UFO At O'Hare? Officials Say Weird Weather

(CBS/AP)  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 did not 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 did not 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 do not 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.

Some witnesses interviewed by the Tribune were upset that federal officials declined to further investigate the matter.

"I tend to be scientific by nature, and I don't understand why aliens would hover over a busy airport," said a United mechanic who said he saw the object while taxiing a Boeing 777 to a maintenance hangar. "But I know that what I saw and what a lot of other people saw stood out very clearly, and it definitely was not an [Earth] aircraft."

The witnesses, who all spoke to the Tribune under condition of anonymity, said they had a difficult time finding the object as it flew through dense clouds. Witnesses also said the object created an open hole of clear air in the cloud layer that disappeared a few minutes after it passed through the clouds.

The FAA initially denied there were any reports of a UFO sighting, but later backtracked after a Freedom of Information Act filed by the newspaper revealed the call by the United supervisor to the FAA.

[oscarforeye]

where is agents mulder and scully when you need them?

[zeoez]

patriot do you still have that picture?
I would like to post it

[zeoez]

patriot do you still have that picture?
I would like to post it

[mecbno]

here's an interview with one of the mechanics. gee why couldn't the smart, smart people at CBS find this??

http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_davenport_121206.mp3

[randalds]

With everyone stating "billions and billions", I feel that I'm watching 'Cosmos' with the late Dr. Carl Sagan.

Posted by thomderr at 08:12 PM : Jan 03, 2007

Funny thing is Carl Sagan never once actually used the phrase "billions and billions" on Cosmos. He was a personal hero of mine from a very young age and still is. I admired not just his pure brilliance (which was considerable) but also him as a philosopher. He is one of, if not the main, reasons I am an atheist and I can't thank him enough for it.

[chris12karen]

Suppose it was aliens. What would the FAA do to "investigate" anyway?

Particularly since the UFO seems to have blown up, anyway, strewing its mysterious parts all over North America...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/04/ap/strange/mainD8ME6AJ80.shtml

[chris12karen]

Suppose it was aliens. What would the FAA do to "investigate" anyway?

[thomderr]

With everyone stating "billions and billions", I feel that I'm watching 'Cosmos' with the late Dr. Carl Sagan.

There are plenty of "if's", "why's" and "how's" to be thrown about.

If we have a stealth program, why can't theirs be better? If they can bend the laws of physics as we know them, why don't they just show themselves?

IF they are out there and THEY are actually from another planet, (which means such more highly advanced tech), they know much more about us than we realise.

KEEP THE HIGH-TECH STUFF AWAY FROM THOSE HUMANS!

[dfwtxguy28]

Look into the night sky and consider this. There are billions upon billions of stars and galaxies up there. The only one we know much about is our star, the sun. And we still arent 100 percent certain how many planets orbit or for that matter know all there is to know about the planet nearest to us... Mars. We are just now getting good looks at the surface. Now, how can the government or NASA tell us there is no such thing as a UFO when they dont even know all there is to know about our system of planets orbiting the sun, one of billions of stars out there.

[Jasonian18]

its coming out of the water and then returning into the water also an experiment useing electrical current to propell the object and if capable of creating enough power could propell it quite quickly this was a human experiment that was later used to explain the ships speed underwater but furthermore this situation of letting out some information regarding these declassified files was rather interesting and i encourage you to check it out im sure they hav they have the information out to view feel free to check the FBI archive of declassified material