but a (MOD) spokesman said: "That's so secret it's beyond above top secret, I'm afraid."

what a comedian!

cant blame hin in light of the nature of the allegation / enquiry

And there I was thinking it was a lump of blue ice from an air-o-plane..

I for one welcome our new windmill-smashing overlords.

“If a stealth aircraft struck the turbine, it may be made of some material which is itself classified above top secret.”

Eh? Or, it might be made out of steel. Or carbon fibre. Or cheese. It may be shaped like a raspberry. Or it may have come from Mars. Or you might be speaking out of your arse. Idiot.

Occam's razor means nothing to these people. Is there an equivalent expression that assumes the most complicated, unlikely explanation for the simplest of mysteries? How about Occam's Gillette Mach3 Turbo Champion?

The great advantage of conspiracy theorists is that it is impossible to prove them wrong. Just imagine the lawer's fees if a UFOlogist was injured or killed by a falling , broken turbine blade, as he sought to retrieve incontrovertible proof of our alien overlords. Of course site security has been beefed up. We must keep that evidence (of inadequate maintenance? ) from the public at all costs.

The sad thing is that it all distracts from serious conspiracies like the stitch up of alternative energy suppliers by the nuclear lobby....

Technologically super advanced aliens traveled light years across the reaches of space to visit earth and... crash their ship into a wind turbine? Even the mention of ET's in this instance is absurd in the extreme.

"Security operatives backed by snarling dogs"

"German experts have indeed now moved in"

Dale Vince of Ecotricity, which operates the site, said last week: "We don't have an explanation at the moment as to what the cause was. We have been crawling all over it and have sent bits off for analysis to see if we can work out what caused it. Until we have some idea, some plausible explanation that it was not a UFO, I don't think we should rule it out."

Good luck trying to claim that one back on your insurance.

"That's so secret it's beyond above top secret, I'm afraid."

Surely that’s an admission that they in fact do have some secret alloy!!!

It was a UFO.

It is unidentified

It was flying

It has to be an object.

Duh.

It's incredible that these loonies can't see that the investigators simply want to avoid the evidence (ie shards of windmill) being stolen by loonies who then sell it on eBay as "alien composite material".

As the bleat about wanting to know "the truth", their little paranoid expeditions make it impossible for anyone else (like, maybe, someone with the appropriate qualifications and experience) to actually find out the actual truth.

Can't we medicate these people?

Pirate: cos they're thick as two short planks -- and they probably believe the "walk the plank" myth, too!

so fucking stupid!

...a machine went faulty...

next story....

Are you trying to tell me that it really wasn't a blade snapping off, hitting and thus bending a second blade and that they've restricted access to the site because there is a chance that the same could happen to a second turbine?

Dammit....

They shouldn't waste time getting that thing fixed. Skip the investigation and get it back up and running. Ye gods and little fishes, we need them things running to keep our skies clear. So get 'er back up sweeping the heavens of those nasty little green men and their tall purple three twatted wormen or fembotys or whatever they call them.

they're comming, they're comming!

Whilst it would be great to finally answer the question of life on other planets, but sadly i feel any race advanced enough to get here in the first place would be sufficiently equiped to deal with avoiding a windturbine!

That big, that low, merely scraping a single rotor in a whole field of windmills?

The tower was of course struck by a weather balloon! It's obvious, isn't it?

Personally I blame the Soviets.

"We don't have an explanation at the moment as to what the cause was. We have been crawling all over it and have sent bits off for analysis to see if we can work out what caused it."

So assuming it was indeed a flying object, then as they say it is yet to be identified. It is therefore a UFO, until such time as it is positively identified.

"Until we have some idea, some plausible explanation that it was not a UFO, I don't think we should rule it out."

In other words; "Until we don't not know what it is, we can't be sure that we won't not know what it is."

Isn't that obvious? Its "do not allow civil servants to handle these documents, they are secret and we really mean it this time, no leaving it on trains or on computers at MP's home where the local plod can come and have a gander whenever they feel like it, its REALLY secret, although we will share the information with the yanks at some time so they can say 'hey, thats really cool, we'll steal that tech from you now' but other than that, no one is to know about it, not even me, or the PM but then he is a bit of a dick, so yeah, its super top secret and if I find any information about this project on youtube I'm going to cancel the xmas party this year"

Naturally its way too big to put on everything (Top Secret fits just right) so they just write down on it "Really Top Secret!!!!!" with lots of !!!!!!'s

Helicopter cause now they know that I know what they know about what I know about their secret secrets!

......would we have to put up with interminable conspiracy theories that the crash was actually caused by plain old pilot error and not the destabilisation of the monomolecular matrix in the thrunging washers of the starboard photonic interrupt array at all?

Would he be referring to super-duper top secret??

"That's so secret it's beyond above top secret, I'm afraid."

of corse they would say that it is so secret that you needed to be rated top secret for them to tell you it exists

R-tards, its obviously Bill Gates in an Iron Man suit...

If an object is unidentified then it is a a UFO, if it turns out to be something that is identified then its not a UFO anymore.

Besides what would make any alien life want to come to this sh*t hole?

Lights in the sky?

if that's the MOD's idea of a stealth plane, I think they need to go back to the drawing board.

Mine's the one with the sleeve mysteriously ripped off.

How much more secret could it be?

I, for one, velcome our wind-turbine destroying overlords.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/jan/08/windpower-thesun

Naah.. not really, but an illuminating read nonetheless..

Marsh gas.

Planet Venus.

Q E D

Swamp Gas! Has to be.

The problem with one blade rotating and hitting the failing one is that in the weather we have had since the new year the wretched things were not turning at all...

"Britain doesn't have any protective markings above secret - to the best of my knowledge."

Yes it does.

Mine''s the one with the Torchwood logo.

"If you read Friedman's book about his personal dealings with various government agencies, that can be the only logical explanation."

If you read Harry Potter books then you may very well believe their is a secret school for for young wizzards teaching them the fine art of magic, doesnt mean its true though.

Any tin foil left over so I can make a hat too?

>> Technologically super advanced aliens traveled light years across the reaches of space to visit earth and... crash

Duh! Unless they were on auto-pilot back to the point they visited 2 billion years ago and were not expecting their bacteria to have evolved so far.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2120065.ece

bollocks to the economy, get a 'vicious' dog and guard a 'secret' field.....

It was Aliens on a shopping trip, out to pick-up a bargain at Woolies closing down sale.