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Store personnel from Target stopped the theft of a 32-inch television at
the Arlington Heights Target at 1700 East Rand Rd [MAP/SAT]. The alledged thieves
left the television in the parking lot and fled in a ‘late 1980’s’
silver minivan. No direction of travel was given. The thieves were
described as a male black and female black.

Arlington Heights Police Department, Wood Dale Police and three other
suburban police departments are assisting Elk Grove Village Police with
traffic management during an investigation of a life-threatening
accident at Busse and Greenleaf.

The accident possibly involved a hit-and-run driver and a semi-truck and
occurred late Thursday afternoon. Elk Grove Fire had initially requested
a Flight for Life helicopter, but helicopters were grounded due to the
weather. The multi-suburban police response was a mutual aid ILEAS
response.

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Arlington Heights is only about four miles from O’Hare International Airport — one of the world’s busiest airports. Therefore, a lot of aircraft fly in the skies over Arlington Heights — where the southern border is only about four miles away from the airport. When a report comes out that a strange craft hovered over one of the terminals at the busy airport, you can be sure a lot of people would like details.

United Airlines 747 parked at Gate C-18 (across Terminal 1/Concourse C Building from Gate C-17). A diagram of a 30-foot diameter disc has been inserted (lower left) to show the possible size of the UFO compared to a Boeing 747 [MAP/SAT].

Entire Concourse C showing Gate C-17 where UFO was reported to have hovered directly overhead. “The Ramp” is an area of pavement between Terminal 1/Concourse B and Terminal 1/Concourse C [MAP/SAT].


O’Hare International Airport and west side land adjacent to airport. First north-south road from western border is York Road [MAP/SAT ZOOM OUT]

Peter Danvenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center (nuforc.com), was a guest host on the Jeffe Rense Radio Show (rense.com) on December 12, 2006. He brought to the airwaves a telephone interview of a witness of the November 7, 2006 UFO sighting over O’Hare International. The witness is a taxi mechanic who moves aircraft from gate to gate or to the hangars for maintenance. He reported the following.

The person interviewed is one of the people who submitted one of the two reports published on NUFOC.org. He submitted the 11/21/2006 16:08 report on the November 7 incident.

In the radio show conclusion, the talk show hosts clarified that the location of the UFO was in Class B airspace. No craft is supposed to be there without a transponder. They speculated that this was something from another planet and if it was a military craft, why would it be flying right over O’Hare airspace?

About twelve people reported seeing the UFO, including pilots, mechanics, ramp personnel and a manager who ran out of his office in Concourse B to see the object after hearing the chatter on a United Airlines private radio frequency.

United Airlines spokespeople are denying the report. In a Chicago Tribune article by Jon Hilkevitch, Megan McCarthy was quoted saying “There’s nothing in the duty manager log, which is used to report unusual incidents.” But one United pilot says he even opened a windscreen in the cockpit to get a better view of the object as he was taxiing his aircraft. All witnesses wanted to remain anonymous and were advised by United officials to refrain from speaking about what they saw.

Chicago Tribune reporter Jon Hilkevitch also claimed that the FAA backtracked on their original statement that they had no information on the object, after the newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request. An internal review of air-traffic communications tapes in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act request found a call by a United supervisor to an FAA manager in the airport tower.

Nevertheless, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory made the following summary statement: “Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon,” she said. “That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low [cloud] ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things. That’s our take on it.”

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