BLOODY HELL!!! Aliens? Are you crackers? What about that flying car with all them teenage wizards? THAT'S what done this, I tell you! This weren't the work of no aliens. Blimey!

Ball lightning? where's the scorch marks? where's the indication of electrical overload that would be present?

ice? again indications that this was the cause? why were none of the others affected?

extreme weather? yeah they just forgot to mention gale force winds that affected one out of a field of wind turbines....

pranksters? you do realize how large these things are right? but then again those teenage superhumans are pretty rowdy.

Not saying it's aliens, but honestly...the heckling you're trying to give to those who think alien life is visiting this planet is pretty rude, and your solutions the mystery are in themselves pretty idiotic.

It's a possibility that the turbine malfunctioned and turned the blades improperly enough that the winds caused the top blade to snap clean while the other bent.

If it was any of them "ball lightning, ice, extreme weather, or pranksters. It was THEM. Watch the skies."

They blade would have been easy to find unless it was Pranksters in which case they must have some very good power tools to tear one of those thngs down.. not an easy job with the way one of those are built.

Asakari, how would a turbine malfunction enable the wind to bend one blend and completely tear the other one off and carry it away? If there were winds that strong (or any other abnormal weather patterns) meteorologist satellites would have picked it up. And unless their is some kind of new form of lightning that could vaporize one blade and bend the other, you can rule out weather.

Pranksters? Someone trying to do that kind of damage would have probably killed themselves and left the turbine in tact. You would need a whole team to do that, and their would be evidence on the ground from the team setting up, evidence from the blow torches or whatever was used to sheer off the blade, possible evidence from the turbine engine seizing up from the blades being forced to stop, etc. Even then they would have to pretty skilled, and there would clearly be evidence of it. And what did they do with the missing blade? Rent a flat-bed truck and haul it off? And the motive for doing all this is?? The kind of people with the tools and skills to even do something like this are not the kind of people who go out and actually and do something like this. You can rule out pranksters also.

If people say they saw lights then maybe thats what did it. What else is capable of inflicted that kind of localized, extensive damage?

Aliens? Doubt it. What did happen? Don't know... but it reminds me of what a kid would do when they screw up. They hide the evidence, so you can't link it back to them. Then blame it on someone else, little brother. The light could be from a crash/explosion/ect. The person that cleaned this up might not have been the same one to make the mess too!

You know, the degree of condescending attitudes of the writers on this site is making me want to take my gadget crazed self elsewhere. There is absolutely no reason for the moron who wrote this article to immediately presume that the people in the video above being interviewed are imbeciles who see things, yet that seems to be the implication with which this MORON proceeds with this judgemental pile of crap OPINION. In a universe as vast as the one we CO-EXIST in it just MIGHT BE POSSIBLE that something other than the usual cynical earthly forces are responsible, Just maybe. But instead of keeping an opened perspective most people immediately subscribe to the phony 'skeptics' point of view which was fed to them by their own government campaign to ridicule the facts behind this phenomenon.

Other wind turbines have broken in a similar fashion. Some have even been caught on film. If the turbine's braking system fails, the blades can rotate faster than is safe. In such a failure, one or more blades can be flung miles away from the turbine. If it did indeed happen during the night, nobody would have witnessed where the blade flew. In effect, there are several square miles that the blade might be found in. It could be days, weeks, or even months before it's found, depending on how thorough the search is.

It was Dr. Who's TARDIS out of control and completely wacked.

I'm wondering how it is that a superior intelligence, that piloted a spaceship here from several million light years, wouldn't be able to avoid smacking into wind turbine while tooling around the countryside?

Just sayin...

Ok, I'm not constituting out that aliens could exist (I mean really, look at how vast our universe is. You can't tell me that we're that unique...) but, I have to agree with moviedemon. You would think that someone intelligent enough to pilot a spaceship would be able to miss a wind turbine.

p.s. I think even the TARDIS would be able to miss a turbine. The Doctors smarter than that.

Aliens does not have to mean from outer space. The Saudis are aliens in Britain, and the Saudis do hate renewable energy resources. Just sayin'.

As an alien, I am sick and tired of being blamed for this sort of thing! Look, we didn't do those crop circles and we certainly didn't do this. Find another scapegoat! Blorkt'fz gak cxreug!

I saw a TV interview a while ago about this with a rep from the people who own the turbines. The 'missing' blade was FOUND nearby pretty quickly and shipped off to be examined i presume. UFO enthusiasts kinda ignored that bit of info

Frankly, I think it's much more likely the wind turbine construction people did a shoddy job on the turbine, and tried to hush it up, gloss it over, or distract attention away with the UFO story when it broke. I'm not saying that's surely what happened (for legal reasons), but it sounds much more feasible.

Oh, and something else stands out about this article: Lincolnshire ain't a town, Pete, it's a whole county -- so where are these "townspeople" coming from? And must foreigners condescendingly assume everyone in England is either classifiable as "townsfolk" or "villagers"?

I tell ya, I'm with NamelessMe on this one. The number of poorly-written, smug, offensive articles on this DVICE site is noticeably on the increase. Used to be I noticed one every other month or so. But in the last couple of weeks, I've read three. First the pointless "8 Most Ludicrous Sci-Fi Gadgets," then the incredibly insulting "Klingon Keyboard" diatribe, and now THIS piece. Way to alienate your readers, folks!

Calling the writer a moron and then stating that we should be open to the possibility extraterrestrial “aliens” flying around crashing into things and anally probing the unemployed is certainly interesting. “They are out there”, “believe”, etc., is indeed imaginative, we all need to do that. It’s when you incorporate the fantasy into your world view that governs your decision making process is the point where you are wasting everyone’s time. I do not believe the locals are stupid, they are simply telling stories to get the believers out there to spend some tourist dollars. There are no ghosts, no visiting aliens, etc. to metaphysically explain phenomena we are to ignorant to understand, and those that postulate such open themselves to and deserve ridicule. So DVICE; keep up the “smug” and “offensive” writing I’ve come to enjoy immensely!

You bet, animaven! Maybe his regeneration is out of control again. Remember what happened last time. Well, not LAST time, but the REAL last time...Blimey, he's a terrible driver when he hasn't had his tea, innit?

This has all the earmarks of an HIMEOBS operation. Their orbital lasers could have easily done this.

HIMEOBS will not confirm nor deny their presence during Operation BreakWind.

Operation BreakWind... well it was silent but deadly.