Parts of the North Yorks Moors are low flying areas, iwhen I was a youngster we would hike up to the top of the Cleveland Hills and look down on F16s flying in from Europe, usualy on a Thursday as it happens.
I remember when I was fishing once on the River Swale we watched a pair of A10s chasing each other around the valleys. Very quiet as I rememeber.

I have also looked down on a Buccaneer more than once from the superstructure of a Frigate as they flew past us on mock attacks about 10ft above the waves. Very impressive.

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One of the perks of never having lived more than 20 miles from one major military installation or another. The "1812" for this performance was a five-minute excerpt. The full version is about 20 minutes long (too long for the intended audience) and quite difficult to conduct. Although Tchaikovsky scored an explicit "cannon" part with a designated rhythm, meant to be played on a large drum, our artillery detail were not musicians. Hence at a certain point in the music we cued the liaison who simply had the soldiers fire at will. You know it's a good performance when you can feel your pant legs wiggle in response to the concussion.

You'd think so. But I always have to explain it.

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Imagine that! Perhaps they take it as having an effective but unconventional way of dealing with critics.

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I thought that was the point... Getting your foot in the door with something cool, true, relevant, and a conversation starter.

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Sounds like a good idea, but still not sure the "Expert at evading capture" that I include on mine helps.

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@Jay: I've once seen a B1 do a low fly-by in which he was doing a roll, but at about 130° he stopped and rolled back. That looked way more dangerous to me than doing the complete roll, as that changing roll direction part appeared to take more time than continuing the roll.

That moment was also one where I realised again that I have serious concentration issues at times, as somehow my attention drifted towards "dreaming" somewhere in those few seconds of fly-by, eventhough I was massively interested in it. So I more or less missed what he did exactly in that roll, but I distinctly remember that I was shaken out of my dreamy mind when I saw something wrong about the roll, IE I didn't see a roll but saw the plane returning in the different roll direction. I don't have concentration issues in the sense that I can't occupy myself with the same thing for long periods - I certainly can-, but my mind wanders very easily into not too conscious dreaming. Something I have to take into account when doing my job: I don't try to work continuously for an hour. I work very intensive for 10 minutes, take a 2 minutes break, work again for 10 minutes, etc (roughly, no chrono involved ). So I work like a bazooka rather than a machine gun.

Anyway, I've also once seen a Concorde from above. I was in another plane, flying higher as the Concorde was descending . That must have been one of the very last Concordes coming back from the US in the days after the Paris crash. It didn't go to Paris, but to the Concorde airport in the south of France. It was a nice sight (didn't last long though before it was out of view, and unfortunately we flew very far apart, it looked tiny), and the only Concorde I've ever seen except for just the tail of one from the highway near CDG.

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In an effort to understand if my memory was that far out re height in an earlier post I made, I had a shufty. It appears that where I saw the RAF playing is now a place that plane buffs go to see them on a regular basis.

I enclose a few links as they are quite stunning.
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Also if you put "cad west" into youtube there are a few films as well. Great stuff.

Mods, if this is too far off topic then I will delte it and apologies.

with regards to the OP...i wonder if it was a flock of geese making all the clanging noises on collisions with the windmill. Geese have been given some very unusual properties to explain away a number of UFO's..............pete

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It must be a designated area then. As I posted above back in the 70s and 80s they used to come in over the North Sea and up over the Moors on Thursdays.

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I stuck a link up earlier when I started to question me old grey matter getting me in trouble after finding the MOD rules and where etc. Turns out it is and I just happened to be sat on a hill having some scran when they came out to play. Not having a dig, just amazed at some of the pics.

Well, I've heard a flock of geese hit high power lines (about 70m high, as they are just a km away from the power plant itself) from straight below them. It sounded like this:

flapflflfapflflapfla*quack*flapflaflfa
ZWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIINNNGGGGGG
(that is a more-than-fist thick steel cable doing zwooing)
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and one dead goose a few meters in front of me on the street, another one on a roof, broke the heavy concrete roof tiles. Even ducks can make those huge cables go zwwwwooooiiing. They hit them fast and hard.

So yeah, they can make quite the noise when hitting stuff. Then we had some power lines nearly 200m above the water. It must have been quite a sight when a goose dropped from these.

As for the windmill, I suspect fatigue/cold related damage above anything hitting the windmill though.

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Get it from the horses mouth.
Neigh sayers do not look....

And there is a picture of the UFO, well, a picture taken nearby some time earlier. As in December.

Picture of the sky article.

about the "donut" which he didn't see in reality but did see on the picture: I'm sure the bright headlights have NOTHING to do with the donut seen on the picture. Ahem.

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I also think there were taken from inside the car. Without getting all serious about it, there is a lot of crud thrown up this time of year. Hitting the screen and whatnot. Also some reflections at the bottom right. Hands up though, no expert.

I also suspect he hadn't stopped. Non UK readers might not be aware that it is an offence to use a mobile when driving in the UK. Not going to announce that in public. Probably nothing though.

I also suspect he hadn't stopped. Non UK readers might not be aware that it is an offence to use a mobile when driving in the UK. Not going to announce that in public. Probably nothing though.
There's places here that have ordinances against it. Not sure if there's any state-wide laws (I think so, but Ohio doesn't). But here, no department would care enough to try to prosecute after-the-fact.

Anyway, my non-photoanalysis opinion is that the "object" is obviously an artifact and not a flying object.

And my inner Occam is still screaming "Mechanical failure, and damage to second arm due to collision with falling debris."

But, for all I know, the recovered arm that's being studied has the words "Khan wuz here!" carved into it. *shrug*

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Washington has a state law against driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone. It doesn't seem to stop very many people, though.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

In the UK the police will 'do' you for using a mobile phone if you are parked in a layby and the key is in the ignition, you are still in charge of the vehicle in their eyes so guilty of the offence. It's only safe to use a hands free kit or to get out of the car.

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Well, if a horse thinks it's a UFO then that settles it for me.

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Hahaha. This is one of the best comments I've seen in this thread.

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But why the long faces?

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are the results back from the lab yet?

i really think this was a case of one blade shearing off and damaging another, coupled with a nearby firework display.

Yes.
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/7880987.stm

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Goodness... Now they have a Metal Fatigue Inducer Raygun!

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And they had to throw this in:

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I think it's obvious that the time dialation drive that the Blorg'noggs use for locomotion caused the turbine to instantly age to the point of failure as the UFO passed by.

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Comments on the New Scientist entry on it have the same (it's still a UFO!) tone:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/sh...-damaging.html

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oooh, relatively anonymouse internet user replies. I'm not concerned.

What concerns me though is the video that they have attached to the story. An early story with spooky music, interview of the residents who thought (still think?) it's alien, and the mystery of the missing 3rd blade.

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Problem is the locals have committed to it. Cannot back down now. Stands to reason.

The Louth Leader does have an interview with the most "ufo spooked" person.
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And they have a map.
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