O'Hare UFO Controversy: Witnesses Say Yes, Feds No
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By Keith Walters Jones
Jan 3, 2007
I felt like I was watching Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in 'Men in
Black' when I first read the story about the O'Hare UFO controversy.
According to all of the reports coming out of the incident, the Federal
government is going with the inevitable "weather" as an excuse for what
witnesses saw.
Okay then, here is the Hollywood tie-in. In 'Men in Black' Agent J tells
a woman that she didn't see a UFO. He uses his "standard issue
neuralyzer," to erase what the woman believes she saw and tell her it was
something easily explainable.
"All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in
the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a
thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."
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Cue the feds in Chicago, specifically FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham
Cory. "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," Cory said
of the sighting. "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. Someone give the woman a
'standard issue neuralyzer.'
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In a shocking development, there are loads of witnesses according to the
Chicago Tribune. "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.
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Another said, "I stood outside in the gate area not knowing what to think,
just trying to figure out what it was," he said. "I knew no one would make
a false call like that. But if somebody was bouncing a weather balloon or
something else over O'Hare, we had to stop it because it was in very close
proximity to our flight operations."
There is much more here at a very well done piece by Jon Hilkevitch.
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He does note in the piece that like United, the FAA originally told the
Chicago Tribune that it had no information on the alleged UFO sighting.
But the federal agency quickly reversed its position after the newspaper
filed a Freedom of Information Act request.
An internal FAA review of air-traffic communications tapes, a step toward
complying with the Tribune request, turned up the call by the United
supervisor to an FAA manager in the airport tower, Cory said.
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Since I wasn't there - I can't even begin to guess what these folks saw.
But they certainly believe they witnessed something other than the
'weather.'
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272610773.shtml
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