O'Hare Airport UFO
The Federal Aviation Administration
says it must have been a weird weather phenomenon, and United Airlines denies
any knowledge of the case. But though it has been two months since what appeared
to be an unidentified flying object (UFO) was spotted over Chicago's O'Hare
International Airport, the incident is still raising questions about what
exactly was seen and whether the authorities are trying to downplay it.
As many as a dozen United Airlines employees swear the mysterious object they
saw on Nov. 7 was real—hovering for several minutes above the United Airlines
terminal and then shooting up through the clouds so powerfully that it left an
eerie hole in overcast skies. "At first we laughed to each other" when the
report came over the radio, a witness told the National UFO Reporting Center, a
Seattle-based nonprofit that maintains a UFO hotline and is listed as a resource
in the FAA's official Aeronautical Information Manual. But then I saw the "dark
gray, hazy, round object" and seconds later "there was an almost perfect circle
in the cloud layer where the craft had been." His statement is published on the
Web site of the National UFO Reporting Center, which says its policy is
to protect the anonymity of its witnesses.