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UFO At O'Hare? Officials Say Weird Weather-UA Employees Claim They Saw Saucer-Shaped Craft Hovering
CBS/AP ^ | 1/2/06

Posted on 01/02/2007 5:27:02 PM PST by Jean S

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 01/02/2007 5:27:03 PM PST by Jean S
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To: JeanS

News and not "chat"?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1761474/posts


2 posted on 01/02/2007 5:28:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years)
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To: JeanS

I don't doubt they saw something but being unable to identify a flying object doesn't make it ET.


3 posted on 01/02/2007 5:31:56 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: JeanS

Venus.


4 posted on 01/02/2007 5:33:44 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: somemoreequalthanothers

Apollo


5 posted on 01/02/2007 5:34:24 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: xcamel

Swamp gas


6 posted on 01/02/2007 5:35:18 PM PST by kjam22 (see my band here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRCcdHCBTEs)
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To: somemoreequalthanothers

A+Bert ?


7 posted on 01/02/2007 5:35:49 PM PST by cmsgop ( Axis of Evil = North Korea, Iran, Kevin Federline)
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To: cripplecreek

It wasn't ET...it wsa a Foo Fighter.


8 posted on 01/02/2007 5:37:29 PM PST by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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To: JeanS

As was pointed out yesterday, all these folks and not one camera or cell phone with a camera.


9 posted on 01/02/2007 5:38:43 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: JeanS

And the White House lawn had crop circles this morning...something is up!


10 posted on 01/02/2007 5:39:03 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: JeanS
Prolly just one guy that had a speck on his contact lens and pointed out what he thought was a UFO in the sky. Everyone else hallucinated accordingly.
11 posted on 01/02/2007 5:39:09 PM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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To: cripplecreek

Have you see the photo? Sure looks like an Alien Flying Saucer

12 posted on 01/02/2007 5:39:18 PM PST by tophat9000 (Al-Qaidacrats =A new political party combining the anti American left and the anti Semite right)
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Aye yi yi!


13 posted on 01/02/2007 5:40:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: AntiKev
Or some man made antimissile, anti EMP device
14 posted on 01/02/2007 5:42:49 PM PST by Max01
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To: cmsgop

Classygreeneyedblonde.


15 posted on 01/02/2007 5:44:15 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (A liberal is a suicide bomber without the guts)
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To: BenLurkin; JeanS
News and not "chat"?

I think it definitely belongs in News rather than Chat. That also applies for your post, BenLurkin.

Although I'm a UFO skeptic, it's still a fascinating current event.

I just wish they would land in a very public event and be friendly, this cat and mouse game is so frustrating. :-)

16 posted on 01/02/2007 5:44:51 PM PST by Unmarked Package (Amazing surprises await us under cover of a humble exterior.)
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To: JeanS
New O'hare recommended headgear
17 posted on 01/02/2007 5:45:01 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: Eagles6

Ah, unless your quick draw McGraw... you dont have a chance taking a picture of a UFO... Plus the UFO's have an invisible force field that our current photo technology can't seem to capture./sarc


18 posted on 01/02/2007 5:45:03 PM PST by VastRWCon
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To: JeanS

I dont believe in aliens, but I do believe in UFO's.

It's when people try to start identifying them that i worry....


19 posted on 01/02/2007 5:45:18 PM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: JeanS

George Noury will be all over this.


20 posted on 01/02/2007 5:45:40 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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