Imagine how science might’ve benefited if, instead of insulting everyone’s intelligence and intimidating pilots into suppressing data, the U.S. actually had a sane UFO policy, like Chile, for reporting the bogey that strayed into the hectic air corridor over Chicago’s O’Hare International and burned a circular hole in a cloud layer during its departure 2006.
“The control tower would’ve communicated no later than the next day with CEFAA, which would have gotten copies of all tapes, logbooks or radar information,” says Chilean-America journo Antonio Huneeus from Tucson, Ariz. “Pilots and other employees would have been given questionaires to complete, and within a few weeks, CEFAA would have issued a statement with conclusions.
“But here, it’s a mess. The government didn’t say anything, so a newspaper was the first to break the story, which forced [the FAA] to try to come up with a debunking explanation. It’s too bad.”
Despite the release of airport radio-chatter audio recordings from the 11/7/06 Chicago incident, not a single eyewitness has gone on record to stand up for what they saw.
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