hit it will have left some kind of residue behind, kid of like when two cars hit, they transfer paint etc.

[edit on 8-1-2009 by Chadwickus]

I don't think it was a UFO. I'd be very surprised if a UFO was so clumsy to hit the blade of a wind turbine.

Also, I don't think it's melted in anyway -- the "dark" area is merely the lighting of the image making it look "burnt". The other blade that is warped and appears melted is only because the hardend casing around it has shattered and the blade material itself is stressed and warped.

There was a link to a video showing one of these things failing and a blade almost exploding off the unit -- similar to what happened here.

I'm quite certain there was no UFO involvement here. Perhaps peole "saw" a UFO at the same time, but I think if said UFO actually hit the wind turbine, there'd be a *bit* more damage than a single blade coming off

with regards to the wind turbine that got hit in uk, i live in the uk and this story was featured on our local news i can confirm that it was not lightning as there were no storms that night i belive there was a sighting of a strange light in the sky the night before the wind turbine was discovered to be damaged my theory behind it is there was no debri or blades because our government will have been in straight away and cleaned it up and took the blades for research,why did our news reporters not follow it up?

haha so the blade was under the turbine the whole time, must admit this had me puzzled for a bit - if the blade was missing their might be something to this, as it is some crazy old lady saw some flashing lights and maybe some high voltage electrical arcs connecting with the ground.

As soon as i heard them talking about the glowing octopus demon my mind filled with pictures of jacob's ladders, tesla coils and other crazy esoteric electrical effects. Maybe the ice closed a circuit in the turbines system and electrified the ice which was on the blades, due to the frozen moisture in the air on a cold yorkshire morning the power was able to arc with the mist through the point of least resistance and down to the ground - much like those crazy glass balls that respond to where you touch them and look like an electric octopus demon.

I wish i could have seen it (through the bars of my faraday cage) it must have been beautiful, the heat generated would have been like an arc welder which would have easily melted right through the top blade (leaving the black charred lump) and melted the second blade so it hangs limply like it does.

The only real question in my mind is did the company obey the correct building codes when making the system? maybe ice caused the problem, maybe a badly designed system is to blame.

Of course the power might not have been coming FROM the power station, maybe the turbulent air around the farm had become highly charged (again due to ice and moisture in the air) and could have created a localized electrical storm, this could have created an arc with the top of the wind turbine and caused the damage.

This is being covered as we speak on the Channel 4 lunchtime news, its not on yet as they tend to do the main stories first. I'll let you know the general tone of the news item and if there is anything new.

Engineers are at a loss to to find the reason for the damage. MOD aren't looking into it. Possibly a mechanical failure. The news guys just said that it as probably ice as opposed to a poorly navigated UFO (Insert newsreader smirk here) Nothing new eh? At least it was on the main news.

October

[edit on 8/1/09 by October]

Hey everyone. Yes as we know , this week has been somewhat nippy . My opinion is that this is either a weather related failiure or a mechanical/physical flaw with the apperatus itself. Perhaps a part of the gearbox mechanism was frozen? Perhaps the workmanship on the blade in question was sub par? Whatever the cause, I do not believe that this is a UFO related incedent, although I would be interested to know more about the actual sightings that were reported at the time.

I'm not sure if that makes sense that the weather is behind it. Why would all the blades not be affected?

Aelf

All you people who are claiming theories ather than UFOs (=alien space ships) are forgetting that there were loads of witnesses of UFO's that night. Erm that's a clue no?