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UFO Maybe Not Responsible for Turbine Damage, Maybe it's a Cover-up

Man polishes his white flying saucerFollowing up on last month's story about the purported UFO sneak attack on a wind turbine in Eastern England, it appears that one of two things is happening in regard to the incident. Either, a.) MI6 is staging a massive cover-up to hide the truth about extraterrestrial life from the public, or b.) the less likely explanation that the giant turbine blade ripped itself off of the hub due to a bunch of faulty bolts.

Whichever is the case, it appears that we're not going to get any answers about who was inside the octopus-like UFO with "tentacles," or what they want. After a lengthy investigation, Ecotricity (the company the owns and operates the Conisholme farm) issued a statement blaming the damage on "material fatigue," which was corroborated by manufacturer Enercon's report on the turbine failure. Of course, that's not to say that the aliens -- through the use of a highly advanced fatiguing ray -- didn't attack the turbine. We may never know the whole truth...

[via CleanTechnica]

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