UFO Crashes into Wind Turbine! (9/11, Chicago, TV, city)

[Gtownoe]

Originally Posted by RandomMusing

People seem to forget that UFO (unidentified flying object) doesn't equal extraterrestrials.

Some unidentified object flying in the sky seems to have broken a wind turbine?

Could be humans from the future or the military.

Maybe they have vacations you can take in the future, "back in time." Would be a pretty crazy vacation!

[HurricaneDC]

Originally Posted by Some_Random_Guy

LOL. The UFO aspect of this still cracks me up. Don't get me wrong, I tend to believe this planet has been visited, but they aren't going to be some super-evolved alien species with the technology to travel millions/billions of light years just to crash into a wind farm in England.

I was about to post this. I don't know if intelligent life has ever visited Earth, but I'm certain it's out there. And if they were capable of coming to Earth, I'd like to think they'd have good enough tech to not fly into a wind farm.

[Some_Random_Guy]

Originally Posted by Statutory Ape

Ten years ago.

I never know what you are saying, and I'm beginning to think you are some sort of a forum bot.

[Statutory Ape]

Originally Posted by Some_Random_Guy

I never know what you are saying, and I'm beginning to think you are some sort of a forum bot.

You're probably just projecting.

It's probably nothing serious, but you might want to have it looked at, though, just to be sure.

[EmeraldCityWanderer]

I always wonder about people who take "unidentified flying object" and automatically identify it as an alien.

It takes one hell of a delusion to take unknown to alien without proof.

[Some_Random_Guy]

Originally Posted by Statutory Ape

You're probably just projecting.

oh

[Follower Of X]

I didn't believe this video until I heard the eerie music playing in the background. Clearly it was a UFO.

[Troubleshooter]

There was a video on YouTube (it's gone now) that showed the actual failure of that exact turbine.

The turbine was spinning much faster than it was supposed to. Probably the drive gear inside the case broke or was stripped. The blades were totally unloaded, and spun much faster than they were designed to. Then centrifugal force did the rest. The blade that flew off went flying upwards and out of the frame at about a 45 degree angle. At the speed it was going, it might be miles away. Then the turbine, unbalanced, rocked back and forth briefly and stopped.

There is another video on YouTube (google "runaway wind turbine"). It destroys not only the blades, but the pylon holding it up.

[elan]

That figures, just when I decided a drone ran into it.

[banjomike]

Them little grey buggers landed in my back 40 and made off with my dog. Then they brought him back and he's never been the same since.