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In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO? (Over O'Hare)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 1 January 2007 | Jon Hilkevitch

Posted on 01/01/2007 11:47:55 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: artbell; callingartbell; chicago; nephilim; ohare; ufo; xfile
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To: Erik Latranyi
I guess he'll still be waiting in the terminal then-

21 posted on 01/01/2007 12:13:01 PM PST by mikrofon (ETouristguy)
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To: Brilliant

Zero is a probability.


22 posted on 01/01/2007 12:14:25 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: kjam22

Swamp gas coming out of Hillary's butt


23 posted on 01/01/2007 12:14:48 PM PST by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Funny... I read the article and not one person "came forward." Anonymously feeding a rumor to a reporter is not "coming forward."


24 posted on 01/01/2007 12:17:04 PM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: gaijin

>> How many people saw a missile strike TWA flight 800, and were ignored? I'd say 100, including pilots. <<

Thousands. But, then, the cell phone wasn't ubiquitous. A digital image among hundreds of witnesses isn't proof, since it can be tampered, but the lack of one cell-phone photo among thousands of tourists and businessmen is pretty much sufficient proof of nothing-to-see-here.


25 posted on 01/01/2007 12:19:21 PM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

These witnesses need a beating."
Really? At least a dozen, several were pilots, some were mechanics.
"All the witnesses to the O'Hare event, who included at least several pilots, said they are certain based on the disc's appearance and flight characteristics that it was not an airplane, helicopter, weather balloon or any other craft known to man."


26 posted on 01/01/2007 12:20:36 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Erik Latranyi

It was an Obama-sighting. "Rising star," and all that...


27 posted on 01/01/2007 12:20:47 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Circumstances are the fire by which the mettle of men is tried.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

28 posted on 01/01/2007 12:21:08 PM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: Erik Latranyi
I Want To Believe
29 posted on 01/01/2007 12:22:47 PM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: Erik Latranyi

DRUDGE has a VIDEO LINK on his page - but I cannot get it to open.


30 posted on 01/01/2007 12:24:39 PM PST by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: Erik Latranyi

















http://www.lombard-avenue.smugmug.com/gallery/218219

31 posted on 01/01/2007 12:28:10 PM PST by Main Street (Stuck in traffic)
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To: Erik Latranyi
-SNIP-

Witnesses shaken by sighting

"I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport," said a United mechanic who was in the cockpit of a Boeing 777 that he was taxiing to a maintenance hangar when he observed the metallic-looking object above Gate C17.

"But I know that what I saw and what a lot of other people saw stood out very clearly, and it definitely was not an [Earth] aircraft," the mechanic said.

One United employee appeared emotionally shaken by the sighting and "experienced some religious issues" over it, one co-worker said.

Ya think??? I'd sure be calling Jesus after seeing something like that!!!

32 posted on 01/01/2007 12:28:18 PM PST by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: ASOC
"The FedGov will never follow up on these, with the possible exception of a UFO landing on an aircraft and crushing it."

Sure they will. We just won't find out about it. It's not wise to admit to the public that we can't control our airspace. I would expect them to find out how to capture one before an enemy does and then use the technology to our advantage. It would be a state secret.

33 posted on 01/01/2007 12:28:36 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: skr

That's my thought. These days, most people carry around some form of digital camera.


34 posted on 01/01/2007 12:29:07 PM PST by My2Cents ("Friends stab you from the front." -- Oscar Wilde)
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To: rface

The video link seems only to be a link to a local newscast report about the sightings, not a video of the "UFO" itself.


35 posted on 01/01/2007 12:30:29 PM PST by codercpc
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To: Erik Latranyi

Bet the farm that the employees, who saw the UFO, are all, liberal Democrats!!


36 posted on 01/01/2007 12:31:58 PM PST by PISANO
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To: Erik Latranyi
"I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport,"

To do the jobs that Chicagoans won't?

37 posted on 01/01/2007 12:33:10 PM PST by flada (Posting in a manner reminiscent of Jen-gis Kahn.)
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To: rface
DRUDGE has a VIDEO LINK on his page - but I cannot get it to open.

It is just two reporters talking about it. No video of the actual UFO.

38 posted on 01/01/2007 12:34:20 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Well, apparently, it was a UFO.

UFO means Unidentified Flying Object.

If no one knows what it is, isn't it "unidentified?"

39 posted on 01/01/2007 12:34:26 PM PST by It's me
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To: KellyAdmirer
Sounds more like an experimental military drone than Uncle Wally visiting from Mars.

I hope that's what it was, especially considering that it was seen to disappear so fast it punched a hole in the cloudcover. You bet it would be nice if it's one of ours -- because it's somebody's. The ods that these airline employees are doing this as a media prank are almost less than the liklihood of it actually being "Uncle Wally" from Mars!

Again, I hope you're right.

40 posted on 01/01/2007 12:34:32 PM PST by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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