{"id":1317,"date":"2009-02-11T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2009-02-11T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T19:04:08","slug":"is-ufo-report-a-wind-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Is UFO report a wind up? (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2009\/01\/is_ufo_report_a_wind_up.html\">a posting<\/a> about media reports that a wind turbine in Lincolnshire  operated by Ecotricity had broken as a result of being hit by a UFO. At the time, Dale Vince, Ecotricity&#8217;s managing director, told the BBC that the UFO theory was &#8220;the best &#8230; that we have currently got&#8221;. I ridiculed this assertion.<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2009\/feb\/11\/wind-turbine-mystery\">report<\/a> today confirms that the turbine was not damaged by an alien spacecraft but simply came apart because of a broken bolt &#8211; a bolt from the blue, you might say.<br \/>\nAt the time, various experts were convinced that this was evidence of a UFO. How could they get it so wrong? I explain here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/weirdthings.html\">&#8220;Why people believe weird things&#8221;<\/a>. And how could I &#8211; someone who knows nothing about wind turbines or space travel &#8211; be right? Quite simply, I followed my own advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/thinking.html\">&#8220;How to think critically&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, I did a posting about media reports that a wind turbine in Lincolnshire operated by Ecotricity had broken as a result of being hit by a UFO. At the time, Dale Vince, Ecotricity&#8217;s managing director, told the BBC that the UFO theory was &#8220;the best &#8230; that we have currently got&#8221;. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}