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O'Hare UFO Legend Resurfaces Thanks To Colbert

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Aug 24, 2010 9:00PM

This will probably (hopefully) be the only time we ever link to the Weekly World News but it was too good to pass up. While Blago was chatting it up with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert hosted author Leslie Kean (posted below) and the topic of the 2006 UFO at O'Hare was brought up. The WWN has since followed up by posting a 2007 video of a conversation between the Trib's Jon Hilkevitch and CLTV's Jim Wagner (which we've posted after the jump). The incident was later dismissed as weird weather but we don't buy it. In an age when alligators and raccoons are conspiring to take over our government, why not accept that UFOs were trying to land at O'Hare but gave up after getting pissy over delays?

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