Sighting of UFO is reported at O'Hare; FAA is unconvinced
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Posted on Tue, Jan. 02, 2007
Sighting of UFO is reported at O'Hare; FAA is unconvinced
United workers say object was elliptical
Associated Press

CHICAGO - Call it a close encounter of the O'Hare kind.
Some airline workers reported seeing a mysterious, elliptical-shaped
craft over O'Hare International Airport last fall but say their bosses
and the government wouldn't take them seriously.
The Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed the reported Nov. 7
sighting by United Airlines employees as a likely weather phenomenon.

United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said there is no record of the UFO
report and company officials don't recall discussing any such incident.
That doesn't sit well with the employees, who are upset that neither
United nor the FAA investigated the incident.
A group of workers, including pilots, told the Chicago Tribune on
condition of anonymity in remarks published Monday that they saw a dark
gray, flying saucer-like object hover motionless in the sky above the
United terminal around 4:30 p.m. that day.

After several minutes, the object -- described variously at 6 feet to 24
feet in diameter -- bolted noiselessly upward through thick clouds so
powerfully that it left an eerie hole in the clouds.
The FAA acknowledged that a United supervisor called its air-traffic
control tower at O'Hare, asking if controllers had spotted a spinning
disc-shaped object. FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said no
controllers saw it and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of
the ordinary.

"Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," she 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."
Funny is just how some controllers in the tower view the incident.

"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," said
O'Hare controller and union official Craig Burzych.