Saw an interesting discussion on this sighting on DU today. One of the posters on that forum was an eyewitness.
If this story is old just delete my post mod persons.
It is very interesting that an incident like this only hits the newspapers several weeks after it happened. Even more interesting is the way in which the story was reported in different newspapers.
The Chicago Tribune coverage seems quite fair:-
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All the witnesses said the object was dark gray and well defined in the overcast skies. They said the craft, estimated by different accounts to be 6 feet to 24 feet in diameter, did not display any lights.
Some said it looked like a rotating Frisbee, while others said it did not appear to be spinning. All agreed the object made no noise and it was at a fixed position in the sky, just below the 1,900-foot cloud deck, until shooting off into the clouds.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/classifie ... 27156872=1
Conversely, the Washington Post makes fun of the story and refuses to treat it seriously. Note how brief the article is and the final bit of it:-
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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.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00422.html
Thank you WP - we now know the story has substance due to your blatantly obvious attempt to trivialise a major UFO incident.
Was it advanced military technology? Possible but why make a public display of secret technology over a domestic airport?
Was it a freak weather phenomenon? I'm no expert but I don't know of any cloud formations that can streak off into the clouds leaving a hole behind them. Maybe they exist - who knows?
Was it not of this earth? That is a mighty important question and one that has interested me since I was a child. Posters on RI know full well that immediately we accept the existence of life on other planets our entire belief system has to change radically. Organised religion is unlikely to survive such a revelation (sorry for the cheap pun) for a start.
I wonder how people as a whole would react to the fact that there is advanced life on other planets? Who would want to keep such a fact very quiet if they knew about it? (The latter question is rhetorical)
