A UFO at O'Hare? Some pilots thought so

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070101/ap_on_fe_st/o_hare_ufo_sighting ^ | Mon Jan 1, 3:16 PM ET

[Candor7]

Maybe it was the fumes from the fellow (or woman--can't remember which) that got kicked off for the massive flatulence.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Oh come on, that doesn't even begin to look like a UFO!

[SwankyC]

The story I read on this said that the "thing" went through the clouds so quickly (I think "powerfully" was the word used) it left big holes through the clouds.

[Candor7]

The story I read on this said that the "thing" went through the clouds so quickly (I think "powerfully" was the word used) it left big holes through the clouds.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That also should tell us that the object was incredibly hot, or absorbed moisture like a sponge... or was spinning so fast it sloughed off the clouds in a perfect circle with centrifical force, without creating a tornado effect. Very Strange.

We have no idea what these things are, and until folks stop making fun of folks who see these things, we are unlikely to ever understand much about what is happening with them.

[Finny]

Yeah. I wonder if ANY of these folks would dare to have gone up to Mercury 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper and told him he was a kook, a liar, or mistook "natural weather phenomenon" for the craft he chased in his fighter jets. He wrote openly, if briefly, about his own frequent encounters with UFOs in his autobiography "A Leap of Faith."

[oprahstheantichrist]

"Election day? Maybe they were absentee voters."

Of course! It IS Chicago, after all.

[Mark-in-Kentucky]

Don't worry about it too much, Candor7—it's just a chance for some folks to feel superior to the "nutcases" who report the sightings and post lame ha-ha pictures.

Personally, I'm not sure what UFOs are, but I'm not so damn quick to write them off as mere weather phenomena, misidentified military craft or whatever, nor insult the people who have witnessed them.

[Candor7]

Well, I haven't seen one myself, although a close friend who is a geologist , did see one up fairly close in the wilderness.

After 30 years he is still talking about it, trying to figure out what it was.And he is a scientist. He never told many about it, maybe there or four close friends.

Like you , I am not in the UFO messianic crowd. I think that some of us witness a phenomenon which needs to be investigated properly.

I would just as soon let fly with a high powered rifle to try and bring one down.

The ultimate in skeet shooting? LOL