A UFO at O'Hare? Some Pilots Thought So
Airline Employees Spot Mysterious Craft Hovering
Over O'Hare;
FAA Officials Skeptical
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - Federal officials say it was probably just
some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees
swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare
Airport last fall.
The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and
hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds,
according to a report in Monday's Chicago Tribune.
The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged that a United supervisor
had called the control tower at O'Hare, asking if anyone had spotted a
spinning disc-shaped object. But the controllers didn't see anything, and a
preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA
spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.
"Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," Cory
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."
The FAA is not investigating, Cory said.
United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said company officials don't recall
discussing any such incident from Nov. 7.
At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused
by it all.
"To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around
and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he
said.
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