UFO? What do you guys think?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339139/Was-bird-A-Plane-Or-UFO--Chinese-passenger-jet-hits-mysterious-object-26-000ft-lands-severely-dented-nose-cone.html

Probably a military or government device, obviously a very small and light object caused it due to the minor damage to the nose cone.

 

26,000 feet is very high up for a small drone aircraft so it may have been a balloon or helium type device. 

I would think a balloon or someone ran into it on the ground. They said they were having adverse performance through the whole flight before this happened.

Yeah had to be something pretty light weight and/or soft. I vote weather balloon type thing too.

It must have been a UFO.

Sure it was an UFO - it was Unidentified, it was Flying and clearly it was an Object!! :lol:

A football :wacko:

History of unexplained stuff:

 

First...

"We don't understand this...it must be the gods! We must worship them."

 

Later...

"We don't understand this...it must be witches! We must burn them."

 

Today...

"We don't understand this...it must be aliens! We must create elaborate conspiracy theories around them."

 

:smile:

 

Alien spaceships are the size of tennis balls but their force fields extend to the size of a football so that would be it. Aliens aren’t tiny but they get teleported into their tiny ships at a much smaller scale to save fuel. What’s elaborate about that?   :lol:

I wonder if the cooling air inside the nose cone could contract enough to make it collapse. I suspect it's normally vented, but vents might occasionally get clogged.

 

If moisture infiltrated the nose cone's structure there might have been delamination leading to structural failure. I've seen some nose cones with a sandwich of composite materials, solid layers inside and out with a center layer that resembles honeycomb. If water got into the cells it could make the layers separate when it freezes.

yes, does look like it imploded.