Artist depiction of UFO sighting
(observer facing East) in Arlington
Heights with an approaching flight path
from northeast to southwest, just south of
the intersection of Arlington Heights Road
and Palatine Road. A buzzing, sparking
noise coincided with each 'dash' that
ejected from the rear rectangle. The
following morning, WGN Radio announcer
Wally Phillips gave a news account of
numerous sightings overnight of UFO's
traveling in two's and three's from
Minnesota to Florida and states in
between. Exact year, day and date of the
Arlington Heights UFO sighting is unknown,
but probably was between 7:00 p.m. and
10:00 p.m in the year 1969.
Experts (that did not see the object)
explained that the sightings were ball
lightning.
UFO Flight Path is shown as the
blue arrow. Point of observation (red
push-pin, approx. -87.97796, 42.10469
long/lat) is directly south of the middle
of the flight path in the center of the
north-south street (Belmont Avenue).
Observer ran south to next east-west
street (Lynwood Avenue) to see if UFO was
visible near the lower horizon of the
streetscape, but no further sighting
occurred. The neighborhood is just south
of Palatine Road between Arlington Heights
Road and Rand Road. The neighborhood is
also just north of Thomas Middle School in
Arlington Heights. For a perspective of
the area, check the link
to dynamic Terraserver-usa.com map (10
April
2002).
The UFO disk was a bluish-white
illumination very similar to the color
appearance of lightning. There were no
distinguishing marks or configurations,
except the rectangle at the rear of the
object. The altitude of the object
appeared to be about as low as any
aircraft that use the 14L runway approach
to O'Hare International Airport, but there
is no way this was a conventional
aircraft. O'Hare runway 14L/32R is about
7.8 miles from this observed location. The
buzzing, sparking noise did not have a
noticeable delay from the sighting of the
coinciding 'dash' ejecting from the rear
of the described rectangle (indicates
close proximity at speed of sound). Also
an audio panning effect from left to right
was noticed as the 'dash' ejected from
left to right. The noise volume also faded
as the light intensity of the 'dash'
faded. The 'dashes' numbered about six
(but could have been greater along the
whole path in the sky) and ejected in an
irregular rhythm. Each 'dash' faded to
darkness (no longer visible leaving the
object) at about 1.0 to 1.5 times the
diameter of the disk in a line directly
opposite the direction of the UFO.
Assuming they were some sort of
propulsion-related objects and ejecting
irregularly, it immediately seemed ironic
that the UFO was cruising along very
smoothly. Becaused of the high azimuth of
the object at its nearest path, it was
impossible to detect a vertical dimension
of the object. The disk did not pulsate,
did not change size or shape, did not
change color or light intensity, and did
not show any change regarding pitch, roll
or yaw. The sighting of the straight-line
path of the UFO lasted less than 15
seconds.
Considering the symmetry of the disk and
the distinct rectangle at the rear of the
object, it seems unlikely that the object
was ball lightning ('ball
lightning'
in Wikipedia).
Remarkably similar to the Arlington Heights siting: An unidentified flying object photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964 was published in an AOL story in March 2008 (UFO Photos Draw National Attention AOL Posted: 2008-03-29 23:08:5).
Nike Radar Stations in Arlington
Heights Picked Up UFO's in 1958
A notable UFO report on several UFO
websites shows that the Arlington Heights,
Illinois Nike Base was the last radar
station to track extremely fast UFO's that
were lost on radar screens about 150 miles
west of the Arlington Heights location.
Six UFO's were originally sighted at about
2:00 p.m. in June or July of 1958 over the
Atlantic Ocean east of Montauk Point
(southern tip of Long Island, New York).
Traveling a straight line at speeds of
1300 to 1400 miles per hour, they
traversed roughly a straight line past
radar stations in Montauk (Camp Hero), New
York, Saratoga Springs, New York; Benton,
Pennsylvania and Arlington Heights,
Illinois. Montauk Air Force Station is
associated with a number of myths
associating the Montauk Air Force Station
with UFOs, space aliens, a secret world
government, time travel, mind control, and
global weather manipulation.
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Interview with John Hilkevitch of the Chicago Tribune on CLTV Regarding the November 7, 2006 Sighting at O'Hare
CLTV Interview with Jon Hilkevitch (Chicago Tribune Transportation Writer) who broke the story of the November 7, 2006 UFO sighting at O'Hare International Airport in an article published on January 1, 2007.
Audio Interview with Anonymous Taxi Mechanic who witnessed the November 7, 2006 O'Hare Sighting
Audio Interview with Anonymous Taxi Mechanic who witnessed the November 7, 2006 O'Hare sighting in a radio interview on the Jeffe Rense Show on December 12, 2006. (Rense.com).
Mexican Air Force Patrol March 5, 2006
Possible Oil Platform flares
Mexican Air Force Patrol
On May 13, 2004 Jaime Maussan, journalist, released his interview of Mexican Air Force pilots showing an infrared video footage from a military air patrol on March 05, 2004 against drug smuggling, that shows at least 11 very hot "spheres" moving irregularly with apparent great speed. The objects could not be seen with the naked eye, neither the crew on board nor ground personal confirmed any radar contact with the objects in question. The crew of the Mexican Air Force Merlin C26/A detected the objects following them and surrounding them at about 17:00 hours. The encounter occurred near Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.
Some critics have explained that the objects were actually flares from oil platforms reflected into clouds.
Phoenix Lights
March 13, 1997
Phoenix Lights
Occurred in the sky over the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada on March 13, 1997. Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. UFO proponents claimed they were part of aircraft unknown to man, but the USAF identified them as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft which were on training exercises.
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