UFO at Chicago airport

[kenyan105]

A group of airline workers has claimed to have seen a UFO at Chicago's O'Hare airport. The United Airlines workers, some of them pilots, said the object did not have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged a United supervisor had called the control tower at O'Hare, asking if anyone had spotted a spinning disc-shaped object.

But the controllers did not see anything, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, an FAA spokeswoman said.

She added: "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon. 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."

She added the FAA was not investigating the incident.

A spokeswoman for United said company officials did not recall discussing any such incident from November 7.

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

"To fly seven 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.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/02012007/140/ufo-spotted-airport-chicago.html

*note from kenyan105: Some things are way too funny to just leave lying around. Amazing how this story found its way to regular news, not the "oddly enough" page.
Been away for a while. Happy New Year to all.*

[Shipwrx]

I saw that report.... There seems to be some truth to it... and no reasonable explanation.

[exitwound]

*note from kenyan105: Some things are way too funny to just leave lying around. Amazing how this story found its way to regular news, not the "oddly enough" page.
Been away for a while. Happy New Year to all.*

A very interesting & amusing post! Thanks for that, kenyan.

I am definitely pleased to see your name in the New Posts again! Happy New Year to you as well.*:)

I've been hoping that you might do us the honor of taking some time to explain for the community some of the issues and situations facing you over there in Africa. Living in the West even well-informed people can become myopic and not realize what it is like to live in a continent full of "new" nations and unstable cultural borders, ineffectual and often corrupt governments, etc....

I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on what is going on in yr. corner of the world right now, if you would be so kind as to share them with us!*

[exitwound]

I saw that report.... There seems to be some truth to it... and no reasonable explanation.

Yeah; very strange stuff indeed!

[short_circuit]

The way it reads in the report...! If there was anything of a UFO, it looks to be a over up.:mrgreen:

[rastaman]

I really like this stuff. It has always striked me how self obsorbed our species is. So we are in the Milky way galaxy. Millions of planets no doubt many many like earth. Their are millions of milky ways and the universe is expanding. Pretty conceded for us to think we are unique and/or the only life in it. Nice post kenyan.

[Gaius Millhelm]

I really like this stuff. It has always striked me how self obsorbed our species is. So we are in the Milky way galaxy. Millions of planets no doubt many many like earth. Their are millions of milky ways and the universe is expanding. Pretty conceded for us to think we are unique and/or the only life in it. Nice post kenyan.

Very true. People lose perspective so easily it seems.

That is actually one of the reasons that Exitwound founded this site. We have often talked about it. To be able to have a dialog as many forums do but also to have perspective and to see the bigger picture.

That is an important thing and I hope we can reach a big enough audience that we can make a real difference in the way people look at issues big or small. Knowing what we do not know, and knowing how small we are in this Universe is the first step to true knowledge and wisdom.

[rastaman]

Very true. People lose perspective so easily it seems.

That is actually one of the reasons that Exitwound founded this site. We have often talked about it. To be able to have a dialog as many forums do but also to have perspective and to see the bigger picture.

That is an important thing and I hope we can reach a big enough audience that we can make a real difference in the way people look at issues big or small. Knowing what we do not know, and knowing how small we are in this Universe is the first step to true knowledge and wisdom.



Agreed.

[kenyan105]

Thanks for everything. And I'm heading for the Somalia post right now.

[FrozenCyanide]

Regarding the UFO report and life elsewhere:

I was watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and he said if the stars that are visible from our planet were each the size of a grain of sand, they can fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. I'd say that we're definitely not alone.

[exitwound]

Regarding the UFO report and life elsewhere:

I was watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and he said if the stars that are visible from our planet were each the size of a grain of sand, they can fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. I'd say that we're definitely not alone.

Carl was an amazing man. I mourn him almost every day.

Did you know that he was a closet stoner? He advocated marijuana use passionately under a series of pen names and aliases. In fact, in one of those pen-name writings, he describes realizing some of his greatest discoveries and theories while taking a shower stoned and playing with soap bubbles under the influence of marijuana. :moose: