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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

Posted on 01/02/2007 2:58:07 PM PST by BenLurkin

CHICAGO - Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airline employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall. The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in Monday's Chicago Tribune.

The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged that a United supervisor had called the control tower at O'Hare, asking if anyone had spotted a spinning disc-shaped object. But the controllers didn't see anything, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.

"Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," Cory said. "That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low (cloud) ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things."

The FAA is not investigating, Cory said.

United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said company officials don't recall discussing any such incident from Nov. 7.

At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all.

"To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; ufo; ufos
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To: GOP Poet
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!

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21 posted on 01/02/2007 6:00:09 PM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


22 posted on 01/02/2007 6:18:57 PM PST by SwankyC
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To: 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.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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.

23 posted on 01/02/2007 6:35:15 PM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: Candor7

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."


24 posted on 01/02/2007 7:11:40 PM PST by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: Enterprise
"Election day? Maybe they were absentee voters."

Of course! It IS Chicago, after all.

25 posted on 01/02/2007 7:26:20 PM PST by oprahstheantichrist
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To: Candor7

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.


26 posted on 01/02/2007 7:31:22 PM PST by Mark-in-Kentucky (Check out my sites, www.spacebuffs.com and www.ageofantiquity.com)
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To: Mark-in-Kentucky
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

27 posted on 01/02/2007 9:26:26 PM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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