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Might as well have said "swamp gas and weather ballon"
ChadTower:
I hate it when the unruly blogosphere gets on motorcycles and in helicopters and chases people around until they end up dead. It just makes people uncomfortable.
MaximRecoil:
The Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting of late '06 (link) was chalked up to "a weather phenomenon" by the FAA after first denying any knowledge of the event—until the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request.
--- Quote ---At approximately 4:30 p.m on Tuesday November 7, 2006, federal authorities at Chicago O'Hare International Airport received a report that a group of twelve airport employees were witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over gate C-17.
According to eyewitness reports, the strange object was first spotted by a ramp employee who was "pushing back" United Airlines flight 446 which was departing Chicago for Charlotte, North Carolina. The ramp worker then apprised the flight crew of UA446 of the existence of the spinning, metallic object above their aircraft, and it is believed that both the pilot and co-pilot of this aircraft also witnessed the object at that time.
According to Jon Hilkevitch of the Chicago Tribune in an interview on CNN's Glenn Beck program: "The disk was visible for approximately two minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it." [1][2] The UFO was then seen to suddenly accelerate straight up through the overcast skies. Witnesses reported that the object left behind an open hole of clear air in the cloud layer and that the mysterious hole disappeared or "closed" within a few minutes. So far, no conclusive photographic evidence of the UFO has surfaced although it was reported to Hilkevitch that one of the United Airlines pilots was in possession of a digital camera at the time of the sighting and may have photographed the event[3].
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If I'm ever witnessed committing a crime by a dozen UA employees (including pilots), my defense in court will be that they didn't see me, they saw a "weather phenomenon", because pilots have notoriously poor eyesight and are unfamiliar with what actual "weather phenomena" looks like. Also, "weather phenomena" can perfectly mimic the appearance of anything, such as spinning, metallic, saucer-shaped crafts that hover and then accelerate straight up leaving a hole in the clouds, or even people, like me.
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