UFO at O'Hare?
 

The Feds say no.......




CHICAGO, Illinois (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 in November.

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 November 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.

Am I the only one who wishes some huge UFO cover-up ala Roswell would happen again? I'd just love it. I hope I'm still around when they come to destroy us all.

Meh, I doubt if they're really out there aliens would bother trying to observe us. Let alone make contact.

We're too friggin' scary. :P

Still a cool news article though, glad the tower controller could see the humor in it all.

I'm sure the feds would say it wasn't aliens. Like they want it in the news that there were aliens spotted. Who knows what's really out there.

It was a balloon!1

It was a baboon!

I said it was a baboon, goddamnit, pay attention.

maybe it was a baboon ballon.....

Now that would be scary...:)