UFO claim over wind farm damage - Update

While I have nothing against the undoubtedly genuine witnesses who reported seeing anomalous lights and objects in the sky around the time that the damage took place, I am surprised to see some well known UK UFO researchers buying into the idea that UFOs did this damage. (No names, no pack drill, as we say here in the British Isles)

Today, the Telegraph newspaper has listed some of the more mundane reasons this could have happened. One that occurred to me yesterday was a bird strike, but if that had been the case then the body of the bird would probably have been found lying below the turbine.

However, each and all of the ideas listed in the Telegraph could equally be true, and I suspect that the answer will eventually be found. As I said yesterday, the wind itself can cause damage, but it’s also been extremely cold here in the UK. The temperatures have been lower than those currently to be found in the Antarctic, so an ice strike is more than feasible.

Now, I’m not a UFO sceptic, and I’m not out to debunk UFO believers. But when these type of unexplained events happen it seems that the first cry to go up is that it’s somehow down to UFOs. This has become far more prevalent over the last year, especially with all the media coverage that local UK events have been getting. Most of them have turned out to be nothing more than Chinese lanterns. Such credulous belief does a disservice to Ufology.

I believe in UFOs, only not in this case. And, anyway, I think the UFO subject is far more than “nuts and bolts” spaceships, and aliens. It’s been going on throughout history, and even before recorded time. And it’s always changing according to society’s beliefs. In the old days it was fairies, now it’s aliens. For me it’s all part of the “Unseen Realm,” and that includes cryptids, ghosts, and other kinds of psychic phenomena.