brandynne (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The tentacle literally shoots down to the engine, infuses the engine with more power than it can handle, and produces a combustion which literally causes the blades to explode from the engine. Quite spectacular and very interesting.

Kobudokai (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This video has nothing to do with the Octopus UFO, or any other UFO. The article listed numerous cases of windmills naturally breaking and then linked this video of a windmill naturally breaking simply to so that windmill damage is not a rare thing.Nice little rant, there, idiot. Time to start working on your reading comprehensions skills. Neither the article about the octopus UFO, nor the description of this video claim this video to be anything unnatural.

ofuhunter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

so what you trying to say that it was an Alien playing with it?? camon fucking hell people, give me a break, if you have hard facts or proofs then you can talk but dont be a retarded

ofuhunter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

look people Im a UFO bealiver, but this videos and news really piss me off, because this thing was misteriusly broken OH Yea a UFO, or not A Giant OCtopus, camon Fuck you and Fuck this stupid video, If you give me a video in wich u can see clearly the craft and The Alien inside crashing then I may bealive you, but your video is a fucking waste of time and its for retarded people

ixamraxi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually it doesn't just "explode", the bearing failed while rotating, allowing the fan blade to shift, the shift in the fan blade allowed one of the blades to collide with the pole, this weakened the pole and the broke the blade, the sudden breaking of the blade unbalanced the turbine causing a massive amount of torque on the pole, causing it to buckle, the other blades also continued rotating and each one collided with the pole causing more damage. At 100RPM, 0.01 second is all it would take.

tealmarlin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This Is not the video of the story about the Jan 4th windmill breakdown, via (south leader online page) This is an old video, iv seen it many times before. The online story says Video footage, but that makes people think its the video about the jan 4 iccident, but its not. (misleading....)

IPBullets (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The wind speed was only about 15mph, however, the braking system on the turbine malfunctioned causing the blades to spin overspeed and eventually blow the bearings and off go the blades

rickiedee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i dont see how a windmill just explodes like that from weather, that's bs, and alot of windmills apparently in england and europe have been doing the same thing. the weather didn't even look that bad in the video.

LETHLSS (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

anyone know what the wind speed was at the time?

ronpack (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I would hate to be near one if they did that!