"We must be proactive before an aircraft goes down," said Haines, a former chief of the Space Human Factors Office at NASA's Ames Research Center."

This is probably the most important quote in Hilkevitch's article because, between the high-quality sighting of a UFO and the obvious government coverup) the bigger story of the two is the government's cover-up and its possible defensive reaction to a mystery object hovering over O'Hare.

Airliners aren't put into holding patterns and military troops aren't dispatched to an airport terminal for a non-event, supposedly unnoticed by the FAA.

Watching the reaction of "the king with no clothes on" to a startling event is more important than what the king publicly says about it. If Dennis Goethe's comments can be verified, the information is a smoking gun.