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'UFO Octopus' Destroys Wind Turbine; Gore Fears for Life

By Maura Judkis

Posted: January 8, 2009

A few British papers are running a story, based on eyewitness reports, that an "Octopus-shaped UFO" swept through Lincolnshire, UK and destroyed a wind turbine, lopping off one blade and twisting another.

Well, this explains everything. Polluted water? It's because of the Loch Ness Monster. Melting ice caps? blame the Yeti. If we could manage to catch a unicorn, their magical powers would help us get to 350 million parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Rather than being man-made, global warming is monster-made.  Al Gore probably anticipated this, and is hiding in a monster-proof, alien-proof bunker, trembling (he's purchased offsets for his emergency generator, of course). Clearly, he is next on the octopus alien army's list.

Or, you could believe that the blade was blown off by some errant fireworks, or ice that had built up on the blades. Whatever.

UFO versus Wind Turbine

Methinks they joust at Windmills after way too many quaffs of ale. Why, oh why would an alian spacecraft pick on one windturbine out of the hundreds dotting the landscape. Everything man made is subject to fail, we don't need a martian to destroy it for us, we are quite capable of doing it our very selves. The sky is NOT falling, it's just another junk windturbine falling apart. Breeeathe deeeeeep...reeelaaax..all is well, have another ale.

Don of NY @ Feb 19, 2009 16:41:33 PM

Skeptics abound

Skeptics called the great scientist Galileo a heretic when he theorized that the Earth was not flat and was not the center of God's universe. They executed him for this heinous crime. Now as in the past we have nay-sayers who scoff at events and phenomena that they can not explain, that do not conform to socially acceptable ideas or are not politically correct. It's so much easier for those who fear the unknown or cling to old ideas or religious dogma to dismiss possibilites as nonsense. Because to embrace the possible means that Biblical descriptions of the end times describe alien extraterrestrial beings (led by JC of course) coming from the heavens (outer space) and dealing us puny Earthlings catostrophic suffering and massive deaths. That would just be too much to accept, especially from people who believe there is a benevolent, merciful, forgiving God who does not exercise revenge or torments mankind with repeated destruction. As for Darwinist who deny creationism... could it just be that life on earth emanated from the heavens, coming here inside meteorites from exploded planets, or even from Martian debris when Mars was more temperate like Earth? No doubt skeptics will scoff and ridicule and say that'a another fantasy.

Tony Lee of CA @ Feb 13, 2009 19:29:23 PM

wind turbine damage

Enough already! You have to get your head examined to be beleive

in UFO'S.or just completely ignore commonly known facts.First

things first,any space traveler will have to completely understand quantum mechanics and physics. This knowledge alone

makes any trip to earth useless. With this knowledge another

species could make or produce any form of matter they required

and propably many we never could even dream of. THERE IS NOTHING

HERE ON EARTH THEY WOULD NEED! Travel thru space at speeds above 186,262.4 mps (light speed) would also mean that they could arive at any time they choose,berfore the dinosaurs or a 1,000 years in our future which brings paradox's into play. Based on our own limited technology aliens could park themselves on the moon and easily

remain invisable and learn all that need to know about us.

Here's a question. Why do almost all UFO sightings apear near

or over sensitive military bases? No connection there. Right.

What a great cover for the military! Get people to look for UFO,S instead of discovering the existence of a new aircraft.

Case in point. The F117 stealth fighter was in full sqaudron

force and operating for 10 years before one crashed in California and you can bet that the B2 was operating a lot longer than we know.I have no doubt that the triangle

shaped objects people were seeing were B2's.

The biological argument is pointless as well. With our present

knowledge we can clone and grow almost any form of life we know

of limited only by our ethics and morals. Imagine what a species could produce with technology light years ahead of us!

Maybe we were visited but certaintly without our knowing.

Mark Bowman of NH @ Jan 31, 2009 19:06:53 PM

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Maura Judkis is a producer at U.S. News. She writes about the green movement and looks for ways to be an ecofriendly consumer without breaking the bank. Send her your green tips.

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