UFO reported at Chicago O'Hare Airport???

[Drbio]

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.

[mkat]

the FAA doesn't investigate because they already know what it is.

[Usually Lurkin]

I heard this on the radio. That last line is golden.

[MavsX]

ufo's are sweet

[Flacolaco]

what a joke.

maybe they were hoping to see MJ play, but arrived too late.....

[u2sarajevo]

I have spent too many hours at Chicago O'Hare and I'm here to tell you from experience that aliens frequent that Airport.... so it wouldn't surprise me.

[Flacolaco]

it was sike. he told me.

[mqywaaah]

So are we not alone? This question has bugged me ever since I could remember.

[purplefrog]

James Randi (The Amazing Randi) is a magician and skeptic who has spent much of his adult life debunking claims of the paranormal, including UFO sightings. He tells an interesting story of a time when he was asked to be a guest on a radio talk show. He agreed, but wanted to attempt a demonstration of "mass hysteria". The talk show host introduced him as an expert on UFOs and did not mention his career as a skeptic. Randi came on the air and stated that on his way to the radio station he saw a metallic saucer-shaped object in the sky and how it initially hovered over downtown and then took off, accelerating and moving in a way that made no sense given our knowledge of aircrafts. This, of course, was a lie but the intent was to see if his description would provoke the listeners. Sure enough, it did! Within minutes of Randi finishing his story the radio station was inundated with telephone calls by listeners, most of which said they saw the same thing. In some cases, the callers gave even more detail to the story than Randi had offered up (for example, there were really two or three saucers; the saucer emitted a glowing red light, etc). The point Randi was trying to make was that a "sighting" often causes mass hysteria that leads to others "seeing" the object and thereby giving the appearance that the event, in fact, occurred because there were multiple witnesses. I am not saying UFOs exist or don't exist, but I think it is safe to say that anecdotal evidence is always to be taken with a grain of salt.

[Drbio]

There is always one.....