UFO At O'Hare? Officials Say Weird Weather

United Airlines Employees Claim They Saw Saucer-Shaped Craft Hovering Over Airport

(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

[Jasonian18]

i don't see any religios 'nut' saying anything about not believing in aliens my friend God created the universe he could very well have created some intelligent life on another planet they are probably interested in God's fascination with such a sinful society. but on another note there is also historical proof that Christ existed or if you prefer that Jesus existed and by the way all of you no Bethlehem nuts read the bible Christ was taken to Nazareth and grew up there also fulfilling a prophecy and the Bible is the historical and visible evidence of God's existence its just not ufo's and besides i would just like to say that it is a very slim chance that demons were the ones who caused the lights or played tricks on the minds of others because i see no benefit religously in order for them to hinder Christianity. the military has released some declassified material on some ships in logs in the navy that were classified and through my research you'll find that a disk is just the most common one and that the one's in the reports of the navy only had a few disk shape most of them more consisted with tube like that of a submarine which also is possible to explane

[akrecord]

Weather event is all it was. No such thing as aliens or space crafts!!

[juliemd]

Bible facts--now there's an oxymoron!

BTW, I saw an UFO about 20-years ago in the wilds of Eastern Oregon. Maybe now they figure they need to go metropolitan to really get noticed (or totally brushed-off).

[tibu987]

Think about this for a minute.
Why are UFO's always described as a rotating disk? Why not a bullet shaped, triangular, or other different shape?
Why are aliens always portrayed as short, large- eyed, or other strange physical proportions, usually of some color other than the color earthlings are?
Why? Because it is a concept of earthmen and has nothing to do with reality because reality has not yet presented itself as far as human, earth- men is concerned.
All I am saying is to be open minded, maybe there is and maybe there is not. Time will tell.

[pacoflores-2009]

I have seen lights over Laredo, Tx..can't tell exactly what they were, all I can say is that it is impossible to be all alone in this gigantic universe..don't you think so?

[hunter10039]

I suspect... that according to Bible prophecies, ... these sightings were promulgated by active demon forces in the vicinity of the earth.

According to Bible facts, the demons were cast OUT of heaven, down to the vicinity of the earth, "for a short period of time".....and those who are Bible believers, are aware that those forces can cause humans to "see things" that are unexplainable by usual human experience or knowledge.

[rafterman1]

"not sure said species could manage to cross the vast distances of interstellar space to buzz us poor, backwards humans."

Never say never. I believe that humans will one day figure out how interstellar travel. There's no reason aliens won't figure it out either, if not already. While you can't go faster than light under normal circumstances, there are ways around physics sometimes - wormholes, gravity wells etc. It may be 1,000 or 10,000 years (if we haven't destroyed ourselves yet), but we'll eventually do it. After all, we have no choice. Eventually, the sun will go nova and destroy the Earth (if an asteroid doesn't clobber us long before that). If we can't get off this rock, the human race dies here, with only a few probes wandering around the universe to remind anyone that humans once existed.

[mystique2001]

I wish that our government would quit trying to cover up UFO sitings. Contrary to what they believe, we are not stupid! There are probably smarter people in our general public, than there is in the gov. that leads our nation. We know that they can't tell us everything, but they can at least acknowledge the fact that there is something out there. People should realize that if God made us, then their is a good chance that he made something or someone else. The only thing that we want is to know what we might have to deal with in the future. I guess, all we can do is pray and trust in God, because like the old saying goes "whatever is done in the dark will come to the light sooner or later."

[midas42]

I have seen UFO's twice in my life. I have no doubt of what they were. The most recent experience was in the fall of 1983. I was working outside installing a satellite dish after dark. My co-worker and I both saw these two large lights to the west of us. One was approaching from the south and other from the north. They made absolutely no sound at all that we could hear. They came together almost over our heads and stayed there for about 15 minutes. They then started moving apart again to the north and south. After separating a short distance, they took off at extremely high speeds in opposite directions. Again, not making any detectable sounds. The people who lived there told us that they see these "lights" all the time when they sit out by their lake on summer evenings.

[rf35]

I'm surprised some radical religious nut hasn't blasted anyone who believes in aliens as being stupid because everyone knows God created life on Earth and nowhere else. There is proof of this (their interpretation of the Bible says so) and no proof of alien craft (people see them). OK, I admit, I%u2019m just being inflammatory with this paragraph. I love reading some of the arguments people get into here.

Anyway, I%u2019m not sure that UFO%u2019s are alien craft. While I do think it is very likely life exists elsewhere in the universe and some of that life is likely to have evolved one or more intelligent species, I%u2019m not sure said species could manage to cross the vast distances of interstellar space to buzz us poor, backwards humans. Whatever so-called UFO%u2019s are, I%u2019m sure the government is fully aware of their existence, has at least a good idea as to what they are, and feels that there is a reason to deny their presence so strong that they don%u2019t even need to bother coming up with plausible cover stories. Think about that for a while.