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UFO octopus: expert Nick Pope 'wary' of fireball theory
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What was the glowing fireball with tentacles, as witnesses described it, that caused an explosion and ripped apart a British wind turbine?
In my original story on the incident, I'd hypothesized that the 'UFO octopus' might have been ball lightning.
But UFO expert Nick Pope disagrees. Pope, who once ran the British government's UFO program, told me:
Given that there's no real scientific consensus on ball lightning, I'm wary of suggesting it as a possible cause of the wind turbine damage.
The turbine, in Conisholme, stands 290 feet high, according to the Sun, which first broke the story. The flying object hurled enough force to rip off a 65-foot-long blade.
Pope added some insight on another possibility making the rounds:
The favorite theory at present involves a collision with a secret prototype UAV called Taranis, but given that this suggestion was apparently leaked by 'defense insiders' (who'd normally bend over backwards to avoid discussion of secret prototype military hardware) I'm suspicious of this.
The incident, Pope said is
...a genuine mystery.
He added "we're unlikely to know more until the damaged blades have been analyzed."
Could it have been a meteor? In December I reported on a fireball in Auckland, New Zealand, that some alleged had destroyed a warehouse by setting it on fire.
The fragments of the wind turbine blade are in Germany, undergoing study.
Image credit: Nick Pope
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