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Old 12-February-2009, 06:27 PM
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Problem is the locals have committed to it. Cannot back down now. Stands to reason.
Well, they can turn the place into a tourist attraction and make money... shades of Roswell and Loch Ness...
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Old 12-February-2009, 08:12 PM
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I recently was watching an episode of the Discovery Channel and it seems an Unidentified Flying Object similiar to a disk crashed into a windmill back in the 1880s. I will try to find out where though. It seems UFOs have a hard time avoiding windmills at times.
I did however find this wikipedia article, so this happened in the United States first supposedly, of course there was a bit of a cover up wouldn't you know it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Texas_UFO_Incident



http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html

I still think this is all just a unexplained natural "anomaly" brought on by some unexplained natural "weather phenomenom". And, and we are the only advanced intelligent creatures in the Universe and any evidence leading to another race of beings from off world, interdimensional or extradimensional is unlikey if not impossible and highly improbable.
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Cosmic Dave's site now has a story about the UFO hitting the wind turbine on its front page.
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Why is this even a discussion? I haven't figured that out yet

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Because ufologists insist on it having been an alien spaceship to crash into the wind turbine...
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The thing is it was a UFO that hit the turbine, the question is, what was it and where did it come from
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It hasn't been established that anything hit the turbine. Most likely cause is fatigue.
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Well, you could say the UFO was the other blade? (the bent one that was bent by the other one, the other one that was missing but was there all along after it fell off). But that parted company with the rest of the structure unexpectedly due to mechanical failure TBC why, (says the press release) and the noises heard have not been tied to the lights. I expect there is a bit of rethinking going on in an attempt to reschedule the event in their minds. Give it a few years and it will be lore.
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Because some people claim that cordoning off the area around the windmill is to hide stuff, instead of reducing danger from a windmill that already lost one blade and likely suffered more serious, structural damage.
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Hey, maybe it is the long lost and time-forgotten, but all so mighty spirit of Don Quixote. (cue the machine laughter sound effect)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

Or maybe, it was a magnetic disturbance, from me belt buckle rubbing against me wool cardigan.

Well, jokes asides, folks you just cannot build structures nowadays without something crashing into it. I am convinced that nothing off-world or anything exotic impacted with that windmill in England.

Now as for the one in Aurora Texas, despite the strange metal content in the ground, the alledged claim that the property owner hid the debris thinking it was valuable metal, the sworn affadavits of first responders on the scene, and the story of a secret burial ceremony in that cemetary to bury the "alien occupants", I still have my doubts, but I am open to suggestions if anyone can show beyond reasonable doubt and with scientific collaborating computations and formulae, that the impacting object was not earthly in design or origin if not man-made at all. I am sure in both of these occurrences the investigators are missing some obvious and simple explanation.
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Old 26-February-2009, 11:26 PM
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but I am open to suggestions if anyone can show beyond reasonable doubt and with scientific collaborating computations and formulae, that the impacting object was not earthly in design or origin if not man-made at all. I am sure in both of these occurrences the investigators are missing some obvious and simple explanation.
There is no convincing evidence that the Aurora crash happened at all; it was probably invented by the newspaperman, S.E. Hayden, who reported it. Everything else is post-rationalisation and mythology.
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There is no convincing evidence that the Aurora crash happened at all; it was probably invented by the newspaperman, S.E. Hayden, who reported it. Everything else is post-rationalisation and mythology.
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Yeap, darn shame what the newspapers, media reporters, politicians, preachers, scientist, doctors would say to get funding, ratings, and publicity for whatever endeavor and hidden agenda on their minds in those day. Good thing that does not happen these days...LOL!

P.T. Barnum did not have it all wrong.

Soon everyone will be blaming natural occurences on how many times you flush the toilet, while someone in China turns on a faucet. My question is this. If all the butterflies ever die off, what will the population in general blame natural disasters and unexplained events on?

Don't get me wrong I like to over rationalize and sensationalize myself, but at the end of day, I remember no one believes in me. So why should I believe exotics from elsewhere or elsewhen for that matter.


There were no alien craft involved in either of these events.
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It hasn't been established that anything hit the turbine. Most likely cause is fatigue.
Fatigue is usually what crashes into me at 7AM.
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