There are a great many things in the news that catch my eye, this UFO sighting over Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is one of them.

Disc-shaped UFO over Chicago’s O’Hare Airport triggers national, international news coverage

Steve Hammons
January 4, 2007

Eyewitness reports from United Airlines employees and pilots about a gray, metallic, disc-shaped craft hovering over Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have resulted in widespread news coverage within the mainstream U.S. media and international news outlets.

In a Chicago Tribune column published Jan. 1, Jon Hilkevitch reported on the Nov. 7, 2006, incident.

Hilkevitch wrote that the object was first seen by a United ramp worker at about 4:30 p.m., while directing a United plane at Gate C17. Several other United employees also reportedly witnessed the UFO.

When the Associated Press picked up the story this week, major media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News and National Public Radio carried reports on the encounter. Even the political Web site TruthDig.com carried a report of the sighting.

The sighting itself is interesting, the idea that it doesn’t get any legs until two months later is also interesting, then again, given the day it happened on maybe not.

Where intelligent and advanced extraterrestrial life is concerned I believe two things:

1. Intelligent and advanced extraterrestrial life exists. To look out at the stars at night, think about how many of them have planets orbiting them, consider how many of those planets has the potential to sustain life, and still believe that we are the best and the brightest the universe has to offer, is the height of arrogance.
2. Governments would “shelter” the masses from the knowledge that any sort of proof exists, or that contact has been made, that proves item 1 for two reasons; [1] because they believe that the masses are not yet ready for this news, and [2] to get as much out of it for themselves before that knowledge becomes general knowledge.