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Professor Hendricks: [talking to Derek about UFO signal and conspiracy theory] You don't automatically jump to the most extreme explanations. You analyze the reasonable ones first.
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Keith Olbermann: [footage archive in epilogue] And then there's this story you may have already heard about. United Airlines employees who swear it was something other-worldly in the skies above Chicago's O'Hare Airport on November 7th, but neither the FAA, nor indeed their own employer, appears to be taking them seriously. Chicago Tribune, interviewing several people anonymously, including maintenance workers, baggage handlers and pilots, who each have all described a dark gray, saucer-like object that hovered low over Concourse C of the United Airlines terminal just before sunset before shooting off into the sky. Some say it moved so fast, it literally punched a hole in the clouds. United Airlines claims it had no record of the sighting, even though employees say they filled out reports.The FAA initially told the Tribune that it likewise had no information on the UFO. Then, after the newspapers filed paperwork under the Freedom of Information Act, the FAA turned up a call from the United Airlines supervisor to the airport control tower asking whether the object was on-radar. And now, the agency has concluded it was, quote, "weather phenomenon," and it considers this case closed.
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