Before O’Hare: The Heathrow UFO
The revelations that in November of last year a UFO was spotted by personnel at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport have created an undoubted frenzy within the media on a scale that hasn’t been seen for a long time. Yet, UFO encounters at prominent airports are nothing new. In fact, they are positively old-hat.
I could ramble on for hours with regard to all of the cases I have in my files; but for now, one such report will suffice.
Between 7.25 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. on the evening of February 25, 1959, an unidentified flying object was sighted hovering over London (now Heathrow) Airport by four separate witnesses. One of those fortunate enough to have seen the UFO was an Air Traffic Control Officer at the airport, who studied the phenomenon with binoculars for several minutes, before checking with operators to see if any unexplained air-traffic had been monitored.
Although nothing untoward was picked up on radar, one of the witnesses stated that the UFO resembled “the reflection of a searchlight on the clouds.” He was keen to stress, however, that the sky had been entirely devoid of cloud cover at the time of the encounter.
As a result of the sighting, officials at the airport asked Royal Air Force Fighter Command at Stanmore to conduct an investigation. They in turn authorized the release of the following statement concerning the UFO: “Bright yellow light varying in intensity some 200 feet from the ground. It stayed in one position for about twenty minutes, then climbed away at high speed.”
Although the possibility was raised that the UFO had been a weather balloon (where have we heard that before?!), this was disproved when an official at the airport informed the media that no balloons had been in the area at the time. Pressed for an answer, the Air Ministry found itself directly embroiled in the controversy and conceded that the sighting would be logged as “an unidentified flying object because there was no immediate explanation for it.”
It would not be long before the Air Ministry maintained that the case had been solved. According to a spokesperson at the airport, the stationary light viewed for approximately twenty minutes had merely been the planet Venus. But what of the light that (according to RAF Fighter Command’s own files) “climbed away at high speed”? Nothing more than the nose-cone light of a civilian aircraft, the Air Ministry assured the media.
Not everyone was satisfied, however, including UFO writer Frank Edwards, who commented in his book Flying Saucers - Serious Business: “The Air Ministry announced that the glowing disc had been nothing more remarkable than ‘the nose-cone of a civilian plane.’ How it had hovered in one spot for twenty minutes was not explained, of course. London Airport, unaware that planes can allegedly hover while their nose cones glow in the dark, issued a statement on that same morning of March 6. The Airport claimed that the hovering object had been ‘the planet Venus, seen through a layer of clouds.’ [Yet we already have the testimony of one witness that the sky had been entirely cloud-free.] The airport failed to mention the alleged plane’s nose-cone, nor did they explain how Venus got down to two hundred feet altitude.”
Given that the controversy concerning the British encounter is still talked about nearly half a century on, it seems unlikely that the O’Hare case will go away any time soon - much to the annoyance of the official world, I strongly suspect.
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Jan 06 2007 
January 6th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Nick wrote:
“Given that the controversy concerning the British encounter is still talked about nearly half a century on, it seems unlikely that the O’Hare case will go away any time soon - much to the annoyance of the official world, I strongly suspect.”
And most likely…by design. The Haisch/Maccabee/Deardorff paper mentioned here recently, “Inflation Theory”, discusses the idea of the “Leaky Embargo”. This seems as though simply another manifestation of it. I’m reminded of the classic line Pacino utters in ‘The Godfather III’.
“Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in”.
They pull all of us back in at times.
Classic “Tricksterism”…..IMHO
~J
January 6th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Hello, I can’t say I’m a true believer of UFO’s, However on January 4th 2007 around 12:30am i was awoken by what sounded like a 747 coming down.
I looked out my window and saw nothing so I went outside it was raining and dark and I still could not see anything then a extremely loud jet like sound went off again, It sounded like it was sitting in one place, you would herar this jet like sound then it would just stop not taper off, then you would here it again same distance away.
The third was so loud that it sounded as if i was standing on the runway at an airport and then just stopped.
This did not sound normal for a plane and we can’t figure out why it was the same sound in the same area we didn’t hear it moving like you would with a normal plane.
This happened in Pinckney, Michigan. Any Idea’s?
January 7th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Jonah:
The Pacino line was made for ufologists! There’s no doubt that the subject/phenomenon manipulates the people in it (witnesses and investigators), in my opinion - and, as always, for the trickster element of this (and probably all) Fortean based mysteries.
January 7th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Kristain
Very interesting report. I have to say that I don’t have data on this case; however, I do know for certain that strange “sky-quakes”, what sound like aerial explosions, or rumbles in the sky have been reported time and again and have been the subect of government investigations. There was a series of things like you describe in the UK a couple of decades ago investigated by Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority - they remained elusive. I have files somewhere here on something similar in Canada in the late 70s, which I’ll dig out and post soon as I find them.
One theory suggested in the UK a few years back was that these were high-flight tests of classified aircraft - some still may be.
January 7th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I am always amazed at how , for something forthcoming from supposedly intelligent people, large percentages of UFO sighting “explanations” are so unrelentingly stupid. Aircraft nosecones that hang in the air for minutes on end are…unfortunately…more the idiocy norm than they are exceptions. Its as though officialdom contracts the Three Stooges to explain away strange sightings and then find themselves astounded that they get raged at by the public for being ludicrous in their efforts. I have heard stupid stuff like this for years and guess I will hear it till my dying day. I guess in some respects its fun, though, being able to hear such comedy on a consistent basis.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Bill
I think that the problem is that, for the most part, it doesn’t matter if arrogant officials come up with stupid explanations for UFO encounters for one prime reason: the people who could make a big difference won’t do so.
What I mean by that is this: when an agency says a UFO was a cloud, or a balloon, etc., and it clearly wasn’t, elected officials and the media should be jumping over the stories.
But the media pokes fun and politicians are - for the most part - worried about their reputations if they get tied to the “little green men” subject.
So, again for the most part, it’s left up to us to look for the facts - and the official agencies know that we are a minority of people that the TV world and the media in general pokes fun at, and politicians don’t want to have to deal with us. So the agencies can pretty much get away with saying what they like. They know that reputations will nearly always override a quest for the truth as far as the media and our elected elite.
January 8th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
These appearances by “ET” are most likely “Marking Events.”
They are pointing out our nuclear war fighting elite, showing us who we need to get into captivity to end the threat of nuclear war.
The decision to exterminate the human race with nuclear weapons was made by the Atomic Energy commission in April of 1947.
This is the reason for the intervention into our world by the higher level powers, “ET.”
When “ET” makes an appearance at the airport, the passengers of planes need to be identified.
Find out who these nuclear war machine operators are. Take them down. They are continuing to try to get a full blown nuclear war underway.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Regarding the comment above by Kristain, I agree with the closing comment by Nick Redfern, “One theory suggested in the UK a few years back was that these were high-flight tests of classified aircraft - some still may be.”
My wife and I also on occasion heard a loud sound come and go, and at times seem to stand still. We could never figure it out until one day we could see that craft were doing circles overhead which sounded the same, only this time they were flying low. Some of this is posted here in the video entitled, ‘11-21-06 - doing circles overhead.wmv.’ It is likely that these craft have something to do with weather modification.
We have also been lucky enough to capture several UFOs on video, the most impressive of which are contained in the movie entitled, ‘Your Movie,’ also posted at the site above.