UFO over Utrecht
Friday, 2nd March 2007 by Alex Turnbull
For once no-one can try to cover up the truth - this is no water tower, no dirt on the lens, and no weather anomaly! Nope, this time we've found a real, actual, honest-to-goodness UFO landing on a building in Utrecht, Netherlands! We even managed to find a picture that was taken during the invasion.
Well, it's a real sculpture of a UFO. That counts, right?
Thanks to P wouterse, Bor Smulders and Ronald.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
so is this a piece of public art? advert?
Is anyone able to identify the building the ufo crashed in to? I really like it.
It reminds me of the tunnel ventilation towers for the Mersey Tunnel which look like this from above and like this from the Mersey.
@Patrick: it’s a piece of art, a ‘leftover’ of Panorama 2000, an Utrecht art manifestation.
@cookie monster: it’s the headquarter of ProRail. It’s the biggest brick building in the Netherlands (22 million bricks), built between 1918 and 1922 by Dutch Railways. During World War 2 it was used by the SS as their headquarters in NL. The nickname of the building is ‘the ink pot’ because of its shape.
Thanks Roland – i will investigate further. The SS bagged all the best buildings for their headquarters it seems – and frankly who was going to argue with them?
Sorry Ronald, i called you Roland!
Anyway, ive found a better picture of the inkpot and saucer here: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railinfratrust
Yeeeeah! Ratfans!
Balderdash, it’s a pot noodle.
Not half as good as cruise missile over Utah. 😮
a very weak post, sorry to say that!
Not as good as the Philips building in Eindhoven:
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=51.443489,5.446869&z=19
It does look like a HUGE flying saucer..
—* Bill
Been there, done that 🙂
I live just about an hour biking from it.
is that a real ufo
if it was, shouldnt it of been alover the news for years
if it was real, how did it leave & wat happened wile it was here