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UFO Over Chicago's O'Hare Airport?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jan 1, 2007 10:02 PM EST
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It sounds like a tired joke--but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously.

A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.

Was it an alien spaceship? A weather balloon lost in the airspace over the world's second-busiest airport? A top-secret military craft? Or simply a reflection from lights that played a trick on the eyes?

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Killfile

Probably just the light from Venus, bouncing off of a weather balloon and refracted through a packet of rising swamp gas.

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  • 10 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Jan 1, 2007 10:28 PM EST
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Johnny Yuma

We prefer the term "UAP"

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  • 2 votes
#1.1 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 2:51 AM EST
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pat2908

love it!!!!

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    #1.2 - Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:24 PM EST
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    {"commentId":455415,"authorDomain":"vesper"}
    Vesper

    I'm sorry, in this day and age with camera phones and such, why was there no video of this supposed UFO?

    I would love to believe that there is life out there, and I suspect there is. However, if they are visiting here, I want to see some level of proof other than: I saw it with my own eyes.

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#2 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 6:28 AM EST
    {"commentId":455435,"authorDomain":"munzilla"}
    munzilla

    I know, what about camera phones? not a single photo?

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      #2.1 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 7:47 AM EST
      {"commentId":455436,"authorDomain":"munzilla"}
      munzilla

      especially when there was "several minutes" to get one and/or go crazy telling everyone about it.

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        #2.2 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 7:48 AM EST
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        {"commentId":455449,"authorDomain":"josh-of-arc"}
        Josh of Arc

        Q: UFO Over Chicago's O'Hare Airport?

        A: It was an on-time flight. That's what made it "unidentified."

        -J

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        • 12 votes
        Reply#3 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 8:06 AM EST
        {"commentId":455498,"authorDomain":"zmiller"}
        nwzjnkee

        Were these people in different locations when they saw this? The report says a "group" of employees which kind of suggests that they were all standing together when they saw this.

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          Reply#4 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 9:31 AM EST
          {"commentId":455530,"authorDomain":"zepode"}
          Zepode

          I refuse to believe that with all the passengers and airport security that there was a UFO that no one else saw except for a handful of people. There are probably thousands of people going through O'Hare at any given time so how come just a few saw it? Maybe it was just a small plane or maybe a balloon, could it also have been not even really there? Could it be glare of the window they were looking out of? With all the planes flying and such there is very little chance that only one flight crew saw this phenomenon.

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          • 1 vote
          Reply#5 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:07 AM EST
          {"commentId":455543,"authorDomain":"abenton"}
          Andrew Benton

          Man I smiled when I read this and knew instantly that keld must have posted it, but I was wrong -_-

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          • 1 vote
          Reply#6 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:22 AM EST
          {"commentId":455545,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
          Killfile

          Sorry to disappoint. If it had been in the Weekly World News I wouldn't have posted it, but the Tribune isn't such a bad paper. They had the decency to run a photo of me once when I was a kid, so how bad can they be?

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          • 2 votes
          #6.1 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:24 AM EST
          {"commentId":455562,"authorDomain":"abenton"}
          Andrew Benton

          hah, true. I read about this last night, seems interesting, if the damn thing flew over an airport, they got fancy new technology like runway cams, and this cool thing they just invented called radar I believe.... we'll see where this all takes us.

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          • 1 vote
          #6.2 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:40 AM EST
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          {"commentId":455555,"authorDomain":"iarnuocon"}
          iarnuocon

          Hmmm...

          • No air traffic controllers spotted the thing
          • a check of the radar showed nothing unusual
          • the 'sighting' occurred at dusk
          • no other people than the 'group' of United employees have reported it
          • the witness accounts do not agree with each other (the object was either 6 feet or 24 feet in diameter, and was either spinning or not spinning)
          • the object made no noise, even though it "punched a hole in the sky" leaving a 'gaping hole' in the cloud cover that took several minutes to close
          • United denies any official report or mention of the sighting in logs
          • the only official mention of the 'sighting' is one call to an FAA manager in the tower, by one guy
          • in the entire city of Chicago, and particularly among the untold thousands of travellers and workers in O'Hare at the time, nobody managed to take a picture of this 'alien' craft 'hovering' above the runways

          By god, the only rational conclusion to be reached is that it was aliens flying an extraterrestrial vehicle, fiddling with our radar and endangering the safety of God-fearing Americans! Call the Pentagon and launch the interceptors!

          [snort]

          My favorite line of the whole article--

          "I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport."

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          • 2 votes
          Reply#7 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:37 AM EST
          {"commentId":455564,"authorDomain":"abenton"}
          Andrew Benton

          By god, the only rational conclusion to be reached is that it was aliens flying an extraterrestrial vehicle, fiddling with our radar and endangering the safety of God-fearing Americans! Call the Pentagon and launch the interceptors!

          They were probably checking to make sure Bush's white-house buttons to control weather, oil, and economies of the world were still in working order, oh and to see if their new technology could pierce tin-foil hats.

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          • 1 vote
          #7.1 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:42 AM EST
          {"commentId":455572,"authorDomain":"iarnuocon"}
          iarnuocon

          Thank god for tin foil. Without that, we'd all be making license plates for our intergalactic robot overlords.

          Important safety tip: don't trust that aluminum foil. Its mind-control repelling properties are largely untested. I think its introduction was a CIA plot to try to cripple the ability of common-sense Americans to resist the machinations of the evil overlords of Chiron Beta Prime.

          Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go save the President from an earthquake.

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          • 3 votes
          #7.2 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 10:48 AM EST
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          {"commentId":455967,"authorDomain":"democratic"}
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          {"commentId":456201,"authorDomain":"dcuben"}
          dcuben

          A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.

          Oops, my bad. I've been having trouble with the Zerblatt drive on my new Accord. Doggone hydrogen hybrids, anyway.

          ...um, wait a minute... WHAT year is it? Oh.

          Never mind...

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          • 1 vote
          Reply#9 - Tue Jan 2, 2007 7:55 PM EST
          {"commentId":457869,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
          Ryan Stolte-Sawa

          Whatever the object was, it could have interfered with O'Hare's radar and other equipment, and even created a collision risk, they said.

          It could have abducted all of traffic control, too. It could have done laps around the Sears Tower. It could have inquired at the food court about those crazy Dippin'Dots it's heard so much about. It could have done a lot of things. But it didn't.

          All skepticism aside, if the government decided to investigate this sighting, or if they have other evidence, would they really let O'Hare employees in on it? If the X-Files has taught us anything, it's that the feds' guiding principle is to keep its country in the dark on such matters.

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          • 1 vote
          Reply#10 - Wed Jan 3, 2007 10:11 PM EST
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