UFO hits UK wind turbine?

[goldbomber]

right, so you are saying that we should listen to the testimony of ignorant people as an acurate statement? I'm sure there are many people who wouldn't be able to tell you who the person is in a picture of george washington, but would you say that makes him an unidentified person?

To get more specific on this example, I don't know jack shit about planes, so any plane that I saw, I couldn't tell you what model of plane it was... but that would be absurd to call it a UFO, because I could tell you that it is a plane, and not another type of flying vehicle, and I could even give a description of it so that someone who does know plane models could determine which one it was. Just like I could tell you all about george washington, even if I didn't know who he was.

the key word in the expression is object, meaning that it is something that you can't characterize with any known objects, not merely a known object of unknown specifics. a plane is not an unidentified object, and neither is a person.

the key word in the expression is object, meaning that it is something that you can't characterize with any known objects, not merely a known object of unknown specifics. a plane is not an unidentified object, and neither is a person.

so we are assuming that it is an object that no one has seen before, an unidentified object.

If you see something that is unknown to anyone, then you are the one that is identifying it- becuase you are asigning an identity to it. that's what discovery is. So to witness is to identify.

did you even read my post properly?
'regardless of whether they've been identified before'

yes, if someone didn't recognise george washington he would be an unidentified person - to that specific person
i'm not saying everyone should class him as unidentified based on one person's inability to identify him.

if someone saw the same plane that you saw but couldn't tell it was a plane for some reason then they could call it desribe it as a flying object.

if you heard a noise but cannot figure out what it is or where it came from then it is unidentified.

'object, meaning that it is something that you can't characterize with any known objects'
since when was this the definition of object? I can call a plane an object if I wanted to even though I know what a plane is. Would you say the phrase sharp objects is wrong? Wouldn't known objects be an oxymoron under your definition?

back to the original subject, can you identify what hit the turbine? Do you know for certain that anyone can?

 

[calpoon]

Ok, so you listen to people that don't know what they are talking about. got it.

and I didn't say that was the defintion of an object, I said it was the defintion of an unidentified object.

as for the question, if I had seen what hit the turbine, then I could probably identify it. But I wasn't there at the time, so i'd say that it was an object that was unknown to me, but probably known to someone else, and I wouldn't say it was a UFO. I can't say for certain that anyone could identify it, but based on my best knowledge, i'd say that it is most likely not something that is beyond the realm of human experience or understanding.

I could have been a swallow carrying a coconut. But it could be an unidentified swallow, because it couldn't be determined if it was an african or a european swallow.

 

[goldbomber]

I could have been a swallow carrying a coconut. But it could be an unidentified swallow, because it couldn't be determined if it was an african or a european swallow.

So you prefer to describe what hit the turbine as an unidentified swallow/plane/...(every possible object that could have hit the turbine). I'm not sure about you but I think it would be much more sensible to just call it an unidentified object.

 

[justahornydude]

I dont understand some peoples view on UFOs . sounds far fetched but after all we are here right?? who says there isnt other forms of life out in the wild blue yonder? who says they arnt far more advanced? just some thoughts

 

[STDiva]

This is fucking stupid.

A UFO didn't hit the turbine. A UFO is something that NOBODY can identify. Not me, not you, not NASA. They even have a new name for it now. UAP. Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.

You have to have seen the object in question to be able to not identify it. How do you know it is unidentifiable if you didn't see it???

Not a UFO. End of debate.

 

[calpoon]

I bet a bunch of UFO nuts did this, just so that they could drum up publicity for UFO's.

in other news, due to spelling errors, the band LFO has had the most search hits in their entire career.

 

[D-rock]

Aliens then? Having the technology to cross interstallar space they couldn't avoid a slow moving turbine blade.Back to the drawing board.

Maybe the alien was jacked up on alien booze.