I watched the History Channel's UFO Hunters:Aliens at the Airport segment last night ( www.history.com...). The program
was essentially divided into two segments: the first was focused on the O'Hare UAP and the second on the Osaka, Japan UAP video. I'll restrict my
summary and comments to O'Hare.
The O'Hare segment generally did an acceptable job of presenting the extant information about the November 2006 incident and it was fascinating to
finally hear audio of both ATS's "Eyewitness" and the O'Hare tower chatter. The fact that Eyewitness watched the UAP with a large group of people
in a parking lot was suitably emphasized, although I think the crowd's reaction to the sudden acceleration of the object could have been better
described (see Eyewitness' account earlier in this thread). The interviewees were skeptical, lucid, and believable, and the airport safety issues
highlighted by the NARCAP report were cogently stated.
The producers made some puzzling choices, however, about what and how selected information was presented. First, I was surprised that the alleged
cellphone pic of the UAP was not included in the broadcast. Most "unexplained phenomena" shows thrive on such visual material and typically use far
fuzzier, less interpretable images to make their case. Second, the CGI rendering of the cloud cover at the time of the incident failed to convey the
dramatic character of the "hole" punched through the clouds by the UAP-- a hole through which witnesses reported seeing blue sky. The digital sky
reconstruction depicted only scattered cloud cover, which reduced the overall visual impact of the hole.
The CGI department also took some unfortunate liberties with multiple eyewitness' descriptions of the UAP's alleged featureless surface and smooth
texture, adding radial ridges and other random detail to the object. In my opinion, the facts in this case are sufficiently interesting without the
addition of such distracting artistic fantasy.
Overall, there was no new significant information presented in the History Channel production and it remains very interesting to me that no other
photographic images, video, or credible eyewitnesses have surfaced since January/February 2007. Has anyone seen any additional information about the
O'Hare UAP?
And does ANYONE know anything about the fate of ATS's "Eyewitness"?
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