O Hare Airport UFO 2006

O’Hare Airport UFO of 2006

One of the most talked about sightings in 2006 came on November 7th at the
second busiest airport in America, the O’Hare. A saucer like object hovered over
the airport for between three and seven minutes, before it shot straight upward
at tremendous speeds. It shot through the clouds that sat above it, causing a
circular gapping hole to be made as the saucer passed through it and
disappeared. The circular hole in the cloud remained opened for fifteen minutes
before it too disappeared. Although many UFOlogist call these flying objects
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, I believe political correctness or extreme
accuracy of naming the craft is less significant than proving the actual
existence of the craft, so I will here forth refer to them as UFO’s. Photo of
  O’Hare UFO over control tower. (At http://scwbook.blogspot.com/)Photo of
  O’Hare UFO over runway. (At http://scwbook.blogspot.com/)Associated Press wrote
an article about O’Hare in July 3, 2006 quoting government statistics. It said
O’Hare was the busiest airport in the nation for the first half of 2006. The
airport had 477,001 flights including both take-offs and landings in that first
six months. O’Hare’s air traffic controllers usually have close to ninety-six
arrivals per hour. That is one every 38 seconds often on numerous runways. In
the beginning the officials at United Airlines said that they had no information
about the sighting of the UFO. The Chicago Tribune came to inquire about the
sighting and had over one dozen United Airlines employees report to them that
they witnessed the event first hand. The Federal Aviation Administration however
did say that they received one phone call from a United Airlines supervisor
about some of the employees seeing an unusual object that was elliptical shaped
hovering motionless over Concourse C United terminal.None of the controllers at
O’Hare airport had seen the UFO and a check of radar activity revealed that
nothing out of the ordinary was anywhere in the area. If this is true and
current radar is incapable of picking up or tracking UFO phenomenon, then the
government should look into improving such radar technologies, unless of course
the UFO was seen on radar and they merely want to deny its existence, they will
just deny and discredit all witness accounts of the event, saying it was a
weather balloon or weather occurrence. Both are typical excuses used by the
government to cover up sightings that are deemed classified material. An unknown
object said to be fifteen to twenty five feet in diameter was hovering over an
active runway, with the US already on high alert after the 911 attacks, yet they
end the investigation as fast as it started. Not to mention that it posed a
serious safety risk to the pilots and the passengers.The FAA announced that they
would not continue to investigate into the matter further. This news upset many
who witnessed the sightings. This kind of decision shows the cover up in
progress. Many of the employees interviewed by the Chicago Tribune stated that
they were extremely upset that the government and United Airlines stopped all
additional examination into the sighting. One such witness stated, “Some of us
are getting angry with this being hushed up with all the terrorism and TSA
idiots hanging around. If we see a funny looking bag all damn hell breaks loose,
but park a funny silver thing a few hundred feet above a busy airport and
everyone tries to hush it up. It just doesn’t make sense.”Craig Burzych, a
supervisor for United laughed about the whole ordeal saying that, “to fly 7
million light years to O’Hare and then to have to turn around and go home
because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable.” This kind of humor about
such a serious incident is actually quite commonplace and makes the whole event
look as if were a minor matter. He wasn’t the only one to laugh about the event.
There were many conversations between pilots and mechanics who witnessed the UFO
firsthand and some pilots who where just curious joking to the control tower
latter that day.  The first person to see the flying object was a United ramp
worker who was directing back a United plane at Gate C17. He saw the UFO at 4:15
p.m. just as the sun began to set in the distance. Note that many sightings do
occur during sunset, meaning that perhaps the changing light influences the
UFO’s translucent camouflage appearance making it visible momentarily.A few of
the witnesses said that the ship appeared like a rotating Frisbee in the sky.
Other witnesses said the UFO was not appearing to rotate. Even though they
differ in opinions about the rotation, they all agreed that the flying disk made
no noise whatsoever and that it was situated in a motionless position just below
the 1,900-foot cloud deck, before it shot upwards at a slight angle. The size of
the UFO seems to vary among eyewitnesses at being between twenty-five and
eighty-eight feet in diameter.A mechanic who refused to give his name, yet
worked for United Airlines was clearly baffled by the whole situation. “I tend
to be scientific by nature, and I don’t understand why aliens would hover over a
busy airport.” He was the earliest known witness at the airport. He was in the
cockpit of a 777 Boeing when he witnessed the UFO in the sky. He was standing on
the tarmac beside the nose of the 777 when he was compelled to look straight up
for some reason and was surprised to see the UFO hovering. He watched the UFO as
he taxied the 777 into its hanger. Perhaps he is right about the situation. It
might not have been a UFO, but a cocky USAF pilot thinking his alien technology
was further advanced than it actually was. We have to be open-minded when it
comes to the unknown. The mechanic continued, “but I know that what I saw and
what a lot of other people saw stood out very clearly, and it definitely was not
an Earth aircraft.” The fact that the mechanic said he was compelled to look up
for some unknown reason is similar to other sightings (for instance Seattle)
where people were compelled to get out of bed at three in the morning and walk
outside to see unusual lights in the sky. This insinuates that some crafts have
a telepathic connection that can reach interspecies levels, assuming the UFO was
alien controlled.One employee who had witnessed the UFO was rumored to be having
some serious issues dealing with her religion after the event. This too seems
logical since one of the things that was the deciding NASA questions for early
Apollo astronauts was, “Do you believe in God?” If the answer was no, then you
had the right stuff, or so a supposedly former astronaut William Rutledge said
in an interview. Perhaps fear of classified information leaking if an astronaut
seeks a session of religious counseling could cause NASA to be concerned.A
supervisor at United airlines said that he ran outside his office at Concourse B
right after hearing reports of the UFO from other employees talking about it
over the airline radio frequencies. “I stood outside in the gate area not
knowing what to think, just trying to figure out what it was.” He said he knew
that employees would not make such a false report as this, so he had to see it
for himself. He felt that it might be a weather balloon or something else
hovering over O’Hare and may have to be stopped before it came into close
proximity to the flights.In a transcript of the conversation that the United
Airlines ramp tower and the FAA Area Supervisor in a near by O’Hare tower, we
begin to understand some details through their interesting and revealing
conversation that started at 4:30 p.m.O’Hare Tower: “Tower, this is Dave.”Ramp
Tower: “Hey Dave, this is Sue in the United Tower.”O’Hare Tower: “Hey Sue.”Ramp
Tower: “Hey, did you see a flying disc out by C17?”O’Hare Tower: “Oh, it starts
Sue.” Then they laughed. “Oh, we’re sorry Sue. A flying…you’re seeing flying
discs?”Ramp Tower: “Well, that’s what a pilot in the ramp area at C17 told us.
They saw some flying disc above them. But we can’t see above us.”O’Hare Tower:
“Common Sue.”Ramp Tower: “You didn’t see it?”O’Hare Tower: “No,” she laughs.Ramp
Tower: “Hey, you guys been celebrating the holidays or anything, or what? You’re
celebrating Christmas day? I haven’t seen anything Sue, and if I did I wouldn’t
admit to it. No I have not seen any flying disc at gate C17.”  Here Sue
continues laughing. “Unless you’ve got a new aircraft you’re bringing out that I
don’t know about.”O’Hare Tower: “No,” she laughs.

This conversation shows how even an experienced airport employees have fears
about discussing information about UFO sightings. The fears that the two
individuals have about discussing such a topic causes them to laugh when they
try to imagine it. This is the kind of attitude that the US Government is
counting on in order to keep the details they have learned to themselves. The
government uses psychology to play on Joe Publics’ fears of looking foolish, and
it works almost every time. In their next conversation the fact that a picture
does actually exists gets uncovered.

Ramp Tower: “I’m sorry, there was, I told Dave, there was a disc flying outside
above Charley 17 and he thought I was pretty much high. But, um, I’m not high
and I’m not drinking.”O’Hare Tower: “Yeah.”Ramp Tower: “So, someone got a
picture of it. So if you guys see it out there…”O’Hare Tower: “A disc, like a
Frisbee?”Ramp Tower: Like a UFO type thing.”O’Hare Tower: “Yeah, Okay.”Ramp
Tower: “He got a picture of it.” (Laughing)

A third conversation was recorded between a male at United Ramp tower and O’Hare
tower that began at 4:52 pm. It admits to multiple pilots witnessing the UFO.

Ramp Tower: “Some of our employees…I don’t know if you know anything about this?
Some of our pilots on the ground are reporting a UFO sighting at a thousand feet
to the east side of the airport. Do you guys know anything about this?”O’Hare
Tower: “You know, the ramp tower called me, I want to say about ten or fifteen
minutes ago. We have not seen anything up here.”

Richard Haines, who is the science director at the National Aviation Reporting
Center on Anomalous Phenomena, was deeply concerned with the sighting. “More and
more we are coming to the point of view that we are dealing with an intelligent
phenomenon.” Haines reporting center is a privately run agency. He feels that
people need to be proactive now before an aircraft accident occurs. Haines is
also a former chief of Space Human Factors Office at NASA’s Ames Research
Center. All the people who saw the O’Hare UFO firsthand, including a few pilots,
said they are confident that based upon the overall appearance of the strange
craft, that there was no way possible that it could be an airplane, weather
balloon, helicopter or any other craft that is known to exist. The witnesses
were unsure of what controlled the craft that they saw, yet very certain that it
was saucer shaped. The employees at United were irritated that a UFO came into
restricted airspace for a few minutes and no one in power had taken the matter
seriously. This seems to be an opposite behavior than we would expect from
experts at the FAA and O’Hare, so maybe word from above was sent down through
the chain of command to hush it ASAP before a media frenzy began.In the
beginning, United Spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said that there was no record of
any UFO report. “There is nothing in the duty manager log, which is used to
report unusual incidents,” she stated. This announcement seemed lacking since so
many United employees and pilots reported the UFO sighting to their United
supervisors. The pilots of the United passenger jet being taxied back from Gate
C17 were told by United employees of the sighting. One of the pilots reportedly
opened a windscreen in the cockpit so that he could get a picture of the flying
saucer to show others the proof. The pilot estimated that the strange craft
hovered at about 1,500 feet above the ground. That was 400 feet below the cloud
deck at the time. Some witnesses reported that the UFO unexpectedly bolted
upwards through the solid overcast clouds, which the FAA reported had a
1,900-foot cloud deck at the time of the UFO sighting. One employee who
personally witnessed the flying saucer leaving said that it was like somebody
punched a hole through the clouds in the sky. The witnesses said that they had a
difficult time seeing it shoot upwards due to its tremendous speed, as if
inertia had no influence over the craft. The craft left an empty hole in the
clouds that remained clearly visible for close to three minutes. The FAA latter
claimed that lights played tricks with witnesses’ eyes that night, but the
airport ramp lights had not yet been turned on. The only light capable of making
a whole through a cloud would be a laser, which would evaporate the droplets and
cause a window. O’Hare has no need for burning lasers with twenty foot in
diameter beams, so that reasoning by the FAA was not thought out so well. The
hole in the cloud was said to exist for up to fourteen minutes by some
eyewitnesses in the parking lot area at O’Hare. This suggests that the object
that made the hole was super heated or otherwise radiated (possibly microwaves)
energy that would have to be on the order of 9.4 kj/m³. The hole in the cloud,
caused by UFO, has been seen many times throughout history. For example in a
declassified Army Air Force Intelligence report stated in July 10, 1947 at
Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Chief Mechanic for Pan American Airways (John E.
Woodruff) saw a “translucent disk like a wheel traveling at a terrific speed and
opened the clouds as it went through the air.” Then he stated, “the object
passed through and cut the cloud leaving a gap where you could see the blue
sky.”  Also a formerly classified U.S. Government document report (Oct. 28,
1947) was released under the Freedom of Information Act states some commonly
listed features of flying discs: “The ability to group together very quickly in
a tight formation when more than one aircraft are together; evasive action
ability indicated the possibility of being manually operated, or possibly by
electronics or remote control, and under certain conditions the craft seems to
have the ability to CUT A CLEAR PATH THROUGH CLOUDS.”On March 9, 1977 a club
master and professional golfer in Ayrshire, Scotland was the eyewitness to a
similar cloud-cutting incident. He and his friend report seeing an odd light
hovering over the seventeenth tee, no higher than a telegraph pole. Its glare
was so powerful, that nothing behind it could be seen. After hovering for four
minutes, the light suddenly bolted upwards into the low clouds, leaving a clear
hole in it as it passed through. This opening in the clouds remained for several
minutes despite the winds moving the clouds noticeably.On December 6, 2002 in
Ventura, California, two college professors witnessed a dark object move across
the sky, then it stopped and hovered. It changed shape from disc to an oval. It
soon shot through the clouds cutting a visible hole in which the blue sky above
could be viewed.Elizabeth Isham Cory, a person doing an internal FAA review of
the air-traffic at the time of the O’Hare UFO sighting said the weather might
have been a factor. “Our theory on this matter is that it was a weather
phenomenon,” she said. “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. That’s our take on it.” This
reasoning is interesting to say the least. She says that it was night, yet it
was 4:30 p.m. and the sun had not yet set. The airport lights had not yet been
turned on. This kind of explanation only contributes to feelings of disbelief
and cynicism of the witnesses. It seems so unreasonable as to be ludicrous and
begs the question, how could someone who did not even see this UFO come to such
a conclusion? It is obvious that if commercial pilots and commercial aircraft
mechanics said that they witnessed a UFO, then it can be concluded that it’s
true. Sigmund Freud once stated this about reading too much into things,
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Meaning that the FAA was reaching for many
possible complex explanations when there was only one, they saw what they saw.

May 2017