A UFO over O’Hare: Dammit! I missed it!

In the sky A bird? A plane? A … UFO? | Chicago Tribune

It sounds like a tired joke–but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously.

A flying saucerlike object hovered low over OHare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon. Was it an alien spaceship? A weather balloon lost in the airspace over the worlds second-busiest airport? A top-secret military craft? Or simply a reflection from lights that played a trick on the eyes?

Officials at United professed no knowledge of the Nov. 7 event–which was reported to the airline by as many as a dozen of its own workers–when the Tribune started asking questions recently.

But the Federal Aviation Administration said its air traffic control tower at OHare did receive a call from a United supervisor asking if controllers had spotted a mysterious elliptical-shaped craft sitting motionless over Concourse C of the United terminal.

Dammit, dammit, dammit, I've wanted to see a UFO all my life. I've had a couple of near misses; one was sighted over Salt Lake once (my mom and dad both claimed to have seen it, along with several neighbors, while I cowered under the covers upstairs).  I think I may have seen one once on a visit to Grand Junction, but that may have been aircraft landing lights… except when the "landing lights" went off, there was nothing there – no silhouette of an airplane, no navigational lights. A roommate in Eugene saw one that like this O'Hare sighting that "bounced" down, and then straight up into the sky and disappeared; we spent the next several evenings outside on a couple of blankets, watching the skies.  

Yes, yes, the idea that some aliens would travel untold lightyears just to be put off by the lack of an available arrival gate at Concourse C is good for a laugh, but still, it makes you wonder. 

UPDATE: NPR thought it was interesting enough to report on

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