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Flying Saucer Bowl
By Mike | February 1, 2007
A UFO site has posted some sketches of the UFO’s over O’Hare I talked about last month.
Is that really the best they could do? It looks like a bowl, and I suspect it wasn’t the only bowl being passed around the office.
Also note picture three’s caption: “not a picture of a UFO sighting.” Wow, and I was just about to break out a magnifying glass. Thanks for the tip.
Given their claim of “in-depth, quality and scientific research on the UFO phenomenon,” I was hoping they’d have some more new details. Instead they have a bunch of links anyone could have turned up in about 30 seconds on Google.
Even worse, the articles don’t tell us anything solid. There are reports of interviews with unnamed managers and mechanics and a Chicago Tribune reporter. The alleged manager sand mechanics could be any crackpot that called in to Coast to Coast AM and simply said “Hey, I saw a UFO.” Judging by some of the broadcasts I’ve heard, host George Noory will buy anything. And who cares what a Chicago Tribune reporter has to say? He wasn’t there, and we have no idea if he even vetted his own sources. Going deeper into one of the articles, there’s a footnote that says the witness in question was interviewed further (presumably by someone from UFOEvidence.org or NUFORC) and deemed to be credible.
Uh huh. And just how loosely are we defining credible? We have no names, no recordings, and no credentials of interviewers beyond they have a strong affinity for The X-Files. The only way these articles could be less credible is if they were published in the Weekly World News.
You get me names, proof of employment, and air traffic recordings, and I’ll concede there was something unusual over O’Hare airport. Until then, you’re just wasting your time.
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