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reply posted on 14-1-2007 @ 09:08 PM by rampagentX
Okay. Im not good at chat, but here goes.

I work for United like you guessed by now.

We were ferrying a load of late bags for a 727 to F12 or 14, I don't remember now, when I saw what I thought was a widebody running off course out of the corner of my eye. When I looked up there it was just siting there, a gray shiny thing pretty high up, more than 1000 feet.

At first we thought it was really far away, because it was hard to focus on it, but it shifted left and right a couple times and thats when we knew it wasn't too far away. I looked up at the 727 cockpit and pointed to it then the crew saw it and was staring at it too. The pilot got on his radio and waving his arms like he was going nuts over what he was seeing. We figured it was a fat disc, like a M & M, about 20 feet wide but it was really hard to tell for sure because it was almost the same color as the clouds and if you looked away it was hard to find it and focus again. One of our crew ran to his locker to get his cellphone to take a picture.

It hung there moving really slightly from side to side for about another minute when we all felt our hair stand on end, and it just shot straight up into the clouds faster than anything we ever seen. It disturbed the clouds, like it made a big shockwave and we could see sunlight for a bit. We never got a picture but I don't think it would have come out very good anyway.

We could see a few other rats staring up at the hole and everyone was talking about it for a few days. Then the sups came and talked to all of us that we cant talk about this to anyone or we'd get fired. They said something about federal regulations and unauthorized reporting of false airspace breeches.

Last week, the sups came down again and reminded everyone about the regulations. Thats what made me think theres more to the story so I started searching online. I play pool with a buddy who told me about this website chat room so here I am.

I always thought people who believe in aliens were crazy but I don't know what that thing was. We see lots of aircraft come in even the fancy stuff that stays in the air when the President lands, but this thing was like nothing none of us ever saw.


reply posted on 15-1-2007 @ 12:47 AM by Bhadhidar
Our source describes the object as "Gray", Shiny, almost the same color as the clouds, aproximately 20 feet wide (diameter), "a fat disk, like an M&M" (Take THAT Reese's pieces! Sorry, ET, I couldn't resist.)

So, we're dealing with what might be a relatively small craft with what might be a mirrored surface? Or perhaps some form of semi-effective "visual stealth"? I find the observer's description of the object being"hard to focus on" to be an interesting choice of phrase.

How much do we fail to observe simply because what we would see has been made "too difficult to look at" directly? Douglas Adams once described the phenomenon as a "Somebody Else's Problem (SEP) Field".

The relative size of the object is potentially telling as well, but I'll leave that point for others to consider.

The observer says that they all felt their hair stand on end, and that the object shot straight up. I wonder if their hair was standing on end due to a perfectly normal adrenalin reaction (fight/flight response to a completely unfamiliar situation), or if some sort of electro-static discharge (plasma-induced from the object perhaps?) was the cause.

Again, the object "shot straight up" punching "a big hole in the clouds" possibly from a "big shockwave". Moving that much air that fast, was there a sonic boom?

Was there any sound from the object at all?

And now mes amis, Le "Piece De Resistance"!

Our courageous Observer has provided us with an invaluable bit of information; whether we'll ever be able to make anything of it remains to be seen, however.

Our observer was working on a United Airlines ramp number F12 or 14, on a particular day in November 2006 at O'Hare International during a certain period of the the day corresponding to the appearance of this object. He reports that there was a (Boeing) 727 at that ramp, at that time, on that day. And most importantly, he reports that;

The pilot of that 727 also observed the object and reported his observation by the plane's radio!

The information provided should make it easy for those experts in our little community of CT'ers to quickly determine the flight number of that 727. Perhaps then an FOI-like request for the transcript of the pilot's radio transmission might be made?

At least we can, I presume, be fairly certain that a professional commercial Pilot would be authorized to report an airspace breech; and, being aware of the potential consequences, would be most unlikely to make a False report of such a breech by his plane's radio!

[edit on 15-1-2007 by Bhadhidar]



reply posted on 15-1-2007 @ 03:01 AM by danx
Originally posted by violet
Apparantly a first-hand witness report posted on November 8, nearly two months before the story broke:

UFO sighting at O'hare International


Thanks violet!
This is very interesting information.

I've been able to track down the original post, which is here

Posted November 8, the next day after the sighting at O'Hare.
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