In this part of Lincolnshire, the skyline
is dotted with huge wind turbines, but today
one of them isn't turning. People who live
nearby say that it was hit by a UFO. Residents
remember being woken in the early hours of
Sunday morning by a huge crash, and when the
sun came up, one of the turbines was bent
and broken. That came after several witnesses
reported glowing spheres in the sky earlier
the same night.
"I just suddenly saw this light appear in
front of us, and it just seemed to whiz sort
of across the sky towards the wind turbine.
I said, there were two or three of us in the
car... I just said to the other two, what
was that?!"
The huge structures are built to withstand
extreme conditions. Locals believe something
colliding with this one that it's makers weren't
prepared for. Indeed, the company which owns
the turbines Ecotricity hasn't yet been able
to work out what caused the damage. Here's
Dale Vincent, the founder of the company.
"While people were there on Sunday, we had
the manufacturer's team there the next day,
and they'd been crawling all over it and the
turbines looking at the damaged parts. And
we've shipped some parts off for some forensic
testing to determine better if we can what
the probable cause was. At the moment, we're
left with no kind of firm favourite of what
has happened."
One suggestion is that ice caused one of the
blades to snap off, but despite searches of
the area, that third blade is nowhere to be
seen. And official channels baffled, locals
are drawing their own conclusions about what
caused the mystery turbine mangling.
