Originally posted by robertfenix
I flew from ORD on 11/15/2006 United 668 to New York, left from C gates (15 I think)

It had been really mild here, not even a hard cold snap yet, there was still a lot of green trees from what I remember on the whole drive up and in the Joliet area as well. As well as on 294 before the 190.

We did not get that big blast of snow until Thanksgiving, but prior to that it had been really mild.

Annuals had turned to gold and amber colors in mid Oct around 15th or so. But there are some evergreens that are still green even today 1/26/07.

I forgot to mention this in my previous post as well ... I moved back up to the southern suburbs the week before Thanksgiving and there was still plenty of green around here at that point (some 2-3 weeks after the event). So that can't really be used as a determining factor for this picture (unless there are other dated photos that show a lack of foliage around that time as well).

it should also be pointed out that the folks who have come forward as witnesses and who, presumably photographed this thing, were working at the time. they weren't standing around for 20 or so minutes, lining up shots and staring up at the sky. Odds are, they were doing their jobs so as to not get chewed out for delaying flights or raising safety risks.

the pics might have been taken on the fly, as it were.

Isn't it funny how the burden of proof is on the people trying to prove UFO's exist and some dip$hit that didn't even see it can make a statement like "it must have been a strange whether pattern, flares, or whether ballooon." and most people will buy it.


What happens when UFO's become identified?


What will everyone call them IFO's? Identified Flying Objects.

Originally posted by Realtruth
What happens when UFO's become identified?
What will everyone call them IFO's? Identified Flying Objects.

it was actually decided several years ago at a very high level clearance meeting that, in the event of UFO's being identified, they would, from that point on, be known as George.

Originally posted by 27jd

Originally posted by SkyWay
It is compared to Chicago. And if anyone is going to devote any time to a place the size of a Chicago suburb then it merits at least as much attention when a ufo appears over a great metro area like Chicago at an airport that is crowded with air-traffic landing and taking off.

Well, not to be off topic, but a city of over one million is a remote farm compared to a city of two million? Not to mention sightings were reported throughout the state....

Actually the population of Chicago is closer to 3 million. But to get back on topic, it really warrants painstaking investigation when anything unknown appears in the sky over one of the most congested airports in the world such as O'hare. This is an area where millions of airpassengers are coming and going everyday and if for no other reason, alien visitors aside for the moment, anything occupying air space over O'hare needs to be dealt with so as to try to prevent endangering the lives of so many people.

Originally posted by Crakeur
it was actually decided several years ago at a very high level clearance meeting that, in the event of UFO's being identified, they would, from that point on, be known as George.

Thus making the statement "By George, I think we're done for!" a sentence equivalent to "We're done for by George!" for all the UFO doomsdayers out there.

I've been at the comptuer WAY too long today ...

Originally posted by SkyWay
Actually the population of Chicago is closer to 3 million. But to get back on topic, it really warrants painstaking investigation when anything unknown appears in the sky over one of the most congested airports in the world such as O'hare. This is an area where millions of airpassengers are coming and going everyday and if for no other reason, alien visitors aside for the moment, anything occupying air space over O'hare needs to be dealt with so as to try to prevent endangering the lives of so many people.

Well, we're closer to 1.5 million, and growing, so still about half the pop. which isn't a farm, that's all I'm saying. But I agree, this should be investigated for the fact lives were endangered, I stated before thought that if it was a government project, perhaps they were intentionally testing it over an area where air traffic is heavily monitored to test it's detectability...

Originally posted by sergejsh

I don't think this photo is fake. It is not fake, but probably original photo, with no graphical manipulations. This is just airport photo taken through the airplane window. I also like to do such photos. That's it. And suddenly photographer noticed "something" in the corner. Hmmm... maybe this is IT? But problem is - photo appears to be taken in different than Gate C17 direction.

Photographer heard about "O'Hare UFO case" and, why not, there is something in the corner of he's photo! Wow! He probably emotionally reacted to this (as almost all people here) and believed that it can be that UFO! Why not? But who knows? Let's try to give it to the people from forum and we will see what happens.



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Hehe. I wouldn't doubt it. Anything is possible.

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Originally posted by sergejsh
Or it can be drop after somebody's sneezeng. You name it.

I never thought of that angle, that would be comical if we were all racking our brains over a booger.

Either way, to me it's really not proof of anything either way. As somebody mentioned before, if it is a hoax, and as for who would be doing it, maybe it's that other board that had a problem with us (GLP? whatever), maybe they're laughing at us right now...

This might be radical thinking.. but instead of trying to prove what it is how about we try to eliminate what it isn't? I think we would get further along if we work from that angle.

Can we eliminate all known aircraft/weather ballons?

Can we eliminate all types of known birds or insects?

Can we eliminate the water drop theory?

Can we eliminate it being a hoax created with the other image?

Can we eliminate it being an alien spacecraft?

Can we eliminate it being an experimental aircraft that conforms to any known experimental designs?

I know I am not posting any ANSWERS to these questions, just trying to narrow down the possibilities of what we are actually looking at here.

In my layman's opinion, I think we can eliminate airplanes, birds, faeries, Venus, swamp gas, flares, insects, and Bigfoot. Admittedly though, these are only my opinions.

Anyone else have any serious possibilities that can be discounted as inprobable?



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Originally posted by HankMcCoy
Anyone else have any serious possibilities that can be discounted as inprobable?

Well, it's probably not a booger either. But in all seriousness, I think it probably isn't the object that was seen over O'hare that day, I think somebody is f-ing with us. Who would really post it for free on a internet discussion board when the real photo would be worth cash? If I had a photo of it, I sure wouldn't. I love this site and all, but screw you guys (j/k), I got mouths to feed.

Eventually it'd come out anyway, and i'd prolly stash a copy somewhere in case it got intercepted and once I cashed my check, then I'd post it here.

Some of you guys seem to be stuck on the money that could be made selling the photo to news media. Just how much money do you think the person is going to get for something like this? It probably wouldn't amount to much. A few hundred dollars perhaps. That's all. That isn't worth risking the loss of one's job. So money is not really a serious factor here. Besides, not everyone is motivated by money.

Originally posted by Jbird

Originally posted by Crakeur
Is it not odd that the reporter who broke the story, and then did a round of interviews has been silent for so long?

'vacation' could just be a cover story?

possible reasons why the reporter would
drop out of sight.

- waiting for further contact/info

- book deal with the witness/es

- further investigations(unfettered/'undercover')

- editors order

- writing 'scoop' piece for his paper

and
- Gov. involvement

Let us fervently hope that this reporter's "vacation" does not turn into an "Endless Summer" following some "Tragic Accident".

I also find it rather eerie, though perhaps the odds do not support my apprehension, that this UFO appeared over one of the terminals used by one of the two airlines (the other being American Airlines) involved with the 9/11 horror of 2001.

Lets us briefly recap:

An unknown object suddenly "appears" in restricted airspace, apparently "hovering" over a passenger terminal at one of the world's busiest airports. It does not announce its presence, even so far as signalling by lights (if it even had lights to signal with!) and apparently does not show up on radar; or so it is "officially" claimed.

I am not an expert with regard to airport safety and operations requirements, but I assume aircraft are not allowed to over-fly passenger terminals below a certain altitude?

Yet this "thing" hovered for some time over "Concourse C", and none of the airport's officials took any action?

This raises another question: How is it that this "object" came to appear, at a busy airport, in one of the few locations, and at an altitude least likely to result in an air-to-air collision?

Was it luck? Superior 'Alien' intellect?

Or maybe it was "pre-arranged"? By who, I wonder?

And why?

Curious as well, if this were a "spur-of-the-moment", yet pre-arranged encounter, where would seasoned airport personnel be least likely to look for an aircraft to appear? Perhaps where they all know that an aircraft should NEVER appear!

And recall, the UFO was said to have appeared to be "trying to stay close to the cloud cover", as one report put it. Perhaps attempting to remain at least inconspicuous, if not sucessfully, invisible?

Unlikely behaviour for an "Alien" visitor! Especially one who has just gone to the trouble of homing-in on a major Earth airport!

I hope the aforementioned reported makes it back from his vacation safe and healthy; but even then, I for one would not be at all suprised to hear that he has accepted another position, Bureau Chief, perhaps in some Asian country.

Originally posted by SkyWay
So money is not really a serious factor here. Besides, not everyone is motivated by money.

Well, here in the remote farmlands of Phoenix, we need all the money we can get as the crops haven't been paying off as much what with all them buildings that suddenly sprung up around here. Eventually I wanna buy one of them there television sets I've heard tell of.

And you're just speculating on how much money one could get, sure the photo we have here wouldn't be worth squat, but if somebody had something real solid, you have NO idea how much one could make....

Originally posted by 27jd

Originally posted by SkyWay
So money is not really a serious factor here. Besides, not everyone is motivated by money.

And you're just speculating on how much money one could get, sure the photo we have here wouldn't be worth squat, but if somebody had something real solid, you have NO idea how much one could make....

Yes, but it's the photo that some people keep whining about that they can't seem to come to grips that anyone would post it on a forum for free when they supposedly could BECOME RICH!! selling it! That is not very sensible because the money wouldn't be a significant amount for a single photo.