The O'Hare UFO:Target of Ridicule by Our Media Circus

The power of secrecy, disinformation, and the fear of ridicule has effectively blocked ET disclosure in the US. Apathy, disinterest, media collusion, and the ingrained belief that only government can certify the reality of ET visitation and contact creates a remarkable national dissonance, where over half the public believes in UFOs and ETs but the subject itself, taboo in the MSM, hovers at the outer limits of the national psyche, reserved for children's toys and Hollywood fantasies.

When UFO/ET events do break into the MSM, they are invariably reported as inherently suspect, and badly reported at that. A perfect case in point is the recently publicized sighting of a classic saucer-shaped craft seen hovering some twenty minutes over the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare airport at about 4:30 on the afternoon of November 7, 2006. The craft was seen by a number of United pilots and ground personnel, approximately a dozen of whom reported the UFO to supervisors and the FAA. Several pilots have been recorded speaking with air traffic controllers, wanting to know if the craft had appeared on their radar screens (reportedly it had not, but this information comes from the same FAA that initially denied the existence of these very conversations.)

Originally reported by the Chicago Tribune on January 1st, 2007, the sighting was, surprisingly, taken up by a number of major media outlets--CNN, CBS News, and Fox News among them. But this rare media coverage only occurred because the case, lacking photographic or radar evidence--simply the testimony of several commercial pilots and airport personnel--lent itself to an easy, sniggering ridicule pitched to the lizard brain, such as this from Yahoo News: At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all. "To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.

Among all the major media, only the initial Chicago Tribune reporter, John Hilkevich, seen here in a Tribune video report, gave a thorough, balanced and convincing report of the incident, well worth viewing. He was of course virtually alone, and the media soon closed ranks to simplify, distort and debase the story, ensuring that, when distributed nationally, it would hold content worthy of a sidebar on USA Today's gossip page. The inverse trajectory of plummeting information vs. rising controversy and widening audience defines media manipulation over time. The first, local reports of unusual events are virtually always the most thorough and truthful; often they are breaking news and so initially escape corporate/governmental censorship. Later iterations inevitably, as here, become caricatures of actual news reports--the informational equivalent of Wonder bread.

The media duly incorporated the government's disinformation--hoary theories of temperature inversions and funny atmospherics that are nearly as old as Roswell itself--to supplant the eyewitness accounts in the initial news reports. Though the sighting occurred well before 5 pm, with a cloud ceiling at 2000 feet, the FAA spokesperson attributed the sighting to lights bouncing off low clouds at night, though it was neither night nor was the object described by any witness as glowing or emitting light of any kind. Of the later print reports, only that of CBS News bothers to cite an actual eyewitness description and offer evidence of the FAA's blatant distortion and dishonesty:

"I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport," said a United mechanic who said he saw the object while taxiing a Boeing 777 to a maintenance hangar. "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 witnesses, who all spoke to the Tribune under condition of anonymity, said they had a difficult time finding the object as it flew through dense clouds. Witnesses also said the object created an open hole of clear air in the cloud layer that disappeared a few minutes after it passed through the clouds.

The FAA initially denied there were any reports of a UFO sighting, but later backtracked after a Freedom of Information Act filed by the newspaper revealed the call by the United supervisor to the FAA.

I cite this incident as a recent but not at all extraordinary example of sixty years of MSM complacency and complicity in promoting UFO/ET disinformation on those rare occasions when it publishes on the topic at all. Here is an audio link for those who wish to hear extensive, unedited testimony from the mechanic cited above, a prime witness to the incident.

Literally dozens, if not hundreds of other compelling cases are reported each year, but none of them will reach your newspaper or television screen. And you can rest assured that, if decent photographs or actual radar records surface to corroborate the O'Hare sighting, you will not learn about them in follow-up reports in the MSM. At that point the sighting will have long ago slid down the memory hole, replaced by the latest antics of Paris Hilton and the Bush twins.

Update: here are the latest photographs to surface, not yet verified.

In The Beginning

To understand the present state of the world and the actions of the US government, no piece of information is more important or fundamental than to realize that UFOs exist. Once you acknowledge the reality of extraterrestrials (ETs) and their complex interactions with both individuals and governments, the inexplicable becomes obvious.

Doubtless I have just lost at least half of potential readers with this simple declaration, but this reaction is exactly what a half century of carefully orchestrated ridicule and disinformation have achieved.

This is a vast field, strewn with outlandish claims and undermined by intense disinformation campaigns, but certain evidence is so compelling that it cannot be discredited or denied.

And yet, despite numerous remarkable incidents--most notably the "Battle of Los Angeles" of 1942, the week of UFO overflights of Washington, DC in 1952, and the "Phoenix lights" in 1997--apathy, media control, disinformation and government resistance leave us in a tawdry, mockery-filled limbo concerning what is simply the most important question of our existence.

And if we were not so culturally blinkered, we would need only look south of our borders to discover a government that has acknowledged the existence of UFOs to its people--albeit under the most extraordinary pressure by the ETs themselves, who overflew the country of Mexico and its Capitol in an unprecedented wave in the spring of 2002, causing enormous public alarm and forcing the government's hand on disclosure.


A note on the photo: From the Mexican Air Force, which released this infra-red camera footage of an overflight of Mexico City by a UFO squadron in May 2004. After a month's long wave of UFOs seen over the Mexican Capitol in the spring of 2002 caused an unprecedented public alarm, the Mexican Government released its records of radar, reconnaissance, and military observations of the craft--formally acknowledging the existence of UFOs to the Mexican people.

Disclosure
However, in the US, disclosure is stymied. The US government, by all accounts, is profoundly involved with, and affected by, the UFO/ET question, and many researchers--and even Western governments such as France--argue that this subject has been the overriding priority of the American government and the prism through which one must view its actions in the postwar years if one is ever to make sense of them.

Despite its flawed selection of witnesses, a few simply dubious, the May 2001 press conference and related testimony assembled by Dr. Steven Greer, head of the Disclosure Project, and held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC is by far the most concise and convincing documentation of the reality of ETs. The press conference is marred by an embarrassing introduction by a bloviating television personality, as well as those aforementioned rogues, but the over four hours of videotaped eyewitness testimony, part 1, and testimony, part 2, by astronauts; military and civilian pilots and air traffic controllers; government officials from NASA, the intelligence agencies, the armed forces, and executive branch agencies; as well as representatives of military contractors, is nonetheless a monumental achievement. These witnesses and their testimony were collected to force Congress to open hearings on the ET question and reveal its existence to the public.

With the events of 9/11 and the political intransigence of the Bush administration, that effort was thwarted. But the testimony--mirroring as it does the undeniably real evidence and the shocking assertions that have always characterized the UFO/ET subject--is overwhelming. The sheer number of witnesses, their station and their willingness to come forward publicly with their information, leaves no doubt of the reality of ETs and their profound impact on our civilization, such as it is.

I will continue to provide links to the most convincing proof of the existence of ETs in an effort to convince the skeptics among us.

I also would counsel skeptics to watch these video testimonies and discount the outlandish reports. Listen to the pilots, the astronauts, the military personnel and contractors, the NASA officials, and those cases with multiple witnesses. Therein lies the solid evidence. However, this is a subject that deals with extraterrestrial visitation of earth. This is a subject of deep mystery, and so some of these outlandish claims are also doubtless true. The point is, we do not know which ones are the truth. This information is withheld from us though it is fundamental to understanding ourselves, our history, and our future.

It is also important for skeptics to realize that UFO studies have moved far beyond the simple documentation of the existence of UFOs and ETs. Efforts are today aimed at demanding that government acknowledge these facts and that a half century of "black ops"--secret, compartimentalized projects involving ET technology and ETs themselves--be brought to light for the benefit of all humanity.

So click on the links, watch the testimony, and make your own conclusions. This is the beginning of understanding our world.